Call for Abstracts in pdf
The 51st ISOCARP International Planning Congress “Cities Save the World: Let’s Reinvent Planning” will take place from 17 to 23 October 2015 in the Netherlands where ISOCARP was founded 50 years ago and in Belgium and Germany.
Twelve cities in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany will host 2-day interactive workshops on topical themes to them and to planners worldwide. In each city the discussion will be lead by two co-rapporteurs assisted by young planning professionals. The conclusions and lessons learnt of the workshops will be debated at the plenary in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Congress participants are invited to make professional contributions to one of these 12 workshops. The may submit papers, research results, but also practical experiences, pilot projects, spatial strategies, plans, or case studies. All of these contributions have to be directly relevant to the respective 12 city topics and the submissions have to be directed to a specific workshop.
The workshop themes are:
- Amsterdam: How to build the city in a cooperative way?
- Antwerp: How to rework the productive city?
- Brussels: How to match local expectations with strong international challenges?
- Delft-The Hague: How to create a sustainable knowledge region?
- Deventer: How to implement a (national) legal framework through local integrated planning?
- Dortmund: Ruhr Region, Germany: How to leverage economic growth from spatial projects?
- Eindhoven: How to react when traditional industries move away?
- Groningen: How to sustain energy resources?
- Maastricht: How to overcome national borders?
- Rotterdam: How to develop unprecedented port-city synergy?
- Schiphol -Amsterdam: How to connect in a globalized world?
- Wageningen: How to feed the world’s metropolises?
Read more about the twelve cities and workshops.
You can also join the discussion in one or several of the city workshops on the ISOCARP2015 Interactive Platform.
We are looking forward to a diverse range of contributions from all parts of the world, from the private, public and educational sectors.
Submit your Abstract
Planning professionals from all over the world are welcome to make a concrete contribution to the workshops of the 51st ISOCARP congress and participate in the plenary debate on ‘rethinking planning’. Submit your abstract.
Important dates
24 April 2015 (extended to May 4): Deadline for abstract submission – A Congress Team consisting of two co-rapporteurs for each topic, in cooperation the General Rapporteur will select abstracts.
28 May 2015: Result of acceptance to be communicated to the author
6 July 2015: Deadline for full papers wishing a peer review
27 July 2015: Deadline for other workshop contributions not wishing peer review – papers, case studies, pilot projects – Peer review is done by the co-rapporteurs in cooperation with the ISOCARP Scientific Committee and the General Rapporteur.
