Congratulations to Sarah Ware on her sucessful PhD defense

Warmest congratulations on the successful defense of your PhD, Sarah!
We are very pleased that our team member, Sarah Ware (CEU), completed her doctorate last week.

In her research Sarah explored the potential for social ecological transformation in urban planning by democratising decision-making processes and broadening participation to include informal, self-organised engagement in urban planning: insurgent planning practices.
The case study research identified underlying conditions for contestation over urban space in Vienna including the threat of physical, relative and relational forms of enclosure and proposed a theoretical extension to insurgent planning to explicitly address social and ecological dimensions by adopting a preanalytic vision aligned with social ecological economics.
It establishes the basis for a social ecological insurgent planning approach that prioritises social and ecological justice, the rejection of growth-driven planning models, and a fundamental restructuring of urban planning institutions to enable deeply democratic processes of collective city making.
These new forms of collective organisation enable scaling up, scaling out, and scaling deep, strategies of care and participation that can foster time and space for collective imagination toward social ecological transformation.

We are proud of Sarahs achievement and excited to continue our collaboration within the REMASS project team.

Wishing you every success in your future endeavors!