Institute for Urban Research (IUR)

Our calls for visiting scholar and artist in residence for 2026 are now open - check them out and submit applications to iurcalls@mau.se!

Thank you to all contributors and to our resident artist @davidpeterkerr.bsky.social for the illustration!

Feminisms for our time! - Urban Matters Journal This issue, Feminisms for Our Time! Urban Inequalities and Contestations in the Age of Global Change, edited by Syeda Jenifa Zahan and Carina Listerborn, foregrounds feminist and queer perspectives on...

We’re excited to share that the latest edition of Urban Matters journal, “Feminisms for our time!” is out! Edited by Syeda Jenifa Zahan and Carina Listerborn and dedicated to Gaza, this issue dares us to reimagine feminist urban theory among today’s crises. urbanmattersjournal.com/issue/femini...

Perfect way to start the summer with a new publication part of the Studies in Housing and Welfare’s working paper series: Variegated Experiences of Rental Housing Financialization: Residential Property Investors in France and Sweden, with @matthieuvogt.bsky.social: urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=...

Sound as Urban Matters - Urban Matters Journal The overarching questions addressed in the assembled articles are: How do different actors engage and negotiate through sonic intermediations in the city? How does sound reshape human and more-than-hu...

The newest edition of Urban Matters by guest editors Laleh Foroughanfar and Per Möller has just been published! Exploring "Sound as Urban Matters," this issue discusses sound in relation to power, participation, listening, and regulation. Check it out here: urbanmattersjournal.com/issue/sound-...

The Role of Planning in ‘Anti-Democratic’ Times Thematic Issue, Vol 10 (2025)

The Role of Planning in ‘Anti-Democratic’ Times www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...

Call for Abstracts! Special issue of Urban Matters on "Waste and Power: Critical Perspectives on Inequality and Exclusion" - Institute for Urban Research The call for abstracts is now open for a special issue of Urban Matters journal entitled Waste and Power: Critical Perspectives on Inequality and Exclusion,” edited by Kim Roelofs (University of Gothe...

📣Submit your abstracts to a special issue of Urban Matters journal on “Waste and Power: Critical Perspectives on Inequality and Exclusion” edited by Kim Roelofs! The call is open until October 25th.

Find all the information here: www.iuresearch.se/call-for-abs...

Wishing our visiting master’s student Tanisha Sequeira well as she travels back to Radboud University in the Netherlands! Tanisha has been spending the last 2 months in Malmö investigating intercultural planning practices and citizen engagement as she writes her master’s thesis. All the best! 🌷

Great lecture by @kavitaurbanist.bsky.social on embodied thermal justice with @iurmalmo.bsky.social and Network of Global South Urbanism(s)

Våra duktiga kollegor inom @iurmalmo.bsky.social har ombildats som forskningscentrum vid @mau.se , och har kalas för att fira detta på Form/Design centrum. Panelsamtal med rörelser och aktörer i staden, med Paula Mulinari som samtalsledare.

Call for Abstracts! Urban Matters Special Issue: Digital Platforms as Urban Infrastructure - Institute for Urban Research Abstract submissions are open for a special issue of Urban Matters journal! Please see below for information and instructions. Title: Digital Platforms as Urban Infrastructure  Abstract: 250 words  Ar...

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The call is open! ✏️Would you like to submit to a special issue on "Digital Platforms as Urban Infrastructure" for our e-journal Urban Matters? Read more here + send an abstract by June 15: www.iuresearch.se/call-for-abs...

Eurovision and the City: “United by Music” Meets “Malmö against Genocide” | Commentary | Urban Planning Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, Adriana de La Peña, Laleh Foroughanfar, Jennie Gustafsson, Lorena Melgaço, Chiara Valli

Happy to have been part of this collective and collaborative work initiated by Chiara Valli with Laleh Foroughanfar, Adriana de la Peña, Lorena Melgaço and Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou. It was a great experience thinking about Eurovision, protests and authoritarian urbanism.

On May 22, join us for a screening of the film Desova and a lecture/discussion with Professor Tereza Ventura (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro). This will be from 13:15 - 15:00 in the Niagara building (Norra Neptunigatan 1) in lecture hall B1 on the entry level. Info: mau.se/en/calendar/...

More details announced! Our panel discussion, moderated by associate professor Paula Mulinari, will include Aina Gagliardo (Röda Korsets Malmökrets), Ana Betancour (IUR), Britt Jürgensen (Backa Kåken), Halimo Nuur (Rosengårds Folkets Hus), and Stefana Hoti (Malmö stad) as participants. Welcome!

Tampere urban research community members from STUE, TURNS & SUD visiting IUR @iurmalmo.bsky.social at the Malmö University 💜

All are welcome to IUR's public launch at Form/Design Center on Friday May 23rd from 16:00 - 18:00!

Join us for a presentation of the research center, a panel discussion (in Swedish) on urban justice, and open workshops. Please register here: forms.office.com/e/WpCQaYCt19

Truly inspiring! Great lectures and discussions, which will make Urban Humanities grow at IUR. Thanks for all the contributions.

Last Friday's Urban Humanities Symposium was a pleasure! Thank you to everyone who came by, listened to the presenters, and participated in the discussions about Learning the Urban. We hope to keep these conversations going!

Next up: on Tuesday April 8th, come join us at 12.00 for a Brown Bag Seminar with Paul Rabé (International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University)!

More info and location here: www.iuresearch.se/event/south-...

And of course we later took a (warm and sunny!) City Walk with @imhmalmo.bsky.social about Möllevången’s storied history of activism.

Today’s Open Urban Seminar with @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social on the topic “Exploring contemporary class formation through everyday tenant struggles,” which connected her new book “Class and Everyday Life” with her ongoing research on housing inequality. Thank you for joining us, Kirsteen! 👏

We can't wait - looking forward to it!

I’ll be speaking in Malmo tomorrow, part of my visiting researcher at the University of Gothenburg, talking about my book Class and Everyday Life, and how tenant struggles offer examples of expansive class politics and formation.
Topped off wonderfully by city walk on labour movements

Join us for events this Thursday April 3 in connection with the workshop "Class, City, and the Everyday" w/ @imhmalmo.bsky.social: a lecture with @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social at the university at 13.15 and a city walk in Möllevången at 16.30. More info here: mau.se/en/calendar/.

Welcome!

Starting the day at #aag2025 with Chiara Vallis and Ismael Yrigoys session on Class and housing! @iurmalmo.bsky.social

An update from our colleagues at AAG in Detroit - today and tomorrow left to go! Among the smiles: @listerborn.bsky.social, @jiegson.bsky.social, @gbaet.bsky.social, and @defnekadioglu.bsky.social

A team of researchers from IUR will be attending the AAG annual meeting in Detroit next week, with this March 26th session "The Assetization of Urban Land and Housing" organized by @jiegson.bsky.social and @defnekadioglu.bsky.social. If you'll be at the meeting, don't miss this!

Join us tomorrow (Wednesday March 19th, 13.00-14.00) for a digital Brown Bag Seminar with Ana Sanchez Troillet! The topic is "Constructing Leisure: Amusement Parks, Urban Transformations and Family Life in Buenos Aires in the Second Half of the 20th Century." Zoom: mau-se.zoom.us/j/62385558804

Even more pictures from our trip to Athens, where we had the chance to engage with the city from eras that spanned ancient to modern and discuss our plans for continued collaboration and co-creation with society. The conversations started there, but they will continue in Malmö!

Posting from our retreat to the Swedish Institute in Athens, where we are taking some time to discuss our visions for our work around urban justice and enjoy the Greek sunshine ☀️