Programm
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Agenda
Venue: Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Friday, 1 March
Registration and coffee
09:30
10:00
In front of Event Hall
Opening ceremony
Dr. Giorgi Sharvashidze, Rector of Tbilisi State University
Dr. Tamar Dolbaia, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences,
Tbilisi State University
Dr. Joseph Salukvadze, Forum director, Tbilisi State University
10:00
10:30
Event Hall
GEO/EN
Keynote address
Davit Abuladze, Head of Architects Union of Georgia
“Urban dimensions”
10:30
11:30
Event Hall
GEO/EN
Coffee break
11:30
12:00
In front of Event Hall
Session 1
Panel discussion: Retrospective of urban planning practices in Georgia since 1991
Head: Dr. Vladimer Vardosanidze, architect and urban planner
Moderator: Gogi Abashidze, architect
Dr. Giorgi Batiashvili, architect
Dr. Levan Beridze, architect
Dr. Merab Bolkvadze, architect and urban planner
Pavle Dzindzibadze, architect
Dr. Nino Gventsadze, Head of Spatial Planning Department, Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Development of Georgia
Q&A session
12:00
13:30
Event Hall
GEO/EN
Lunch
13:30
14:30
In front of Event Hall
Session 2
Panel discussion: Current urban planning practices
Head: Dr. David Narmania, ex-Mayor of Tbilisi
Moderator: Nikoloz Simonishvili, Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association
Keti Bochorishvili, Anaklia City JSC
Elena Darjania, Tbilisi State University
Dr. Mykola Kostrytsya, Zhytomyr City Council, Ukraine
Serghei Severin, Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment of Moldova
Silvia Dragomir, Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment of Moldova
Q&A session
14:30
16:00
Event Hall
GEO/EN
Coffee break
16:00
16:30
In front of Event Hall
Guided city walking tour (optional)
16:30
19:00
Meeting point:
TSU central entrance
Conference dinner (invite-only)
19:00
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Saturday, 2 March
Saturday, 2 March
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Saturday, 2 March
PARALLEL SESSION 3A
INTEGRATED APPROACHES: HOUSING AND SOCIAL RESTRUCTURING IN URBAN RENEWAL STRATEGIES
Head: Davit Sichinava Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Dr. Kostyantyn Mezentsev, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine and
Dr. Michael Gentile, University of Oslo, Norway
Crossing Regeneration Street: New-build Gentrification in Sotsgorod
Dr. Anar Valiyev, School of Public and International Affairs, ADA University, Baku, Azerbaijan
Post-Soviet Urban Renewal and its Discontents: Gentrification by Demoli- tion in Baku
Dr. Oleg Pachenkov, Ekaterina Korableva, and Liubov Chernysheva, Centre for Applied Research at the European University at Saint Petersburg
Social life of urban planning terms: Gentrification, Densification and Ghettoisation in a Post-socialist City (case of Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Discussion
11:30-13:30
Room 317
PARALLEL SESSION 3B
CURRENT PRACTICES: QUALITY OF LIFE, HUMAN MOBILITY AND ACCESS TO SERVICES
Head: Tornike Kordzaia, Tbilisi Free University
Tatia Kartlelishvili, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Post-socialist urban transformation of mining cities (on example of Chiatura)
Sophia Todua, Georgian Technical University
Spatial planning and universal access to education
George Kankia, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Social Dimension Of Urban Mobility – Assessing Public Transport Acces- sibility And Social Exclusion For The Socially Vulnerable Defining The Methodology
Lilit Babayan, National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia
Cluster Structure of Territories’ Organization as an Instrument of Assess- ment, Efficient Use and Sustainable Development of Ra Land Resources
Discussion
11:30-13:30
Room 318
PARALLEL SESSION 4A
INTEGRATED APPROACHES: URBAN POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE
Head: Suzy Harris-Brandts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Eugene Slonimerov, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Caucasus University
From Tbilisi to Toronto and Back:
the Revanchist City
Elvira Gizatullina and Liubov Chernysheva, Centre for Applied Research at the European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia
Size matters: challenge of the scale and breakdowns of self-governance mechanisms in the high-rise residential complex (case of “North Valley”, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Suzy Harris-Brandts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and Davit Sichinava, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
The Politics of Urban Recovery in a Stalinist-Era Resort Town: Heritage, Tourism Development and Displaced Communities in Tskaltubo, Georgia
Discussion
11:30-13:30
Room 317
PARALLEL SESSION 4B
CURRENT PRACTICES: NATURE SENSITIVE URBAN DESIGN
Head: Elena Darjania, Tbilisi State University
Leyla Musayeva, Pillə , Baku, Azerbaijan
Regulation of urban public spaces and the participativeness of citizens in 15 Baku, Azerbaijan
Levan Alpaidze, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
The evaluation of ecosystem services of Tbilisi green infrastructure (the case study of urban public parks of Tbilisi, Georgia)
Gérard Ronzatti and Petar Lovric, SEINE DESIGN, Paris, France
Floating Infrastructure - Large Scale Public Spaces on Water
Dariusz Mikołajczyk and Janusz Komenda, National Institute for Spatial Policy and Housing, Kraków, Poland
Strategic environmental impact assessment and preparation of spatial development plans - Polish experience in the light of the entry into force of the new legal provisions in Georgia
Discussion
13:30-15:00
Room 318
10:00
11:00
Keynote address
Michael Gentile, University of Oslo, associate
editor for Eurasian Geography and Economics
“The City Self and urban “Europeanization” in EU Association Agreement countries: Palmanova or Palma di Montechiaro?”
Room 115
11:00
11:30
Coffee break
Ground floor
11:30
13:00
Session 3
Panel discussion: Integrated approaches to urban planning
Head: Dr. Mamuka Salukvadze, CEO City Institute Georgia
Co-head: George Lemonjava, ecologist
Shota Murgulia, economist, ex-Mayor of Kutaisi
Paata Sheshelidze, economist, co-founder and president of the New Economic School
Rustin Zarkar, editor at Ajam Media Collective, New York University,
Ucha Abashidze, specialist of military affairs
Q&A session
Room 115
13:00
14:00
Lunch
Ground floor
14:00
15:30
Session 4
Panel discussion: Teaching urban planning and design
Head: Dr. António Castel Branco, University of Lisbon
Co-head: Dr. Joseph Salukvadze, Tbilisi State University,
Dr. Levan Beridze, vice-head of Union of Architects of Georgia
Dr. Nick Shavishvili, Dean of International Design School, Georgian Technical University
Dr. Nino Chachava, Faculty of Architecture, Urban Planning and Design. Georgian Technical University
Shota Nizharadze, Dean of School of Technology, Caucasus University
Jesse Vogler, Head of Architecture Program, Free University of Tbilisi
Dr. Ia Kupatadze, Head of Architectural Program, Ilia Chavchavadze State University
Dr. Piotr Trzepacz, Editor-in-chief of Urban Development Issues journal at the National Institute for Spatial Policy and Housing, Poland
Q&A session
Room 115
15:30
16:00
Closing remarks
Room 115
16:00
17:00
Wine reception
Ground floor