11th International U&U PhD seminar

Grounding the Transition in Urbanism and Urbanization. 
An Atlas Between Complexity and Contradiction

Badoer, aula Tafuri

After successful editions in Leuven, Venice, Barcelona, Paris, Delft, Lausanne, Ghent, and Lille, the 11th edition of Urbanism&Urbanisation International PhD seminar will be hosted in Venice, Italy. 

Like previous editions, the seminar seeks to bring together students writing their PhD thesis in urbanism and working within very different disciplinary traditions, combining historical, design, and other forms of urban research. The community supporting this seminar series over the years shares an interest in work that tries to speak across the divide between urban studies and the city-making disciplines. 

The aim is to combine the interpretation of urbanisation processes with the commitment and care for the urban condition in all its manifold manifestations and bring together urban theory and the theoretical grounding of urbanism with innovative practice.

29.10.2025  1 pm – 7.30 pm
Keynote Lecture | Corinne Larrue
“The Grounding Processes of Socio-Ecological Transitions: From Experimentation to Institutionalisation”

30.10.2025  9 am – 8 pm
Keynote Lecture | Maria Kaika, University of Amsterdam
“Urban Political Ecology for a Climate emergency: from scientific insight to radical imaginaries and prefigurative politics”
Keynote Lecture | Barbara Pizzo, Sapienza Università di Roma
“Post-Growth Planning: an oxymoron?”
Dialogue introduced by Federico Zanfi | Politecnico di Milano – DAStU

31.10.2025  9 am – 12.30 pm
Presentation of “Quaderno12 - Territorializzare la transizione”
a cura di  Fabrizio D’Angelo, Klarissa Pica, Elvira Pietrobon, Valeria Volpe, Valentina Rossella Zucca
in dialogue with Michiel Dehaene, UGhent