Cosmopolitan Habitat is a dialogue for a new paradigm in urbanism between Germany and Southern Europe: conceptual models, urban strategies and spatial practices of the Open and Inclusive City. As international dialogue towards a new urbanistic paradigm and operative actions, the Cosmopolitan Habitat, aims to sharpen our understanding of current innovations in urban policies and urban planning. In the last years, innovative approaches to respond to the challenges of migration, climate change, and of openness in focus on cities have been developed in Southern Europe and in Germany. Combined with the aim to strengthen urban economies and to make cities and their territorial networks again places of shared and com- mon futures, this led to new sorts of urban strategies and new ways to co-create urban change.
Cosmopolitan (from the classic Greek kosmos: world and polis: city) Habitat (from Latin: living space) as international dialogue focuses on the city as laboratory of civilisation. It examines theoretical frameworks, conceptual models, and urban projects for this cosmopolitan turn and asks for their linkages with society and politics.
Call for Abstracts
The abstract should provide:
- name and contact data;
- affiliation and thesis supervisor;
- short CV (2.500 characters incl. spaces);
- title and abstract of the contribution (max 2.500 characters incl. spaces);
- 10 main bibliographic references.
PhD candidates will be selected to participate in the Cosmopolitan Habitat workshop for a design oriented activity and to share they own PhD research project during the Conference in Palermo and the Symposium in Hannover. The participating PhD candidates will be selected by the steering committee of the project supported by evaluations from the scientific board, according to the criteria: relevance of the research topic for the project; scientific innovation; methodological rigour. For the selected PhD candidates, a support for travel and accomodation is provided with the DAAD University Dialogue Southern Europe 2020 Programme. Only the applications of PhD candidates from Southern Europe and Germany will be considered for this selection.
www.cosmopolitanhabitat.org
DAAD – University Dialogue Southern Europe 2020, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service, financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Organised by the Institute of Urban Design and Planning of Leibniz University Hannover and the Department of Architecture of the University of Palermo.
