Transnational urban research. Perspectives on Communities of Practice

International seminar organized by professor Antonio di Campli of Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning-DIST of Politecnico di Torino with professor Mónica Solórzano of ITESO, Guadalajara, and professor David Burbano of Javeriana, Bogotà.

Whether you are a planner, an architect or an urban political scientist, and whether you take a qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods approach, the challenges that confront researchers of our globalized urban and territorial studies remains fundamentally the same, how to make sense of socio-spatial complexities.

This seminar confronts these challenges by exploring methodological approaches for doing transnational urban and territorial research. Transnational research involves research in one country and where the findings are compared to the extant studies in the larger field. It also involves the search for common effects and situational influences toward a particular research topic. In this seminar we discuss some transnational dimensions of socio-spatial research practices in order to elucidate possibilities and critical issues in transnational urban and landscape research. In particular, attempts will be made to investigate the characters of transnational research built around networks of researchers located between Italy and Latin America.

The event will take place both in person and online.
The in-person location is Sala dello Zodiaco of Castello del Valentino and the online event can be accessed via this link.