Urban and regional infrastructures regain interdisciplinary interest in course of the ‘infrastructural turn’. Contemporary questions exceed beyond engineering and technology but reach into social, political, economic, and ecological spheres. 

You can participate for free in the workshops on Socially Responsible Research for PostDocs and Docs, being part of the LeNa Shape research project. 

The kick-off workshop took place in the Hochschule für Gesundheit in the City of Bochum, from 19 to 20 September. Find out about the working group's plans for the coming years. 

Annual Conference of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights (PLPR 2023)

VENUE: Hosted by the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, USA

TIME: 2 - 5. May 2023, PhD workshop on 1 May 2023

The ARL International Working Group on Land Policies in Europe is currently preparing two significant milestones.

We heartily invite you to join us as we celebrate this anniversary milestone and be eligible for many of the gifts we are offering such as arl-international.com packages with calendars, photo books, postcards and much more.  

This first conference on ‘Integrated Earth System Research’ (iESR) is dedicated to scientific advances towards a coherent understanding of the increasing human impacts on the Earth system, their societal consequences, and respective governance challenges. It brings together researchers from the natural, engineering, social sciences and the humanities for targeted dialogue and to intensify research collaboration. 

The Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) in collaboration with the Department of European Planning Cultures (TU Dortmund) are pleased to invite you to the Workshop "PLACE Reimagining Public Space Designing and Planning for COVID-19 - Implication on Health and Wellbeing", which will take place online on March 6-7 2023.

Novel Narratives to Engage with the Energy Transition

Bridges the gap between the world of renewable energy and the world of spatial designers

Lignite planning, structural change and coal phase-out in Germany

The ARL invites to the international conference Spatial Planning and Research in Europe 1945-1975 on 6-7 October 2022 in Berlin.

The Department of Geography within the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Bonn has an opening with intended start date 10/01/2023 for the position of Professor of Geography (W3) specialized in Applied Urban and Regional Research

Digitalisation – Challenges for Spatial Development. A retrospective on the ARL Congress 2022.

‘Exploring Spatial Justice in times of disruptions’ 
24 August to 27 August 2022 at Stockholm University

New Ukrainien cities and villages start here!

ReStart Ukraine is an open (source) collective of researchers and practitioners that would begin exploring and developing the best ways to restore afflicted urban and rural areas after destruction of such scale.

For this position paper, the ARL compiled interdisciplinary perspectives from spatial development and spatial planning, public health services, epidemiology, economics and social sciences, and has condensed them into transdisciplinary recommendations for action.

The ARL invites to the conference
Spatial Planning and Research in Europe 1945-1975
on 6-7 October 2022 in Berlin.

The ARL Congress 2022, which the Academy organised together with the REGIONALE 2022 UrbanLand team on 30 June and 1 July 2022 in Bielefeld, highlighted many aspects of digitalisation and its impact on spaces and spatial planning. 

Call for Young Academic (YA) Authors to work in collaboration with distinguished Prof. Alberto Magnaghi and another YA author reflecting on his work in planning theory and practices.

The ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association in cooperation with Stockholm University is inviting applications for the ARL International Summer School 2022 on “Exploring Spatial Justice in times of disruptions”, which will take place from Wed. 24 August to Sat. 27 August 2022 in Stockholm. The summer school will be held in English.

The Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL) is currently establishing an international Information and Initiative Group “Gender and Spatial Transformation” and is looking for participants.

The workshop will take place online on 30th and 31st of August 2022. The workshop aims to bring together Early Career Researchers based in the UK or Germany to exchange knowledge and experience around novel theories, strategies and methods in urban design and planning of public spaces for promoting health and wellbeing in cities particularly in the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Looking back at the symposium of the Bavarian Regional Working Group and the final conference "OpenSpaceAlps" with the European Working Group "AlpPlan" of the ARL 

Participate in the PhD Video Challenge and present your work creatively to a wider audience