CS3

Important Dates

About CS3

The recent acceleration of the world’s mobility has no doubt affected city streets. This is manifested in the increased rate of transactions, communication channels, trans-nationalism, and the unprecedented influx of refugees within ‘new’ contexts. The conference seeks to highlight their status quo and examine embedded stories reflecting realities, potentials and possibilities for conviviality, and addresses scholars in all disciplines with the question: how can the evolution of streets be traced in an era when their transition swings between regression and progression witnessed socially, economically, culturally, technologically and educationally? Read more at the conference website starting 1 September 2017

Topics

T1: streets: communication, T3: formal and in-formal street art & design: interventions and innovations, T2: reimagining city street: the real and the envisaged, T4: street mobility: safety and efficiency, T5: right to the street: contested spaces, new manifestations, and territorial transformations, T6: resilient streets: understanding before and after, disaster and reconstruction, T7: on streets: mapping and analyzing streetscapes, T8: streets and urban places: street as a constituent for conviviality, T9: social dimensions of streets: collective memory-ies, migrant communities, performances, and events, T10: streets: urban diversity and social justice, T11: dialectical relations in streets: cultural, spatial, and socio-political, T12: healthy streets: public health and quality of life