MATTERS OF
URBAN
EXPERTISE

Who develops
the city of the future?

Schedule



Day 1: November 6th
ETH, 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



Day 3: November 8th
ETH Zentrum, Hauptgebäude (Room HG E 42) New room: ML H 43

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