ISST is part of the organizing committee of the IAPS 2024 Congress

We are delighted to inform you that the 28th IAPS Conference will be held from the 2nd to the 5th July 2024 in Barcelona, Spain. This edition is entitled “Enacting Transdisciplinar Knowledge: People, Places, Movements and Sustainabilities”.

People's relationships with the environment are complex and constantly changing, and require a multidisciplinary approach. Challenges like the transition to more sustainable living spaces, the change to different energy sources, the reduction of consumption, the promotion of circular economies and the approach to the climate crisis present new challenges for society, and especially for the scientific community, both in terms of creation of new technologies and human behavior management.

] In order to achieve a change, it is essential to examine phenomena from different angles, with different disciplinary perspectives, theoretical and methodological approaches, in order to reach solutions to issues of social and environmental importance and, ultimately, to work towards well-being of people and society as a whole. As ecology points out at the beginning of the 20th century, any action to be sustainable must be "different" and adapted to each ecosystem, that is, to each social or eco-social context.

Six thematic areas have been selected, each with several subcategories:

Topic 1: Climate change and sustainability - Human behavior change

• Sustainable lifestyles and green economy
• Resource and Environmental Research Crisis
• Risks and Hazards: their perception and management

Theme 2: Natural and urban environments – City transitions

• Urban design, architecture, landscape design and its effect on people
• Design and habitat of buildings and domestic, work and public spaces
• Evaluation of buildings and natural landscapes
• stresses related to the work and residential environment

Topic 3: Participation, citizenship and environmental justice

• Sustainability and Social Innovation
• Activism and Environmental Discourses
• Social movement and social networks

Topic 4: Attached to Site - Space, Gender and Postcolonialism

• Theories of place, adjoining place and identity place
• Social use of space, crowds, privacy, territoriality, personal space
• Stigmatized spaces, prejudices and spatial segregation
• Gentrification and touristification

Topic 5: Mobility, habits and needs

• Spatial Cognition and Wayfinding
• Mobility research
• Leisure and tourism behaviour in physical environments

Topic 6: Information management, communication and reality building

• Representation and Social Construction of Realities
• Sources of information, credibility and communication management
• Uncertainties of science, ecoanxiety and solestalgia

IMPORTANT DATES:

• 1 November 2023 - Open deadline for submitting abstract proposals
• 30 December 2023 - Deadline for submitting abstract proposals
• 1 November 2023 - Early bird fee registration
• February 2024 - Abstract Acceptance Notification
• March 31, 2024 - Early bird fee registration deadline
• June 30, 2024 - Tariff Enrolment deadline
• 2-5 July 2024 - Conference dates

Conference Chairs:

Angela Castrechini, University of Barcelona

Enric Pol, University of Barcelona