Transformations conference
The conference on Transformations: Transformative partnerships for a better world, will take place from 12th to 14th July 2023 in Sydney, Australia and online. We offer a transdisciplinary space for scholars, practitioners and artists working on transformations towards sustainability to come together in dialogue and practice. We favor short presentations, long conversations, and practical workshops. […]
Rural Geography Conference
The Rural Geography group of the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, feels honoured to host the 3rd European Rural Geography Conference from 23 -26 June 2023. The conference theme is Rural Geographies in Transition. Rural areas in Europe are under increasing and intersecting pressures and transitions. The landscapes, the actors, the uses, the […]
Sustainable place-shaping: Can Masdeu
Can Masdeu is an eco-community and according to their website also “a network of projects that resists the voraciousness of a city without limits to the rhythm of the seasons. An act of creative disobedience to the world of money, smoke and ordinances, noise and speed. A proposal for collective cooperation and coexistence between generations…”. […]
THE CLIMATE CRISIS ASKS FOR MORE AMBITIOUS AND JOINT ACTION
We are facing a global climate crisis. Scientists are united on this and we are already witnessing the global socio-spatial consequences. Why then do we lack decisiveness? During an online Climate Summit in 2021 in The Hague, participants drew up an action agenda for climate adaptation (CAS, 2021). Furthermore a “Groningen Science Declaration” was handed […]
Summer School Cultural mapping
A Summer School on cultural mapping will be organised by CES in Caldas da Rainha in Portugal from 21-25 March 2022. See for more information the website. Cultural mapping as a methodology and paradigm holds tremendous power to create conditions for change by bringing communities together in new ways to co-create new knowledge and understanding. […]
AESOP conference this year in Tartu
The AESOP 2022 Congress ‘Space for Species: Redefining Spatial Justice’ will take place in Tartu, Estonia on July 25-29, 2022! The PhD Workshop takes place in Narva, Estonia, on July 20-23, 2022. The title is ‘Space for (all) Species: Creative Use of Data to Understand the Role of Planning’. We have announced the 15 main tracks on the website already. Look around to find an […]
Transforming knowledge systems
This blog is a re-use of the text posted by Niko Schäpke and Ioan Fazey: Visions of knowledge systems for life on Earth and how to get there, published in: Integration and Implementation Insights. How should formalized knowledge systems, including universities, research institutes and education, transform to keep pace with wider and inevitable societal transformations […]
Warning of scientists for climate-induced societal disruption
More than 500 scientists and scholars from over 30 countries, including myself, signed a letter published in The Guardian and Le Monde in December 2020. In this letter we warn for societal disruption & collapse due to climate change. A video of some of the signatories reading the letter to camera was also released through […]
Conference & exhibition ‘Spaces of Possibility: communities and places in times of social and environmental uncertainty, took place on 7-11 June 2021 in Brussels
The RECOMS Confex (Conference and Exhibition), ‘Spaces of Possibility: communities and places in times of social and environmental uncertainty’ was organised in Brussels between 7 and 11 June 2021 in the premises of Parckfarm and VAC Herman Teirlinck. The event incorporated traditional paper sessions, storytelling, creative workshops, plenaries, a policy roundtable and an interactive public exhibition.
RECOMS Winter School “Creating Alternative Urban Imaginaries,” February 1-9 2021 ONLINE
The RECOMS Early Stage Researchers have organized an online Winter School on ‘Creating Alternative Urban Imaginaries. From ideas to practices and back’. During the lectures and workshops of the school participants they explored the dialectical relation between knowledge creation in social sciences, the dissemination of that knowledge, and the ways in which this affects the […]
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 765389. RECOMS supported the technical development, hosting, and maintenance of the blog.