City as a Classroom: International scientific and practical conference
About this ebook
scientific and practical conference
“City as a Classroom”
This conference is designed to consolidate the efforts of scientists and experts to ultimately comprehend existing questions with scientifically based keys, directed at uncovering the logic and tactics of implementing "HOW TO MAKE THIS CIVILIZATION A FLOURISHING ONE".
In the course of six days of the conference, the following topics were covered in the format of online discussion panels:
1. Theoretical foundations for studying cities. City as a set of factors defining the status and level of personality development;
2. Symbolism, photography, expeditionary scientific activities, and other methods of exploring cities;
3. Ongoing threats in the context of the city;
4. Symbolism, mysticism and visual sociology of the European continent. Sociological, psychological, anthropological and religious perspectives on cities in other continents;
5. City as a university and training program in life;
6. Architecture as textbooks for city residents and unconscious training in the course of their lives in a city.
As an outcome of the scientific discussion, the following aspects were considered and analyzed: the way the urban environment affects a person and determines his or her future; how may the methodology of researching a city as a classroom may; security in the city; the stages of personal development; statuses and factors determining personal development and photography as a tool for looking into historical enigmas.
Organizing committee of “City as a Classroom” thanks all speakers and participants of the conference:
Dr. Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Ph.D Dr. Oleg Maltsev
Prof. Dr. Peter J. M. Nas
Prof. Dr. Michael Batty
Charles Landry
Prof. Dr. Jerome Krase
Prof. Ellen Dunham-Jones
Prof. Dr. Spiro N. Pollalis
Eduardo Almeida
Prof. Mitchell Joachim
Prof. Maxim Lepskiy
Prof. Vitalii Lunov
Prof. Dr. Viktor Kotygorenko
Carol Highsmith
Prof. Liudmyla Fylypovych
Dr. Ryan Bishop
PhD Oleksandr Sahaidak
Bryan Darr
Prof. Dr. Vitalii Krivoshein
Irina Lopatiuk
Dwight Wilson
Prof. Sarah Williams Goldhagen
Avi Nardia
Costantino Slobodyanyuk
Dr. Yuliia Soroka
Prof. Dr. Valentina Voronkova
Olga Panchenko
Dr. Michael Hynes
Ph.D. Olga Guzhva
Maryna Illiusha
Olga Prokopova
Dr. Olena Semenets
Anna Varina
Valeriya Goncharova
About the author
Maxim Lepskiy - Professor, Doctor of Sciences, Philosophy (Dr.Sc. in Philosophy), Full Professor, Professor of the Chair of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Administration, Zaporizhzhy National University. Head of Research Board in Social Forecasting Sociological Association of Ukraine, Academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
Vitalii Lunov is an Associate Professor in the university named after O.O. Bogomoltsa. Member of the American psychological Association, the American Academy of clinical psychology, World Federation for mental health (USA), the European Academy of natural Sciences (Hannover, Germany).
Oleg Maltsev - an author, criminologist, psychologist, photographer, investigative journalist. He is an Academician of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Founder and director of The Memory Institute, head of Expeditionary Corps. He is an author of numerous books in the areas such as applied history, sociology, depth psychology, philosophy, criminalistics, criminology. He has been conducting field research with the Expeditionary Corps in many countries for more than 6 years to explore on what levels and how people are shaped by cities. He is an editor of several interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals.
Felipe Fernández-Armesto - an award-winning historian and the author of several bestselling books, including 1492, Ideas that Changed the World, and The Americas. He lives in Indiana and is a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. He has written numerous books on a variety of subjects from American History to the Spanish Armada. His works appeared and were reviewed by leading world publications. One of the recent works is The Oxford Illustrated History of the World edited by him.
Michael Batty - Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London (UCL) where he is Chair of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). His work is focused on computer models of cities and their visualisation, and more recently how computation lies at the heart of the smart cities movement. His most recent books are The New Science of Cities (2013) and Inventing Future Cities (2018). He is the Editor of Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science.
Oleksandr Sahaidak - the Head of Theurung Association. He is a psychologist, Jungian analyst, hypnologist, academician, expert in anthropology and sociology. Chairman of the Psychological-philosophical scientific society at the UAS.
Jerome Krase - an Emeritus Professor, sociologist, Murray Koppelman Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Expert in sociology, gentrification in Brooklyn, Brooklyn ethnic groups, Italian-American politics, culture, race, class, urban life and Ethnicity in New York. One of his recent books includes Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn: A View from the Street. He is a public activist-scholar and serves as a consultant to public and private agencies regarding urban community issues. Co-Editor of Urbanities, and Editorial Board Member of Visual Studies, and CIDADES.
Carol Highsmith - an American photographer, author, and publisher who has photographed in all the states of the United States, as well as the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. She photographs the entire American vista (including landscapes, architecture, urban and rural life, and people in their work environments) in all fifty U.S. states as a record of the early 21st century. Highsmith donated her life’s work of more than 100,000 images, royalty-free, to the Library of Congress, which established a rare, one-person archive.
Charles Landry - an expert in the use of imagination and creativity in urban change. He is a fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin. He invented the concept of the Creative City in the late 1980’s. The notion has become a global movement and changed the way cities thought about their capabilities and resources. He is best known for The Creative City: A toolkit for Urban Innovators.
Eduardo Almeida - CEO at INDRA and Minsait Brazil. He manages more than 8,500 specialists and has more than 25 years of professional experience in companies such as Alcatel, Cisco Systems and Unisys. Previously, he served as Vice President and general Manager for Unisys Corporation in Latin America.
Dwight Wilson - private security industry professional who has been working in high risk areas. He currently works for Valor Force as a security professional. He is an author of two books on human and wildlife tracking, Following Tracks Vol 1and 2, and has contracted with several government agencies as a professional tracker and instructor. Dwight is a Guro of Filipino Martial Arts with Rister International Martial Arts for more than 20 years experience.
Ryan Bishop - author, editor, critical theorist with an interest in urban studies. Professor at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK. Director of Research and Doctoral Research within Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton. He is a co-editor of Cultural Politics (Duke UP); editorial member of Theory Culture & Society (Sage) and others.
Avi Nardia - martial artist, founder of the defence martial art KAPAP. In the course of 24 years as a reserve officer, he (Major, IDF Res.) has served as an official hand-to-hand instructor, safety officer and served in the Special Counter Terror Unit. He has also trained Police agencies and armed forces all over the world, from Police patrol and corrections officers to SWAT, SRT and SERT team members along with Army, Marine and counter terror units and Special Forces.
Peter J. M. Nas - author, emeritus professor of cultural anthropology at Leiden University (Netherlands); he used to work at the institutes of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, and Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania (Leiden University). He has published extensively in the fields of urban anthropology, development sociology and urban symbolism, among which are “Hypercity. Symbolic side of urbanism”, “Cities Full of Symbols: A Theory of Urban Space and Culture”, “Town-Talk: The Dynamics of Urban Anthropology” and “Urban Symbolism”.
Liudmyla Fylypovych - religious scholar, head of the Department of Philosophy and History of Religion in Institute of Philosophy by G.S. Skovoroda, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Professor of National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”. Vice President of the Ukrainian Association of Religious Studies. Executive Director of the Center for Religious information and freedom of the Ukrainian Association of Religious Studies.
Spiro N. Pollalis - professor of Design, Technology and Management at the Harvard Design School. Since 2008, he is the Director of the Zofnass Program for the Sustainability of Infrastructure that has led to the Envision Rating System. He is also the Principal Investigator of the project “Gulf Sustainable Urbanism” for 10 cities in the Arab Gulf. He has taught as a visiting professor at the ETH-Zurich, Switzerland; TU-Delft, Holland; Uni-Stuttgart, Germany; U-Patras, Greece; and has offered joint courses with the Harvard Business School on planning and development.
Bryan Darr - executive Vice-President of Smart Cities at Ookla, the company behind Speedtest and President & CEO of Mosaik. In June 2018, Mosaik was acquired by Ookla, combining the vast Speedtest network performance data with the mapping and coverage expertise of Mosaik. Bryan has served on many industry committees during his career. He currently serves on the Wireless Industry Association’s Innovation and Technology Council and CTIA’s Smart Cities Business & Technology Working Group.
Michael Hynes - environmental Sociology Lecturer in the School of Political Science & Sociology at NUI Galway, with long-standing research interests in sustainability issues related to transport, urban design and liveability, technology adoption and diffusion and socio-technical transitions. Mike’s current research interests continue to focus in the connection between urban form and transportation systems which are crucial importance to creating well-designed and liveable urban environments, while improving the health of individuals and building community resilience.
Ellen Dunham-Jones - an architectural educator and urbanist best known for her work on re-educating the public how to interact with their environment, she is also an authority on suburban redevelopment. Author of over 60 articles linking contemporary theory and practice. She is a Professor in the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech, where she also serves as Director of its MS in Urban Design Program. She and June Williamson co-authored Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs which was awarded the Architecture & Urban Planning category of the 2009 PROSE Award.
Irina Lopatyuk - Associate fellow of Ukraine Academy of Science and the Memory Institute. Member of the special scientific unit “Expeditionary corps”. Chairman of Odessa Historic-literature scientific society. Secretary of Psychological and Philosophical Scientific Society.
