PhD Courses in Denmark

Language 

English

Coordinator

Gustavo Ribeiro, Associate Professor, IBBL, The Royal Danish Academy

Other lecturers

Matthew Gandy (to be confirmed). Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography, Cambridge University

Jonna Majgaard Krarup – Professor, IBBL, The Royal Danish Academy

Course description 

The challenges posed by the climate and biodiversity crises have given rise to an urgent need to rethink urban planning theory and practice. 

There has been an increasing focus in urban studies, notably in the last decade, on the need for addressing the challenge of human exceptionalism in urban theory and practice. As several authors have pointed out, efforts to reconceive and retheorize urban planning in more-than-human terms as well as concrete endeavours to implement more-than-human approaches in planning practice face challenges and dilemmas (Houston et al. 2018), which permeate ideological and discursive practices as wells as concrete planning frameworks - legislation, projects, planning platforms, processes, amongst others. 

In this course we will explore key theoretical and analytical work that engage in discussions of the inclusion of more-than-human perspectives in urban planning and how such perspectives may contribute to a reconfiguration of planning practice.

The course programme will consist of a masterclass (1 day) with an international expert/academic. We already have been in contact with Matthew Gandy concerning inviting him to lecture at the Royal Danish Academy and will invite him to contribute to deliver af master class. The remaining 4 days of the course will include lectures delivered by the course coordinator Gustavo Ribeiro (discussing the theme of the course in relation to key theoretical positions) as well as academic staff at IBBL doing research on the theme. 

Students will be asked to do extensive reading prior to the beginning of the course. They will also be asked to prepare a 10-15 min. presentation concerning a reflection on the theme of the course and its relevance for their PhD work.

Dates

20th- 24th of October 

Venue

Holmen

ECTS

3 

Application deadline

1st of August via https://katalog.kglakademi.dk/phdtilmeld.php