FINAL PROGRAMME . Please ...
- Make sure to make your own reservations for accommodation
- Make sure to register for this Seminar by sending and Email to Ms
Karen Ritchie asap. k.i.ritchie@???
Sincere thanks
Frank Jean Sara Andy
Dear colleagues and friends:
The final seminar will take place at Newcastle University, Fenwick
Room, Leazes. There are also possibilities to reserve accommodation
at Leazes for the Sunday and Monday nights - see instructions toward
the end of this message. Lunch will be provided. A conference dinner
(but not covered by neither GURU, nor ESRC) will be organised on
Sunday night. Please let Ms Karen Ritchie know if you will participate.
Day Programme Newcastle Seminar Monday 13 July "Spaces of
competiveness, spaces of social innovation" (co-organised with KATARSIS)
9.30 am: Welcome Ngai-Ling Sum and Frank Moulaert (Coffee provided)
9.45 am- 12.00 am: Morning session "Social Innovation and Governance"
chaired by Jean Hillier
Speakers: Frank Moulaert "Spaces of social innovation: State of the
Art in international research" (15')
Marisol Garcia, University of Barcelona "Social
Innovation and Governance: initiatives and processes" (25')
Marc Pradel, University of Barcelona "Governance,
social and economic innovation in Europe: the cases of Vallès
Occidental and West Midlands" (25')
Discussant: Sara Gonzalez, Leeds University.
Lunch
01.00 pm - 02.30 pm: Afternoon session "Arts and Creativity in
Socially Innovative Spaces" chaired by Diana MacCallum, Griffith
University, Australia
Speakers: Isabel André, Lisbon University "Arts and Creativity in
Socially Innovative Spaces"
Jai Redman, Leeds University "Art practice and
graphic communication in social change"
projects
Discussants: Armelle Tardiveau and Daniel Mallo, Newcastle University
Coffee break
03.00 pm - 04.30 pm: Afternoon session "Spaces of resistance, spaces
of social change?" chaired by Bob Jessop, Lancaster University, UK.
Speakers: Len Arthur 'The transformational power of the cooperative
movement in the UK'
Friday Ogwu 'Petroleum Pipe Distribution System:
the Case of the Oil and Gas Pipeline Network in Nigeria - An
environmental justice approach'
André Carmo Lisbon University 'The lessons from
the anarchist experiences on urban social cohesion'
Discussant: Andy Pike, Newcastle University
04.30- 05.30 pm: This ESRC seminar series: Retrospect and prospect
(Ngai-Ling Sum, Lancaster University, UK)
Venue : Castle Leazes cf. website
Here is the url for the map of Leazes Terrace:
http://
maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=ne1
+4ly&ie=UTF8&ll=54.978131,-1.620998&spn=0.010763,0.018067&z=15&iwloc=add
r
The correct accommodation booking form for Leazes on the web:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/conferenceteam/bookings.htm
Description of Leazes Hall:
There are 1,000 single study bedrooms all with wash hand basin and
shared shower and bathroom facilities.
All bedrooms are double-glazed with thermostatically controlled
central heating and are furnished to a high standard. Complimentary
tea and coffee is provided in each bedroom.
If you don't want shared bathrooms down the corridor, then the other
option is for to book your own hotel:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/internal/purchasing-services/agreements/
NewcastleHotels.php
link showing all university registered hotels which delegates can get
a discount for when booking if they mention it is in connection to an
event here and they wish to use the corporate rates, and payment will
be made on departure. Beware that several of these hotels are rather
far away from Leazes Terrace. The closer ones are:
Hotel suggestions
Imperial Hotel
Jesmond Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 1PR
Telephone: 0191 281 5511
Email: reservations.newcastle@???
http://www.swallow-hotels.com/hotels/imperial-hotel/

http://www.ceg.ncl.ac.uk/info/pdf/jesmond.pdf link listing other
hotels in Jesmond
Please confirm your participation with Ms. Karen Ritchie asap.
Best wishes,
Frank Moulaert Jean Hillier Sara Gonzalez
Frank Moulaert
Professor of Spatial Planning
ASRO - Faculty of Engineering
KU Leuven
Kasteelpark Arenberg 51 - Bus 2429
B-3001 Heverlee
Belgium
Visiting Professor Newcastle University
tel: +32 16 320380
fax: +32 16 3219 81
frank.moulaert@???
personal website:
http://users.skynet.be/frank.moulaert/frank/
