Filho voando, levando a FAU e nosso país tão carente de políticas urbanas para o mundo (pai é coruja!): Doctoral students researching topics related to informal urbanization are invited to submit abstracts of their research for the international symposium „Metropolis Nonformal – Anticipation“. The conference will take place at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, Wednesday November 20 through Saturday, November 23, 2013. A panel of internationally renowned experts of informal urbanization will review all submitted abstracts and will invite selected researchers to present their work on November 23rd, the doctoral college day of the symposium. Selected finalists will have the chance to receive input on their research by renowned experts from the symposium. The highest rated abstract will win complimentary travel and three hotel nights for the symposium. Doctoral College Responders: • Claudio Acioly, Head Capacity Development Unit, Housing and Urban Management Expert, UN-Habitat • Christof Göbel, Dr.-Ing., Professor at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) - Azcapotzalco, Mexico City • Reinhard Goethert, Dr.-Ing., Principal Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Undine Giseke, Professor of Landscape Architecture/Open Space Planning, Technical University of Berlin • Regine Keller, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Public Space, Technical University of Munich • Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University • Janice Perlman, Founder and President, The Mega-Cities Project, Inc • Jörg Rekittke, Associate Professor and Director of the Landscape Architecture Programme, National University of Singapore • Martim Smolka, Director of Program on Latin America the Carribean and co-chairman of the International Department at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy • Christian Werthmann, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Design, Institute of Landscape Architecture, Leibniz University Hannover Metropolis Nonformal – Anticipation will serve as the launching event of a new Hub on Informal Urbanism as part of UN-Habitat’s network of academia/research partners: the Habitat Partner University Initiative(HPUI). The HPUI seeks to strengthen ties between academic institutions of higher education and UN-Habitat – creating a mutually beneficial relationship between urban research, education, knowledge production and global normative works. The Informal Urbanism Hub offers young researchers an opportunity to connect and exchange among peers and to gain access to a larger network of professionals with similar research interests. The Hub will organize annual symposia focusing on specific questions of informal urbanism. The first symposium Metropolis Nonformal – Anticipation will ask: What anticipatory strategies can prepare for urban migrants who cannot afford to live in the formal city? With the understanding that official perception of informal urban growth must change radically, Metropolis Nonformal - Anticipation encourages cities to shift from an attitude of prevention to an attitude of anticipation that harnesses the entrepreneurial capacity and intelligence of future migrants in the production of urban growth. More than 20 speakers will present their findings at the symposium: • Claudio Acioly, Head Capacity Development Unit, Housing and Urban Management Expert, UN-Habitat • Sahar Attia, Prof. Dr., MD Associated Consultants, Professor of Urban Design, Cairo University, Egypt • Solange Carvalho, Professor at the Architecture Faculty at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (FAU/UFRJ), Brazil • Maria Teresa Diniz, Executive Coordinator of USP Cidades, a Center for research, development and dissemination of innovative solutions for urban management in Brazil • Alejandro Echeverri, architect and former director of Urban Projects, Medellín, Colombia • Undine Giseke, Professor at the TU Berlin, Institute for Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Germany • Reinhard Goethert, Prof. Dr., Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA • Rainer Hehl, Dr., directs the Master of Advanced Studies in Urban Design at the ETH, Zurich, Switzerland • Anna Heringer, architect and visiting professor at the University of Art and Design Linz, Austria • Michael Hooper, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, USA • Hubert Klumpner, Professur for Architecture und Urban Design, ETH Zurich, Switzerland • Adriana Larangeira, advisor for the Housing Secretariat in the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • Andres Lepik, Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, director of the Architecure Museum, Munich, Germany • Rahul Mehrotra, Founder of RMA Architects, Professor, Chair of Urban Design and Planning at Harvard Graduate School of Design, USA • Janice Perlman, Dr., Founder and President, The Mega-Cities Project, USA Call for Abstracts LAO Metropolis Nonformal – Anticipation Launching the UN-Habitat Hub on Informal Urbanism 1 • Edgar Pieterse, Prof. Dr., South African Research Chair in Urban Policy, director of the African Centre for Cities and Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, both at the University of Cape Town, South Africa • Jörg Rekittke, Associate Professor and Director of the Landscape Architecture Programme, National University of Singapore • Marcos L. Rosa, Architecture and Urban Design of the FAU USP Sao Paulo, PhD-Student at TU Munich, Germany, Researcher at Alfred Herrhausen Society • Cynthia E. Smith, Curator of Socially Responsible Design, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, USA • Martim Smolka, senior fellow, director of the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean, and co-chairman of the International Department at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, USA • Christian Werthmann, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Design, Institute of Landscape Architecture, Leibniz University Hannover Submission Guidelines Doctoral students whose dissertation is concerned with informal urbanism are eligible. The topic of their research can be disconnected from the particular focus of the symposium on anticipation. Please submit a pdf, DIN A 4 portrait format with maximum 500 word abstract: 1. the dissertation title 2. the research problem; 3. the research question(s); 4. the research method, analysis 5. a summary of results if applicable Abstracts may include references. Word count is exclusive of references. A title page accompanying the abstract must include: 1. the dissertation title; 2. the title of the proposed presentation if different from dissertation title; 3. author‘s full name; 4. degree earned, name of institution, date degree conferred; 5. PhD-advisor; 6. current employment information; 7. mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone number. Abstracts are evaluated on their contributions to the broad field of informal urbanism (from the perspective of a planner, designer, architect, landscape architect, urban researcher or similar discipline). The selection committee also considers the theoretical foundation of the research, the innovative potential, the methodological rigor, and the rationale presented for undertaking the research. Submission Deadline Abstracts must be postmarked or received by July 15, 2013. You will be notified in mid-August if your abstract is selected and you will be asked to declare your intention to present by late September. Sponsorship UN-Habitat and the Technical University of Munich will offer some financial support of travel costs to select winning candidates from developing countries. Homepage & Registration tum-ias.de/metropolis-nonformal-symposium E-Mail Abstracts to: Juliane Schneegans: [email protected] Scientific Assistant at the Chair for Landscape Architecture and Public Space, Technical University Munich Emil-Ramann-Straße 6; 85350 Freising; t +49.8161.71.4166 Call for Abstracts Metropolis Nonformal – Anticipation Launching the UN-Habitat Hub on Informal Urbanism 2 LAO
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