The PUBLIC SPACE RESEARCH GROUP welcomes, Dr. Margarita Triguero-Mas presenting, Beyond healthy greenspaces: Gentrification and health equity considerations. Cities are restoring or creating new greenspaces to address diverse socio-environmental and health challenges. However, greenspace interventions may be affected by processes such as gentrification. Applying the therapeutic landscapes concept, we present the impacts of gentrification on the associations between greenspaces and […]

The PUBLIC SPACE RESEARCH GROUP welcomes, Valentina Gulin Zrnic & Saša Poljak Istenič presenting, Urban planning and interventions into green spaces: Zagreb and Ljubljana’s imaginings of the future   The project “Urban Futures: Imagining and Activating Possibilities in Unsettled Times”, which this presentation derives from, is dedicated to researching future-making in selected Slovenian and Croatian cities. Future-making refers to an […]

The PUBLIC SPACE RESEARCH GROUP welcomes, Troy Simpson presenting, Public space in the smart city: Navigating the ambiguities of emerging digital infrastructure.   As public spaces become increasingly “smart,” the sometimes connected and sometimes disjointed layers of simultaneous data collection conducted via an ever-growing array of public and private sensors and systems is positioned to drastically reconfigure user experiences. What […]

The Public Space Research Group is hosting this year’s last networking event on December 10 at 12pEST with guest speaker Dr. Matilde Córdoba Azcárate presenting her research, Tourism Extraction and Moral Entrapments: Re-spatializing Public Beaches, Revolutionary Pasts and Indigenous Labor in Yucatán, México. Tourism has become one of the most powerful forces organizing the predatory geographies of late capitalism. It creates entangled futures of […]

The PUBLIC SPACE RESEARCH GROUP welcomes, Ana Terra presenting, Intersectional Climate Justice – From Theory to Practice.   In this talk, Ana proposes an intersectional pivot in climate adaptation research and practice to analyze the interconnected forms of social-environmental injustices that drive vulnerabilities in cities. She presents a new conceptual framework for ‘intersectional climate justice’ and illustrates it with examples […]

The PUBLIC SPACE RESEARCH GROUP welcomes the Centre for the Future of Places, at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and allied institutions in presenting, Why Does Public Space Matter?: A Review of the Findings of a Four-Year Development Project on a New Database for Public Space Research. This is an information session ahead of the official launch […]

The PUBLIC SPACE RESEARCH GROUP welcomes Colin McLaughlin-Alcock presenting, Public Art, Urban Space, and Political Imagination in Contemporary Amman, Jordan   In the notoriously alienating, majority refugee city of Amman, Jordan, the arts have long served as a point of refuge. Through artistic institutions, artists built forms of welcoming community that they could not find in the wider city. These […]

WORLD URBAN FORUM 11 OLDER PERSONS R O U N D T A B L E TUESDAY, 28 JUNE  13:30 – 15:30 (GMT+2, Warsaw time) To attend please register for WUF11 by June 25 - www.wuf11   https://wuf.unhabitat.org. WUF 11 Older Persons Roundtable_FLYER 6 20_3      

The PUBLIC SPACE RESEARCH GROUP welcomes, Patricia Aelbrecht presenting, Public Space Observatory: Campaigning for better designed, used, and managed public spaces.   In 2019, a group of academics came together to establish Public Space Observatory Research Centre (PSO) in Cardiff University a knowledge exchange platform in public space research, practice and policy. The PSO’s mission is to bring together local, national and […]