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invited talks

The following is a list of solicited contributions I have delivered either as an invited visiting professor, keynote, or speaker (it does not include my conference record)


EUI Capacity building
Gothenburg, Sweden
“Multi sectoral challenges for planning and implementing the urban green transition”

PhD school in architecture and planning at UNICT
Catania, Italy
"Challenges and opportunities for architects and planners in the age of the green transition: case studies in Sweden"  

14th Biennale of European towns and town planners
Naples, Italy
"Planning the green transition in Nordic cities"

SOS - School of Sustainability
“Co-creating the future resourceful city: participatory design methods and energy aesthetics in Sweden"
 
Neapolis University
Paphos, Cyprus
“The architecture of future cities  planning for post-covid 19, resourceful communities”
 
 PhD Summer School Urban Arctic
Kiruna
“Resources ad Urbanization in Sweden: a territorialist point of view”

Arctic Spirit (pre-event conference)
Rovaniemi
“The Urban Arctic in Scandinavia: Unpacking the resource-urbanization nexus in Norrbotten, Sweden”
 
A Year without Public Space
Journal of Public Space
“The role of renewable energy in post COVID-19 public spaces”
 
Resilient Communities Conference
Peccioli, Italy
"From Predatory Urbanism to Resourceful Communities"

REXSAC Conference
Alta, Norway
"Unpacking the resource urbanization nexus in the iron-ore technological megasystem"

Urban Living Lab Genoa
City of Genoa, Italy
"Introducing ULL and strategic thinking for urban redevelopment"

Bergforskdagarna Conference
LuleƄ, Sweden
"The resource-urbanization nexus: implications for the natural resource industry"

Joint workshop on sustainable and green urbanization Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and JPI Urban Europe
Zhongshan, China
"Shaping Resilient Urban Spaces, transitioning from a resource-extraction to resource-integrated urbanism"

Asian Research Institute, NUS
Singapore
"Green megaprojects and displacement in the global south: two case studies from Malaysia and Qatar"

Cyprus Urban Planning Symposium, University of Cyprus/Cyprus chamber of planners
Nicosia, Cyprus
"Relational Cities and Urban Megaprojects: case studies and lessons from Asia and Europe"

INU Study day: Green & Blue Infrastructures, Universita’ Federico II di Napoli (Italy)
Naples, Italy
“Investigating the Interlinkages between Transport Networks, Urban Infrastructures, and Transnational Communities in Asia”

ISOCARP UPAT 
Ulyanovsk, Russia
"Doing Strategic Urban Planning"

Summit: Infrastructures and Developments in Middle East and Africa
Dubai, UAE
“From the World Cup to the World Stage: Providing Social Infrastructures for Sustainable Real Estate Development in the Gulf”

Conference: “Global Urban Frontiers", NUS
Singapore
“Johor Bahru’s response to transnational and national influences”

Summer School: “Planning in Developing Metropolitan Regions”, University Technology Malaysia
Johor Bahru
“Conceiving transit space in the emerging Strait Mega-City Region”

Master in Urban Plannin, Estonian Academy of Arts
Tallinn, Estonia
“The Multiple City. Tallinn as playground for new paradigms in urban studies”

Workshop: Estonian Art Week, Museum of Modern Art
Mooste, Estonia
“Border Cities. Tallinn/Helsinki as case study”

Conference: Mediacity, Bauhaus-University Weimar
Weimar, Germany
“Modernization in a Mediterranean city’ The ambiguous case of Catania, Italy”