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Call for abstracts | Metropolitan Cities and Inner Areas in a Hyperconnected, Transitional World
As part of the Networks, Markets & People 2026 International Symposium, the call for abstracts is now open for contributions to three thematic sessions of particular relevance to the research community.
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- Thematic Session TS 05 | “Digital Approaches to Networks, Mobility and Heritage in Multicultural Settlements”
Organizers: Pelin Bolca, Farzaneh Aliakbari, Sofia Darbesio
This session welcomes contributions that explore how digital humanities methodologies provide new insights into the complex relationships shaping multicultural settlements in Europe and beyond. Through tools such as digital mapping, archival reconstruction, data-driven interpretation, and narrative modelling, the session aims to investigate how trade routes, contemporary mobilities, and colonial legacies produce layered landscapes of tangible and intangible heritage. The goal is also to highlight how digital technologies can reveal hidden connections and amplify the often-overlooked voices and practices of local communities. - Thematic Session TS 13 | “Commoning the voids: structural barriers and enabling conditions for inhabiting the inner peripheries”
Organizers: Mauro Fontana, Luca Lazzarini
This session invites abstracts addressing the structural paradox of inner peripheries and left-behind territories: a vast stock of vacant, obsolete, or underused housing that remains largely inaccessible. This “reverse housing crisis” stems not merely from market dysfunctions but from deep structural barriers, including property fragmentation, poor building conditions, limited accessibility, owner distrust, real estate speculation, and the growing impacts of touristification. - Thematic Session TS 33 | “Enhancing Urban Decision-Making in the Digital Eras”
Organizers: Elena Todella, Beatrice Mecca
The session aims to investigate the role of decision support tools in the urban context, in a world accelerated by technology and digital innovation, with the growing influence of artificial intelligence. In a context of rapid digital evolution, decision support methodologies – such as problem structuring methods and multi-criteria decision analysis – combine structured and innovative approaches to guide complex urban and architectural transformations. Consequently, the session discusses, starting from these families of methodologies, but not only, the role of evaluation and its models in supporting urban and architectural transformations, in an interdisciplinary integration between design, planning, and evaluation. - Thematic Session TS 34 | "Place-Based Governance and Strategic Planning for Local Transitions: Rethinking Development and Regeneration Beyond Overtourism"
Organizers: Luca Tricarico, Antonia Gravagnuolo, Mariarosaria Angrisano, Francesca Bragaglia
This session explores how place-based governance and strategic planning can foster sustainable local development, moving beyond tourism dependency. Focusing on community resilience and social innovation, it discusses alternative models for regenerating small towns and inner areas undergoing transition
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