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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/

 

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

 

CALL FOR PAPERS before March 31st, 2016

 9th IFoU Conference in Buenos Aires from October 26-28 2016 

 

IFoU Capacity course in CiChen

 

CiHu School, Capacity Building Courses of IFoU in Cichen

CiHu Academy and IFoU had organised the 7 days capacity course in CiChen with the theme: Reflexive Architecture and Planning.

 

The opening of the 8th IFoU Conference

 

The closing panel discussion of the 8th IFoU Conference

 

the opening of IFoU Winter School 2015, Singapore

 

IFoU Summer School 2014, Gwangju

IFoU Summer School 2014 with title Can Big Culture Save The City? is organized by the School of Architecture, Chonnam National University, which will be held from July 4th to July 17th in Gwangju and is sponsored by Cwangju Metropolitan City, Gwangju Convention and Visitors Bureau and Gwangju Design Center.

 

 

RE-DO NEW TOWN: QUESTIONS FROM HUNG SHUI KIU

Published by the M.Sc. Urban Design program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, REFLECTIONS Vol 2 / Issue 1 / March is titleditled RE-DO NEW TOWN: QUESTIONS FROM HUNG SHUI KIU. Concentrating on the currently developing district of Hung Shui Kiu in Hong Kong’s New Territories, the 200-page book follows student work and projects, workshop results (IFoU Winter School 2013) and exhibition material (2013 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture) as well as reflections and afterthoughts from a roster of international partners and scholars, including Im Sik Cho (NUS), Roberto Cavallo (TU Delft), Michela Turrin (TU Delft), Maurice Hartevelt (TU Delft), Arnd Bäetzner (Univ. St. Gallen) and Vivienne Wang (IFoU General Director). The publication is edited by Mika Savela and Hendrik Tieben, School of Architecture, CUHK.
This publication, as part of the program’s urban investigation, reflects on the results of a “Winter School” workshop organized by the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) in January 2013 and a design studio that followed. This Winter School was the second IFoU workshop held at CUHK, five years after the IFoU Summer School “Hong Kong Fantasies”. While the first workshop in 2008 celebrated Hong Kong’s vertical growth in the year of the global financial crisis, the IFoU Winter School asked how Hong Kong’s newly planned development areas could create better homes for their residents.
The book can be read online here:
http://issuu.com/mscudxcuhk/docs/reflections-vol2-issue1-march2014-s