
Some History
IAPS was officially founded in 1981, although its origins go back to a series of successful conferences in several European countries from 1969 onwards. IAPS is now well-established, and has an international membership.
1982: | Barcelona, Spain “People and their Physical Surroundings” |
1984: | Berlin, Germany “Environment and Human Action” |
1986: | Haifa, Israel “Environments in Transition” |
1988: | Delft, The Netherlands “Looking Back to the Future” |
1990: | Ankara, Turkey “Culture Space History” |
1992: | Marmaras, Greece “Socio-Environmental Metamorphoses, Builtscape, Landscape, Ethnoscape, Euroscape” |
1994: | Manchester, UK “The Urban Experience, A People-Environment Perspective” |
1996: | Stockholm, Sweden “Evolving Environmental Ideals, Changing Ways of Life, Values and Design Practices” |
1998: | Eindhoven, The Netherlands “Shifting Balances, Changing Roles in Policy, Research and Design” |
2000: | Paris, France: “Metropolis 21st Century, Cities, Social Life and Sustainability, Which Prespectives?” |
2002: | A Coruña, Spain: “Culture, Quality of Life and Globalization – Problems and Challenges for the New Millenium” |
2004: | Vienna, Austria: “Evaluation in Progress” |
2006: | Alexandria, Egypt: “ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT” |
2008: | Roma, Italy: “Urban diversities, biosphere and well-being: designing and managing our common environment” |
2010: | Leipzig, Germany: “Vulnerability, Risk and Complexity: Impacts of Global Change on Human Habits |
2011: | Daegu, Korea: International Networks Symposium |
2012: | Glasgow, UK: “Human Experience in the Natural and Built Environment: Implications for Research Policy and Practice” |
2013: | A Coruña, Spain: “Sustainable environments in a changing global context: Identifying opportunities for innovative spaces and practices in contexts of crisis” |
2014: | Timisoara, Romania: “Transitions to sustainable societies: Designing research and policies for changing lifestyles and communities” |
2016: | Lund & Alnarp: “The human being at home, work and leisure. Sustainable use and development of indoor and outdoor spaces in late modern everyday life” |