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SUMMARY:MPhil Southern Urbanism Info Session
DESCRIPTION:The MPhil Southern Urbanism is designed to cultivate the next generation of urban thinkers from the South\, who are rooted in the realities\, theories and practise of cities of the Global South. \nDrawing together a diverse cohort of scholar and practitioners\, the programme utilises a combination of guided learning in small-group seminars\, experimentation in various spaces of urban practice and independent thesis research to ground students in Urban Studies theory\, and new research methodologies. \nAPPLICATIONS DEADLINE INTERNATIONAL & SA STUDENTS: 31 October 2023 \nIf you are interested in applying for the MPhil Southern Urbanism programme but still have some questions? This info session\, hosted by programme convenor\, Dr Anna Selmeczi will provide a brief overview of the pedagogical approach\, programme structure and entry requirements\, as well as discussion time to answer all your questions. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/mphil-southern-urbanism-info-session-5/
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230208T153000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230208T170000
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SUMMARY:Between ACC and the field: a reflection on two years of learning
DESCRIPTION:ACC invites you to join us as researcher Andrea Pollio reflects on his time as Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow jointly at the African Centre for Cities\, University of Cape Town\, and at the department of Urban and Regional Studies (DIST) at the Polytechnic of Turin. Andrea‘s talk will draw insights and lessons from his fieldwork on tech investment in Nairobi and his institutional embeddedness at ACC. Prof. Nancy Odendaal (Head of Department for the School of Architecture\, Planning and Geomatics) and Alicia Fortuin (Researcher\, ACC) will act as respondents.  \n  \nOnce overlooked in discussions about the emerging geopolitics of infrastructure\, cities in the global south are now recognised as sites where competing great powers materialise their diplomatic and geoeconomic interests through the financing of infrastructure systems such as railway corridors and ports. Yet these cities\, African cities in particular\, also play a vital role as testbeds of new technological standards in the scramble for digital infrastructure. From the operating systems of affordable smartphones\, to the inaccessible server rooms of national data centers\, booming African capitals like Nairobi are the experimental edge of a shift towards China in the technopolitics of the so-called ‘4th Industrial Revolution’. \n\n\n\nTo illustrate this point\, his presentation draws upon an ongoing research project about the presence of Chinese technology companies\, start-ups and investors in Nairobi\, one of Africa’s so-called Silicon Savannahs and one of the continent’s most acclaimed digital innovation scenes. The talk will combine insights from his fieldwork in Kenya with what Andrea’s learnt at the African Centre for Cities\, through his institutional embeddedness and the possibilities that were offered by the centre’s agendas and networks. \nWHEN | Wednesday\, 8 February 2023\nTIME | 15:30-17:00\, with light refreshments served after\nVENUE | Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town \n\n\n\nBIOGRAPHY\nAndrea Pollio is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow jointly at the African Centre for Cities\, University of Cape Town\, and at the department of Urban and Regional Studies (DIST) at the Polytechnic of Turin. His research interests are situated at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies (STS)\, urban studies and development economics. His published works mostly address the interface between technology\, development and urbanization in Africa. Andrea’s current book project charts the landing of private Chinese technology capital in Nairobi’s Silicon Savannah.
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/between-acc-and-the-field-a-reflection-on-two-years-of-learning/
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:SEMINAR | Thinking problematically about the city: Planning as a site of innovation
DESCRIPTION:African Centre for Cities (ACC) invites you to join us for an in-person seminar with Dr James Duminy\, ACC Honorary Research Associate\, and Lecturer at the School of Geographical Sciences\, and Bristol Poverty Institute\, at the University of Bristol. The seminar entitled Thinking problematically about the city: Planning as a site of innovation\, takes place on Friday\, 12 August at 12:00-13:15. \nABSTRACT\nUrban innovation cannot be limited to the harnessing of technologies sourced from the private sector\, civil society engagements\, and the entrepreneurial spirit of informality within models of governance that position the city as a laboratorial site of experimentation. What government does\, and what built environment professions do\, in and through governance-related activities\, including the establishment of durable procedures of government\, must be incorporated into the purview of urban innovation. Yet\, typically the place and role of the state within urban governance remains caught within a limiting critique of neoliberalism or a depiction of the state as incorrigible\, at best\, and oppressive\, at worst. Planning\, for its part\, is presented in some critical accounts as a monolithic domain of state stasis; a procedural system for the reproduction of pre-existing and future inequalities. However\, an alternative view of city transformation would place urban planning as a potential driver of governance innovation. Here we draw upon recent experiences of planning reform in South Africa\, focusing on the development and application of a process known as the Built Environment Performance Plan (BEPP)\, to consider the implications of seeing the state as a site of problematization\, and planning as a site of innovation in urban governance. Such a perspective draws attention to the temporalities of response\, rupture\, uneven institutionalization\, and setback that attend acts and processes of innovation unfolding within the state. It highlights the demand for successful innovations to navigate cross-sectoral and multi-scalar imperatives\, and draws attention to the enduring need to establish meaningful links between the fiscus and other modes and instruments of governance that can sustain or transform urban regimes. \nWHEN | Friday\, 12 August 2022 \nTIME | 12:00-13:15pm \nVENUE | Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT \n 
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/seminar-thinking-problematically-about-the-city-planning-as-a-site-of-innovation/
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:MPhil Southern Urbanism Info Session
DESCRIPTION:The MPhil Southern Urbanism is designed to cultivate the next generation of urban thinkers from the South\, who are rooted in the realities\, theories and practise of cities of the Global South. \n\n\n\nDrawing together a diverse cohort of scholar and practitioners\, the programme utilises a combination of guided learning in small-group seminars\, experimentation in various spaces of urban practice and independent thesis research to ground students in Urban Studies theory\, and new research methodologies. \n\n\n\nThe application deadline for 2022 South African applicants is on 31 October 2021. \n\n\n\nIf you are interested in applying for the MPhil Southern Urbanism programme but still have some questions? This info session\, hosted by programme convenor\, Dr Anna Selmeczi will provide a brief overview of the pedagogical approach\, programme structure and entry requirements\, as well as discussion time to answer all your questions. \n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/mphil-southern-urbanism-info-session-2/
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:UCT SDG Summit | An Urban Lens on the Achievement of the SDGs
DESCRIPTION:A Masterclass alongside the UCT SDG Africa Summit 2021The ACC Masterclass will be structured in three parts\, comprised of 75min each. The first session will unpack the political and institutional backstory in ensuring that there was an SDG to address the imperatives of urbanisation\, and connections were drawn with other SDGs. The second session will focus on the complexities and contradictions of implementing the SDGs when it is a nexus issue such as urban food security. The analytical focus will fall on the challenge of effective inter-governmental coordination and alignment across scales and sectors. The third session will focus on the practical policy tools that are being deployed at city-level to track the implementation of the SDGs at the local level\, considered against the national reporting system of the South African government. This raises institutional questions about fostering a shared perspective when municipal officials remain deeply commitment to sectoral specialisms\, as well as issues about alignment and meaningful societal engagement in tracking government performance in delivering on stated commitments. Across the three sessions participants will be exposed to the cutting edges of the interface between applied research and policy implementation. \n\n\n\nSession 1 | The genesis of SDG 11: Getting the urban onto the agenda10:00 to 11:15Edgar Pieterse (ACC) in conversation with Aromar Revi (Indian Institute for Human Settlements) and Monika Glinzler (International relations\, Department of Human Settlements) \n\n\n\nBy some estimates\, getting the urban question right is a precondition to achieve up to 70% of the overall SDG agenda. However\, until the last hour before the finalisation of the seventeen SDGs\, there was great doubt that an explicit urban goal would be included. This session will pull the curtain on the backstage advocacy arguments\, evidence and diplomatic work that was conducted to secure an urban perspective across the SDGs. It is a given that the multilateral system is not perfect\, but for those on the frontlines of policy mainstreaming\, it is indispensable and a permanent site of struggle.  \n\n\n\nSession 2 | Teasing out the tensions: SDGs as a national imperative\, and SDG 11 as a city-level goal11:30 to 12:45Gareth Haysom (ACC) in conversation with Jane Battersby (University of Cape Town) and Julian May (University of the Western Cape)  \n\n\n\nThe urban food lens offers a unique scalar perspective bringing the tensions and opportunities presented at the intersection between zero hunger (SDG 2)\, and sustainable cities (SDG 11)\, as well as health and well-being (3)\, education (4) and gender equality (5). The session will engage in both the challenges presented at these intersections between nexus and scalar issues\, while attempting to engage the complexities and contradictions of implementing and measuring the SDGs when it is a nexus issue such as urban food and nutrition security\, and what this might mean in context\, but equally\, effective inter-governmental coordination and alignment across scales and sectors.  \n\n\n\nSession 3 | Lessons towards SDG localisation and indicators14:00 to 15:15Andrew Tucker (ACC) in conversation with Alexis Schäffler-Thomson (Pegasys) and Natasha Primo (City of Cape Town)  \n\n\n\n It is a given that the SDGs will only find full expression if they become the focus of local action\, established within enabling national parameters. There is great potential in using indicator frameworks and monitoring systems to establish productive alignment between national and local governments. This session will share research findings and potential of using local level indicator frameworks to track and reflect on policy efforts to implement the SDGs\, whilst being mindful of the statistical challenges of generating local level data. The empirical reference point will be South Africa and Cape Town. 
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/uct-sdg-summit-an-urban-lens-on-the-achievement-of-the-sdgs/
CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops,Lectures
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DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20191210T170000
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SUMMARY:Contested Knowledges for Just Urban Futures
DESCRIPTION:For urban scholars to be committed to more just urban futures is not new; yet the conditions and contexts from and in which academics engage are constantly changing. From means concerning ourselves with the context of the university itself\, the distancing and / or proximity afforded by the university\, the dynamics of the spaces from which we engage and the implications for our understanding of and relationships between knowledge and action. In means recognising that a  commitment and/or engagement to realising just urban futures is often practiced in the interstices\, boundaries or margins of intersecting domains\, in liminal spaces between the university and the urban context. \n\n\n\nWorking from and in these different spaces requires reflexive engagement (May and Perry 2017) and adaptiveness and creativity in academic practice\, as knowledge claims are challenged and contested in intentional and unanticipated ways. A range of issues are brought into focus: how we think about time\, space\, positionality and power; how competing or contesting knowledge claims affect our sense of belonging and our commitment; if (and how) these are mediated through inter-referential reflexivity. We need to pay attention to the peculiarities of these spaces and how these are navigated\, negotiated and with what effects. This seminar asks: How does our commitment to just urban futures specifically manifest in practice\, in the context of the wider co-productive turn and interest in different ideas about what it means to be an ‘engaged’ academic? \nEvent details \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, December 10\, 2019 – 10:00 to 17:00\n\n\n\n\n\nChanning Hall\, 45 Surrey Street\, Sheffield S1 2LG \nThis seminar is explicitly aimed at established academic researchers working in universities\, with a commitment to socially just and sustainable futures\, to share and learn from practice. It will take place over one day with propositions\, presentations and discussions and include an early evening dinner (1730-1900). \n\n\n\n\nThe seminar is organised by Professors Tim May and Beth Perry with funding from the Economic and Social Research Council and the Realising Just Cities Programme (https://realisingjustcities-rjc.org/). It is also part of the Urban Institute’s Co-producing Urbanisms theme. \nProvocations will be made by \n\nProfessor Beth Perry\, Urban Institute\, University of Sheffield\nDr Zarina Patel\, University of Cape Town\nDr Michele Lancione\, Urban Institute\, University of Sheffield\nProfessor Felicity Callard\, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research\, University of London\nDr Sally Lloyd Evans\, University of Reading\nProfessor Rowland Atkinson\, Urban Studies and Planning\, University of Sheffield\nDr Lee Crookes\, Urban Studies and Planning\, University of Sheffield\nDr Hayley Bennett\, University of Edinburgh and Dr Richard Brunner\, University of Glasgow\nProfessor Doina Petrescu\, University of Sheffield\n\nClick here for a detailed seminar programme and abstracts.   \nPlaces will be limited and booking is essential. If you would like to attend\, please RSVP to v.l.simpson@sheffield.ac.uk with name\, university and a couple of lines on your urban research and engagement activity.
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/contested-knowledges-for-just-urban-futures/
LOCATION:Channing Hall\, 45 Surrey Street\, Sheffield\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Governance and politics of harnessing urbanisation for Sub-Saharan Africa’s urban development
DESCRIPTION:Visiting scholar Prof Winnie Mitullah\, of the Institute for Development Studies (IDS)\, University of Nairobi will present a seminar entitled Governance and politics of harnessing urbanisation for Sub-Saharan Africa’s urban development\, on Tuesday\, 3 December at 12:30 to 14:00 in Studio 3\, EGS Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT. The session will be chaired by senior researcher Dr Liza Rose Cirolia. \nUrbanisation in Africa has attracted attention of scholars\, policy makers and practitioners\, but problems of urbanisation are seemingly insurmountable and are not being adequately  addressed. African cities are rapidly growing but contrary to conventional patterns\, the population growth is not matched by economic growth and development. This inconsistency has resulted in the persistence of spatial\, demographic\, social\, cultural\, economic and environmental problems\, which have diverted attention of the continent to studying and highlighting the problems of urbanisation\, and theories which explain problems. This has left a gap in analysis in respect to harnessing opportunities for consolidating urbanisation and urban development. The seminar is part of a larger paper focusing on harnessing Africa’s urbanisation for sustainable urban development\, concentrating on understanding how the unique aspects of Sub-Saharan Africa’s urbanisation\, existing opportunities and related disruptions are being governed for Africa’s urban development. \nThe seminar will provide context and review some of the explanations and related theories used to explain Sub-Saharan Africa’s urbanisation. This is aimed at setting the ground for exploring governance attributes and related politics which advance or undermine Africa’s urban development. A key question for exploration is how governance and politics enable or undermine tapping urbanisation opportunities for sustainable urban development. Transport infrastructure in the city of Cape Town and the city of Nairobi is used to dig out inherent governance and related politics which shroud the development of urban areas in Africa. The seminar will concentrate on the first part of this research which include review of context\, urban growth\, theoretical lenses and overview of mediation of transport infrastructure for sustainable urban development. \nWHEN: 3 December 2019 \nTIME: 12:30 to 14:00 \nVENUE: Studio 3\, EGS Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT \nBIOGRAPHY\nProfessor Winnie V. Mitullah is the current Director and Associate Research Professor of Development Studies at the Institute for Development Studies (IDS)\, and the Director Gender Affairs\, University of Nairobi. She holds a PhD in Political Science and Public Administration from the University of York\, UK. Her PhD thesis was on Urban Housing\, with a major focus on policies relating to low income housing. Over the years\, she has researched and consulted in the areas of governance\, in particular in the area of provision and management of urban services and the role of stakeholders in development. Her focus in these areas has included an examination of policies\, and institutional dynamics in relation to local level development\, including that of devolved governments\, Micro and Small Enterprises [SMEs]\, public and Non Motorised Transport (NMT)\, gender\, youth and media.
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/governance-and-politics-of-harnessing-urbanisation-for-sub-saharan-africas-urban-development/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Travels between the digital and material: Curating the gendered city from the margins
DESCRIPTION:The School of Architecture\, Planning and Geomatics is hosting Ayona Datta\, who will present Travels between the digital and material: Curating the gendered city from the margins on Friday\, 1 November at 13:00 in Room 3.33\, Level 3\, Centlivres Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT. \nThis talk presents a gendered perspective of Delhi’s urban future produced and curated by young women living in slum resettlement colonies in the peripheries. Using the metaphor of #aanajaana [#ComingGoing] as a paradigm for postcolonial urbanism\, this paper argues that their everyday mobility across the home and the city reflect the paradox of belonging and exclusion in a digital urban age. The paper captures the ambiguities and paradoxes of their lives – on the one hand living as second generation rural migrants forcefully evicted from the city slums in the 2000s and resettled in the peripheries. On the other hand\, as millennials with increased access to mobile and communication technologies\, these women are also riding the digital urban age with promises of their inclusion in the future city. Using WhatsApp diaries entries of multimedia content (audio recordings\, photographs\, videos and text messages by women)\, conversations between the women and researchers as well as observations of the dynamics within the WhatsApp group over a period of 6 months\, I suggest that #AanaJaana highlights the inherent slow violence of living between material and digital exclusions from the city. \nBIOGRAPHY\nAyona Datta is a Professor in the Department of Geography at University College London. Her broad research interests are in postcolonial urbanism\, smart cities\, gender citizenship and urban futures. In particular\, she is interested in how cities seek to transform themselves through utopian urban visions of the future and their impacts on everyday social\, material and gendered geographies. She uses interdisciplinary approaches from architecture\, planning\, feminist and urban geography\, combining qualitative\, digital/mapping and visual research methods to examine urbanisation and urban development as experiments in urban ‘futuring’. For her contributions to an understanding of smart cities through fieldwork she received the Busk Medal from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in 2019.
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/travels-between-the-digital-and-material-curating-the-gendered-city-from-the-margins/
LOCATION:Room 3.33\, Centlivres Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Berlin \, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:The city/psychosis nexus beyond epidemiology and social constructivism
DESCRIPTION:Visiting scholar Ola Söderström from University of Neuchâtel\, Switzerland presents a lecture entitled: The city/psychosis nexus beyond epidemiology and social constructivism on Tuesday\, 15 October from 12:30 to 14:00. \nABSTRACT\nMy talk draws on a recently completed interdisciplinary research project involving geographers\, psychiatrists and linguists in the study of the relations between urban living and psychosis. Our research originates in the now long-standing observation that there is a higher prevalence of cases of psychosis in dense urban areas. Particularly interesting in the context of this talk and discussion at the ACC is that recent epidemiological studies point to the fact that this phenomenon is generally not observed in cities of the Global South. What was for long described as a universal relation between mental health and urbanism has now been provincialized. \nMy aim will be first to explain why the question of the city/psychosis nexus has recently come to the fore not only in epidemiological research in psychiatry but also in the more-than-constructivist approaches of scholars trying to identify and practice new alliances between the life and the social sciences. Second\, I will walk you through two moments – an epistemic and an ontological one – in our research process to describe how we explored such new alliances by co-designing and co-experimenting across disciplines. Thirdly\, I will discuss our research findings and how they emerged from methodological triangulations. I will conclude by evoking present developments of this interdisciplinary process and how they relate to contemporary discussions on the study of bio-social entanglements. \nABOUT\nOla Söderström is professor of social and cultural geography at the University of Neuchâtel\, Switzerland. His work draws on science and technology studies\, postcolonial urban studies and visual studies. His research has notably analysed the role of visual representations in urban planning\, urban policy mobilities in cities of the Global South\, smart urbanism\, and the relations between urban living and psychosis. His books and edited collections include: Des images pour agir. Le visuel en urbanisme\, Payot\, 2000; Cities in Relations. Trajectories of Urban Development in Hanoi and Ouagadougou\, Wiley-Blackwell\, 2014; Reshaping Cities. How Global Mobility Transforms Architecture and Urban Forms\, Routledge\, 2009 (co-edited with Michael Guggenheim); Critical Mobilities\, Routledge\, 2013 (co-edited with Shalini Randeria\, Didier Ruedin\, Gianni D’Amato and Francesco Panese). \nWHEN: Tuesday\, 15 October 2019 \nTIME: 12:30 to 14:00 \nVENUE: Davies Reading Room\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/the-city-psychosis-nexus-beyond-epidemiology-and-social-constructivism/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20191008T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20191008T163000
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SUMMARY:Collapse: Grey development and fake buildings in Nairobi
DESCRIPTION:Visiting scholar Constance Smith from Social Anthropology at The University of Manchester presents Collapse: Grey development and fake buildings in Nairobi\, on Tuesday\, 8 October 2019\, at 15:00. \nABSTRACT\nNairobi has recently experienced a spate of residential tower block collapses resulting in significant casualties. In an attempt to understand this precarious architecture\, I juxtapose two different\, yet linked\, construction booms currently reshaping the city. The Kenyan government development rubric Vision 2030 is re-envisioning Nairobi as a ‘world class’ city of spectacular infrastructure and gleaming high-rise buildings. At the same time\, ad hoc property speculation is constructing high density\, poor-quality tower blocks that pose a high risk of structural failure; buildings that Nairobians often describe as ‘fake’. Drawing on literature in African Studies about the power of fakes and the counterfeit\, as well as on recent debates in Urban Studies problematising informality\, I reflect on Nairobi’s drastic landscape of architectural failure\, and how this is entangled with larger processes of urban transformation. \nABOUT\nConstance Smith is a UKRI Future Leader Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester\, UK\, where she also works within the Urban Institute. Her work explores the social\, political and material dynamics of urban landscapes in times of transformation. She has done fieldwork in Nairobi\, Addis Ababa\, Kampala and London. Her new book\, Nairobi in the Making: Landscapes of time and urban belonging (James Currey\, 2019) explores how the residues of colonial architecture shape self-making and city-making in contemporary Nairobi. \nWHEN: Tuesday\, 8 October 2019 \nTIME: 15:00 – 16:30 \nVENUE: Davies Reading Room\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/collapse-grey-development-and-fake-buildings-in-nairobi/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Stitching fragments and fractals
DESCRIPTION:On 29 August 2019\, the UCT School of Architecture\, Planning and Geomatics is hosting Prof Edgar Pieterse\, director of the African Centre for Cities. Pieterse recently returned from a year-long sabbatical and will be reflecting on this in his presentation Stitching fragments and fractals: A meandering reflection on twelve months of being elsewhere\, writing fragments and lots of plotting. Sabbaticals are known for disrupting well laid plans and mine was no different. \nWHEN: 29 August 2019 \nTIME: 13:00 to 14:00 \nVENUE: The Pink Room\, Level 2\, Centlivres Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/stitching-fragments-and-fractals/
LOCATION:Pink Room\, Centlivres Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190528T020000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190528T150000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034442
CREATED:20190522T132400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190522T133750Z
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SUMMARY:From platform to plotform: Artistic thinking in spaces of flux
DESCRIPTION:From platform to plotform: Artistic thinking in spaces of flux is a public talk in which ACC research associate Kim Gurney shares work in progress on her project called Platform/ Plotform to help forward future work and interdisciplinary outputs. The project explores working principles identified in participant independent art spaces in five African cities (Nairobi\, Accra\, Cairo\, Addis Ababa and Dar es Salaam)\, and how the predominant forms and strategies of these selected spaces correspond to the urban fabric. The session\, a joint effort between ACC and Centre for Humanities Research\, will provide an overview of recently concluded fieldwork and some preliminary findings before opening up for discussion. \nWHEN: Tuesday\, 28 May 2019 \nVENUE Seminar Room 2\, Centre for Humanities Research\, University of the Western Cape \nTIME: 14:00 to 15:00 \nRSVP: Please RSVP Micaela Felix at centreforhumanitiesresearch@uwc.ac.za
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/platform-plotform-artistic-thinking-spaces-flux/
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Centre for Humanities Research\, University of the Western Cape
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190508T163000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190508T180000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034442
CREATED:20190410T104200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190410T104647Z
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SUMMARY:GDI Lecture Series: Ambitious and ambiguous public investments in African cities with Edgar Pieterse
DESCRIPTION:The Global Development Institute is pleased to host Edgar Pieterse as part of the GDI Lecture Series\, talking about: Ambitious and ambiguous public investments in African cities \nUrban governance in most African cities is marked by weak regulatory enablement by national governments\, limited autonomous fiscal resources\, limited managerial capacity\, overlaid by distortionary politics—read a combination of clientelism\, patronage\, corruption\, etcetera. At least\, this is the conclusion one arrives at by reading most of the academic literature on the topic. However\, in contradistinction\, over the last decade or so\, there has been a proliferation of ambitious planning and delivery\, of especially\, mega infrastructural projects. These developments coincide with the proliferation of mainstream incantations of “Africa rising” and other boosterism discourses. It raises important questions about how this level of institutional efficacy could be possible if the literature is accurate. In this talk I aim to report on the findings of a research project on so-called turn-around African cities. We set out to document how noteworthy urban mega projects came onto the agenda\, were implemented\, often effectively\, and what the possible effects might be. The idea is to offer a set of empirical reflections\, drawing on six African cities\, to get a more refined understanding of contemporary urban planning and governance dynamics in rapidly changing and conflictual contexts. \nThe Global Development Lecture Series brings experts involved in global development to The University of Manchester. It aims to facilitate dialogue and discussion\, providing a space for leading development thinkers to share their latest research and ideas. Lectures are followed by an audience Q&A. \nThis event is open to members of the public and information on the accessibility of the venue is detailed at this link: https://www.accessable.co.uk/venues/roscoe_th-b
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/gdi-lecture-series-ambitious-ambiguous-public-investments-african-cities-edgar-pieterse/
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20181119T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20181119T170000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034442
CREATED:20181029T104410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181029T120816Z
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SUMMARY:Public Finance – the Life Blood of our Cities?
DESCRIPTION:Bushbuckridge mayor embarks on debt collection exercise \n“The municipality has disclosed that it is owed R1 billion in unpaid municipal services such as water supply\, refuse removal and property rates.” – Mpumalanga News\, 1 October 2018 \n  \nHeads Roll Amid VBS Municipal Probe \n“Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize says several municipal officials have been suspended and in some instances\, charged with fraud in relation to investments made in VBS Mutual Bank.”  – AllAfrica.com 23 October 2018 \n  \nJoin African Centre for Cities on Monday\, 19 November 2018\, from 15:00 to 17:00 for a lecture by Dr Matthew Glasser on public finance.  \nAcross the globe\, there is increasing emphasis on the role of cities and local government in delivering services\, meeting the Sustainable Development Goals\, addressing climate change\, and equalizing opportunity. These assigned roles do not often translate into reality. Many South African municipalities are failing to provide effective services to their residents. Part of the reason for this are the regular financial crises which local governments face. Importantly\, South Africa is one of very few countries in the world that has specific legislation intended to resolve fiscal problems at the municipal scale.  This legislation is little known and little used. \nIn 2000-2003\, Dr Matthew Glasser helped develop the legislation regarding financial problems in municipalities\, as reflected in Section 139 (as amended) of the Constitution\, and Chapter 13 of the Municipal Finance Management Act.  For the last two years\, he has been working with National Treasury to take stock of the implementation of those provisions over the intervening 15 years. \nAt this seminar\, we will discuss the legal and regulatory framework that was developed to deal with financial emergencies in South African cities; review the experience to date with implementation of that framework; and reflect on the ways in which South Africa’s social and political context shapes local implementation. Glasser will discuss the genesis of the legislation\, the divergence between legal framework and actual implementation\, and the important Emalahleni litigation related to fiscal intervention in municipalities\, which has set an important precedent in South Africa.  There will be ample time to discuss the fiscal challenges of South African local and city government\, following the lecture. \nWHEN: Monday\, 19 November 2018 \nTIME: 15:00 to 16:30 \nVENUE: Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/public-finance-life-blood-cities/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181108
DTSTAMP:20260416T034442
CREATED:20181029T121540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181029T121540Z
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SUMMARY:Mistra Urban Futures Realising Just Cities - Comparative Co-production
DESCRIPTION:The rapidly growing number of people moving into cities all over the world presents a challenge of unprecedented size. It is crucial to find ways to make urbanisation a source for wealth\, health and sustainability – which is shared. Mistra Urban Futures arranges Annual Conferences about Realising Just Cities\, which are hosted at our research platforms. \nThe 2018 conference will take place in Cape Town\, South Africa and focus on comparative co-production and how we jointly can address global urban challenges. The conference intends to share and reflect on a selection of the comparative projects that have been co-produced in Mistra Urban Futures’ second phase: Cultural Heritage and Just Cities; Knowledge Transfer through embedded research; Migration and Urban Development; Participatory Cities; Solid Waste Management; Sustainable Development Goals; Transportation and Urban Development; Urban Food Value Chain and Urban Public Finance. \nDates\nInternal workshops\nThe internal workshops\, only available for invited participants involved in Mistra Urban Futures’ comparative projects\, will be held on 5 November 2018. Find the internal programme here \nConference\nThe conference takes place on 6 and 7 November 2018. Find the programme here \nFollow the ACC social media channels for live reporting from the conference:\nFacebook\nTwitter \n 
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/mistra-urban-futures-realising-just-cities-comparative-co-production/
LOCATION:SunSquare Hotel\, 23 Buitengracht Street\, Cape Town \, Western Cape \, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180802T010000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20181115T163000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034442
CREATED:20180801T132654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181029T103323Z
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SUMMARY:Urban Humanities Seminar Series 2018
DESCRIPTION:Academic Seminars (15:00 – 16:30) \n7 August\nHigh Stakes\, High Hopes: Creating Collaborative Urban Theory – Prof Sophie Oldfield \n16 August\nInclusive Cultural Governance: Integrating artistic and cultural practices into national urban frameworks – Avril Joffe with respondent Zayd Minty \n30 August\nin search of thick mapping: listening to Cape Town’s cities – Dr Sabina Favaro \n18 September\nVital Geopolitics – Gerry Kearns \n20 September\nThe invention of the ‘Sink Estate’: Consequential Categorization and the UK Housing Crisis – Dr Tom Slater \n18 October\nStorytelling as method: migration\, gender and inclusion in Durban – Dr Kira Erwin \n1 November:\nContextualising strategies to enable LGBT rights in Africa: legitimacies\, spatial inequalities and socio-spatial relationships – Dr Andy Tucker \n15 November\nRepresenting urban life in Africa and its diasporas – Dr Shari Daya and Dr Rike Sitas \nBrown Bags (13:00-14:00) \n23 August\n‘Auditing’ vernacular Cape Town as a sonic city – Valmont Layne \n6 September\npumflet: art\, architecture and stuff – Ilze Wolff \n27 September\nSpeculative Indigeneity – A (K)new Now – heeten bhagat \n11 October\nConversations on cultural mapping and planning – Alicia Fortuin\, Vaughn Sadie and Shamila Rahim \n25 October\nFalse Bay – Dr Hedley Twidle
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/urban-humanities-seminar-series/
LOCATION:Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, South Lane\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags,Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180731T160000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180731T173000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034442
CREATED:20180716T120015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180726T062613Z
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SUMMARY:PUBLIC LECTURE: Soft Thresholds - RMA Architects\, Mumbai by Rahul Mehrotra
DESCRIPTION:Rahul Mehrotra\, Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design\, will give a public lecture entitled Soft Thresholds – RMA Architects\, Mumbai\, co-hosted by African Centre for Cities\, UCT Architecture\, Planning and Geomatics\, UWC Centre for Humanities Research and Wolff Architects. \nMehrotra\, who recently received a Special Mention at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale\, is a practicing architect\, urban designer\, and educator. His Mumbai-based firm\, RMA Architects\, was founded in 1990 and has designed and executed projects including government and private institutions\, corporate workplaces\, private homes\, and unsolicited projects driven by the firm’s commitment to advocacy in the city of Mumbai. The firm has designed a software campus for Hewlett Packard in Bangalore\, a campus for Magic Bus (a NGO that works with poor children)\, led the restoration of the Chowmahalla Palace in Hyderabad\, and formulated a conservation master plan for the Taj Mahal with the Taj Mahal Conservation Collaborative. The firm also recently designed and built a social housing project for 100 elephants and their caretakers in Jaipur as well as a corporate office in Hyderabad. The firm has designed several single family houses in different parts of India and one in Karachi\, Pakistan. \n \nRecently\, Mehrotra completed the Lab of the Future on the Novartis Campus in Basel\, Switzerland and in 2015 was a finalist in an international design competition for the Museum of Modern Art in Sydney. \nMehrotra has written and lectured extensively on issues to do with architecture\, conservation\, and urban planning and design in Mumbai and India. His writings include coauthoring Bombay: The Cities Within\, which covers the city’s urban history from the 1600s to the present; Banganga: Sacred Tank; Public Places Bombay; Anchoring a City Line\, A history of the city’s commuter railway; and Bombay to Mumbai: Changing Perspectives. He has also coauthored Conserving an Image Center: The Fort Precinct in Bombay. Based on this study and its recommendations\, the historic Fort District in Mumbai was declared a conservation precinct in 1995 – a first such designation in India. In 2000\, he edited a book for the Union of International Architects\, which earmarks the end of the last century and is titled The Architecture of the 20th Century in the South Asian Region. In 2011\, Mehrotra wrote Architecture in India – Since 1990\, which is a reading of contemporary architecture in India which he extended through an exhibition he cocurated titled The State of Architecture: Practices and Processes in India\, at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Mumbai in Jan 2016. This was followed in 2018 by an exhibition titled: The State of Housing : Realities\, Aspirations and imaginaries in India which showed between Jan and March 2018 and will travel over the next two years in India. \n \nMehrotra is a member of the steering committee of the South Asia Institute at Harvard. In 2012-2015\, he led a Harvard University-wide research project with Professor Diana Eck\, called The Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Mega City. This work was published as a book in 2014. This research was extended in 2017 in the form of a book titled Does Permanence Matter? Mehrotra’s latest co- authored book is titled Taj Mahal : Multiple Narratives which was published in Dec 2017. His current research is on the small towns and emerging urban conglomerations in India and is expected to be published as book in late 2018. \nRahul Mehrotra has long been actively involved in civic and urban affairs in Mumbai\, having served on commissions for the conservation of historic buildings and environmental issues\, with various neighbourhood groups and\, from 1994 to 2004\, as Executive Director of the Urban Design Research Institute in Mumbai. He studied at the School of Architecture\, Ahmedabad (CEPT)\, and graduated with a master’s degree with distinction in Urban Design from Harvard University. He has taught at the University of Michigan (2003–2007) and at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at MIT (2007–2010). From 2010 to 2015\, he chaired the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. \nWHEN: Tuesday\, 31 July 2018 \nTIME: 16:00 to 17:30 \nVENUE: Baxter Theatre\, Main Road\, Cape Town \nRSVP: Space is limited. Please send an email to africancentreforcities.rsvp@gmail.com to secure your seat.
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/public-lecture-soft-thresholds-rma-architects-mumbai-rahul-mehrotra/
LOCATION:Centre of the Book\, 62 Queen Victoria Street\, Cape Town\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180606T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180606T140000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034442
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SUMMARY:Towards the Just City: Race\, Space and Design
DESCRIPTION:Join African Centre for Cities and the School of Architecture\, Planning and Geomatics for a lunch time seminar by Prof Toni L. Griffin on 6 June 2018\, from 13:00-14:00 in Room 3.33\, Centlivres Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town. \nGriffin is the founder of Urban Planning for the American City\, based in New York\, specialising in leading complex\, trans-disciplinary planning and urban design projects for multi-sector clients in cities with long histories of spatial and social injustice. Recent and current clients include the cities of Detroit\, Memphis\, Milwaukee\, Pittsburgh\, and St. Louis. \nShe is also Professor in Practice of Urban Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design\, and leads The Just City Lab\, a research programme for developing values-based planning methodologies and tools\, including the Just City Index – a framework of indicators and metrics for evaluating public life and urban justice in public spaces. \n 
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/toward-just-city-race-space-design/
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180515T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180515T163000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034442
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SUMMARY:Cities and Climate Change: Seminar 2
DESCRIPTION:The second seminar in the Cities and Climate Change series will explore low carbon urban energy transitions in (mostly South) African cities\, paying particular attention to the institutional dimensions of transforming energy systems to increase energy access and increase sustainability by reducing GHG emissions in growing cities. \n  \nIn the 20th century\, grid electric power radically changed the face of household and community services\, industry and commerce. Influence over the electricity grid by powerful human actors also enabled establishment and maintenance of fundamental social and economic structures. However\, such influence has not remained uni-directional. The grid\, too\, has come to influence powerful human actors in ways probably not intended. Hilton Trollip will discuss Hodder’s (2014) use of the ‘entanglement’ concept with reference to analysis of historic and recent developments in South Africa’s energy system. \n  \nSaul Roux will discuss research conducted within the Mistra Urban Futures – Knowledge Transfer Programme (MUF-KTP)\, which involved spending three years in the City of Cape Town\, embedded in its Energy and Climate Change Unit\, focussing on the conditions under which energy systems transition to more sustainable configurations\, through an exploration of the City’s electricity distribution system. Theoretically\, the study is situated within debates on socio-technical transitions and the multi-level perspective (MLP) of socio-technical change. Overall\, the study explored the implications of applying the multi-level perspective to cities (scale) in the Global South (geographical context) and examines and the role of regulatory and organisational conditions in shaping sustainable transitions. \n  \nAnton Cartwright will bring these inputs into conversation with seminar participants around questions of governing low carbon\, sustainable and inclusive transitions in African cities. \n  \nHodder\, I.\, 2014. The Entanglements of Humans and Things: A Long-Term View. New Literary History\, 45(1)\, pp.19–36. Available at:http://muse.jhu.edu/content/crossref/journals/new_literary_history/v045/45.1.hodder.html. \n  \nSpeakers \n\nHilton Trollip\, senior researcher in energy policy\, Energy Research Centre\nSaul Roux\, legal campaigner\, Centre for Environmental Rights (previously ACC Mistra Urban Futures embedded researcher with City of Cape Town)\n\n  \nChair & discussant \n\nAnton Cartwright\, institutional economics research fellow\, African Centre for Cities\n\nWHEN: 15 May 2018 \nTIME: 15:00 – 16:30 \nWHERE: Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/cities-climate-change-seminar-2/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180424T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180612T163000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034442
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SUMMARY:Academic Seminar Series: Cities and Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:What does transforming Cape Town into a zero carbon\, climate resilient city entail? What about Windhoek\, Accra or São Paulo? This series of ACC Seminars explores the intersection of urbanisation and climate change. \nThe first seminar in the series reflects on the recent international conference on cities and climate change\, the first of its kind convened by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Through a panel discussion between representatives from the City of Cape Town\, the African Centre for Cities\, UCT’s Climate System Analysis Group and the African Climate and Development Institute\, who all participated in the conference\, we will draw out key themes and debates surfacing within the climate change and cities field internationally\, as well as reflect on any notable silences or gaps. We will also share a snapshot of what inputs we offered to the international science and policy community concerned with cities and climate change. This will establish the main contours of the climate change and cities research space\, framing the three subsequent seminars in the series. \nThe second and third seminars will delve deeper into the mitigation / emissions and impacts / adaptation ‘sides’ of the climate change field\, focussing on the city scale. We will explore low carbon urban energy transitions in (mostly South) African cities\, paying particular attention to what it takes to reduce GHG emissions while reducing poverty and inequality in growing cities. And we will bring the water crises in the cities of Sao Paulo and Cape Town into conversation\, through critically reflecting on the notions of resilience and adaptation to see what lessons can be drawn for dealing with drought and water scarcity in cities. \nThe series will wrap up with a seminar discussing the science-policy-practice interfaces for addressing climate change in southern African cities\, drawing on work being undertaken in the Future Resilience of African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL) project. The discussion will centre on understanding urban climate governance\, how robust\, defensible and actionable climate information can be co-produced and how to create entry points and receptivity for the use of that climate information in decision-making that shapes the future of cities. \n  \nDates\nThe series runs on Tuesday afternoons from 15:00 to 16:30 on: \n\n24 April 2018\n15 May 2018\n28 May 2018\n12 June 2018\n\nSpeakers and panellists: \n\nVictor Indasi\, climate science post doc\, Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG)\nAmy Davison\, Head of Environmental Strategy Implementation\, City of Cape Town\nAlice McClure\, FRACTAL coordinator\, Climate System Analysis Group\nAnna Taylor\, urban geography post doc\, African Centre for Cities (ACC) & CSAG\nLorena Pasquini\, risk governance research fellow\, African Climate and Development Initiative \nAnton Cartwright\, institutional economics research fellow\, African Centre for Cities\nHilton Trollip\, senior researcher in energy policy\, Energy Research Centre\nSaul Roux\, environmental law researcher\, Centre for Environmental Rights (previously ACC Mistra Urban Futures embedded researcher with City of Cape Town)\nNate Millington\, urban geography post doc\, African Centre for Cities\nDi Scott\, senior social scientist on the FRACTAL project\, African Centre for Cities\nChris Jack\, climate science senior researcher\, Climate System Analysis Group
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/academic-seminar-series-cities-climate-change/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town \, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180424T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180424T163000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034442
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SUMMARY:Cities and Climate Change: Seminar 1
DESCRIPTION:The first seminar in the academic seminar series on Cities and Climate Change reflects on the recent international conference on cities and climate change\, the first of its kind convened by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Through a panel discussion between representatives from the City of Cape Town\, the African Centre for Cities\, UCT’s Climate System Analysis Group and the African Climate and Development Initiative\, who all participated in the conference\, we will draw out key themes and debates surfacing within the climate change and cities field internationally\, as well as reflect on any notable silences or gaps. We will also share a snapshot of what inputs we offered to the international science and policy community concerned with cities and climate change. This will establish the main contours of the climate change and cities research space\, framing the three subsequent seminars in the series. \n  \nSPEAKERS \n\nVictor Indasi\, climate science post doc\, Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG)\nAmy Davison\, Head of Environmental Strategy Implementation\, City of Cape Town\nAlice McClure\, FRACTAL coordinator\, Climate System Analysis Group\nLorena Pasquini\, risk governance research fellow\, African Climate and Development Institute\n\nDISCUSSANT\nAnna Taylor\, urban geography post doc\, ACC & CSAG
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/cities-climate-change-seminar-1/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171128T200000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171128T220000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034442
CREATED:20171027T091204Z
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SUMMARY:Science and Cocktails: Can We Move Beyond the Divided City?
DESCRIPTION:Is urban segregation simply a fact of contemporary life? Are the shopping mall and gated community to blame for new forms of urban division? What role does the real estate market play in reproducing urban patterns? Is middle-class suburbia deracializing or not? \nDoes public investment in housing and social amenities worsen or improve urban divides? Do BRT systems help or hinder urban integration? Who\, if anyone\, can make a difference in altering spacial patterns of the city? \nIt is arguable that South African cities are more divided today compared to 1994. How can this be? Why are we seemingly unable to shift the contours of division and live differently? \nEdgar Pieterse will review the drivers of contemporary urban divides and explore the reasons why policy after policy since 1994 say the “right” things but achieve the opposite outcome. He will place his discussion in the context of the nature of both public and private investments into South African cities and illustrate the talk with data and policy experiments in Cape Town and Johannesburg. \nPieterse will conclude by putting forward what some of the preconditions for genuine urban transformation might be. \nDate: 28 November 2018 \nTime: Doors open at 18:30\, no admittance after 20:00. \nVenue: The Orbit\, Braamfontein\, Johannesburg \nEntrance to the event: R20. \nNo registration is necessary but guests are strongly encouraged to arrive early. Dinner is served from 18:00. Guests wishing to have dinner before the event should book in advance with The Orbit and arrive by 18:30. (Last orders for dinner at 19:15 to make it to the event). Directions to the venue.
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/science-cocktails-can-move-beyond-divided-city/
LOCATION:The Orbit\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171109T160000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171109T173000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034442
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SUMMARY:Soft Infrastructure: Recalibrating Aesthetics\, Economies\, And Urban Epistemologies
DESCRIPTION:The African Academy for Urban Diversity; a joint initiative of the African Centre for Migration & Society; the African Centre for Cities; and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity invites you to a special public lecture by Dr Mpho Matsipa (Wits City Institute\, University of the Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg). \nA city like Johannesburg offers a glimpse into how immigration\, black female sexuality and shifts in urban retail economies provide important economic and cultural resources to urban residents and users. By exploring black cultural practices\, like braiding\, as both ontology and epistemology\, the lecture will explore how such practices recalibrate local economies\, infrastructures\, and aesthetic codes\, and thus might co-constitute emergent urban identities and a way of knowing the city. The intimate\, networked\, and fractal nature of black hair braiding spaces disrupts the rigid colonial spatial orders of the city and its architecture. \nHowever\, can such soft infrastructures sufficiently disrupt the grand narrative of African cities in ‘crisis’\, while also disrupting colonial and colonizing cartographies of African urban environment? \nBiography \nDr Mpho Matsipa is a researcher at the Wits City Institute. After completing her professional degree in Architecture at the University of Cape Town\, with a distinction in design\, Mpho was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and later\, a Carnegie Grant as a graduate student at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her PhD in Architecture\, from the University of California\, Berkeley\, is titled The Order of Appearances explored the entangled geographies of urban informality\, urban redevelopment and the politics of race\, gender and aesthetics in Johannesburg’s inner city. Mpho has written critical essays and reviews on public art\, culture and space for Art South Africa\, the Architectural Review and Thesis 11 (forthcoming). \nMpho has worked as an architect and she has been shortlisted in two prestigious national design competitions. She has curated several exhibitions\, including of the South Africa Pavilion at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition\, Venice Biennale (2008).She has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture and associate research scholar at Columbia GSAPP and Curator of Studio-X Johannesburg –  an experimental public platform on architecture and the city sponsored by Columbia University. She is currently co-curating a pan-African architecture exhibition at the Architecture Museum in Munich titled “African Mobilities: This is not a Refugee Camp Exhibition”\, that will open in April 2018. \nFor more information and to RSVP: info@migration.org.za \nDate:    Thursday 9 November 2017 \nTime:    16:00 to 17:30 \nVenue:  Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room\, South West Engineering Building\, East Campus\, University of the Witwatersrand
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/soft-infrastructure-recalibrating-aesthetics-economies-urban-epistemologies/
LOCATION:Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room\, South West Engineering Building\, East Campus\, University of the Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171024T160000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171024T173000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034442
CREATED:20171012T061711Z
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SUMMARY:Joining Forces for Change: Building Learning Alliances for Social and Environmental Justice in Urban Sierra Leone
DESCRIPTION:African Centre for Cities is hosting the Co-Directors of Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre\, and lecturers from Institute of Geography and Development Studies\, Njala University\, Sierra Leone Joseph Macarthy and Braima Koroma for a talk entitled Joining Forces for Change: Building Learning Alliances for Social and Environmental Justice in Urban Sierra Leone \nDate: 24 October 2017 \nTime: 16:00 \nVenue: The Pink Room\, Centlivres Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town \nABSTRACT \nLearning alliances are becoming increasingly popular as an important means for co-producing knowledge about urban areas. While the shift from partnering among community organisations and other development agencies (e.g. NGOs) to universities and research organisations holds the promise of revolutionising knowledge production and its reliability\, it also serve not only to improve understandings about poor and marginalised groups but also helps in building strong relationships between and among the different stakeholders. However\, promoting such strategic partnership involving the university\, local community residents and their groups\, development organisations\, civil society and private sector actors has frequently involved providing answers to such questions as: what counts as learning alliance\, what kinds of knowledge should be produced\, for who and with what capacities? \nWe will discuss these and other related questions by arguing that SLURC’s learning alliance initiative has provided a platform for opening up both lateral and vertical opportunities for bringing to the doorstep of city authorities\, the key concerns and aspirations of informal communities. By way of this discussion\, we hope to stimulate debates on learning alliance as well as draw attention to more appropriate ways to ensure inclusive\, equitable and sustainably just urban development; change the mindset of different urban actors towards community-driven development approaches; including\, how best to manage relationships between stakeholders in making decisions about the city. This session is particularly interested in reflecting on the role SLURC is playing in building the capacity of informal settlement dwellers and contributing to influencing policy and urban decision-making processes. In this session\, we hope to reflect on some of the main findings from recent projects (livelihoods and urban humanitarian response) and discuss about some of the challenges and opportunities in establishing partnership and managing learning alliances.
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/joining-forces-change-building-learning-alliances-social-environmental-justice-urban-sierra-leone/
LOCATION:Pink Room\, Centlivres Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170228T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170228T140000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034442
CREATED:20170224T144554Z
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SUMMARY:Africa's Cities: Opening Doors to the World
DESCRIPTION:SPEAKER: Somik Lall\nDATE: 28 February 2017\nTIME: 13:00 – 14:00\nVENUE: Seminar Room (4th floor School of Economics) \nThe African Centre for Cities is pleased to be co-hosting this seminar with The School of Economics and the Cape Town Branch of the Economic Society of South Africa. Somik Lall\, a lead economist from the World Bank\, will be presenting on the new World Bank publication entitled\, ‘Africa’s Cities: Opening Doors to the World. \nSomik Lall is a Lead Economist for Urban Development in the World Bank’s Urban and Disaster Risk Management Department. His research and policy interests span urban and spatial economics\, infrastructure development\, and public finance\, with more than 40 publications featured in peer-reviewed journals\, edited volumes\, and working papers. \nCities in Sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing rapid population growth. Yet their economic growth has not kept pace. Why? Somik will present his thoughts on how urban policy plays a central role in making Africa’s cities economically competitive. \nLinks to the report and related materials: \n•     Report page: www.worldbank.org/africascities \n•     Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtT2RA4sDMA
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/africas-cities-opening-doors-world/
LOCATION:School of Economics Seminar Room\, 4th Floor School of Economics
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170208T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170208T163000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034442
CREATED:20170127T122857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T101906Z
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SUMMARY:Theorizing Urbanization: the Universal and the Particular in Question
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Cities is pleased to announce it’s first Special Lecture for 2017. We will be hosting Prof Kevin Cox\, who will be presenting a lecture on ‘Theorizing Urbanization: The Universal and the Particular in Question’. \nAbstract \nOver the last twenty-five years or so urban studies has witnessed increasing skepticism towards universalizing claims and a greater interest in the particularizing. Recent arguments for a view from the global South exemplify this. This raises the question of what the relationship between universalizing and particularizing tendencies might be. This is explored firstly through an exploration of how the two might be reconciled. Two case studies then follow. One focuses on the ‘view from the South’ controversy; and the other on the politics of urban development in the US and in Western Europe and a subsequent trans-Atlantic divide. \nBio \nKEVIN R. COX\, is Emeritus Distinguished University Professor of Geography at the Ohio State University. His major research interests include the politics of urban and regional development\, geographic thought and South Africa. He is the author of numerous books\, the most recent of which are The Politics of Urban and Regional Development and the American Exception (2016) and Making Human Geography (2014.) He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and the recipient of two awards from the Association of American Geographers\, including one for distinguished scholarship. More information can be found on his website\, Unfashionable Geographies\, at https://kevinrcox.wordpress.com/. \n 
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/theorizing-urbanization-beyond-binaries/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20161128T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20161128T140000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034442
CREATED:20161121T120002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161121T120729Z
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SUMMARY:Resilient Urban Development: perspective of the Massive Small Collective
DESCRIPTION:In this Brown Bag\, Lauren Hermanus will introduce the work of the Massive Small Collective\, which seeks to make connections between small-scale urban sustainable development and resilience thinking. \nThe Massive Small Collective understands resilience as social\, economic and environmental sustainability under conditions of dynamic complexity. As individuals\, households\, businesses\, and governments are faced with increasing complexity\, and more frequent destructive shocks\, and new information and technologies\, the context and need for resilience planning and implementation is growing. The assertion of the Massive Small Collective\, is that top-down\, large-scale\, command and control strategies aimed to improve social well-being and manage ecological risks have not delivered the promised results. The collective believes that the ‘bigness’ of these projects is the source of their weakness. Local context and history are\, by necessity\, rendered marginal by end-state and solutions-focused wholesale reform. But we can now see that it has showed itself to be critical to long-term success. In response\, the Massive Small Collective focuses on incrementalism and redundancy\, dynamic interrelation\, local context\, learning from failure and responsive governance.  \nThis Brown Bag will introduce the potential of small-scale urban sustainable development initiatives and investments to contribute to the resilience agenda in cities and towns around the world. This work is done in partnership with the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition\, African partners of the Stockholm Resilience Centre.  \nAbout the Speaker: \nLauren Hermanus is has a BA in Politics\, Philosophy and Economics\, and a MA in Complexity Theory and Philosophy. She is currently enrolled in MPhil in Development Policy and Practice. She is a Sustainable Development Specialist focused on urban resilience and energy innovation. Her experience is in policy\, strategy and programme development in both the public and private sectors. She is interested in applying Complexity Thinking to development challenges. \nDate: 28th November \nTime: 1-2pm \nVenue: Davies Reading Room (library)\, EGS Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/5180/
LOCATION:African Centre for Cities\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags,Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160308T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160308T163000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034442
CREATED:20160223T080128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160225T104621Z
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Sustainable Cities: from slogan to implementation
DESCRIPTION:ACC is excited to host representatives from Mistra Urban Futures who will be presenting on their forthcoming book entitled ‘Rethinking Sustainable Cities: from slogan to implementation’. \nOverview \nMistra Urban Futures’ forthcoming book provides detailed intellectual and practical histories of fair\, green and accessible cities – three key urban characteristics chosen to symbolise the research centre’s approach\, which utilises transdisciplinary co-production methodologies to promote sustainable urban solutions to specific local problems in each of its research platforms. These characteristics suffuse MUF’s work and Strategic Plan for 2016-19. David Simon will explain these agendas\, focusing particularly on the origins and current nature of urban greening discourses and the challenges to implementation to ensure that they make a substantive as opposed to purely marginal or incremental difference. Sue Parnell will do likewise in relation to fair cities. \nBios \nDavid Simon joined Mistra Urban Futures in September 2014 from Royal Holloway\, University of London\, where he still holds a part-time appointment as Professor of Development Geography. He was Head of theGeography Department there from 2008-11. He has vast international experience including grant-funded research on sub-Saharan Africa (especially Namibia\, South Africa\, Kenya and Ghana)\, Asia (especially Sri Lanka\, Thailand and the Philippines)\, the UK and the USA. He has also served as specialist advisor to UN-HABITAT on cities and climate change\, was one of only two academics on the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s specialist Africa Advisory Group prior to its disbandment\, and has consulted for various NGOs and national and international development agencies. Furthermore\, he is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences. \nSusan Parnell’s early academic research was in the area of urban historical geography and focussed on the rise of racial residential segregation and the impact of colonialism on urbanisation and town planning in Sub-Saharan Africa. Since 1994 and democracy in South Africa her work has shifted to contemporary urban policy research (local government\, poverty reduction and urban environmental justice). By its nature this research is not been purely academic\, but has involved liasing with local and national government and international donors. Sue is also on the boards of several local NGOs concerned with poverty alleviation\, sustainability and gender equity in post-apartheid South Africa. She serves on a number of national and international advisory research panels relating to urban reconstruction.
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/rethinking-sustainable-cities-from-slogan-to-implementation/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141105T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141105T193000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034442
CREATED:20141017T042622Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150519T122033Z
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SUMMARY:Kapuscinski Development Lecture: Aromar Revi
DESCRIPTION:Putting the Urban at the Heart of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals \nThe Millennium Development Goals are expiring and need to be replaced with a new set of globally applicable and locally implementable Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030. Climate Change negotiations are stalled and need a more determined and pragmatic approach if run-away impacts are to be avoided. It is clear that a different economic\, social and human development path must be established to ensure greater sustainability and inclusion of all citizens into productive economic life and well-being. Cities and regions across the world provide the opportunity to do this. Africa and Asia are at the centre of the urban\, social and economic transitions that the world will witness over the next two decades. It is important that we see political imaginations and leadership from these geographies that address local\, regional and global themes. \nThe lecture will interest policy makers\, activists\, business leaders\, journalists and academics.  \nAbout the speaker: \nAromar Revi is Director of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) India’s prospective independent national University for Research & Innovation addressing its challenges of urbanisation. He has been a senior advisor to various ministries of the Government of India\, and has consulted for a wide range of UN\, multilateral\, bilateral development and private sector institutions. He is a member of the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)\, co-chair of its urban thematic group\, and a Fellow of the India China Institute at the New School\, New York. A global expert on sustainable urban development\, he has co-led a successful international campaign for an urban Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) as part of the UN’s post-2015 development agenda\, which brought the major global urban institutions and over 200 cities and institutions together. He has led over 100 major research\, consulting and implementation assignments in India and abroad. He has helped structure\, design and review development investments in excess of $8 billion\, including housing and urban development plans for two-thirds of India’s 29 states in the 1990s. Besides being part of multiple international projects in 6 countries\, he has worked on 3 of the world’s 10 largest cities\, and with communities across 25 Indian states. A leading expert on Global Environmental Change especially on Climate Change adaptation and mitigation\, he is one of the Coordinating Lead Authors for the Urban Areas section of the IPCC 5th Assessment report (2014)\, and co-PI of an international Climate Adaptation research programme than spans India and Africa. He is one of South Asia’s leading disaster mitigation and management experts and has led emergency teams to assess\, plan and execute recovery and rehabilitation programmes for 10 major earthquake\, cyclone\, surge and flood events affecting over 5 million people\, and serves on the Advisory Board of the UNISDR Scientific & Technical Advisory Group and its Global Assessment of Risk. \nThe Kapuscinski Development Lectures are a series of high-level lectures focused on development-related issues organized jointly by the United Nations Development Programme\, the European Community and leading universities and think-tanks. There have been over 50 lectures by top development thinkers since 2009. The lectures honour Ryszard Kapuscinski\, the celebrated Polish writer and journalist who covered developing countries. Past lectures have been delivered by\, among others\, Aung San Suu Kyi\, Ashraf Ghani\, Jagdish Bhagwati\, Helen Clark\, Jan Pronk\, Jeffrey Sachs\, José Antonio Ocampo\, Kamal Dervis\, Mark Malloch-Brown\, Michelle Bachelet and Paul Collier.  See: http://kapuscinskilectures.eu \nThe Kapuscinski Development Lecture in Cape Town is a joint initiative of the European Commission\, the United Nations Development Programme\, the African Centre for Cities\, and the University of Cape Town. The project is funded by the European Commission. \nPlease take your seats from 5:45 as the lecture is being streamed live and will start at 6:00 promptly. \nRSVP maryam.waglay@uct.ac.za using subject line “Kapuscinski Development Lecture” \n  \n            
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/kapuscinski-development-lecture/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall 3B\, New Snape Building\, University of Cape Town\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141103T090000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141103T193000
DTSTAMP:20260416T034442
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SUMMARY:Density Syndicate Conference
DESCRIPTION:    \n  \n  \nThe Density Syndicate Think Tank invites you to participate in the presentation of a seven-month project by three multi-disciplinary teams of South African and Dutch designers\, city officials and researchers looking at the future of three urban sites in Cape Town. As part of the City Desired Exhibition\, project contributors\, key City officials and a select number of stakeholders will convene on 3 November 2014 at the City Hall to review and discuss findings. \nTwenty years after democracy\, South African cities remain stubbornly divided\, fragmented\, inconvenient for the poor and uninspiring. This has manifested in cities made up of a patchwork of disconnected business districts\, wealthy neighbourhoods\, gated communities and poor townships. In the case of Cape Town\, the affluent City Bowl and southern and northern suburbs stand in contrast to large swathes of township and informal areas. Despite considerable deracialisation of lower middle-class suburbs\, the townships and informal areas remain profoundly mono-functional\, racially homogenous and most vulnerable to a multiplicity of risks. It is uncontested that the current situation is socially\, economically and ecologically unsustainable\, yet\, despite the availability of urban design expertise and policy commitment to transformation\, we have very few compelling examples of how we can imagine and build our city differently. In order to explore how to address these challenges\, ACC and INTI have worked with the City of Cape Town on a series of three speculative studios. By using the combined design intelligence of Dutch and South African specialists\, The Density Syndicate has enabled the exploration of innovative\, alternative strategies for the future of Cape Town. \nThe symposium will shed light on the proposed scenarios and will invite key stakeholders from local government\, academia and mass media to provide feedback on their appropriateness\, viability and desirability. The format provides a platform for authors to exhibit the proposal and for  key ‘respondents’ to immediately interrogate proposals and raise questions for debate. Animated deliberations are expected to set the tone for an enlightening symposium. \nThe sites studied by the Density Syndicate are the following: \nLOTUS PARK \nLotus Park is a small informal settlement situated between the Khayelitsha-Cape Town train line and the Lotus River Canal. Lotus Park is adjacent to western forecourt of the Nyanga Junction station. The Lotus Park team focused on: maintaining existing density to avoid any relocation; consider how best to optimise mixed use (economic\, social and cultural) planning; taking the Lotus River into account in advancing sustainability planning principles. \nMAITLAND \nVoortrekker Road stretches around 15km from Woodstock in central Cape Town\, through Maitland\, Goodwood\, and Parow to Bellville. It is a busy transport corridor between Bellville and the CBD and is lined with a range of small businesses and light industry. Of particular interest to this project is the Maitland stretch of the corridor. There is a significant unrecognised African immigrant population living and running small businesses in the area and offers another kind of opportunity for exploring density and diversity in Cape Town. In particular\, it offers an opportunity to explore a different model of urban regeneration to what has unfolded in the Woodstock and Salt River stretches\, anchored by creative industries and high-end retail and fine dining. \nTRUP-PLUS + GREENFIELDS STRIP \nThe TRUP-plus+ site is a greenfield strip that includes the Two Rivers Urban Park and the Athlone Power Station. Situated halfway between the airport and the Cape Town CBD\, the decommissioned Athlone Power Station site is uniquely located between three very different suburbs: Pinelands\, a predominantly middle class ‘white’ suburb; Athlone\, a predominantly ‘coloured’ neighbourhood’; and Langa\, a largely poor ‘black’ area. The TRUP-plus+ offers a unique opportunity of experimenting with possibilities of social integration at the nexus of these suburbs. \nThe Density Syndicate held two studios: one in May and one in July 2014. Participants include representatives from: African Centre for Cities (SA); Cape Town Partnership (SA); City of Cape Town Spatial Planning & Urban Design (SA); Community Organisation Resource Centre (SA); dhk urban (SA); Doepel Strijkers (NL); H+N+S Landscape Architects (NL); International New Town Institute (NL); Jakupa architects + urban designers (SA); Land+Civilization Compositions (NL); Provincial Department of Human Settlements (SA); Sustainability Institute (SA); Urban Water Management Research Unit (SA); Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (SA); Witteveen+Bos (NL); Uberbau (GER); NL Architects (NL). \nConference Programme will be uploaded soon. Watch this space! \n  \nThe Density Syndicate is a think-tank initiative by the African Centre for Cities (ACC)\, International New Town Institute (INTI)\, and in collaboration with the City of Cape Town and Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU). It has been made possible by the City of Cape Town\, the Dutch Creative Industries Fund\, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and the Netherlands Consulate General\, Cape Town. It is also a programmatic component for NL@WDC2014\, an initiative of the Netherlands Consulate-General in Cape Town. \nFollow us on Facebook and Twitter @ through #DensitySyndicate or #WDC234
URL:https://wonderful-hopper.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/density-syndicate-conference/
LOCATION:City Hall\, Darling Street\, Cape Town\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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