Urbanism Now“Future City Regions: Urbanism and Architecture in Times of Uncertainty,” invites abstracts for contributions exploring how spatial decision-making can become more explorative. Abstracts are due June 22.
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EXTENDED DEADLINE!! Call for Abstracts until 22 June 2026 https://lnkd.in/e36HaN56 We warmly invite you to contribute to the international conference Future City Regions: Urbanism and Architecture… | Lehrstuhl und Institut für Städtebau
EXTENDED DEADLINE!! Call for Abstracts until 22 June 2026 https://lnkd.in/e36HaN56 We warmly invite you to contribute to the international conference Future City Regions: Urbanism and Architecture in Times of Uncertainty, taking place from 22 to 24 November 2026 in Aachen. City regions are increasingly shaped by decisions made before their long-term consequences can be fully known. Rather than treating this uncertainty as a background condition, the conference takes it as a starting point and asks how spatial decision-making can become more explorative: how knowledge is produced under incomplete information, how judgement replaces optimisation, and how insights travel across contexts. We welcome contributions along three lines of inquiry: Heritage: how continuity, identity, and use are negotiated over time and reinterpreted through adaptive reuse, governance, and everyday urban change. Resilience: how risks, resources, and responsibilities are organised across housing, energy, mobility, circularity, and cross-border cooperation. Spatial practice and research: how knowledge becomes strategy and built form through explorative methods such as AI-supported and scenario-based approaches, data-driven practices, and living laboratories. Proposals may be conceptual, methodological, or practice-based, and we equally welcome contributions that extend beyond these themes. We look forward to your abstracts and to exploring these questions together in November. Confirmed Keynotes: Stefano Moroni, Politecnico di Milano Andreas Kipar, LAND, Milano/Düsseldorf Yasmin Kherad, Herzog & DeMeuron, Basel/Berlin Selected contributions will be considered for publication in a special issue.
Spatialists
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