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Vienna Technical University

Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Wien

EXTENDED DEADLINE - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS:

Symposium and PhD workshopDialectics between urban imaginaries and urban materialities

22 January 25 January 2013 at Vienna University of Technology

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (SKuOR) at

Vienna University of Technology and the City of Vienna Visiting Professor Prof.

D.Phil. Maria Kaika (University of Manchester) host a public symposium aimed at

researchers and practitioners in the field of urban theory, urban intervention, social/

spatial practices, political ecology, urban cultures and public space.

The symposium concludes SKuORs annual teaching and research theme Urbanculture, public space and resources. Aesthetics and materiality, which has

approached materialities and the changing aesthetics of space as a facet and the

outcome of the social production of space. By undertaking an interdisciplinary

approach, the team, assembling various disciplinary backgrounds, has been

researching how institutional arrangements (interplay of the civil society, state and

markets), political, economic and social processes, as well as discourses manifest in

a citys space. Keynote speakers from both the field of urban theory and urban

practice will contribute to a debate on the dialectics between urban imaginaries and

urban material cities.

Up to 10 PhD students, who will be selected for the course on the basis of submis-

sion of their abstracts, will have the opportunity to:

1) present their research and receive feedback on their work from the

keynote speakers the visiting professor, the SKuOR team, urban

practitioners, and other participants. The presentation will be in the form of

a 15-minute PowerPoint talk, followed by discussion,

2) participate in an interactive PhD workshop, coordinated by Prof. Maria

Kaika. This will provide inputs on research skills and academic publishing,

Department of Spatial Development,

Infrastructure & Environmental

Planning

Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban

Culture and Public Space

[E280.A1 SKuOR]

Karlsgasse 13, 1040 Wien

Tel.: (+43-1) 58801-280021

Fax: (+43-1) 58801-9-280021

[email protected]

http://skuor.tuwien.ac.at

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as well as an environment for engaging in a peer-to-peer discussion on theparticipants research.

Participation in the symposium and the PhD workshop will be credited with a

certificate of participation.

HOW TO SUMBIT AN APPLICATION

Submissions are encouraged from all disciplines and research perspectives.

Extended Deadline to submit your application is 5 December 2012.

Submit to [email protected]

WHAT TO SUBMITAn abstract of your Masters Thesis of a maximum of 500 words following this

structure:

1. Research question(s)

2. Contribution to the field (state of research and the frame of the analysis)

3. Methodology

4. Case study

5. Bibliography (not counted into the word limit)

Notification of acceptance by 7 December 2012. The accepted applicants will be

asked to submit a full paper of a maximum of 2500 words by 7 January 2013.

Department of Spatial Development, Infrastructure & Environmental Planning

Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (SKuOR)
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]

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