Onsdagen den 18 oktober och 19 oktober håller Urbana studier en stor nationell företagsekonomisk konferens i Orkanen på Malmö högskola. Arrangörerna har varit måna om att det ska märkas att konferensen är i Malmö och på Malmö högskola, och sätter in företagsekonomin i ett flervetenskapligt sammanhang med fokus på urbanisering. I programmet skriver de ”Till skillnad från tidigare värdlärosäten är vi inte en renodlad företagsekonomisk institution utan arbetar flervetenskapligt i alla våra utbildningar och även inom forskning. För oss är detta därför ett tillfälle att lyfta både flervetenskapliga perspektiv, men även att lyfta företagsekonomiska perspektiv i våra egna utbildningar och forskningsområden.”

Under konferensen medverkar bland annat många av högskolans forskare, även från andra ämnen som är relevanta för temat. Keynote-talare är Barbara Czarniawska som talar under rubriken ”Den medialiserade staden” och Daniel Nyberg med ”FEKIS and Grand Challenges: Business and Management Research in the Anthropocene”.

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With the chapter Neoliberal Planning, Guy Baeten, Professor of Urban Studies at Malmö University, is one of the contributors to The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory. The recently published book ”presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thinkers in planning”.  Read more at Routledge.com

Talk by Rob Hopkins, Transition Network. ”Transition Stories – local solutions for a sustainable society”. The last day of his week long tour of Sweden and Denmark. The actual talk will be around 45 minutes, after which will be a discussion with invited guests. There will be time for Q&As and networking after.

Rob Hopkins is an independent activist and writer on environmental issues, based in Totnes, England. He is best known as the founder and figurehead of the Transition movement, which he initiated in 2005.

Rob Hopkins holds a doctorate from Plymouth University (2011) on the subject of transition (Localisation and Resilience at the Local Level: The Case of Transition Town Totnes). He is a visiting fellow at Plymouth University, in July 2013 was awarded a honorary doctorate by the University of the West of England, and in October 2016, he was awarded a honorary doctorate by the University of Namur.

In 2012 he was voted one of the Independent’s top 100 environmentalists and one of ‘Britain’s 50 New Radicals’. Hopkins have appeared on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Four Thought’ and on ‘A Good Read’, appear in the French film phenomenon ‘Demain’ (‘Tomorrow’), have spoken at TED Global once, and at 3 TEDx events. He is an Ashoka Fellow, a keen gardener and one of the founders of New Lion Brewery in Totnes and a Director of Totnes Community Development Society, the group behind Atmos Totnes, a very ambitious community-led development project.

The event is organized in collaboration with Glokala Folkhögskolan, Holma Folkhögskola, Omställning Malmö and Nationella Omställningsrådet

http://www.mah.se/Nyheter/Kalender/Rob-Hopkins-Transition-Stories—Lokala-losningar-for-ett-hallbart-samhalle/

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What are the generating factors and challenges faced by each city or locality? What are the belief systems, modes of reasoning and configurations of interests underlying planning in the Russian and Swedish contexts? What are the processes of citizen involvement? How are issues as gender equality, ethnic diversity and individual functional variation included and represented? What mechanisms ensure that such interests are carried over into the overall comprehensive plan? 

Congratulations to Bo Peterson and Derek Hutcheson who have received funding from Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD). The project seeks to examine the processes of urban planning in Sweden and Russia, with a focus on the input, control and output legitimacy of that process.  Read more about the project