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APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTING Please announce or forward to all your contacts... CALL FOR PAPERS, International Symposium, Istanbul - TURKEY, 12-16 October 2009 REVITALISING BUILT ENVIRONMENTS: Requalifying Old Places for New Uses Dear colleagues, The organizing committee of the International Symposium on 'Revitalizing Built Environments: Requalifying Old Places for New Uses' is pleased to announce that the symposium will be held in Istanbul, Turkey from 12 to 16 October 2009. It is jointly organized by IAPS-CSBE 'Culture & Space in the Built Environment Network' and the IAPS - Housing Network in collaboration with Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture; Istanbul Bahcesehir University, Faculty of Design and Architecture; The Turkish Chamber of Architects and YEM-The Building Information Centre. Please pass this "call for paper" on to scholars who you think might be interested in. Kindly note that the deadline for submission of abstracts is 9 January 2009. For complete details about the symposium, please visit our website at: http://www.culturespace2009.org. Once all the functions of the website fully activated, there will be more information available to you such as all the necessary instructions for the abstract submission procedure, together with other important info about the Conference (venues, deadlines, fees, scientific and social events, preliminary schedule, accommodation, etc.). Please keep on checking the website for more information for future. We look forward to your valuable participation. Sincerely, On Behalf of the organizing committee Roderick Lawrence, IAPS-Housing Network, co-ordinator Hülya Turgut Yıldız , IAPS-CSBE Network, co-ordinator Peter Kellett , IAPS-CSBE Network, co-ordinator For any further question you can contact the Scientific Secretariat Dr. Göksenin Inalhan, symposium secretary ITU,Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Taskisla, Taksim, 34437, Istanbul, Türkiye e-mail: [log in to unmask] Fax: +90 212 244 92 43 ........................................................................................................................... CALL FOR PAPERS International Symposium JOINTLY ORGANIZED BY IAPS-CSBE 'Culture & Space in the Built Environment Network' and the IAPS - HOUSING Network REVITALISING BUILT ENVIRONMENTS: Requalifying Old Places for New Uses Istanbul - TURKEY 12-16 October 2009 The organising committee of the International Symposium on 'Revitalising Built Environments: Requalifying Old Places For New Uses' is pleased to announce that the symposium will be held in Istanbul 12 - 16 October 2009. This symposium is the 4th of a series of international symposia organized by the IAPS -International Association of People-Environment Studies- Network on "Culture and Space in the Built Environment", with the objective of bringing together participants from various disciplines. The first symposium of the network was "Culture and Space in the Home Environment" in Istanbul in 1997, then 'Traditional Environments in a New Millenium: Defining Principles and Professional Practice', in Amasya in 2001, and 'Social Change and Spatial Transformation in Housing Environments' in Istanbul in 2005. The IAPS Housing Network has also organized four international symposia since 1989 in the United Kingdom, Poland and Sweden. These events are now recognized as an established tradition of the IAPS community and in international architectural and urban research, a tradition that combines research studies within an interdisciplinary framework with high relevance for practice. It will be the primary aim of the organizers of this symposium to build on these tradition. Symposium theme Significant investments of monetary resources and professional expertise during the last three decades in many countries have led to numerous projects and programmes concerning urban regeneration, housing renovation, and the revitalization of old neighborhoods. Some of these investments have led to problematic unintended consequences whereas others have been considered successes. The common approach used in recent years has been based largely on quantifiable criteria related to the functional and physical performance of buildings, the financial return of monetary investments, and projections about demographic and economic trends; it has been rare to explicitly integrate the aspirations, preferences and values of local residents living in or adjacent to many projects. The key question today is how can future projects define a comprehensive programme of work if they continue to ignore the point of view of the local population? Instead of relying heavily on technical solutions by professionals, both quantitative and qualitative approaches are necessary which would involve a wide range of actors from the public and private sectors including citizens. The economic, functional and physical lifespan of buildings should be reconsidered in relation to the diversity of meanings, including the contested meanings of some projects which reflect the diverse values that different groups of the population attribute to the built environment before renovation works are defined. The two IAPS Networks organizing this symposium have accumulated considerable scientific knowledge which can be integrated with professional know-how in order to deal effectively with the challenge of requalifying the existing built environment. In contrast to terms such as urban regeneration, housing rehabilitation, upgrading and retrofit, the term requalifying is used as a verb to underline the multi-actor process, the multiple criteria and the meanings and values used during the reconfiguration of existing buildings and public spaces in urban areas in order to improve the quality of life of residents. Authors are invited to submit papers that consider key theoretical and methodological issues, post-occupancy evaluations, or present case studies that illustrate specific principles and methods as well as examples of best practice, in relation to: o Residential buildings in the public and private sectors o Private industrial and commercial buildings o Public spaces and landmarks in urban and rural localities o Industrial sites, derelict lands (brown fields) and green spaces Symposium structure This international symposium is organized to encourage the participation of scholars and practitioners from different disciplines and areas including architecture, urban design, planning, psychology, sociology and anthropology, and from a range of countries and cultures. Contributions will be accepted in the following categories: o Paper presentations: at the heart of the symposium will be paper presentations by researchers drawing on applied and theoretical research. Papers from both academia and practice will be considered for inclusion. o Posters: describing contributions and the latest results of scientific work from theoretical and research work (especially PhD-researchers) best practice, qualitative case studies, etc. o Symposia: representatives from various organizations involved in revitalizing urban development initiatives including: the private sector, commercial business, official agencies, municipalities, NGOs, schools, universities, and other institutions etc. are invited to organize symposia that will give a platform for in-depth discussion. They will be based on o Invited Symposia (invited by the Organizing Committee ) o Proposed Symposia (proposals of participants) Participants' Profiles - Academics - Research organizations - Architects in practice - Construction companies - Small architectural companies - International architectural companies - State/ local administrations - Local professional organizations - International professional organizations - Representatives from community organizations - Builders - Real-estate organizations - Community Associations, and Citizens - Non-governmental organizations Scientific Committee Cengiz Bektas, Chamber of Architects of Turkey, Member of Executive Board Henny Coolen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Carole Després, University of Laval, Canada Nilgün Ergun, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Ozen Eyuce, Istanbul Bahcesehir University, Turkey Peter Herrle, Habitat Unit, Berlin University of Technology, Germany Rolf Johansson, Built Environment Analysis, Infrastructure and Planning, KTH, Sweden Sigrun Kabisch, Helmholtz- Centre for Environmental Research, Germany Peter Kellett, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Roderick Lawrence, University of Geneva, Switzerland Julia W. Robinson, University of Minnesota, USA Ashraf M. Salama, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK Dina Shehayeb, Housing and Building National Research Center, Egypt Hulya Turgut Yildiz, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul Bahcesehir University, Turkey Handan Turkoglu, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Alper Unlu, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Additional members are pending Advisory Committee Aleya Abdel-Hadi, IAPS board member, Network Coordinator Ahmet Eyuce, IBU Faculty of Architecture and Design, Dean Zekai Gorgulu, YTU Faculty of Architecture, Dean Orhan Hacihasanoglu, ITU Faculty of Architecture, Dean Ombretta Romice, IAPS board member, IAPS president Bulend Tuna, Chamber of Architects of Turkey, President Nicholas Wilkinson, Eastern Mediterranean University , TRNC Additional members are pending Organizing Committee Steering committee Roderick Lawrence, IAPS-Housing Network, co-ordinator Hulya Turgut Yildiz, IAPS-CSBE Network, co-ordinator Peter Kellett, IAPS-CSBE Network, co-ordinator Local Organizing Committee Co-ordination Hulya Turgut Yildiz, ITU, IBU Scientific secretariat Goksenin Inalhan, ITU Members Alper Unlu, ITU Imge Akcakaya, ITU Isil U. Altinisik, IBU Cem Beygo, ITU Asli Cekmis, ITU Aysen Ciravoglu, YTU, CAT Senem Deviren, ITU Hamit M. Karcioglu, ITU Nilay Kayaalp, IBU Pelin Ozturk,ITU Mehmet Emin Salgamcioglu, ITU Convenors IAPS- HOUSING Network IAPS-CSBE Network In collaboration with ITU Faculty of Architecture IBU Faculty of Design and Architecture CAT- Chamber of Architects of Turkey YEM-The Building Information Centre _______________________________________________________ [log in to unmask] An urban geography discussion and announcement forum List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/URB-GEOG-FORUM Maintained by: RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group UGRG Home Page: http://www.urban-geography.org.uk