FYI: Urban Interventions in Moscow...

The book of the architect Alena Zaytseva

http://issuu.com/november586/docs/urban_interventions_moscow?e=0

7th Budapest Architecture Film Days: 5-8th March 2015

Budapest Architecture Film Days __5-8^th March 2015 __Toldi Cinema 

Over 30 documentaries, short and experimental films will reveal viewpoints, approaches and layers of the built environment that help us looking at the surrounding city in different ways. That help us to perceive the problems and shortcomings of urban life and explore the untapped opportunities of urban space, society and communities.

One of the most important objectives of the festival is to stimulate and empower us to take action for a better urban environment. The selected films will focus on forms of communal life and dwelling, collective creative processes done with your own hands, user-generated, adaptable cities and buildings, the heterotopias of our cities materializing in funfairs and theme parks, the infrastructure-monsters of the car-centered urban areas, as well as on the traces of Eastern Europe’s political transformations. This year’s edition offers some truly spectacular moments. Many of the films will be screened in the presence of their directors, and we’ll host Dutch star architect, Herman Hertzberger. Similarly to the previous years, the Film Days won’t be limited to the spaces of Toldi: the closing event of the festival, taking place in Uránia theatre, will present Cathedrals of Culture a series of 3-dimensional building portraits, complied by Wim Wenders and directed by Michael Glawogger, Michael Madsen, Robert Redford, Margreth Olin and Karim Aïnouz. After last year’s success, at the festival’s opening night Sándor Finta, the Chief Architect of Budapest will present a dj set.

http://filmnapok.kek.org.hu/

Residence Grant Program at the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe

The Center for Urban History of East Central Europe invites
applications for the annual Residence Grant Program.

The Center welcomes applications which reflect a broad interpretation
of urban history as a discipline where diverse humanities and social
science approaches meet. Projects can be based, for instance, on one
or several of the following approaches: "traditional" archival
research, oral history, ethnographic, or sociological methodologies.

Residence Grants will be available for postgraduate students and
scholars (independently of citizenship or place of work or residence)
interested in working in Lviv.

The grants consist of up to one month of free accommodation at the
Center and access to the Center's resources. Recipients will be given
a room in the Center´s modern shared guest appartment. All rooms face
the Center's green courtyard and have wireless internet
connection.The grants do not include travel costs, board and other
living expenses.

We ask Residence Grant recipients to present their research at the
Center's Urban Seminar.

Application Materials:
- Project Description (1000-2000 words)
- CV
- One Letter of Recommendation (only in the case of scholars who have
no doctoral decree or its equivalent)

Please send all application materials as Word or PDF attachments to
the Center's Academic Coordinator dr. Iryna Matsevko, by e-mail (
i.matsevko@lvivcenter.org) no later than 10 March 2015. Please enter
"Residence Grant Application 2015" in the subject header.

The results of the competition will be announced not later than 1
April 2015. The jury is not required to publicly justify its
decisions.

Applications may be submitted in the following languages: Ukrainian,
English, Polish, Russian, German.

http://www.lvivcenter.org/en/

We tact...next week our workshop on postsocialist cities at the Herder - Institute

Current Research on Post-Socialist Cities in East Central Europe: Transformations of Public Urban Spaces after 1989 – Agents, Practices and Strategies

Marburg, 3-4 March 2015, Venue: Herder Institute for historical Research on East Central Europe

http://www.herder-institut.de/aktuelles/detailansicht/

10 PAID PHD POSITIONS IN URBAN STUDIES

10 PAID PHD POSITIONS IN URBAN STUDIES ARE AVAILABLE AT THE GRAN SASSO
SCIENCE INSTITUTE (l'Aquila, Italy)
The position is full-time, for three years, starting in November 2015.

GENERAL INFORMATION: www.gssi.infn.it/phd/

APPLICATION DEADLINE: APRIL 15, 2015 .

APPLICATION. Applicants must fill out the online application form at
www.gssi.infn.it/phd/ and attach the required documents (among them:
Curriculum Vitae, Master Thesis in the original language, a summary of
the Master Thesis in English).

SCHOLARSHIP. The gross amount of a single scholarship is 16160 €/year.
All PhD students will have free accommodation. Meals expenses will be
partly covered with luncheon vouchers and other recreational and
cultural services will be offered.

PHD PROGRAMME IN URBAN STUDIES. For information on the GSSI doctoral
programme in Urban Studies, please visit:
www.gssi.infn.it/index.php/en/doctoral-programme

CONTACTS. For further information:  

www.gssi.infn.it apply.gssi@lngs.infn.it

Summer Institute in Urban Studies 2015 - Manchester

The 2015 Summer Institute in Urban Studies (SIUS15) will take place at the University of Manchester from the evening of Sunday 28 June to the evening of Thursday 2 July 2015. It provides an opportunity to investigate cutting edge theoretical and methodological questions, along with a range of associated career development issues, in the field of urban studies.

The Institute will feature contributions from internationally renowned figures in urban studies, from inside and outside of Manchester.

Format

Open to doctoral students (usually post-fieldwork), postdoctoral researchers, and recently appointed faculty/lecturers (normally within three years of first continuing appointment), the Institute comprises an intensive, week-long program of activities.

It is designed to provide participants with an in-depth understanding of the innovatory developments and enduring controversies in urban studies, as well as mentoring and support in the different aspects of the academic labour process, from applying for grants to designing courses, from editing books and special issues of journals to writing book proposals, and from publishing in journals to working at the academic/non-academic interface. It will consist of panels, lectures, reading groups, with participants involved in shaping the final programme.

Speakers

Confirmed special guest speakers include: Roger Keil (York University, Canada); Pauline Lipman (UIC); Simon Marvin (Durham); Jennifer Robinson (UCL).

In addition the event will include multi-disciplinary contributions from academics, researchers and specialists at the University of Manchester and associated with cities@manchester. In addition to those giving plenaries a range of others will be acting as chairs, discussants and panellists during the course of the Institute, with further details to be confirmed.

To apply go to ... http://www.cities.manchester.ac.uk/events/sius2015/

CfP:The HYBRID CITY 3: Data to the People - University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Conference, workshops and parallel events
17-19 September 2015

Hybrid City is an international biennial event dedicated to exploring the
emergent character of the city and the potential transformative shift of the
urban condition, as a result of ongoing developments in information and
communication technologies (ICTs) and of their integration in the urban
physical context. It aims to promote dialogue and knowledge exchange among
experts drawn from academia, as well as researchers, artists, designers,
advocates, stakeholders and decision makers, actively involved in addressing
questions on the nature of the technologically mediated urban activity and
experience. The second installment of the Hybrid City, that took place in
2013 boasted seven keynote speakers, sixty-eight paper presentations and
diverse parallel events, that were documented in the printed volume of
proceedings.

Hybrid City Conference 2015 in Athens, Greece will consist of three days of
paper presentations, panel discussions, workshops and satellite events,
under the theme "Data to the People". The events are organized by the
University Research Institute of Applied Communication (URIAC), in
collaboration with New Technologies Laboratory, of the Faculty of
Communication and Media Studies, of the University of Athens. The main venue of the conference is the central, historic building of the University of
Athens, while workshops, projects' presentations and parallel events will
take place in other University venues and collaborating centers and
institutions, in the center of Athens

The 2015 theme: Data to the People

So far in the 21st century, we have experienced a multi-faceted crisis
that's challenging the current structural paradigm at a global scale. This
crisis is not only economic; it is also social, political and environmental.
As such, it has a very prominent urban dimension, exposing cities to a
diverse spectrum of distress. Acute natural disasters -earthquakes, fires,
or phenomena related to climate change; floods, severe snowfall, fires etc.
- precarious access to basic resources such as food and water, lack of
opportunities for employment, inefficient social services, e.g. healthcare
and education, along with ever increasing unforeseeable acts of violence -a
complex and manifold phenomenon on its own right- render living in urban
areas vulnerable.

The third Hybrid City Conference seeks to investigate Information
Communication Technologies (ICTs) as means of supporting more Sustainable
Cities and Resilient, Self-Reliant Communities and for empowering Citizens.
By proclaiming "Data to the People" the Hybrid City Conference adopts a
citizen centered approach and seeks to highlight bottom-up projects and
initiatives and processes of technological mediation, which assist
individuals, communities and cities in responding and adapting to
challenges.  The Hybrid City Conference aims to offer insights into the
complexity of factors that weaken the city fabric and affect urban
wellbeing. Furthermore, it aims to investigate the potential of ICTs to
support proactive and collective design towards future cities, focusing on
real needs and away from a smart-everything rhetoric.

Hybrid City cordially invites papers both employing a theoretical and/or a
practical approach that present concepts, case studies, projects, works of
art and best practices promoting the discussion on the theme. Emphasizing
the inherently interdisciplinary nature of technologically mediated urban
activity, we welcome proposals discussing concepts or documenting projects
of urban innovation, that through originality contribute to shaping the
future of the hybrid city and offer useful insights to the hybridization
process of the urban environment.

More:
http://uranus.media.uoa.gr/hc3/ 

Author's Guidelines

Submissions should include:
. Extended abstract of 750 - 1000 words, (including references).
. Biographical statement of no more than 250 words.
. Keywords (at least five).
All abstracts will undergo a double, blind peer review. Selected authors
will be asked to submit a full paper (8 pages), or short paper (4 pages) to
be included in the printed conference proceedings. Further details will be
announced right after the notification of acceptance

Important dates
Deadline for extended abstract submissions:    15/3/15
Response to authors:                    22/4/15
Camera ready full paper submission:            22/6/15

Submission
Please submit your contribution using the online platform.

For any queries or further info please contact us at:
hybridcityathens [at] gmail [dot] com