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

Final 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.

Call for Papers

We invite submissions that engage with the following topics:

Stream 1: Drivers in urban future-making
(contact: louis-henri.volont@hcu-hamburg.de)

Stream 2: Arenas of urban future-making
(contact: lucas.pohl@geo.hu-berlin.de)

Stream 3: Resources of urban future-making
(contact: fabian.namberger@hcu-hamburg.de)

Stream 4: Tactics in urban future-making
(contact: alessandra.manganelli@hcu-hamburg.de)

Stream 5: Materiality in urban future-making
(contact: lena.enne@hcu-hamburg.de)

Organization and programme:

There is no registration fee.

For the evening event on Monday we will ask for a small contribution towards expenses.

The conference will include plenary sessions and parallel streams related to the topics above with paper-based presentations.

The keynote lecture ‘Urbanism in a radical age: Using exhibitions as dramaturgies of change’ on Monday, 5 May 2025, will be given by Prof. Dr. Maarten Hajer (Utrecht).

For junior scholars or scholars without institutional support, costs for travel and accommodation can be reimbursed. Please notify us when applying if this is relevant for you.

Deadlines:

Please submit an abstract of 500 words by 10 January 2025.

Notification of acceptance will be provided by 24 January 2025.

Further information and contact:

For each stream, a short discussion paper (please see download above) provides the conceptual framework and specifies potential lines of inquiry. Please contact the hosts of each stream as specified above for further questions related to the papers and possible contributions.

Abstracts should be sent to: urban-future-making@hcu-hamburg.de

For questions, please contact our coordinator, Lea Mork: lea.mork@hcu-hamburg.de