THE REYKJAVIK SYMPOSIUM:THE FUTURES OF PUBLIC SPACE

Organized by the KTH Centre for the Future of Places, May 14, 2019

Tridib Banerjee, in his influential article “The Future of Public Space: Beyond Invented Streets and Reinvented Places” (Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol.67, No.1, Winter 2001), asks insightful questions regarding the future of public space. Parallel with that we have the discussions and deliberations on the nature and future of public spaces either as a field of research, a theme, a sub discipline or an emerging discipline of its own standing.
Public space has also become something of a touchstone for critical urban theory in relation to philosophy, human geography, visual art, cultural studies, social studies, urban sociology, landscape architecture, architecture, environmental psychology and urban planning and design.
While the research of W. Whyte and others on public spaces in the 1970s was almost entirely concentrated on the physical aspects of cities and their public realms, the future of public space and urban life more generally will also have to consider a more comprehensive look at what “reality” really is. Routine discussions on public space, either in practice or academia, typically omit a wide spectrum of possibilities ripe for critical discussion.

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