Spaces and Places
2nd Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference
Saturday 4th April 2020 – Sunday 5th April 2020
Lisbon, Portugal
Saturday 4th April 2019
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome and Opening Words: Teresa Cutler-Broyles, Event Leader
09:15 – 10:45 Session 1: Urban Planning
Chair: Teresa Cutler-Broyles
Home in the Highrise: History, Life and Identity in Germany’s Plattenbauten
Martin Blum
Chicago Pattern Project: A Personal Urban Experience
Petra Probstner
10:45 – 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2: Space, Meaning, Identity
Chair: Odell Mitchell
Megalithic Simbology and the Definition of Space in Alentejo’s plain Neolithic
Joao Manuel Baltasar Firmino do Carmo
Behind the Walls: Utopia in Gated Communities and Cities of the Dead
Teresa Cutler-Broyles
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 3: Transformation of Space
Chair: Sebastiaan Bierema
Changing Meaning of Public Infrastructure to ‘Urban Convivial Space’ Through Adaptation
Edson Sanga
Spatial Reckonings: Das Raumproblem in Modern Mathematics and German Modernism
Tom Hedley
15:30 – 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 – 17:30 Session 4: Militarized and Postwar Spaces
Chair: Oleksandr Prigarin
Post-war Places: Destructive Past, Uncanny Present, and the Challenges of the Future in Cyprus
Eliz Erdenizci and ?
The Creek is our Home: Peacebuilding, Space and the Everyday Reintegration of Former Combatants in the Niger Delta
Obinaa Nweke
17:30 – 17:45 End of Opening Day Discussion and Consolidation
17:45 Wine and Drinks Reception
Sunday 14th April 2019
09:00 – 10:30 Session 5: Safe Spaces / Youth Spaces
Chair: Petra Probstner
Access and Allies: Characteristic Features of ‘Safe Spaces’
Aileen Buslig and Anthony Ocana
Introvert Charging Stations and Other Safe Spaces – A 30-Minute Workshop
Angela Sleeter and Odell Mitchell
Driving Youth Engagement through Leading with a Sense of Place. A Study at the United Arab Emirates Youth Hubs
Maryam Al Ali
10:30 – 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Session 6: Spaces in Literature/Poetry in Spaces
Chair: Edson Sanga
‘Politicizing the ‘Neither’ Space: Beckett and Murakami’s Gendered Vagueness’
Alicia Byrne Keane
The Hyper-Real Renaissance Place
Lizzie Batchelor
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 7: Public Spaces and Meaning
Chair: Martin Blum
The Production of Public Space and of Populism: Lefebvre and Laclau
Sebastian Bierema
Models of suburban public spaces – Polish contribution to the research on environment and behavior
Dorota Mantey
15:30 – 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 – 17:30 Session 8: Sacred Space
Chair: Teresa Cutler-Broyles
“Idyll of space” of closed places of religious communities in Siberia: presentation and video
Ekaterina Bykova
17:30 – 17:45 Discussion and Day 2 Consolidation
17:45 – 18:00 Project Development, Closing Thoughts and Goodbyes