RESEARCH PORTFOLIO

ROBERTO ROCCO, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, SPATIAL PLANNING AND STRATEGY DEPARTMENT OF URBANISM FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, TU DELFT CONTACT: R.C.ROCCO@TUDELFT.NL

Delft University ofTechnology UURBAN

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RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE3 YEAR RESEARCH PROJECT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE ABOUT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACADEMIC

RESEARCH AND DESIGN PRACTICE DISCIPLINES

HTTP://WWW.HERTS.AC.UK/RESEARCH/OTHER/ART-DESIGN/RESEARCH-INTO-PRACTICE-GROUP

RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK (REF 2014), RATED 'INTERNATIONALLY EXCELLENT'ROCCO, R., ET AL. (2009). A PEDAGOGICAL PROPOSAL IN AN AREA OF EPISTEMOLOGICAL UNCERTAINTY. PROJETAR, SAO PAULO, FAU MACKENZIE.

ROCCO, R., ET AL. (2011). "THE ACADEMICIZATION OF THE ARTS AND THE CHALLENGE OF RESEARCH METHODS TRAINING: A EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN EDUCATION.

ROCCO, R., ET AL. (2009). RESEARCH BY DESIGN: A PESQUISA ATRAVES DO DESIGN. ARCOWEB ARQUITETURA E DESIGN. SAO PAULO, ARCO EDITORIAL.

BIGGS, M., ET AL. (2009). DESIGN PRACTICE AND RESEARCH: INTERCONNECTIONS AND THE CRITERION-BASED APPROACH. EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF DESIGN: DESIGN CONNEXITY, ABERDEEN, EAD & ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY.

BIGGS, M., ET AL. (2010). AN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION FOR THE DEVELOPEMENT OF A RESEARCH TRAINING COURSE IN AN EMERGENT ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE. INTED, VALENCIA, IATED.

BIGGS, M., ET AL. (2010). THE PRODUCTION OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND SOME BARRIERS TO ACADEMICISATION IN THE CREATIVE AND PERFORMING ARTS. ICERI 2010, MADRID, ICERI.

UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE

IT IS AN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION CO-ORDINATED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE BETWEEN LUND UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN, UNIVERSIDADE PRESBITERIANA MACKENZIE, BRAZIL, DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, NETHERLANDS.

HTTPS://METHODOLOGYFORURBANISM.WORDPRESS.COM/

METHODOLOGY COURSE FOR URBANISM: 5 YEARS

ROCCO, R. AND R. ROOIJ (2010). EDUCATING THE CRITICAL URBAN PLANNER AND DESIGNER: A DIDACTICAL EXPERIENCE IN AN AREA OF PRACTICE. INTED, VALENCIA, IATED.

ROCCO, R. AND R. ROOIJ (2013). TEACHING METHODOLOGY FOR URBANISM: APPRECIATING THE VARIETY OF PERSPECTIVES IN THE URBANISM DISCIPLINE. ATLANTIS. DELFT, POLIS PLATFORM FOR URBANISM/TUDELFT. MARCH: 4-6.

ROCCO, R. AND E. STOLK, EDS. (2012). METHODOLOGY FOR URBANISM: BEST ESSAYS 2010-2012. AR2U090 METHODOLOGY. DELFT, TU DELFT.

PLEEC PLANNING FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT CITIES

PROJECT INVOLVING 18 PARTNERS FROM 13 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

HTTP://WWW.PLEECPROJECT.EU

FINAL REPORT AVAILABLE AT HTTP://WWW.PLEECPROJECT.EU/RESULTS/DOCUMENTS/VIEWCATEGORY/14-REPORTS.HTML

ROCCO, R. (2016 ). "POLICY FRAMEWORKS FOR ENERGY TRANSITION IN ENGLAND: CHALLENGES IN A FORMER INDUSTRIAL CITY." JOURNAL OF SETTLEMENTS AND SPATIAL PLANNING 5(SPECIAL ISSUE ON PLANNING FOR

RESOURCE EFFICIENT CITIES ): 41-52.

FP7 3 YEAR RESEARCH PROJECT

THE POLITICAL MEANING OF INFORMAL URBANISATION

RESEARCH PROJECT ON PLANNING CHALLENGES DEALING WITH INFORMALITY IN 30 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

HTTPS://INFORMALURBANISATION.COM

ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK ON INFORMAL URBANISATION (2017)

BALLEGOOIJEN, J. V. AND R. ROCCO (2013). "THE IDEOLOGIES OF INFORMALITY: INFORMAL URBANIZATION IN THE ARCHITECTURAL AND PLANNING DISCOURSES." THIRD WORLD QUARTERLY 34(10): 1794-1810.

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FORMAL INSTITUTIONS (PLANNING SYSTEMS)INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS

THE POLITICAL MEANING OF INFORMAL URBANISATION

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CIVIL SOCIETY

PRIVATE SECTORPUBLIC SECTOR

THE GOVERNANCE OF SLUM UPGRADING

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TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture, Julianalaan 134, Delft Berlagezaal

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The Confronting Informality Symposium is a student led event sponsored by the Chair of Spatial Planning & Strategy at the TU Delft University of Technolo­gy. The symposium, in its third edition in 2016, is a result of the facultyí s and its studentsí awareness of the impacts of informal urbanization in issues of social, economic and environmental sustainability of cities today. We recog­nize the importance of understanding its drivers and its relationships with other issues such as poverty, gender discrimination, social segregation and economic inequality.

According to the United Nations 1.5 billion people are in informal or precarious employment (UNDP, 2014) and fifty­ five million slum units have been created worldwide since the year of 2000 (UN­ Habitat, 2015), mostly in the Global South. Many cities in developing countries have a large percentage of their citizens living in informal settlements.

The goal of the Confronting Informality Symposium 2016 is to shed light on informal urbanization, to understand its origins, drivers and impacts. Our aim is to establish a platform to debate informality and its correlations to spatial planning and urban design as well as to comprehend its impacts and liabili­ties on political, economic and social issues. The symposium will highlight the complexity of informal urbanization, as a part of general processes of urbani­zation, addressing its causes, consequences and adopted mitigation actions.

Speakers from diverse backgrounds will share their understandings on the theme as well as their experiences at tackling the informality matter from different perspectives.

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SALZBURG CONGRESS ON URBAN PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT (SCUPAD) MAY 2016 + STUDENT WORKSHOP IN ADDIS ABABA

SALZBURG CONGRESS ON URBAN PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT (SCUPAD) MAY 2016 + STUDENT WORKSHOP IN ADDIS ABABA

WITS+POLITECNICO+TU DELFT KYA SANDS (JOHANESBURG) STUDENT WORKSHOP.

https://citiescitizenship.wordpress.com

Cities &The Netherlands Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies(NALACS) and the Faculty of Architec-ture and the Built Environ-ment of the Delft University of Technology, are pleased to announce the joint con-ference, ‘Cities and Citizen-ship in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean’.This 2-day conference will embrace a wide range of topics related to urban de-velopment and citizenship in Latin America and the Car-ibbean.

In their pioneering collec-tion of essays Cities and Citi-zenship, Holston and Appa-durai (1999) as well as other prominent scholars stressed the importance of cities in the making of modern citi-zens. At the end of the twen-tieth century, they demon-strated that urban environ-ments are salient sites for ex-amining the renegotiations of citizenship, democracy, and national belonging. This is arguably particularly the case in contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean, where cities seem to embody the aspirations of citizens and to showcase the best and the worse of their respective societies. It is here that we can observe major

opportunities and threats to development, security and human rights, as well as major struggles for rights, in-clusion and democracy

For this conference, we invite individual papers as well as panels proposal that look at the relationship be-tween urban development and practices of citizenship. Conference panels will be or-ganized along four tracks. For more information, visit our website.

Track 1. Cities and violence Cities as salient sites where violence and con-flict develop and affect the lives of citizens.Track 2. Cities and sustainable developmentCities as salient sites where (spatial) planning and (sustainable) develop-ment ideas are applied, and where grassroots and governments alternating-ly clash or collaborate in order to simultaneously build cities and structures of citizenship.Track 3. Cities and identityCities as salient sites where citizen’s identities and resistances are ex-pressed and repressed.Track 4. Open for discussion Cities as salient sites for other themes related to urban life and urban de-velopment.

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NALACS CEDLA

citizenshipin Latin America & the Caribbean

The Netherlands Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (NALACS) &The Department of Urbanism of the Delft University of Technology

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JUNE 2016

Tales and Images of Spatial JusticeDiscussing New Urban Languages of Equality, Justice and Sustainable Development

Keynote Speakers

Franco Farinelli \ Universit‡ di BolognaGabriele Pasqui \ Politecnico di MilanoJuval Portugali \ Tel Aviv University

24 \ 26 JUNE 2015

TU DELFTFaculty of ArchitectureDepartment of UrbanismJulianalaan 134, Delft, NLwww.newurbanlanguages.eu

Scientifi c Comittee

InÈ s AquiluÈ Junyent, Universitat PolitË cnica de CatalunyaMatteo Bolocan Goldstein, Politecnico di MilanoFrank Eckardt, Bauhaus­ Universit‰ t WeimarLuca Gaeta, Politecnico di MilanoAndrea Giordano, Universit‡ di PadovaSofi a Morgado, Universidade TÈ cnica de LisboaGabriele Pasqui, Politecnico di MilanoPaola Pucci, Politecnico di MilanoRoberto Rocco, Delft University of TechnologyRossella Salerno, Politecnico di MilanoJavier Ruiz Sanchez, Unversidad PolitÈ cnica de MadridDaniele Villa, Politecnico di Milano

Architects, urbanists, designers and planners often dodge issues of democracy, justice and redistribution and concentrate instead on the technical or aesthetic aspects of their activities. This is not acceptable. Justice and fairness in urban development must be continuously and critically discussed, or else we risk failing to meet the social dimension of sustainability. This is described by Larsen (2012), among others, for whom “for sustainability to occur, it must occur simultaneously in each of its three dimensions: economic, social and environmental”.

But spatial interventions, plans and designs do not happen in a vacuum. They happen in real governance structures, in which there are power struggles, disagreement and continuous negotiation. In short, urbanism happens in political arenas.

Designing and planning the built environment are profoundly political activities. There are no purely value-free or ‘technical’ solutions for spatial problems: all decisions in spatial development are political decisions insofar they must involve choice, negotiation, friction and divergence, and occasionally agreement that enables action. This is also known as politics. Spatial planners and designers have a highly central role in achieving justice, as shapers of innovative spatial and institutional relationships between civil society, the public sector and the private sector and designers of sustainable structures and processes. Cities and regions that are socially, economically and environmentally sustainable and fair are not a “given”, they are an achievement.

The recent financial crisis has highlighted at least one convergence: cities all over the world are becoming more unequal and socially and spatially fragmented, even in the developed world. This is very bad news, as it is widely accepted that economic growth alone is not enough to promote well-being: equity is important too. There is plenty of data showing correlation between inequality in a society and economic success. And more evidence showing that inequality is socially and economically unsustainable in the long run. But we must leave the dry world of statis-tics and try to understand inequality where it happens: in space. In order to advance the discussion, we need to explore some key issues of spatial inequality and its antidote: spatial justice.

In this conference, we want to explore the concept of spatial justice and its implications for urban planners and designers. We also wish to under-stand in which ways we can describe, imagine and represent spatial justice, in a time in which the representation of reality can be used to distort, embellish, and falsify it.

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TEXTTUDelftsummerschool

planning &design with

water

SPS UURBANISM

Delft University ofTechnology

https://summerschooltudelft.org/

Department of UrbanismTU DELFT, every July The Netherlands

SPS

what is the summer schoolThe Department of Urbanism of

the TU Delft and the group of

Spatial Planning and Strategy,

organise the Summer School

ʻPlanning and Design with Sustainabilityʼ every July. The Summer School combines spatial

planning, urban design and

environmental technology to tackle issues of sustainability,

climate adaptation and water management in urban environ-

ments. It invites students to understand the theories and

practices that bring

together water management

and urban

sustaina-

bility and

to apply

the knowl-edge

acquired in

the elaboration

of a vision and a spatial plan and design for an

area in the city of The Hague in

The Netherlands. The aim of the Summer School is to explore the

Dutch tradition of planning and

design with water and the inte-

gration of water management and sustainability into urban

development.The Summer School is led by the

Delft University of Technology, in collaboration with IFoU (Interna-

tional Forum of Urbanism) and other international partners. This exercise includes site visits, talks with professionals and academics and a short studio-based exer-

cise, where students and teachers will explore possibilities

through the elabo-

ration of spatial

scenarios and

the design

of spatial

strategy in

the city of

the Hague,

located in one

of the most impor-

tant urbanized delta

regions of the world.Visit our website for more details.

At the end of the summer school,

you will be able:1. To explain the challeng-

es of water issues in regional,

metropolitan

and urban

environments and resilience

of urban envi-ronments in rela-

tion to climate change

2. To make connections between the planning and design of built

environments in relation to the challenges above3. To elaborate spatial plans and design using the complexity of

spatial planning and strate-

gy-making in relation to water issues

4. To discuss the possible roles planning and design

professionals might

have in the practice

5. To connect issues of govern-

ance, participation and democra-

cy to spatial plan-making and

design

6. To take general steps in spatial plan

and strategy-mak-

ing, using clear

methods and tools

associated with each step

7. To explain the role of technolo-

gy in urban development consid-

ering climate change and its role

as boundary spanner

8. To connect learning and doing through practical interactive exercises

The full programme of the

Summer School is available on our website.

learning outcomesDelft University ofTechnology

https://summerschooltudelft.org/

THANKS!