Europe-Korea Conference 2025

I presented my research at the Europe–Korea Conference 2025, which addressed the theme “Global Innovative Frontier: Bridging Research and Industry, Exploring Fundamentals and Driving Prosperity.” The conference brought together scholars and practitioners to discuss emerging challenges and innovations across science, technology, and society. My presentation was delivered in the session “Designing Climate-Responsive Cities: Integrating Spatial Planning, Innovation, and Public Sector Transformation,” convened by Nicola Colaninno. The session examined how interdisciplinary approaches—linking spatial planning, design innovation, policy, and institutional transformation—can contribute to more resilient and equitable urban futures in the context of the climate crisis. Cities today face mounting pressures from environmental stress, socio-spatial inequality, and rapid urban transformation. As urban expansion and privatization intensify, the need for climate-responsive, inclusive, and adaptable planning practices has become increasingly urgent. The session explored how scientific knowledge, spatial analytics, stakeholder engagement, and public-sector innovation can be mobilized to address complex urban climate challenges, with particular attention to spatial justice, institutional innovation in planning, and strategies for urban climate adaptation and heat mitigation. Within this context, my presentation, “Defining and Measuring Socio-Ecological Publicness in the Privatised City,” investigated how socio-ecological publicness can be conceptualised and operationalised in increasingly privatised urban environments. The research proposed analytical approaches to measure the socio-ecological qualities of urban publicness and examined their implications for spatial justice and climate-responsive urban planning.