17th International Conference “Future Livings”

“CALL FOR ABSTRACTS” New deadline: 23.02.2025

The upcoming International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU25) is held in Lisbon from July 1 to 4, 2025 and organized by the Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa. It will take place in the Portugal Pavilion designed by architect Alvaro Siza.

IFoU25 is centered on the theme “Future Livings.” This conference aims to explore and address the evolving needs of urban and rural environments through a comprehensive examination of key action areas. 

The conference will cover several critical actions within the theme of “Future Livings.” It will delve into Dwelling by examining emergent solutions for affordable housing and spatial justice. The Connecting segment will focus on integrating diverse social, spatial, and mobility networks to enhance connectivity. Integrating will address the synergy between urban and rural fabrics, cultural heritage, and history to create cohesive public spaces. Adapting will emphasize sustainable, resilient, and circular approaches to territory and landscape management. Additionally, Visioning will encourage creative spaces for design, planning, storytelling, and imagination. Steering will explore new arenas for dialogue, policy-making, and deliberation, while Sharing will facilitate the exchange of experiences, resources, and data to forge new paths in engagement and education.

By addressing these multifaceted areas, the conference aims to generate a holistic understanding of future living environments and promote collaborative approaches to urban and territorial challenges. Schoolars and researches, professional practitioners and public administration technicians involved in planning and design are invited to join IFoU25, promoting a broad and inclusive dialogue. Through this collective effort, the conference seeks to advance global urbanism practices and contribute to the development of innovative, equitable, and sustainable solutions for the future.

IFoU’2025 welcomes submissions from fields related to the conference theme, with a focus on urbanism, architecture, planning, landscape, governance, design, and built environment.

 More details about the conference can be found in the conference website: https://ifou2025 lisbon/

 

Call for papers: Deadline postponed to 31st May 2021!

Abstract submission: Deadline postpone to 31st May 2021

From Dichotomies to Dialogues

Join this year’s conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU):

25 – 27 November, Delft, The Netherlands (online or hybrid)

The 14th edition of the IFoU conference with the title ” From Dichotomies to Dialogues–connecting discourses for a sustainable urbanism” is a stepping stone towards resilient urbanism. The existing dichotomies of discourses need to be bridged. We need to take the opportunity to transcend and connect different discourses in urbanism, so as to invent better ways of achieving resilience and sustainability.

As many perspectives exist in the field of urbanism, reflected in studies and practices by scholars, practitioners, policy makers, as well as the daily experiences of people, conflicts in interests and value systems also persist, which call for dialogues between dichotomies of discourses. Nowadays it might not be difficult to have a common definition of urbanism, which is concerned with understanding the spatial organization and dynamics of the built environment and with inventing new ways to maintain spatial quality and equality. However, the world is not yet on the same page about the meaning of resilient and sustainable urbanism, and the ways to approach it. The existing dichotomies of discourses need to be bridged as the challenges cities and regions face now and in the future are enormous, which are affected and determined by unexpected extreme events like the pandemic, economic crisis and climate change.

The 14th IFoU conference would like to invite you to contribute to the following tracks of dialogues via our call for papers.

For full program and other information, please see https://www.ifou2021.nl

 

 

Urbanism in the Mobile Internet Era

Proceeding of the 13th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU)

Proceeding can be downloaded directly from: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uw_fnlKusBe2lQGVa3MH09yvqnw-TjTs?usp=sharing

 

Beyond Resilience: Towards a more Integrated and Inclusive Urban Design

Proceeding of the 12th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU)

Proceeding can be downloaded directly from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cw3wwNMigYMKic2Se_IPgqnSWtYJnFbM/view?usp=sharing

 

Call for papers: Urbanism in the Mobile Internet Era, 2020 in Nanjing University

“CALL FOR PAPERS”

New Deadline: 9th March, 2020

The 13th Conference of International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU), “ Urbanism in the Mobile Internet Era”, will be held from 9th – 12th October, 2020 in Nanjing University.

IFoU 2020: Urbanism in the Mobile Internet Era

 

The second serial of IFoU Young Ambassador Webinar 2022

The second serial of IFoU Young Ambassador Webinar 2022

“Diving into Uncharted Urbanism” is the main title of the second iteration of the IFoU Young Ambassador initiative. Three serial of various dialogues among cross-generation scholars will shed their insights and debates on the up-to-date urban uncharted confrontation.

You are welcome to join with free entrance: 

Thu 19.05. 16:00 – 18:00 GMT+8
Stakeholder Interactions for Better Regional Development
Link: nus-sg.zoom.us/j/83719339368?pwd=d0htSjg2RHo2V0JTK1FkTFNPZUs1UT09
Meeting ID: 837 1933 9368 Passcode: 060504

Thu 02.06. 15:00 – 17:00 GMT+8
Pro-Environmental Behavior Moving Toward Water Sensitive Cities
Link: nus-sg.zoom.us/j/87221055950?pwd=YkIyZllOaHVkSkhSeS9ub0VEajFFdz09
Meeting ID: 872 2105 5950 Passcode: 104865

Fri 17.06. 11:00 – 13:00 GMT+8
Community as One of Development Agencies
Link: nus-sg.zoom.us/j/89568483580?pwd=NWUwWHhTRmxnK01WWUNXWHN5OFcrQT09
Meeting ID: 895 6848 3580 Passcode: 352085

 

2025 Winter School : Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis-weaving Future Living and Producing

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International Forum on Urbanism
School of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

2019 IFoU Spring School: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and TU Delft

The 2019 IFOU Spring School will be hosted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University  School of Design, focusing on the theme of the Greater Bay Area (GBA).

The Greater Bay Areaex Spring School formulates strategies and critical interventions for the GBA. The methodological approach employed aims to maximise strategic potentials and urban differentiation within this very large urban-agglomeration field. This builds on work by the MDes UED in the Systems and Strategies Studio, which emphasises strategic planning principles through specific planning models. Each model explores speculative frameworks that challenge conventional planning practices, raising critical debates in terms of scales of development, settlement morphologies and economic characteristics within the region.

Colloquia, lectures and round table discussions provide inputs and feedback to the development of critical frameworks that are tested in public presentations. This will contribute to a body of work on the GBA, and will be published and exhibited locally and internationally.

For full program and other information, please see

https://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/en/event/ifou-spring-school-2019

 

11th International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) 2018: “Rethinking urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning sustainability and resilience”

11TH International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU)
 
The 11th International Forum of Urbanism ‘Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning sustainability and resilience’organised by the Urban Resilience Research Network, the School of Architecture of UIC Barcelona and UNHabitat, to be held ​on the 10,11 and 12 of December 2018 in Barcelona​.  

 

 

10TH IFoU Conference at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Entrepreneurial City
‘The Entrepreneurial City’ is the theme for the 10th conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU). Nine conferences have been held in various countries across the world. In face of global and local environmental, social and economic challenges, we invite international planners and designers to deliberate on theories, design and practices related to the entrepreneurial city.
Following the goals of UN Habitat’s New Urban Agenda, the 10th IFoU Conference ‘The Entrepreneurial City’ explores: How to create urban prosperity and an inclusive economy?
The conference will be hosted by the School of Architecture of the Chinese University of Hong Kong on December 14-16, 2017.