News from AESOP: Spring 2013

Abstract

This article provides an overview of AESOP's activities during Spring 2013, a period marked by dynamic events and strategic developments. It highlights the 5th AESOP–IFHP Lecture, delivered by Professor Juval Portugali in Amsterdam, which stimulated interdisciplinary dialogue on complexity, cognition, and planning. It also summarizes outcomes from the 8th AESOP Heads of Schools Meeting in Gdańsk, focused on smart teaching and curriculum innovation, and the AESOP Council of Representatives meeting, which addressed AESOP's role within global academic networks, particularly GPEAN. The article announces the AESOP–ACSP Joint Congress to be held in Dublin in July 2013 and previews the European Urban Summer School 2013, centered on post-speculative urbanism in Madrid. Altogether, the article documents AESOP's continued leadership in fostering planning education, international cooperation, and policy discourse.