AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

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The IV International Meeting on Urban Planning Experiences in Context of Social Conflict  is a follow up of the meetings held in 2014, 2016 and, 2017.

 

Our  understanding  is that the dynamics and processes that open possibilities for the construction of a just city have their roots in the daily life of urban conflicts, and not only during major disturbances and crises. In addition to offering a rich key to reading urban realities, urban conflicts inspire new ways of conceiving and implementing  new policies and plans.

 

In the last years, in  face of rising  urban struggles, the mainstream thinking and practices, present  in multilateral and governmental agencies, proposes mechanisms of the so-called participative and negotiated resolution of social conflicts, which the central purpose is to prevent, avoid or constrain conflicts, seen as dysfunctional, costly, threatening to an entrepreneurial and productive city. Under  this perspective, urban pax and civic harmony constitute the essential  condition  for  the corporate city, under the aegis of productivist harmony,in order to  realize its competitive potential:  polis submits itself to the globalized city,  politics gives way to business.

 

Conflictual planning, instead, points out and bets on the creative potential of social conflicts, from which collective subjects emerge and rescue the city as a political arena, as a place where citizens meet and confront each other to discuss and arbitrate the destinies of the city. Under this framework  is the polis that imposes itself on the city.

 

In Brazil, Latin America and all around the world, experiences of social resistance and struggles over territories are favoring new territorial planning practices oriented and based on  social conflict.

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THE IV MEETING OF URBAN PLANNING EXPERIENCES IN CONTEXT OF SOCIAL CONFLICT AIMS TO:

 

• Recognize, register, gather, compare and promote exchanges on planning experiences in situations of social conflict and territorial self-management;

• Bring together activists, researchers, professional and students who are engaged in promoting, supporting or studying these experiences;

• Encourage reflection and analysis on  Conflict Planning / Insurgent Planning, considering its conceptual and methodological aspects, as well as the specificity of each experience and its context.

 

Recognizing the creative potential of conflicts and the innovative character of such experiences, the debate aims to provide international, political, and academic networking and exchanges, which contributes to the critical theory of urban planning and the struggle for just cities.

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ORGANIZATION

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• The IV International Meeting on Planning Experiences in the Context of Social Conflict will last for 4 days, from Monday to Thursday, March 22 to 25, 2021.

• The sessions will take place in the mornings, from 9:00 am to 12:15 pm (Rio de Janeiro timezone), with two periods of 1:30 am and a 15-minute coffee break.

• Participants are invited to prepare texts of up to 2.000 words (position papers) discussing the issues and questions presented below. Those who send the texts by March 1, 2021, will have prior registration assured for quick oral presentations, of 5 minutes, in one of the sessions, according to the issues and questions addressed. Instead of texts, participants can send audios or videos (4 minutes maximum length).

• The sessions will have simultaneous translation at Portuguese, Spanish and English.

• Afternoons (Rio de Janeiro timezone) will be reserved for screening videos about planning experiences in the context of urban conflicts and struggles. Participants must submit the exhibition proposals, with a technical file, by March 1, 2021.

• The final program schedule will indicate the films with their access links.

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When? March 22 - 25, 2021

Where? Wherever you are, through a virtual platform

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PROMOTING GROUPS

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• Núcleo Experimental de Planejamento Conflitual / Laboratório Estado, Trabalho, Território e Natureza /  Instituto de Pesquisa e Planejamento Urbano e Regional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. - Laboratório de Habitação e Assentamentos Humanos / Faculdade de Arquitetura e  Urbanismo/Universidade de São Paulo. 

• Centro de Estudos em Planejamento e Políticas Urbanas / Universidade Federal do Paraná. - Grupo de Pesquisa Grandes Projetos Urbanos / Escola de Arquitetura e Urbanismo/ Universidade  Federal Fluminense. 

• Grupo de Pesquisa Lugar Comum da Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade Federal da Bahia. - Laboratório Espaço Público e Direito à Cidade / Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo / Universidade de  São Paulo. 

• Coletivo Latino Americano Revista Amazonas. 

• Universidade da Cidadania Resiste. 

• Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra - Paraná.