A research blog on collective action, social innovation and resilient communities and cities

CASIE BLOGS

  • Civic urbanisms in East Asia

    Blaž will present a new book on civic urbanisms in East Asia at the East Asia Resource Library in Ljubljana. Discussion on the collaboration between Asian studies and urban studies will follow the book presentation. In parts of Asia, citizens are increasingly involved in shaping their neighbourhoods and cities. This marks a significant departure from…

  • Strengthening social cohesion through neighbourhood improvement in Seoul and Singapore*

    The cities of Seoul and Singapore offer valuable insights into the potential of neighbourhood improvement as a social policy that can strengthen social cohesion in neighbourhoods and cities. Social cohesion and sustainable development of citiesCities are vital to national and global economic growth. They are the centres of social, cultural, and political life. However, they…

  • Transdisciplinary action research seminar

    Blaž will join as a discussant Jan Lim at the Transdisciplinary Action Research Seminar. The seminar is organised by the Department of Architecture at the KU Leuven and will take place on Thursday, March 14th from 9:30 to 12:30.  Jan is a doctoral researcher at the KU Leuven. In her lecture ‘Participation in the face…

  • Institute for Spatial Policies comes of Age

    Institute for Spatial Policies, IPoP was established eighteen years ago. What started as a small association, has become the leading (and most fun to work with) national non-profit non-governmental consultancy and research organisation working across scales in the fields of community development and sustainable urban development. IPoP has been also granted the status of a…

  • Why Casie?

    CASIE seeks to understand and highlight the importance of collective action and social innovation for resilient neighbourhoods and cities in East Asia and Europe. Two-thirds of the world’s population is expected to live in cities, which are considered the engines of global and national economic growth and hubs of social, cultural, and political life. However,…

  • Casie is alive!

    CASIE is alive and kicking! After some delays, the research project Neighbourhood Collective Action and Social Innovation for Resilient Cities in East Asia and Europe, CASIE is officially launched today. CASIE seeks to understand and highlight the importance of collective action and social innovation for building resilient neighbourhoods and cities across East Asia and Europe.…

  • Sustainable Localities Lab is closing

    The Hanyang University Sustainable Localities Lab will close at the end of this month. Since its inception in 2020, the lab has been an inspiring research environment that has shaped the comparative research on localities as social networks and symbolic structures, embedded in particular geographical, cultural and institutional contexts, and the transformative potential of localities…

  • Funding received

    Exciting news! CASIE has received funding from the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency. The research project has been selected through the Call for (co-) funding of projects and programmes to strengthen the international mobility of Slovenian researchers and research organisations and to promote the international engagement of Slovenian applicants (JP C3.K8.IC), which is a part…

  • Casie blogs

    Welcome to the CASIE blog. CASIE would like to blog about neighbourhood collective action and social innovation, resilient communities and local change in urban Asia. However, it will take some time before this blog is ready. Please be patient and stay tuned. In the meantime, you can visit the Hanyang University Sustainable Localities Lab to…