Parallel PhD Seminars
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Friday 26 June
PhD Seminar 1
15:00-16:00
Session 1A (room A2)
01 Fernanda Gomez: Re-weaving the territory in emerging Chilean urban agglomerations. Regenerative growth in Puerto Montt and Puerto Varas
01 Achmad Ghozali: Framing Future Urbanization: Unraveling Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity and Predictive Drivers of Land Use Change in the Nusantara Agglomeration
02 Meeri Pitkänen: Kumasi as Archive: Decolonial Pathways for Reimagining Planning Practice
02 Kobe Tilley: Strategic temporality? From ‘peripheral practice’ to temporary use as ‘spatial instrument’?
Session 1B (room A3)
03 Sara Ringvall Sundkvist: Digital Twins- expectations and contributions in ways of knowing in planning
03 Saskia Naafs: Can planners let the 22nd century start now?
04 Yağmur Aşçı Coşkun: Reimagining Data Center Development through Community Engagement in Europe’s Net-Zero Transition
04 Yuxin Han: Peripheral visions for urban design futures: urban design professionals’ boundary work in evolving heritage governance
Session 1C (room A4)
06 Kanerva Matveinen: Labour and shrinking regions – what’s the problem?
06 Mingxuan He: Spatial Narrative(s) in Heritage-Led Urban Regeneration: Mediating Heritage Conservation and Public Space Improvement in China
07 Pablo Villar-Abeijón: Proximity-Driven Gentrification- The Unintended Effects of Active Mobility Interventions on Population, Commerce and Housing
07 Laura Müller: From Stress to Strategy: Governing Long-Term Urban Infrastructure Transformation under Climate Pressure
Saturday 27 June
PhD Seminar 2
12:15-13:15
Session 2A (room A2)
01 Nurul Atikah Ramli: Before the Platform: How Malaysian Planners Shape the Ceiling of Digital Participation
01 Balázs Cserpes: Patterns of Digital Work: Understanding heterogeneous spatial effects of digitalisation in the labour market
02 Xiaoyi Li: Negotiating Age-Friendly Futures: Everyday Mobility and Urban Regeneration in China’s Ageing Neighbourhoods
02 Toka Fahmy Abdelmutleb: Peripheral Cities, Invisible Women – Muslim-Majority Contexts as Archives of Unthinkable Planning Futures
Session 2B (room A3)
03 Bingyu (Brenda) Luo: Co-Working Spaces in Contemporary Urban Landscapes: A Case Study of Impacts, Mechanisms, and Development Strategies in Shanghai
03 Anna Örman: Looking Back to Look Forward: On the Role of Planning in Shaping Public Matters
04 Matthijs Ham: In pursuit of the surplus: implementing developer obligations in the face of feasibility problems
04 Sarah Grady: Developing effective temporary uses as part of wider regeneration and planning initiatives
Session 2C (room A4)
05 Ashton R. Rohmer: The Paradox of Car Supremacy: Planning’s Cardinal Sin and the Moral Imagination of Streets as Commons
05 Ludovica Dangelo: The role of railway stations in intermediate territories as opportunities for regeneration processes strategies and tools for integrated development
06 Tiernan FitzLarkin: Democratisation or Deficit? Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Future of Participatory Planning in a Peripheral Context
06 Jonas Wiel: Designing transformation: urban design between roles and futures
PhD Seminar 3
13:30-14:30
Session 3A (room A2)
01 Rianne Janssen: Enabling Transformative Imagination in Planning: A Conceptual Framework
01 Tika Hasan: Investigating the production of place identity in the context of mega-event-led regeneration
07 Aida Shaneh: A justice-oriented approach to teenagers’ active mobility and autonomy
07 Franziska Kreszentia Beck: As-is, yet non-existent: Leitbilder in planning practice in Germany
Session 3B (room A3)
03 Ava Soroudi: Downscaling Urban-Relevant Aspects of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Arctic Cities and Towns
03 Ilona Šavraka: The Role of Spatial Planning in Mitigating Urban Sprawl and Fostering Sustainable Urbanisation in the Riga Metropolitan Area
04 Mariana Quezado Costa Lima: Mapping on the margins: Counter-cartography and Insurgent Planning in Fortaleza, Brazil
04 Vanessa Kuegler: Experimental Planning Cultures as a Driver for Urban and Regional Transformation – From Projectification to Transformative Change?
Session 3C (room A4)
05 Philip Krassnitzer: Regional planning for no net land take: Designing strategic planning processes in peri-urban Austria
05 Yasmin Masri: Embodied understandings of (currently) unrealised metro plans
06 Tara Kanj: Cartographies of Disaster: reading risk as a designer in low-lying delta landscapes
06 Saara Leppänen: Time travels to AMOC-collapse futures: applying heritage futures approach to support preparedness for alternative climatic extremes
Sunday 28 June
PhD Seminar 4
13:15-14:15
Session 4A (room A2)
01 Mirte Jepma: Labour in the Energy Transition: Who is Working on the Energy Commons?
01 Iris Andersson: The Anatomy of Safety – Architecture at the Intersection of Securitisation and Safe Space
07 Lilia Dimitrova Nikolova: Interactive planning pathways to public space transformation in large housing estates of Sofia
07 Minalies Rezikalla: Made local: tracing the futures of local textile manufacturing
Session 4B (room A3)
03 Daniela Faria: It Is Not the “Lithium Valley”: Environmental Justice in Brazil’s Jequitinhonha
03 Ludmila Kolouchova: What Planning Cannot See: Forensic Mapping of Hidden Creative Production in Shivaji Nagar, Mumbai
04 Jeanette Fitzsimons: Delving into the Murky Swamps: the role of the planner in creating ambitious possibilities for a positive future
04 Yuman Tsai: Rethinking Spatial Planning System Reform through Implementation Processes
Session 4C (room A4)
05 Taru Niskanen: Revisiting Narratives: Walking the City with Women Street Vendors in Kumasi – Everyday Care, Solidarity and Hope in Motion
05 Hubert Wulbach: Between the Designed and the Lived Neighbourhood: The Degree of Fit of the Built Environment to the Needs of Older Adults in Selected Neighbourhoods of Warsaw and Berlin
06 David Zarazua: Peripheral Ecologies: Reframing Natural Protected Areas as Territorial Systems for Climate Futures in Mexico
06 Simon De Boeck: Superblocks in Barcelona, Plazas in New York, Social Urbanism in Medellín: Local Adaptations of Global Planning Paradigms for Public Space Transformation
PhD Seminar 5
14:20-15:20
Session 5A (room A2)
07 Sophia Spence: Building a queer utopian future in the ‘messy present’: An investigation of LGBTQ-affirming affordable housing developments for older adults
07 Annelies Bloemers: Navigating Infrastructure Redevelopment in a Complex Planning Context
03 James Clark Doyle: Consultation as transformation: How procedural hesitation unlocks slow, deliberative spaces of decision-making
Session 5B (room A3)
02 Danielle Maranhão de Castro: Pathways to climate resilience and environmental justice in informal settlements: the case of Maranguapinho river basin
02 Jorge Omar López Martínez: Living Futures Before Planning Catches Up: Epistemic Exclusion and the Inhabitant as Knowledge Producer in Accelerated Verticalization in Guadalajara
02 APIL KC: Recovery governance in post disaster housing
Session 5C (room A4)
05 Anais Fabre: Setting a High Bar: Using the Olympic and Paralympic Games to decarbonise urban transport systems
05 Lukas Junghanns: On the Critical Mass and alternative urban mobility futures
06 Claudia Bode: Pastoral Worlds, Contested Territories