Program AESOP 2024 PhD Workshop Ahead of the game, Gredoble, July 3-6th
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2024
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In search of the caring city (Juliet Davies) From struggles to ageing well to the safety of children and young women to the loss of vital services in the context of conflict to the health issues brought about by pollution, to the detrimental impacts of urbanisation on the physical environment, cities are replete with issues that can be broadly conceptualised as issues of care. How, as urban scholars, do we identify these issues as such and research them, identifying pressing implications for urban planning and design? Conversely, how can we recognise places and practices that offer new, alternative and/or hopeful perspectives on the potential for care-full city-making, and on care itself? Drawing on her book ‘The Caring City,’ Professor Juliet Davis will address these questions, discussing in the process some of the challenges of working with care as a concept as with researching complex and often ambivalent contexts of urban care/ uncare. A planner walks into a bar (Ben Davy) «Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it» (E. B. White). Asking William of Baskerville (Il nome della rosa), the Joker (The Dark Knight) and Chat GPT for help, this keynote explores the role of humor for planners. Is planning „always Monday in an endless February“ (T. Swift)?
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