REVIVING SHRINKING CITIES
Innovative paths and perspectives towards livability for shrinking cities in Europe – RE-CITY ITN Final Conference vom 17 bis 18 März 2022
Program: RE-CITY ITN Final Conference
Thursday 17 March
9:00 – 9:30 Registration
9:30 – 9:40 Welcome from Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, University President, TU Kaiserslautern
9:40 – 9:50 Welcome from Sascha Henninger, Dean, Faculty of Spatial and Environmental Planning, TU Kaiserslautern
9:50 – 11:00 Welcome and Introduction to the RE-CITY ITN Karina Pallagst, TU Kaiserslautern Emmanuèle Cunningham-Sabot, École Normale Supérieure, Paris Krzysztof Stachowiak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 13:15 Parallel Sessions
Track 1 – Conceptualising and governing shrinking cities
Track 2 – Greening and Rightsizing Shrinking Cities
Track 3 – Regrowing and postgrowing Shrinking Cities
13:15 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 Panel Discussion: Shrinking cities – emerging from crises on the way to resilience? Panelists: Mart Grisel, EUKN Chiara Lucchini, Urban Lab Torino Horacio Terraza, World Bank Oliver Weigel, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community Moderator: Helen Mulligan, Cambridge Architectual Research Ltd., United Kingdom
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee Break
16:00 – 18:00 Parallel Sessions
Track 4 – Social factors of reviving shrinking cities
Track 5 – Impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on Shrinking Cities
Track 6 – Frontiers of shrinking cities research
19:00 Reception and Dinner at Fruchthalle/City Hall Kaiserslautern
Friday 18 March
9:00 – 9:45 Key note speech: Chung-Tong Wu, Prof. emeritus University of Western Sydney ‘Shrinking cities at the crossroads – reflections from an international perspective’ (working title)
9:45 – 10:00 Coffee Break
10:00 – 12:00 Parallel Sessions
Track 1 – Conceptualising and governing shrinking cities
Track 2 –Greening and Rightsizing Shrinking Cities
Track 3 – Regrowing and postgrowing Shrinking Cities
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:30 Parallel Sessions
Track 4 – Social factors of reviving shrinking cities
Track 5 – Impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on Shrinking Cities
Track 6 – Frontiers of shrinking cities research
15:30 – 16:30 Fishbowl Discussion: “Shrinking Cities Revived! – Lessons learned and future perspectives”, facilitated by the RE-CITY Early Stage Researchers
16:30 – 16:45 Closing Thoughts, Thorsten Wiechmann, TU Dortmund, Germany