Tag: research
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Fieldwork on community gardening in Singapore
Fieldwork on community gardening in Singapore is coming to an end. During his stay, Blaž talked to more than twenty interviewees including gardeners, garden managers and community activists from Boon Lay Nature Garden, Clementi Woods Park Allotment, City Sprouts at Henderson and West Coast Park, Funan Urban Farm, Horts Park Allotment, Jalan Peletok Art Garden,…
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Casie goes to Singapore!
The time has come. For the next two months, the Asia Research Institute, ARI at the National University of Singapore will be hosting CASIE. The stay in Singapore aims to explore the importance of neighbourhood collective action and social innovation in building resilient communities in the city. In addition to the ethnographic fieldwork and research…
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Korean neighbourhoods beyond Korea
Neighbourhoods are known for their social networks and identities embedded in particular places. Blaž will present on a seminar on Korean neighbourhoods beyond Korea, comparing three Korean neighbourhoods with strong social networks and distinct identities based on social class and/or ethnicity. Of these neighbourhoods, only Haengdang-dong is located in Korea. It used to be one…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…