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Summer Workshop: Besides Tourism. Revisiting Barcelona's most touristic places
Posted on 19 April 2011 by ifou administrator

From 7th to 21st July 2011, ETSAB Barcelona School of Architecture holds its annual International Summer Workshop. This year’s subject is related to the next IFoU conference TOURBANISM, which will take place in Barcelona in January 2012.

The 2011 Summer Workshop will explore the character of Barcelona’s emblematic touristic spaces through an analytic approach that will set the bases for the participant’s tentative proposals.

For more information, please see "summer school"..

New dates: 6th IFoU Conference "TOURBANISM", 25–27 January 2012 in Barcelona
Posted on 25 February 2011 by ifou administrator

The 6th conference of the International Forum on Urbanism, entitled TOURbanISM-toURBANISM, will take place from January 25th to 27th, 2012, at the Catalonian Politechnic University (UPC) in Barcelona.

The conference aims to generate an exchange between the academic and the professional debate, to investigate opportunities and risks for the sustainable touristical development and to discuss visions, concepts and best practices. In this framework causes, reasons and dependencies of worldwide transformation processes will be analyzed and planning strategies and design concepts for a more sustainable development of tourism will be explored.

For full program and other information, please see tourbanism.ifou.org..

24–26 February 2011, Singapore: 5th IFoU Conference: Global Visions - Risks and Opportunities for the Urban Planet.
Posted on 24 January 2011 by ifou administrator

5th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism takes place 24–26 February 2011 at the National University of Singapore. The conference aims to generate an exchange between the academic and the professional debate, to investigate opportunities and risks for the sustainable urban development and to discuss visions, concepts and best practices.

The conference will be organized within the framework of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) by the Department of Architecture and the Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities (CSAC) at the School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore (NUS) in collaboration with the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) Singapore as well as the participating universities of the IFoU network.

Keynote speakers are: Cheong Koon Hean, Kees Christiaanse, Sanjay Prakash, Liu Thai-Ker, Meng Yan, and Edward Soja.


For full program and other information, please see globalvisions2011.ifou.org..

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