Referring to transitional streets, this conference addresses scholars in all disciplines with the question: how can the evolution of streets be traced in an era when their transition swings between regression and progression witnessed socially, economically, culturally, technologically and educationally? To what extent are transitional streets channels for conviviality? Would transitional streets serve as manifestations but also tools to address current challenges of versatility, multiculturalism, displacement, alienation, annihilation, intersectional discrimination, environmental deterioration and socio-political escalations?
This frame for discussing streets traces their entanglement with everyday life, politics, economy, technology, communication, to name few. This requires a grafting process that would allow a wide range of tools and backgrounds to formulate specific but also global understandings of convivial streets.
This conference continues to provide a platform for an international and interdisciplinary exchange of scholarship, on adaptive approaches towards transitional city streets.
Conference Tracks
T1: Streets: Communication, visualization and semiotics
T2: Reimagining City Street: The real and the envisaged
T3: Formal and In-Formal Street Art & Design: Interventions and innovations
T4: Street Mobility: Safety and efficiency
T5: Right to the Street: Contested spaces, new manifestations, and territorial transformations
T6: Resilient Streets: Understanding before and after, disaster and reconstruction
T7: On Streets: Mapping and analyzing streetscapes
T8: Streets and Urban Places: Street as a constituent for conviviality
T9: Social Dimensions of Streets: Collective memory-ies, migrant communities, performances, and events
T10: Streets: Urban diversity and social justice
T11: Dialectical Relations in Streets: Cultural, spatial, and socio-political
T12: Healthy Streets: Public health and quality of life
Polis Research Centre. Universitat de Barcelona 
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