Papers

Avi Nardia security expert, martial artist, founder of the defence martial art KAPAP. Mongering often refers to the act of encouraging a particular activity, especially one that causes trouble, promoting something undesirable or discreditable often used in combination. Fear mongering is the action of deliberately arousing public fear or...

Ph.D Dr. Oleg Maltsev, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Director of The Memory Institute, head of Expeditionary Corps. “Cities make who we are” Ph.D. Oleg Maltsev The very name of this conference “City as a Classroom” implies that cities have something to teach. Based on our research projects, we...

Irina Lopatyuk, Ukraine Academy of Science, Memory Institute, “Expeditionary corps”. To begin with, I would like to thank the organisers and patrons of the conference for the opportunity to take part at such a wonderful and responsible international conference. Before focusing on the question of Stages of...

Charles Landry, Robert Bosch Academy (Berlin) We are experiencing the biggest wake-up call in our lifetime – a global pandemic. That is not surprising as we are witnessing for the first time something that effects directly every one of the 8 billion people on this planet – and it...

Carol Highsmith is an American photographer, author and publisher. I have been an architectural photographer for 40 years working mainly in America. I have traveled all over the world including China, the Soviet Union and Europe many times. Traveling the world as much as I have has helped me...

Prof. Liudmyla Fylypovych, Institute of Philosophy by G.S. Skovoroda, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” PhD Oksana Нorkusha, Institute of Philosophy by G.S. Skovoroda Kyiv is justly associated with the East Slavic and East Christian areas of the European continent. For several centuries it...

Ryan Bishop, University of Southampton If the City can be understood as being a classroom, a conceit posited by the topic of this conference, then we are asked to discern what it is teaching us. What are the pedagogical lessons to be gleaned from engaging urban processes as sources...

Eduardo Almeida President & CEO Indra Brasil The globalization of economies brings an enormous amount of opportunities for citizens in today´s world. Countries are becoming digital, common markets are erupting and going through full integration in many different ways, including the elimination of labor barriers, while massive campaigns...

Prof. Dr. Peter J.M. Nas, Professor Emeritus, Leiden University The city is my classroom as my students and I go out there to do fieldwork. That is the most adequate thing to do in relation to the topic we study and the special methods we use, namely urban symbolism...

Ellen Dunham-Jones, Georgia Institute of Technology The Pursuit of Privacy Throughout history most civilizations have largely assumed that the goal of wealth accumulation is greater privacy. From palaces to residential subdivisions, we have designed our built environment to provide greater and greater levels of physical isolation and naturalized the...