IX ISUF‑H CONGRESS 2025: “Cities and Human Rights: Urban Form for Spatial Justice”

The IX ISUF-H Congress 2025 continues the series of conferences organized by the Spanish and Latin American Network of Urban Morphology (ISUF-H), which brings together scholars and professionals from across the fields of architecture, urban planning, geography, sociology, and related disciplines. Founded in 2015, ISUF-H is part of the broader International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF), established in 1994, which promotes the interdisciplinary study of urban form through international collaboration and annual congresses.

The 2025 edition, hosted in Mexico City, is titled “Cities and Human Rights: Urban Form for Spatial Justice”. It focuses on the role of urban morphology in addressing contemporary social and territorial challenges, with a particular emphasis on human rights. Recognizing the city as both a space of opportunity and inequality, the congress invites reflection on how urban form can serve as a foundation for more just, inclusive, and resilient environments—especially in contexts shaped by precariousness and rapid urbanization, such as those found throughout Latin America.

The congress proposes five thematic panels that examine the links between spatial justice and urban form through a variety of lenses: from metropolitan rights and gender equity, to citizen agency and emerging urban configurations. By engaging these themes, the event aims to contribute to the collective development of critical approaches, planning tools, and research methodologies capable of responding to pressing urban challenges.

The IX ISUF-H Congress 2025 encourages inter- and transdisciplinary dialogue on how urban form intersects with the social production of space, territorial governance, and the everyday experience of cities. In doing so, it seeks to strengthen the theoretical and applied dimensions of urban morphology as a field that actively shapes more equitable and sustainable urban futures.

Selected papers will be considered for publication in associated academic journals, and a digital proceedings volume will be made available following the event.

KEY DATES

• 9 December 2024 – Call for Papers published
• 15 April 2025 – Submission of abstracts of presentations and posters  (updated date)
• 15 May 2025 – Notification of accepted abstracts and posters (updated date)
• 31 July 2025 – Deadline for submission of full papers
• From 15 May 2025 – Registration and payment open (updated date)
• 1 September 2025 – Full conference programme published
• 30 October 2025 – Final list of papers accepted for publication
• 3–5 December 2025 – IX ISUF-H Congress, Mexico City
• 6 December 2025 – Guided tour of the Central Campus, UNAM