ACC at the Open Book Festival 2018
African Centre for Cities (ACC) teams up with The Book Lounge to present five urban-focussed events at the forthcoming 2018 Open […]
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Urban Humanities Seminar Series: pumflet – art, architecture and stuff by Ilze Wolff
Studio 1 Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building, Upper Campus, UCT, Cape Town, South AfricaIlze Wolff co-directs Wolff Architects with Heinrich Wolff and co-founded Open House Architecture (OHA), a research practice that documents and reflects on Southern […]
Urban Humanities Seminar Series: Vital Geopolitics by Gerry Kearns
Studio 3 Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building, Upper Campus, UCT, Cape Town, South AfricaVital Geopolitics is the study of international relations from the perspective of life itself. Colonialism and neoliberalism are not only […]
Urban Humanities Seminar Series: The Invention of the ‘Sink Estate’: Consequential Categorization and the UK Housing Crisis
Studio 3 Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building, Upper Campus, UCT, Cape Town, South AfricaThe Invention of the ‘Sink Estate’: Consequential Categorization and the UK Housing Crisis presented by Tom Slater explores the history and […]
Urban Humanities: Speculative Indigeneity – A (K)new Now by heeten bhagat
Studio 3, Environmental and Geographical Science Building, Upper Campus, UCT, Cape Town, South AfricaJoin ACC for a brown bag lecture by PhD student heeten bhagat on entitled Speculative Indigeneity -- A (K)new Now. […]
Urban Humanities: Conversations on cultural mapping and planning
Studio 3 Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building, Upper Campus, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa“Cultural planning sits at the intersection of people, places and policies— It provides a framework for addressing the needs and objectives […]
Urban Humanities: Storytelling as method: migration, gender and inclusion in Durban
Studio 3 Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building, Upper Campus, UCT, Cape Town, South AfricaABSTRACT Storytelling as a form of urban scholarship has the potential for empathetic ways of producing knowledge, understanding, seeing and […]
Urban Humanities: False Bay: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities
Studio 1 Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building, Upper Campus, UCT, Cape Town, South AfricaACC is very excited to host Dr Shari Daya in conversation with Dr Hedley Twidle, reflecting on the Environmental Humanities through […]
Urban Humanities: Contextualising strategies to enable LGBT rights in Africa: legitimacies, spatial inequalities and socio-spatial relationships
Studio 3 Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building, Upper Campus, UCT, Cape Town, South AfricaJoin us for the an Urban Humanities academic seminar entitled Contextualising strategies to enable LGBT rights in Africa: legitimacies, spatial inequalities […]
Mistra Urban Futures Realising Just Cities – Comparative Co-production
SunSquare Hotel 23 Buitengracht Street, Cape Town , Western Cape, South AfricaThe rapidly growing number of people moving into cities all over the world presents a challenge of unprecedented size. It […]