We are pleased to be able to announce the programme for the forthcoming Regional Studies Association workshop on "The role of 'industrial knowledges' in economic development of post-industrial regions", to take place in the Tri-City of Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot, Poland on 19th-21st February 2006.
The workshop will take place over two days and will be preceded by an optional tour of some of the Tri-City's old industrial spaces. The workshop will include a visit to the former Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk.
The seminar will be free to attend but participants will have to cover their own travel and accommodation costs. Numbers are limited so to register for the workshop, please email Mariusz Czepczynski ([log in to unmask]) before 31st January.
Gdansk (Lech Walesa) Airport is accessible by direct flights from Luton, Hamburg, Dortmund, Copenhagen, Stansted and Stockholm, amongst others (see http://www.airport.gdansk.pl/), and just over four hours by train from Warsaw.
The workshop will take place at a variety of sites in the Tri-City, within which there is good public transport, so participants may choose to stay in Gdansk, Gdynia or Sopot. A couple of websites which may be of use are http://www.staypoland.com/gdansk-hotels.asp and http://www.polhotels.com/cities/gdansk_frm.htm.
More information about the three cities can be found at these sites:
http://guide.trojmiasto.pl/
http://www.sopot.pl/intgmservlets/WWW.Main
http://www.gdansk.pl/en/
http://www.gdynia.pl/index.php?lang=en
Please don't hesitate to contact us with any questions.
Alison Stenning & Paul Benneworth
Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies
University of Newcastle
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Mariusz Czepczyński
Department of Economic Geography
University of Gdańsk
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~ Provisional Programme ~
The Role of 'Industrial Knowledges' in
Economic Development of Post-Industrial Regions
A Regional Studies Association Working Group
University of Gdańsk
Gdańsk - Sopot - Gdynia, Poland
19th-21st February 2006
19th February Optional Pre-Tour and Welcome Meeting
11.00 Experiencing Contemporary Gdańsk and Gdynia: Between Urban Myths, Industries and Post-Industries - Study Tour with Mariusz Czepczyński
7.00 Welcome Meeting, Sopot
20th February
10.00 Old Industrial Knowledges in Poland (Gdańsk, Doki 1, Former Lenin Shipyard)
10.00 - 10.15 Welcome and Introduction by Alison Stenning, Paul Benneworth (Newcastle University) and Mariusz Czepczyński (University of Gdańsk) + Welcome by Lech Wałęsa and Mayor of Gdańsk
10.15 - 11.00 Post-Industrial Landscape of Gdańsk Shipyard: Change of Form, Use and Meaning - Exploring the former shipyard area with Roman Sebastyański and Maja Grabkowska
11.00 - 12.30
Roman Sebastyański (Synergia 99, Gdańsk): Young City of Gdańsk: Industrial Identity as the Source of Development
Mariusz Czepczyński (University of Gdańsk): Knowledge, Creativity, Industry and Economic Development in Gdańsk Conurbation
Borys Cymbrowski, Robert Geisler, Marek S. Szczepański: (Management and Social Sciences Academy, Tychy): A Locked-in Region? Upper Silesian Industrial Basin on the Bumpy Road to Post-Fordist Order
12.30 - 2.00 Lunch
2.00 - 3.30 Sectoral Transformation and Old Industrial Knowledges (Gdańsk New Town Hall, Wały Jagiellońskie 1)
Paul Benneworth, Gert-Jan Hospers and Ben Jongbloed (Newcastle University resp. University of Twente): From Textiles to Technology: New Economic Development in the Old Industrial Region of Twente
Jolanta Jakóbczyk-Gryszkiewicz and Szymon Marcińczak (University of Łódź): From Textilopolis to (Post?)Industrial City: Structure and Intra-Urban Location of FDI in Łódź, Poland
Pierpaolo Andriani, Franciszek Siedlok (Durham Business School): Identification of Embryonic Clusters in the Context of Industry Demise - A New Framework
3.30 - 3.45 Tea / Coffee Break
3.45 - 5.00
Jelle Bakker and Gert-Jan Hospers (University of Twente): Like Phoenix from the Ashes? The Transformation of the Old Telecom Industry into the Information Systems Cluster in Latvia
Richard Nunes (The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London): Industrial Transformation and Institutional Change in the Portuguese Footwear Industry
7.00 Workshop Dinner in Gdańsk
21st February Gdynia, Piłsudskiego 46, University of Gdańsk, Department of Economic Geography
10.00 - 10.30 Morning Tea / Coffee
10.30 - 12.00 Spaces of Old Industrial Knowledges
Rüdiger Hamm (Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Mönchengladbach): Structural Adjustments of Old Industrialized Regions: Results from an International Comparison
Oleg Golubchikov (Oxford University Centre for the Environment, School of Geography): The Use of Old Industrial Legacy in Modern Investments and Reindustrialisation of Leningrad Oblast, Russia
Martin Myant (University of Paisley, Centre for Contemporary European Studies): Mobilising the Potential of an Old Industrial Region: Economic Restructuring in North-West Bohemia
12.00 - 12.30 Discussion
12.30 - 1.30 Lunch
1.30 - 2.30 Old Industrial Knowledges: Cultures and Policies
Romina Peritore (Urban Studies Department, Faculty of Architecture University Third of Rome): Planning and Governing Post-Socialist Post-Industrial Transformations
Alice Mah (Department of Sociology, London School of Economics): Challenges and Prospects for Interrogating Old Industrial Knowledges: A Case Study of East End Newcastle
2.45 - 3.15 Tea / Coffee Break
3.15 - 4.30
Craig Young (Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University): The Use of 'Old Industrial Knowledges' in Place Marketing Strategies for Foreign Direct Investment in East and Central Europe
Monika Murzyn (International Culture Centre/Cracow Academy of Economics): Industrial Landscapes: Change of Meaning and Function in the Post-Socialist Period - the Experiences of Cracow
4.30 - 5.00 Concluding Discussions and Workshop Close
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