Track info:
The track addresses the main questions of the conference regarding issues of conflicts and cohesion in cities, and asks:
- How can we move beyond treating conflict and cohesion as binaries in urban governance and planning?
- How new modes of governance and planning practices, such as citizen assemblies, urban labs, and innovation platforms, can productively engage with conflict?
- What the potentials and challenges are for these new encounters, emerging at the interphase between social agents and the city government, to navigate the relation between conflict and cohesion?
This track is split into three parallel panels
Panel 1: Human behaviour in the cities – the role of digital data
This panel investigate the blessing and curse of new digital data. New social media provide citizens’ with new, accessible platforms for communication and mobilization. It also presents an opportunity for research in studying human behaviour in real time. Big data, real time data also rises ethical issues and exclude computer illiterate citizens and deepen the divide between the high and the educated.
Panel 2: Governance, co-creation and socially just society
As the climate keeps changing, urban politics and governance need to relate to enhanced conflicts between, on the one hand, protest movements that demand more radical climate policies and actions, such as Extinction Rebellion and Fridays for Future, and movements that react to the distributional consequences and local impacts of present climate policies: removal of parking lots, congestion charges, toll-ring and anti-toll ring, protests against compact city developments.
When social justice is added to the goal of sustainable and climate friendly development, we need to ask justice for whom, how and when. Social justice is a deeply political and value based issue reinforcing old, and raising new, political conflict lines in society. At the same time, it may open up space for new forms of collective identities and practices, potentially enhancing cohesion and collaboration in society.
Panel 3: Urban Transformation and Planning
In this panel we do explicitly investigate the contention between the different sustainability goals. Environmental sustainability has determined urban growth patterns in some years now. In the panel we draw attention to the impact on social sustainability and ideals of inclusion and coherence.
Programme:
Parallel session 1: Thursday 27, 10.30 – 12.00:
Panel 1: Human behaviour in the cities – the role of digital data:
ROOM: PA311
- Anders Ese – AHO. Ida Lien and Synne Bergby – Urban-A
- Jiewen Deng – Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Max D. Woodworth – The Ohio State University
- Kai Reaver – AHO
Panel 2: Governance and co-creation – Democratic Governance, Grassroot Movements, and Sustainable Transformations:
ROOM: PA318
- Annika Agger – Roskilde University
- Charlotte Cator – Copenhagen Business School
- Trond Vedeld – NIBR
Panel 3: Urban Transformation and Planning:
ROOM: PA314
- Rebecca Cavicchia and Roberta Cucca – NMBU
- Helene Figari and Zander Wenter – NINA
- Aase Kristine Lundberg and Mathias Brynildsen Reinar – Norlandsforskning
Parallel session 2: Thursday 27, 14.30-16.00:
Panel 1: Human behaviour in the cities – the role of digital data:
ROOM: PA311
- Daniel Piatowski – OsloMet
- Chaoru Lu – OsloMet
- Claudia Hedwig Yamu and John Østh – OsloMet
Panel 2: Governance and co-creation: Democratic Governance, Grassroot Movements, and Sustainable Transformations:
ROOM: PA318
- Marianne Millstein – NIBR
- Hege Hofstad – NIBR
- Savis Gohari – NIBR
- Anders Riel Müller and Jens Kaae Fisker – University of Stavanger
Panel 3: Urban Transformation and Planning:
ROOM: PA314
- Ronald Gebauer – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig
- Daniel Rosenblum – Uppsala University
- Kirsti Stuvøy – NMBU
Parallel session 3: Friday 28, 10:30-12:00:
Table talks: Conflict and cohesion in urban research – what now?
ROOM: PA318
Contributors and audiences will sit together and workshop ideas for «a way forward». Based on discussions in the two previous sessions of this track, they will identify maximum three (!) key points (i.e. future tasks, solutions, challenges and/or opportunities) for creating new arenas to productively engage with conflict in cities. Key points will be presented in the following plenary debate.