6-8 November 2024
International Symposium
6-8 November 2024-
Julio Paulos, Future Cities Lab, ETH Zürich
- Jenny Lindblad, Urban & Regional Studies, KTH Stockholm
- Jonathan Metzger, Urban & Regional Studies, KTH Stockholm
ETH Zurich
Zentrum, Rämistrasse 101
In a rapidly urbanizing world increased attention is being paid to the development of urban environments. At the same time the array of experts who are expected to design and develop the cities of tomorrow is currently in a state of flux. Contemporary urban challenges are perceived to require new skills and competencies that go beyond the traditional urban professions.
Digital technology, AI, and big data, financial or investment acumen, and climate change are just a few of the issues city administrations are currently struggling to address. Meanwhile, these issues pressure infrastructures in place, and demand city administrations’ attention to questions of infrastructure maintenance and expansion.
As a consequence of these shifts, in a field that has traditionally been dominated primarily by the professions of planners, architects and engineers we now see diverse formations of expertise vying for influence, but without necessarily aspiring to the status or norms of the traditional professions.
Following from the above, the symposium explores contemporary formations of expertise in the field of urban development. More precisely, the symposium will explore the intertwining of the 'politics of what' with the 'politics of how' and the 'politics of who' in relation to contemporary urban development - thus critically addressing the fundamental question of who is shaping the city of the future, on what grounds, and to which effects.
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Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
Grant Number: 230052
Albert Arias-Sans, Universitat de Barcelona
Andrew Harris, University College London
Andrew Karvonen, Lund University
Armin Kific, University of Pretoria
Benedict Lang, Europa-University Viadrina
Davide Ponzini, Politecnico di Milano
Devika Prakash, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Edward Shepherd, Cardiff University
Ignacio K. Pérez, University of Glasgow
Ihnji Jon, Cardiff University
Indrawan Prabaharyaka, Humboldt University at Berlin
Jenny Lindblad, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Jonathan Metzger, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Julio Paulos, ETH Zurich
Kathrin Eitel, University of Zurich
Kiera Chapman University of Oxford
Linda Soneryd, Örebro University
Lisa Björkman, University of Louisville
Madlen Kobi, University of Fribourg
Malcolm Tait, University of Sheffield
Maria Håkansson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Matthew Cook, The Open University
Mike Raco, University College London
Nathan Marom, Sciences Po Paris
Paolo Scrivano, Politecnico di Milano
Pouya Sepehr, Humboldt University at Berlin
Tayeba Batool, University of Pennsylvania
Tomás Criado, Open University of Catalonia
Tuna Tasan-Kok, University of Amsterdam
Uri Ansenberg, Haifa University
Zachary M. Jones, Politecnico di Milano
Schedule
Day 1: November 6thETH, Campus Hönggerberg (Room HIL H 35.1)
13.30 Coffee & introductions
Expert Politics in Urban Governance, Property and Land Use
Panel Chair: Jonathan Metzger
14.00 The Power of Property Market Intelligence Channels in Urban Governance Networks (Tuna Tasan-Kok)
14.30 Land markets, land value capture expertise and the political economy of complexity (Edward Shepherd)
15.00 Understanding Urban Expertise from the ‘Field’ (Nathan Marom)
15.30 Coffee
16.00 Uneven Application of Real Estate Valuation Standards: A Comparative Study in occupied Palestine and Israel (Uri Ansenberg – online)
16.30 Who is Governing London? The London Model and the Future of Global Cities (Mike Raco)
17.00 General discussion
17.30 End
Day 2: November 7th
ETH, Campus Hönggerberg (Room HIL H 35.1)
Expert Matters in Urban-Nature Relations
Panel Chair: Jenny Lindblad
09.00 Accounting for biodiversity: actors, governance, and ethics of “from above and below” (Ihnji Jon)
09.30 Who’s afraid of agonism? Making planning governable with the logic of natural capital (Kiera Chapman & Malcom Tait)
10.00 Vice Versa: Expertise and Para-Expertise in Climate Urbanism (Indrawan Prabaharyaka)
10.30 Coffee
11.00 The Ecologist as an Elusive Figure: Experimenting and Cultivating with Urban Nature (Tayeba Batool)
11.30 Rising Waters, Shifting Knowledge: Controversies and Material Realities Along Vietnam’s Urban Flooding Problem (Kathrin Eitel)
12.00 General discussion
12.30 Lunch
Scaled Expertise and Urban Materiality
Panel Chair: Maria Håkansson
13.30 Reconfiguring urban governance through new forms of expertise and experts (Benedict Lang)
14.00 Towards Circular Cities? Reuse Expertise in Human-Material Relations (Madlen Kobi)
14.30 Coffee
15.00 Enclave Expertise: Material co-productions of expertise across boomed suburbs in Pretoria East (Armin Kific)
15.30 The tall building expertly considered (Andrew Harris)
16.00 General discussion
16.30 End
ETH Zentrum,
Reimagining Urban Expertise in the Rise of High-Tech Solutions
Panel Chair: Julio Paulos
09:00 Collective reflection and moving forward to publication
10:00 Coffee
10:30 Technically Green: Matters of urban ecology in Barcelona (Albert Arias-Sans & Tomás Criado)
11:00 Urban Frictions and the Politics of Urban Expertise in the Digital Age (Pouya Sepehr)
11:30 Reconfiguring Transport Engineering through Big Data Circulation and Boundary Work in Transantiago (Ignacio K. Pérez)
12:00 Deconstructing Transnational Urban Plans and Projects: Actors, Expertise, and the Local Context (Zachary M. Jones, Davide Ponzini & Paulo Scrivano)
12:30 General discussion
13:00 Lunch
14:00 The knowledge politics of urban digitalization: How ICT specialists expand their epistemic authority into urban governance (Devika Prakash)
14:30 Epistemic struggles in the emergence of autonomous urban technologies (Matthew Cook & Andrew Karvonen)
15:30 General Discussion
15:30 End