USI seminar Territorialising CircularityThe built environment sector uses more resources and throws away more waste than any other. But how much and where is ‘away’? On the USI seminar on 23 April 2020, keynote speaker Cecilia Furlan (TU Delft, USI visiting scholar) will expand about circular economy and its role in urban design. Attend the workshop | |  |
Daily Nightshift lecture seriesIn the framework of 'Daily Nightshift', Kunsthal Extra City and the Urban Studies Institute host a three-part lecture series. On these multidisciplinary evenings, themes related to the urban nightlife will be addressed through academic, applied and artistic research. Join us at these in-depth conversations on Thursday 2 April, 30 April and 4 June. Join the conversation | |  |
The Spatial Drama of Hope and Desire Bart Eeckhout contributed a chapter to New York: A Literary History, a collection of essays edited by Ross Wilson for Cambridge University Press. The book came out last month. Eeckhout examines how writers have spatialized and dramatized the psychology of hope and desire that drives New Yorkers' lives
through scenes of arrival. Read the book | |  |
Does Antwerp need Oosterweel?Wouter Van Dooren has analysed Oosterweel's Environmental Impact Assessment and started an interesting discussion about its
necessity to solve Antwerp's mobility, noise, and air pollution issues. Read the blog (in Dutch) | |  |
| | | How do we cross-fertilize contemporary urban studies with research in gender and sexuality studies as well as queer studies? Find out in the eighth edition of USI's summer school. |
| | | Interested in Urban Logistics? Come to Antwerp and participate in the summer school's interactive workshops and excursions from 17 to 28 August 2020. |
| | | In 2020 we launch a second summer school, on interdisciplinary approaches to the sustainable city. In collaboration with the Antwerp Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development (IMDO). |
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