Final conference: Urban future-making: Situating agency within the built environment

International conference

The public conference will present insights from the first cohort of the RTG and will invite papers from scholars working on connected themes. The conference will take place on 05–06 May, 2025 at HafenCity University Hamburg.

Registration as a guest:

If you'd like to attend the conference as a guest, you're welcome to join us! However, please register until April 28, 2025 by sending us an email with your full name and institution beforehand to help us organize the event more efficiently: urban-future-making@hcu-hamburg.de

Additional events:

Monday, 05 May, 2025

10:00-11:00 am – Welcome and introduction
05:30–07:00 pm – Keynote lecture by Prof. Dr. Maarten Hajer (Utrecht): “Urbanism in a radical age: Using exhibitions as dramaturgies of change”

Tuesday, 06 May, 2025

03:15–04:30 pm – Concluding plenary discussion
04:30–06:00 pm – Informal gathering and networking with pizza and drinks

Registration will open on Monday at 09:00 am, the registration desk will be available throughout the rest of the day and at Tuesday morning 08:00–09:00 am.

Organization and programme:

You will find the programme, the book of abstracts, the list of presenters, the timetable and the maps of the HCU below.

Selected papers will be invited for publication in our series of edited volumes with transcript: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7467-5/conflicts-in-urban-future-making/