*Celebrating Spatial Planning at TU Delft: 2008-2019. Edited by Stead, Bracken, Rooij & Rocco

48 Spatial Planning & Strategy
AESOP Thematic Group
Public Spaces and Urban Cultures
CEREN SEZER
Public Spaces and Urban
Cultures (PSUC) is a thematic
group established under
the Association of the European
Schools of Planning (AESOP) as
an initiative of Sabine Knierbein
(TU Vienna, Austria), Ceren Sezer
(TU Delft, Netherlands), and Chiara
Tornaghi (University of Leeds,
United Kingdom) in 2010. The main
aim of the group is to generate an
international and interdisciplinary
exchange between the research
and practices on public spaces
and urban cultures and support
research, design, and policy agendas
within and beyond the AESOP
community.
The PSUC works with academics,
practitioners, governmental
and non-governmental professionals,
and other interest groups
to organize the group’s annual
meetings, workshops, conferences,
and roundtables and initiate new
research projects and publications.
Since 2010, the group’s workshops
and meetings have been hosted
by more than twenty international
organisations, including the UN
Habitat, CNR-IRISS National Research
Council of Italy, and Urban
Planning Institute of the Republic
of Slovenia.
Relevant publication: Knierbein,
S and Sezer, C. (2015): ‘Public Spaces
and Urban Cultures’. The Planning
Review (DisP), 51(2), pp.80-87.
Fig. 27: Poster of the workshop on marketplaces, Biennial of Public Space, Rome, May 2015.
Event sponsored by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Italy.
Fig. 28: Poster of the event “Becoming Local: Public Space as an Imaginary of Alternative
Urban Futures”, held at Özyegin University in Istanbul, Turkey in October 2013.
For more information, please
visit:
http://www.aesop-planning.
eu/blogs/en_GB/urban-cultures-and-public-spaces
Fig. 29: Coordination team of the thematic group in Venice in July 2019.