Urban Sustainability: Historical Perspectives workshop on 2.11. – Sign up by 26.10.!

City landscape from Tampere with buildings and trees.

Urban sustainability has become one of the key research areas in urban history internationally. The workshop, focusing on environmental, material, cultural and social aspects of sustainability, reflects on the plans, ideals and practices of the past, and the ways in which they lie behind present decisions concerning how to make cities more sustainable. The event is free and open for all interested. Please sign up by 26 October!

Registration: For the coffee service, we kindly ask you to register by 26 October with this form.
Time: 02.11.2023 at 12.00 – 16.15
Place: Tampere University, City Centre Campus. Pinni B, auditorium 1096.

Programme

12.00–12:20 Opening – Tanja Vahtikari, Degree Programme in History

Faculty’s greetings – Dean Juho Saari, SOC

12.20–12:40 Liisa Häikiö (Tampere University): Urban sustainability: From marginal to mainstream?

12:40–13:10 Helen Sooväli-Sepping (Tallinn University): Rethinking the past, confronting the future. The city at the turn of millennium

13.10–13:40 Mikkel Thelle (National Museum of Denmark): Membranes of sustainability. Danish green practices on the urban fringe

13.40–14:00 Anna Lyyra-Seppänen (Pirkanmaa Regional Museum): Cultural sustainability in heritage planning

14.00–14:30 Coffee

14:30–15:00 Peter Clark (University of Helsinki): Urban vacant land as a resource for urban sustainability?

15:00–15:20 Henrik Mattjus (Tampere University): Understanding sustainability as a historical socio-material concept. Two interpretations of built environment in the interwar context

15.20–15:40 Matti Hannikainen (University of Helsinki): Growing up into a City – urban planning and politics in Vantaa, 1972–2022

15:40–16:00 Katariina Mustakallio (Tampere University): Rome and its neighborhoods – inside and outside

16:00–16:15 Congratulations to Marjaana Niemi

The event is organized by the Degree Programme in History at Tampere University in cooperation with the Finnish Society for Urban Studies. The activity is sponsored by STUE Action Grant.

More information: henrik.mattjus@tuni.fi