ARL International Summer School 2021
„Urban and Regional Infrastructures”
29 September to 2 October 2021 in Vienna
The ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association in cooperation with the University of Vienna is inviting applications for the ARL International Summer School 2021 on “Urban and Regional Infrastructures”, which will take place from Wed. 29 September to Sat. 2 October, 2021 in Vienna (the arrival is scheduled for 28 September 2021). Advanced master and doctoral students from all disciplines are invited to apply. The summer school will be held in English.
THE ISSUE
Infrastructure has regained interest in geography and planning studies in course of a global, interdisciplinary ‘infrastructural turn’ during the last two decades. The new systemic questions around infrastructure development and planning exceed well beyond engineering and technology issues of the former centuries and reach into social, political and economic spheres of debate. Global connectivity, mobility, digitalisation, urbanisation, energy demand, capitalist growth and crises attach their uneven trajectories to infrastructural networks and services. Through that, the development of urban and regional infrastructures may shape new geographies of inequality and re-negotiates standards of infrastructural provision – such as availability, accessibility, affordability, quality and variety. At the same time, normatively spoken, ‘good’ governance and development of infrastructure can be a key for sustainability oriented urban and regional planning as well as policy.
POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS
The ARL realizes its International Summer School 2021 in cooperation with the Department of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna as a member of the UNIVIE Research Platform ”The Challenge of Urban Futures“. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss conceptual, methodological, and empirical contributions that explore urban and regional infrastructures with critical, spatial, as well as interdisciplinary perspectives. The presentations and discussions should deliver insight into selected facets of infrastructure planning and discourses, relate these to the role they may play in/for urban and regional development, and address their consequences for spatial planning and development strategies. Specifically, we invite – but do not limit – contributions from early career researchers who demonstrate a particular interest in:
- analysing social and technical infrastructure planning practices,
- governance and policy discourses, the politics of infrastructure,
- the role of public, private, and civic actors and their connections (public-private-partnerships),
- historical avenues, postcolonial and political economy perspectives,
- future trends, digitalisation, social, economic and technical innovations,
- collaborative practices as drivers for community-based economies/collaborative endeavours,
- arrival infrastructures,
- gender approaches to infrastructure provision and access,
- implications of the Covid-19 pandemic.
PARTICIPATION & APPLICATION
Please see the call for applications for further information on the event, the terms of participation, and information on the application process.
CONTACT
For further questions, please contact Dr. Lena Greinke (greinke@arl-net.de, +49 (0)511 34842 34).
Special Issue on urban and regional infrastructures in European Journal of Spatial Development
Urban and regional infrastructures regain interdisciplinary interest in course of the ‘infrastructural turn’. Contemporary questions exceed beyond engineering and technology but reach into social, political, economic, and ecological spheres.
Therefore, the ARL:Univie International Summer School 2021 “Urban and Regional Infrastructures” invited international young researchers to Vienna to discuss the state-of-the-art of infrastructure-related research. The special issue in European Journal on Spatial Development is an outcome of the summer school. It compiles the contributions and opens up the discussion on the present role, effects and future challenges of urban and regional infrastructures to an interdisciplinary planning-oriented scientific community.
ARL:univie International Summer School 2021
‘Urban and Regional Infrastructures’
29 September to 2 October 2021 at the University of Vienna
The ARL:univie International Summer School 2021 ‘Urban and Regional Infrastructures’ took place from 29 September to 2 October 2021 at the University of Vienna. In the course of a global ‘infrastructural turn’, infrastructures have gained renewed importance in geography and planning sciences during the last two decades. The current systemic questions concerning the development and planning of infrastructures go far beyond the engineering and technological issues of earlier research approaches. They reach into domains of social, political, cultural and economic debates. Global connectivity, mobility, digitalisation, urbanisation, energy demand, economic growth and crises are all linked to infrastructural networks and services in their uneven trajectories. As a result, the development of urban and regional infrastructures may shape new geographies of inequality and standards of infrastructural provisions, i.e. availability, accessibility, affordability, quality and diversity, need to be renegotiated. Normatively speaking, ‘good’ governance and the development of infrastructures can be key for sustainability-oriented urban and regional development and policies at the same time.
ARL International Summer School 2021 - Public Online Events
The ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association in cooperation with the University of Vienna is inviting applications for the ARL International Summer School 2021 on “Urban and Regional Infrastructures”, which will take place from Wed. 29 September to Sat. 2 October, 2021 in Vienna (the arrival is scheduled for 28 September 2021). Advanced master and doctoral students from all disciplines are invited to apply. The summer school will be held in English.
Public Online Events:
Wed., Sep 29th 2021, 16:15-16:45: Welcome Opening by Rainer Danielzyk (ARL), Alois Humer & Yuri Kazepov (both UNIVIE)
Call for Applications for the ARL International Summer School 2021
Urban and Regional Infrastructures” on WED 29 September - SAT 2 October 2021 in Vienna
The ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association in cooperation with the University of Vienna is inviting applications for the ARL International Summer School 2021 on “Urban and Regional Infrastructures”, which will take place from Wed. 29 September to Sat. 2 October, 2021 in Vienna (the arrival is scheduled for 28 September 2021). Advanced master and doctoral students from all disciplines are invited to apply. The summer school will be held in English.
The deadline for applications is 11th April 2021.