IFHP Urban Planing and Design International Summerschool

The 26th IFHP Urban Planning and Design Summer School is organised in Helsinki and Hämeenlinna, 15–26 August 2022. The course is open to students and young professionals from all disciplines related to spatial planning. Organised by best experts in planning and urban studies, the course entitles participants to five study credits (ECTS).

The theme for this year’s summer school is Rethinking Urban Change. The 26th edition of IFHP Urban Design and Planning Summer School invites students and young professionals, in all disciplines related to spatial design, to locally elaborate spaces of hope: to find alternative futures in place-based practices, local actors and their networks. 

In Summer 2022, we re-evaluate and explore new roles for architects, planners and other experts and envision new, even surprising agencies and coalitions. We ask questions like who has the right to design the city? How to engage local actors, also on grass-root level, to the design process and give them true agency in the transformation? How to use data, and make it meaningful? How to rethink urban change? 

Apply by the 15th of April and join a unique educational and social experience!

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IFHP Urban Planning and Design Summer School stands in solidarity with Ukraine. More information on the impact of the war in Ukraine on the Summer School.

For further inquiries, please contact: Anna Koskinen: info@ifhpsummerschool.fi
Coordinator of the IFHP Summer School 2022

Organised since 1994, the IFHP Urban Planning and Design Summer School in Finland is the oldest summer course in the field of urban planning and design. The event is co-organised by Tampere University, School of Architecture‘s Urban Planning Research Group, and Aalto University’s Spatial Planning and Transportation Engineering Group, together with the city of Hämeenlinna and the International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP).