Call for Papers
Where Do Land and Water Meet?
Conceptualizing, Probing and Mapping the Water-Land Continuum
PortCityFutures Interdisciplinary Workshop
May 22, 2025 – TU Delft
How can water (in the form of, for instance, sea, rivers, lakes, glaciers and rainfall) and land (comprising cities, ports, farmland, mountains and islands) meet? What if they mingle, to the degree that they become inseparable? How can they be kept apart? We invite contributions focusing on subjective and sentient experiences of land-water relationships that can provide answers to questions such as these. How can spatially oriented research methodologies provide new ways to map, analyse and theorize the land-water continuum, from both contemporary and long-term perspectives? How can we theorize this from complementary disciplinary perspectives?
For this workshop we invite original papers based on research engaging the water-land continuum. We are notably interested in multidisciplinary perspectives that encompass qualitative and quantitative, heuristic and data-driven methodologies. This can include a critical engagement with for example actor-oriented mapping, ethnographic mapping, stakeholder mapping or other geographic mapping methodologies.
The workshop will take place in person at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. The workshop is intended to work towards the publication of a special issue in an academic journal focusing on interdisciplinary spatial theory and methods.
Procedure:
Deadline for Abstract (~300 words) Submission: April 15th 2025
Notice of Acceptance: April 22nd 2025
Send to: Costanza Franceschini (c.franceschini@fsw.leidenuniv.nl