Urban Management Program - TU Berlin

The Urban Management Program in cooperation with Habitat Unit cordially invites you to the 1st Urban Talk of the WS 2016/17.

Vincent Möller will talk about Community Led Development and Design in Times of Climate Change.

Vincent Möller is an urban geographer actively working as a consultant on renewable energies and climate change in the South Asian context. Among the many organisations he assists is SPARC, established more than 30 years ago to support the urban poor in India in accessing basic urban services as well as their basic rights. His previous work in this area include a desk officer for energy policy and climate change at Misereor in Germany. He completed his studies in Trier, Utrecht and Berlin.

Monday, December 12th, 6 pm.
Hardenbergstrasse 16-18, HBS 002.

The Center for Metropolitan Studies cordially invites you to the

5th Annual Conference of the
DFG International Graduate Research Program Berlin – New York – Toronto “The World in the City: Metropolitanism and Globalization from the 19th Century to the Present”.

This year’s conference theme is „UrbanTopias. Discussing the Challenges of Changing Cities” and will take place from October 27-29 2016 at the Center for Metropolitan Studies in Berlin as well as the Humboldt Universität Berlin.

We invite urban scholars, practitioners and activists to discuss the challenges of changing cities. Throughout global history the dialectic of fear and hope has always been strongest during moments of crisis and transformation whether through political and artistic movements, technological and infrastructural innovations, or societal revolutions.

The conference explores the multiple forces of threats and anxieties, as they shape urban reality. Secondly, it examines practices of resistance and adaptations to urban transformations. Thirdly, the conference investigates different conceptualizations of the urban future, and its particular relationships of time and space. Finally, a roundtable discussion concludes the conference and invites a number of panelists, together with the audience, to debate the future of urban studies.

For more details on the program visit the conference’s homepage: http://urbantopias.metropolitanstudies.de

The conference is free of charge. Registration is not required.

Discussing the Challenges of Changing Cities The 5th Annual Conference of the IGK Berlin-New York-Toronto “The World in the City: Metropolitanism and Globalization from the 19th Century to the Present”