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Welcome to the Institute for European Urban Studies (IfEU)!

The climate crisis, increasing social and spatial polarisation, and the deterioration of democratic decision-making processes are among the most critical challenges we are facing in the 21st century. Urban spaces are central to addressing these issues and others.

The Institute for European Urban Studies works and carries out research in the field of socio-environmental transformation, social
participation and heritage based on the principle of spatial justice. The Institute combines expertise in urban and spatial development, urban planning, and urban and rural life, focussing on – but not limited to – European regions. The Institute's work centres around dealing with these issues within the context of global processes, power relations, as well as researching sociological and ecologically just methods and
strategies.

The Institute for European Urban Studies was founded in 2004 as a research and teaching centre in the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. It acts as a space for dealing with questions concerning urban and rural spaces and their interrelationships within an international context and from an interdisciplinary perspective.

The Institute’s strength lies in its ability to interweave research and design approaches: The nine professorships associated with the Institute – Urban Planning, Spatial Planning and Spatial Research, Urban Studies and Social Research, Landscape Architecture and Planning, Design and Urban Architecture, Urban Design I, »Stadt Raum Entwerfen«, Conservation and History of Architecture, and European Cities and Urban Heritage – contribute to the development of research from various scientific perspectives and through different methodological approaches based on material,
social and discursive spaces.

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Published: 26 January 2019

Planer*innentreffen 2019 in Erfurt und Weimar

Im Sommersemester wird die Weimarer Urbanistik-Fachschaft in Kooperation mit der Fachschaft Stadt- und Raumplanung der FH Erfurt das Planer*innentreffen (PIT) ausrichten! Am langen Wochenende vom 29.05. bis 02.06.2019 finden neben der Bundesfachschaftenkonferenz zahlreiche Workshops und Exkursionen in Erfurt, Weimar und ganz Thüringen statt, die unter dem Motto Ist das Stadt oder kann das weg?! stehen.

Damit das Wochenende für alle Teilnehmer*innen lehrreich wie unvergesslich wird, werden noch Helfer*innen benötigt! Wenn ihr euch vorstellen könnt, eine Schicht an der Bar zu übernehmen, beim Frühstückmachen mitzuhelfen, eine Station bei der Stadtrallye zu betreuen oder oder oder..., dann meldet euch per Mail beim Orga-Team unter pit [at] m18.uni-weimar.de!

 

Next summer, planning students from Weimar and Erfurt are going to host the bi-annual Planer*innentreffen (PIT). The event is going to take place during Ascension Day weekend, 29 May to 02 June 2019. Apart from the conference of the Students' Councils of Planning Studies in German-speaking Countries, there will be a lot of activities and workshops in Erfurt, Weimar and elsewhere in Thuringia. All activities during this weekend will deal with the problem of how to construct and define cityness (Ist das Stadt oder kann das weg?!).

Although the whole event is going to be in German, maybe you are still interested in lending a hand?  To make the event a tremendous success we still need a lot of help! If you are interested in being a bar-keeper, help preparing breakfast or want to be a contact person for our guests from all over Germany, Austria and Switzerland, please do contact us via mail at pit [at] m18.uni-weimar.de!

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