Seminarier
Welcome to The Higher Seminar Series at Urban and Regional Studies, Urban Planning and Environment, ABE, KTH
All seminars take place at 13.15-15.00, Seminar room no. 4055 (first floor), Drottning Kristinas Väg 30, Stockholm For more details and preparative readings please consult our web page: http://www.kth.se/abe/om_skolan/organisation/inst/som/avdelningar/urbana-studier/seminarier
Seminar coordinator: Sandra Karlsson, email: sandra.karlsson@abe.kth.se, tel: 08-7909221
CONTEMPORARY URBANISMS AND BEYOND
As our globalized cities are now transforming at an unprecedented pace, due to rise of the middle class, hyper urbanization, mobility, technological shifts, and other, so are urban environments (built) but also natural ones under pressure and confronted with major structural and emergent changes. All this requires nuanced sensitivities and exploration of fresh ideas from professionals, policy makers, developers but also from academics and ordinary citizens in order to explore solutions for existing and new cities. This block of talks/presentations/reflections will discuss some of these transformations, focusing specifically on a set of development processes and urban design approaches often conceptualized into formal and alternative trends, ideals or simply: contemporary urbanisms.
16 May
Sustainable Urbanism & Beyond, Book Presentation
Tigran Haas
Researcher, KTH
Discussant: Bosse Bergman
RECLAIMING ‘SOCIAL ENGINEERING’
Planning, conceptualized as a form of ‘social engineering’, has during the past decades generally been considered as hopelessly irrelevant for contemporary societies. But perhaps ambitions towards ‘social engineering’ have never fully disappeared but only become obfuscated or a non-communicated, leading to a situation where it becomes ever more difficult to discuss the methods and goals of the attempts at social engineering that might be constantly going on in our societies.
Even more provocatively: with the looming threat of climate crisis, perhaps we may today be in need of successful ‘social engineering’ more than ever? But based on what knowledge? What mandate? And with what kind of democratic checks and balances?
30 May
Engineering technology, engineering society
Jonathan Metzger
Assistant professor, KTH
Discussant: Mats Lundström
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13 June
Title seminar
Presenter: Still open
Discussant: Still open
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27 June
*TBA*
Presenter: Still open
Discussant: Carl-Johan Engström
