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