Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Associate Dean for Academic Initiatives Joseph Heathcott has been invited to serve as a visiting faculty member at the University of Vienna’s Summer Institute in Urban Studies. The Institute brings together graduate students from across Europe in fields such as city planning, architecture, sociology, and urban design for two weeks of intensive study. The theme of this year’s Institute will be “The Right to the City: Appropriations of Public Spaces in Transition.” While there, Prof. Heathcott will conduct theory and methods workshops with students, participate in studio projects, and lead site visits in Vienna. He will also give a public talk titled “Official, Informal, Insurgent: Creative Approaches to Public Space.” In addition to the Institute, Prof. Heathcott will also participate in a symposium on “Global Garbage” at the Institute for European and North African Relations in Paris, and will present his work on urban planning and design in post-industrial Paris at the annual meeting of the European Architectural History Network in Turin.
