CAPA.CITY AUTUMNSCHOOL 'RECLAIM THE SUBURBS'

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATING IN A CAPA.CITY AUTUMNSCHOOL

RECLAIM THE SUBURBS 

which capacities for participatory approaches?

WHEN: October 14-17, 2019
WHERE: Turnhout, Belgium

APPLICATION DEADLINE: June 30

There is an increasing consensus that the societal costs of dispersed, low-density and car-dependent suburban developments are too high. To reduce these costs, planners and policy makers are formulating strategies to retrofit suburbs: densifying them, diversifying them or simply erasing them. What they did not expect is that residents would protest: Not In Our Backyards.

This reminds us of the ’60 and 70ies when planners and policy makers sanitized complete city parts because they were considered unhealthy, chaotic and ugly. This meant the start of the Right to the City movement (Lefebvre, 1968; Harvey, 2012), assembling citizens to reclaim their neighborhoods from top-down planning. The point of departure of this CAPA.CITY autumnschool is that we need a new movement Reclaim the Suburbs that supports residents to organize themselves and initiate own retrofitting projects; projects that do reduce the societal costs of their mode of living, but also fit within their housing dream: garage-box entrepreneurs, multigenerational villa-collectives, eco-garden networks, crowdfunded community services or renewable energy cooperatives.

The CAPA.CITY autumnschool will collect and discuss ongoing Reclaim the Suburb initiatives, with a focus on the capacities that collectives need to develop, in order to initiate, run and sustain such initiatives. A series of professionals with an expertise in participatory design and planning will assist us: GivRum (DK), experts in the participatory revitalization of empty buildings and urban spaces. In Vivo (F), authors of the “BIMBY” (Build In My BackYard) protocol, a participatory approach to soft densification. Intrastructures (Be), founders of the OpenStructures project, an open modular construction model.

Organizational committee:
Hasselt University (Belgium): Oswald Devisch, Teresa Palmieri
Roskilde University (Denmark): Majken Toftager Larsen, John Andersen
ENSA-Marseille (France): Marion Serre

Contact winterschool:
oswald....@uhasselt.be

More information:
www.capa-city-ensuf.eu

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Oswald Devisch

Hoofddocent - Associate Professor

Faculteit Architectuur & Kunst - Faculty of Architecture & Arts

T +32(0)11 29 21 19 - GSM +32(0)485 96 80 61

www.uhasselt.be

Universiteit Hasselt - Campus Diepenbeek

Agoralaan Gebouw E - B-3590 Diepenbeek

Kantoor E-B07