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 […]
Healing the Soil of our Democracy
Stephen Leitheiser, University of Groningen. It’s becoming more and more clear to me that we all have a lot of work to do. Unable to travel home over the past year, I’ve watched from afar as my fellow citizens have become increasingly hurt, divided, scared, and angry. In the midst of what sure seems like […]
New viewpoint article: Planning for Food Commons in the post-COVID world
Stephen Leitheiser, RECOMS fellow. While many were worried about the supplies of toilet paper in the early stages of the pandemic, those of us who had been sounding the alarm on global food system vulnerabilities began to fear that much worse shortages were coming. Early estimates suggested that the number of people around the world […]
Sustainable Europe 2050: The four C’s
Christian Lamker, University of Groningen The turbulent year 2020 makes it hard to be confident about imaginations of the distant future, the future processes that transform places in our cities and regions and the impacts that we will all have on it. More than ever, this pathway is an open exploration with spatial planners – […]
Voices of the future
Lummina Horlings Anyone who reads the news these days will recognize that climate change is anything but fiction. Real stories of risk, danger, and loss are conveyed to us daily, whether in relation to wildfires, floods, droughts, heatwaves, glacial melting, rising waters, coral bleaching, species losses, or any other type of ecological distress. he story […]
Post-growth planning for post-corona times; Reinventing a growth-independent planning in times of crisis
Christian Lamker The Corona crisis has focused our perspective to the importance of critical infrastructures and public services. In particular, the crisis reveals how interrelated processes are to provide even the most basic goods and services. The so-called ‘heroes of Corona’ (such as healthcare workers, doctors, nurses, cleaners and cashiers) whose work fulfils the needs […]
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.