Conference 2022
Cities are at a crossroads, moving from a traditional development model to an urban regeneration process that promotes a sustainable, inclusive, healthy, innovative and equitable change in dialogue with citizens and nature.
Nature for Innovative and Inclusive Urban Regeneration (NATiURB) was a two-day public event taking place on 16 & 17 June 2022 in Milan. It was the first international conference hosted by URBiNAT.
The first day of the conference was a “Cities Conference Day”, organised at the Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, where URBiNAT partner cities shared their experience with regards to the healthy corridor co-created with local communities in their specific intervention area.
The second day was a “Scientific Conference Day” hold at IULM university campus. Within twenty sessions dedicated to the discussion of concepts, methodologies and practices, attendees and presenters shared knowledge and experience from diverse perspectives ranging from academic to urban planning and design to lived experience on the ground.
The Scientific Committee monitored the gender sensitivity of the conference. Men and women and broader gender diversity were promoted and welcome.
Programme at a Glance
Click the themes to learn more about the sessions:
16 June - Day 1
Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation, Milan
Face masks required inside the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation‼️
Part 1: Keynotes, Round Tables & Pitches
09:00 – 09:30: Opening Session
09:30 – 09:45: Keynote by Pierfrancesco Maran, Deputy Mayor for Urban Planning, Green Areas and Agriculture, City of Milan, Italy
09:45 – 10:30: Round Table 1: Co-Governance of Nature-Based Solutions
Chair: Isabel Ferreira, CES, Coimbra, Portugal
Blaž Mozetič, Head of the Department of Environment and Spatial Planning, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Zdravko Zdravkov, Chief Architect of Sofia Municipality, Bulgaria
Clio Biondi Santi, City Councillor of the Municipality of Siena, Italy
Goura Nataraj, Legislative Assembly of Paraná, Brazil
10:45 – 11:15: Coffee Break
11:15 – 11:35: Keynote by Caterina Sarfatti, Director, Inclusive Climate Action, C40
11:35 – 12:30: Round Table 2: Nature for inclusive and innovative urban regeneration
Chair:Â Laetitia Boon, City of Brussels, Belgium
Alessandra Capuano, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Husni Al Abri, representing Misfah, Oman
Israa Mahmoud, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Giovanni Allegretti, Centre for Social Studies – University of Coimbra, Portugal
12:30 – 13:30: Open Debate
13:30 – 14:30: Lunch
Part 2: URBiNAT Cities Fair – world café
14:30 – 15:00: Co-diagnostic of the intervention area
15:00 – 15.30: Co-design of NBS and healthy corridor
15:30 – 16:00: Co-governance model
16:00 – 17:00:Â Open Fair
17:00 – 18:00: Wrap up
18:00-18:30: Coffee Break
18:30-20:00: Debate
17 June - Day 2
IULM University,
Milan
Face masks highly recommended inside the IULM buildings.
Registration and Opening
8:30 – 9:00:Â Registration
9:00: Opening
(Room Sala dei 146 in building IULM 6)
Theme 1: Co-creating NBS for Sustainable Cities
Room 112 (IULM 1)
09:30 – 11:00: Session 1A:Â Methodologies and tools for multi species co-existence and collaboration
11:30 – 13:00: Session 1B:Â Methodological approaches to enhance the impacts on urban space and nature-based solutions: recognising knowledge co-production based on social sciences and humanities
14:30 – 16:00: Session 1C:Â Direct and indirect benefits of water and vegetation in healthy corridors
16:15 – 17:45: Session 1D:Â Food production and related nature-based activities for the development of sustainable and resilient cities
Theme 2: Innovating Public Space for Inclusive Cities
Room 116 (IULM 1)
09:30 – 11:00: Session 2A:Â Architecture of participation – symbiotic practices and theories for an inclusive public space
11:30 – 13:00: Session 2B:Â Urban plans for more inclusive and healthier cities: innovative municipal strategies and partnerships
14:30 – 16:00: Session 2C:Â Feminist co-creation of NBS for urban regeneration
16:15 – 17:45: Session 2D:Â The circular city: heritage, environment, businesses and governance
Theme 3: Transforming Governance for Innovative Cities
Sessions 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D: Room 132 (IULM 1)/Â
Session 3B (cont.): Room 126 (IULM 1)
09:30 – 11:00: Session 3A: Whose right to the city? Functional diversity and the co-creation of nature-based solutions for an inclusive public space
11:30 – 13:00: Session 3B:Â Building the right to the city through diverse spaces of commoning: which role for ruling frameworks?
14:30 – 16:00: Session 3 B (cont.):Â Building the right to the city through diverse spaces of commoning: which role for ruling frameworks?
14:30 – 16:00: Session 3C:Â Co-governance for the co-creation of nature-based solutions
16:15 – 17:45: Session 3D: Cultural mapping in the city’s co-creation processes toward sustainability
Theme 4: Engaging Citizens for Healthy Cities
Sessions 4A, 4B (cont.), 4C, 4D: Room 151 (IULM 1)/
Session 4B: Room 126 (IULM 1)
09:30 – 11:00: Session 4A: Inclusive planning process: linking informal to formal
09:30 – 11:00: Session 4B:Â Citizen engagement and the co-creation of nature-based solutions for sustainable urban development
11:30 – 13:00: Session 4B (cont.): Citizen engagement and the co-creation of nature-based solutions for sustainable urban development
14:30 – 16:00: Session 4C:Â Active involvement of children and youth in the co-creation and decision-making processes involved in nature-based solutions for the advancement of sustainable urban development
16:15 – 17:45: Session 4D:Â Nature-based solutions and their effect on health, wellbeing and behavior
Theme 5: Changing Economy for Equitable Cities
Room 152 (IULM 1)
09:30 – 11:00: Session 5A: Social and solidarity economy as driver for resilient living places
11:30 – 13:00: Session 5B:Â Economy for Equitable Cities
14:30 – 16:00: Session 5C:Â Cities for whom? Asymmetries, economies and exclusion in the urban space
16:15 – 17:45: Session 5D:Â Urban regeneration and social innovation: Social and Business Opportunities
Interactive Programme
For the detailed programme of the two-day event, please see:
Interactive Conference Programme
The interactive programme allows you to browse day-by-day and to filter sessions according to your interests. Just click on a session for further information such as the session description, chairpersons, speakers, etc.
You can also scan the following QR Code for the Conference Programme:
Call for Abstracts
Submissions are now closed‼️
Abstracts may only be submitted through the ONLINE SUBMISSION PORTAL.
Abstract Guidelines:
- Abstracts should not exceed 300 words.
- Each author can submit a maximum of 3 abstracts.
- Each abstract can have a maximum of 5 authors.
The call for abstracts closed on Monday, 14 March 2022.
Scientific Committees
Internal Scientific Committee Members
- Marco Acri – UNG
- Ingrid Andersson – IKED
- Thomas Andersson – IKED
- Beatrice Bechet – IRSTV
- Philippe BodĂ©nan – IRSTV
- Gonçalo Canto Moniz – CES
- Beatriz Caitana da Silva – CES
- Mohamed El Boujjoufi – UA
- Guido Ferilli – IULM
- Isabel Ferreira – CES
- JosĂ© Miguel Lameiras – CIBIO
- Susana Leonor – GUDA
- Tom Mackenzie – ITEMS
- Federico Magrin – FGF
- AmĂ©rico Mateus – GUDA
- Nathalie Nunes – CES
- Milena Tasheva – UACEG
- Nathalie Vallet – UA
- Andrea Zucca – FGF
External Scientific Committee Members
- RogĂ©rio Roque Amaro, Professor at ISCTE (Department of Political Economy at the University of Lisbon/ Member of the Advisory Board Europe of RIPESS – Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of the Social and Solidarity Economy/ Researcher at the Centre for International Studies CEI-IUL, Portugal
- Lucija AĹľman Momirski, Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Paolo Massimo Buscema, Director of Semeion Research Centre of Sciences of Communication, Italy/ Professor Adjoint at Dept. of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Colorado, Denver, USA
- Yves Cabannes, Emeritus Professor of Development Planning at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit of the University College London, UK
- Teresa Caldeira, Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Sara Candiracci, UKIMEA International Development Leader at ARUP
- Wanda Capeller, Professor of Sociology of Law at Sciences Po Toulouse, France
- Alessandra Capuano, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Faculty of Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Annalisa Casini, Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- Cláudia Pato de Carvalho, Centre for Social Studies – University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Marcus Collier, PI of the Connecting Nature Horizon 2020 project/ Professor in Sustainability Science at Trinity College Dublin, School of Natural Sciences, Ireland
- Isabel Martinho da Silva, University of Porto, Portugal
- Konstantina Demiri, Professor of Architectural Design at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Luciane Lucas dos Santos, Researcher at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, Portugal/ Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Southern Bahia, Brazil
- Milena Dragicevic Sesic, Professor of Cultural Policy and Cultural Management University of Arts, Belgrade/Head of the UNESCO Chair in Studies of Interculturalism, Art and Cultural Management and Mediation in the Balkans at the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia
- Edésio Fernandes, Professor at the Development Planning Unit of the University College London, UK/Professor at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge MA, USA
- Jose Luis Fernández-Pacheco, Assistant Professor at Universidad de Extremadura/ Member of the Technical Team of EconomĂas BioRegionales (EBR)/ Collaborator of the Instituto de la Moneda SocialUniversidad de Extremadura (IMS), Spain
- Ana Goes Monteiro, UNICAMP, Brazil
- Adelino Gonçalves, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Maya Grekova, Professor at Department of Sociology, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
- Teresa Heitor, Professor of Architecture at the Instituto Superior TĂ©cnico of Lisbon, Portugal
- Pedro Hespanha, Professor at the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra/ Researcher at the Center for Social Studies, Coimbra, Portugal
- Lars HulgĂĄrd, Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
- Joana Pestana Lages, Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
- Agnès Lelièvre, AgroParisTech, France
- Frederico Meireles Rodrigues, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, PortugalÂ
- Michael Melenhorst, Professor of Architecture at Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe (University of Applied Sciences and Arts), Germany
- Patrizia Messina, Professor of Political Science at the University of Padua, Italy
- Francesco Molinari, PI of the Designscapes Horizon 2020 project, Italy
- José Carlos Mota, University of Aveiro, Portugal
- Zaida Muxi, Barcelona School of Architecture, BarcelonaTech, Spain
- Peter Nijkamp, Emeritus Professor in Regional and Urban Economics and in Economic Geography, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- AntĂłnio JosĂ© Pereira da Silva Marques, Director of the Psychosocial Rehabilitation Lab of the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto (FPCEUP) and the School of Health – Polytechnic of Porto (ESS-PP), Portugal
- Hugo Pinto, Centre for Social Studies – University of Coimbra, Portugal
- SĂlvia Portugal, University of Coimbra & Centre for Social Studies – University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Margarida QueirĂłs, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Lisa Rosén Rasmussen, Associate Professor, Department of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Raul Sanchez, PI of the URBAN GreenUP Horizon 2020 project/ and Researcher at CARTIF Technology Centre, Spain
- Antonio Tavares, Associate Professor at the School of Economics and Management, University of Minho/ Adjunct Associate Professor at United Nations University EGOV, Portugal
- Ana Tostões, Professor of Architecture at the Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbon, Chair of Docomomo International, Portugal
Register Now!
The conference will be held in a hybrid format – allowing for both in-person and online participation.
In-Person Participation Fees
- Full event (regular): 100 EUR
One-day only: 50Â EUR - Graduate students*: 50 EUR
One-day only: 25Â EUR - Participants from low- & middle-income countries: 50Â EUR
One-day only: 25Â EUR - Members of the URBiNAT consortium: free of charge
In-person registration includes a conference abstract book, lunch and coffee breaks, a certificate of participation.
*Students will be required to submit a copy of their student ID number or proof of student status. 5Â scholarships available for eligible students.
Online Participation Fees
- Interactive online attendance of Day 1 (morning) and Day 2 with certificate of participation: 50 EUR
One-day only: 25 EUR - Access to the live stream of the conference for registered users is free of charge (no certificate of participation delivered).
Register now via our online registration form:
Registration closed on Monday 6 June 2022‼️
Conference Proceedings
The Proceedings of the NATiURB 2022 Conference are available online as open access.
The Proceedings of the International Conference on Nature for Innovative and Inclusive Urban Regeneration (NATiURB 2022) are published by Atlantis Press – member of Springer Nature – in the proceedings series Atlantis Highlights in Social Sciences, Education and Humanities.
AHSSEH Vol 24
ISSN 2667-128X
ISBN 978-94-6463-469-3
https://www.atlantis-press.com/proceedings/natiurb-22