Participation

Assembling Cities addresses, in particular, research that explores the borderlands of the diverse fields of STS and urban studies.

The summer school will be positioned at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies (STS), Urban Studies and Planning Studies. The program emphasizes the development of conceptual and methodological insights as part of an innovative approach to contemporary urban phenomena. To the field of Urban Studies, it provides a more varied and dynamic conceptualisation of the city; it does not reduce urban phenomena to the logic of a capitalist mode of production. This endeavour relating Urban Studies with STS presents new cross-cutting ways to examine arising planning issues. Planning Studies can benefit from new tools of interpreting problems of interconnection and expertise.

The summer school will be of interest to PhD candidates and post-doc researchers that have started their research and are at the stage before or after their field work.