Planeamento Regional e Urbano

Program of the 11th meeting

2nd & 3rd of May 2013

University of Aveiro, Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences

(venue: Senate Room / Sala do Senado)

Thursday, the 2nd of May:

14.00 h Welcome by Paulo Silva (chair organizing committee)

14.10 h Opening speech

14.30 h 1st set of papers

Ulysses Sengupta, Eric Cheung

Incorporating Informal Patterns: New Computational Approaches aimed at Integration of Socio-Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Self Organisation in Mumbai, within Future Co-ordinated Planning Strategies

Jenni Partanen

Empirical Indicators for Self-Organisation

Jorge Batista e Silva, José Antunes Ferreira

Intelligent cities and intelligent plans: how to foster self-organisation?

16.00 h coffee break

16.30 h 2nd set of papers

Beitske Boonstra

Co-housing as self-organisation in spatial development: mapping the trajectories of becoming of four Danish co-housing initiatives

Ward Rauws, Gert de Roo

Cohousing, self-organization in Dutch urban planning practice?

José Carlos Mota

The added value of city civic movements in local spatial planning policies: Discussing the case of Aveiro, Portugal

Oswald Devisch, Oscar Rommens, Joris Van Reusel

Towards a culture of urban improvisation – reconstructions of the interplay of private and public initiatives in spatial transformation processes

18.30 h Closing

Friday, the 3rd of May:

09.00 h 3rd set of papers

Sara Levy, Karel Martens, Rob van der Heijden

Networks, Markets and Hierarchies: how different governance modes organize urban development

Matthias Loepfe, Christina Zweifel, Lineo Devechi

On emergence and power of strategies: exploring the relations between strategic planning and urban development in Switzerland

Helena Farrall, Lia Vasconcelos

Planning for Urban Panarchy or Panarchy in Urban Planning?

10.30 h coffee break

11.00 h Keynote

Keynote speaker prof. Francis Heylighen 

12.30 h lunch break

13.30 h 4th set of presentations

Sharon Ackerman

Applying principles from Complex Adaptive Systems theory towards urban planning strategies: A test case that replaces the design of urban objects with the choreography of urban processes.

Paulo Silva

Spatial planning systems: emergence and co-evolution involving illegal settlers, institutional, planning and spatial design

Sara Levy, Karel Martens, Rob van der Heijden

Just a little patience: an agent-based model of the effect of a planning institution on residential patterns

Kyunghyun Baek

Urban Design as a multi-actors involved incremental process: a complex theories (self-organisation) perspective

15.30 h Closing session and drinks

more information: Paulo Silva (paulosilva@ua.pt)