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SUMMARY:Brownbag seminar: African Landscape Architectures_Alternative futures for the field
DESCRIPTION:Based on landscape fieldwork across 11 African nations during 2022–23\, this talk speculates on the future of landscape architecture in Africa and the Global South. While visiting educational programs\, designed landscapes\, and meeting practitioners across African nations\, Gareth Doherty saw and registered various landscape practices as they exist on the ground\, whether professionally designed or not. Some forms of “grassroots” practice are more deeply engaged with solving the problems of our age—including climate change and social inequalities— than their more formalized and institutionalized counterparts.\nDetails:\nDate: Thursday\, 15 August 2024\nTime: 13h00 –14h00\nVenue: EGS Library\, EGS Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\nAbout the presenter:\nGareth Doherty is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design and principal of the Critical Landscapes Design Lab. Doherty takes a human-centered approach to landscape architecture\, applying ethnographic fieldwork and participatory methodologies to design and theory. His work critically reassesses 20th-century approaches to the observed landscape to advance new pedagogy\, tools\, and techniques that address contemporary design issues of equity\, identity\, cultural space\, and the human impacts of climate change. Doherty addresses these issues through research on designed landscapes across the postcolonial and Islamic worlds. Through what he terms “landscape fieldwork\,” Doherty unravels diverse landscape narratives that have not yet been formally documented as evidenced through his books\, Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State (University of California Press\, 2017)\, Landscape Fieldwork: How the Engaging the World Changes Design (University of Virginia Press\, forthcoming)\, and his recent fieldwork on African landscape architecture. Doherty was a Visiting Scholar at the African Centre for Cities in 2022–23.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/brownbag-seminar-african-landscape-architectures_alternative-futures-for-the-field/
LOCATION:EGS Library\, EGS Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240801T123000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240801T140000
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SUMMARY:Brownbag seminar_ACCRETION THROUGH FRICTION: examining garbage flows in Dakar’s Baie de Hann
DESCRIPTION:Once the second most beautiful to the bay of Rio de Janeiro\, Dakar’s Baie de Hann is now known for its pollution. A largely EU-funded infrastructure project (2017-2021) promised to resolve the bay’s challenges. Jonas Le Thierry d’Ennequin challenges this modernist project from an Urban Political Ecology perspective. By examining how the bay’s infrastructure flows accrete (Anand\, 2015) since the 1980s\, he argues for the generative potential of “friction” in infrastructural development.\nDetails:\nDate: Thursday\, 01 August 2024\nTime: 12h30 –14h00\nVenue: Studio 1\, Level 5\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\nJonas is a UKRI-funded PhD candidate at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit\, University College London. He holds an MSc Urban Development Planning from UCL and a BA Global Challenges from Leiden University & Universidad de Chile. Prior to his doctoral research he worked as a strategic communications consultant in different sectors.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/examining-garbage-flows-in-dakars-baie-de-hann/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240722T123000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240722T140000
DTSTAMP:20260414T064630
CREATED:20240716T123921Z
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SUMMARY:Brown bag seminar: The visible hand of a transport mafia in Lagos (Nigeria)
DESCRIPTION:The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) is a recognized union\, an unofficial section of a political party\, and a ‘parastatal’ organization transporting millions of passengers in Nigeria. These multiple functions are seen by academics and the public as a problem. Many researchers consider NURTW as a mafia because of its collusions with political parties\, the police and civil servants\, an increasingly dominant interpretation characterizing popular transport organizations in the African continent. This project is aimed at understanding divergent views of ‘informal’ transport organization in Lagos\, the economic capital of Nigeria.\nTo do this\, historian and political scientist Laurent Fourchard works with photographer Andrew Esiebo to engage in a common fieldwork based on visual ethnography methods. By associating photography and ethnography\, they would like to explore the visible hand of an organization whose main functions are unseen\, hidden\, difficult to grasp or stigmatized.\nBio: Laurent Fourchard is a research professor at the National Foundation for Political Science (CERI) and teaching faculty at Sciences Po’s Urban School. He was Director of the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA) in Nigeria from 2000 to 2003 and visiting scholar at the University of Cape Town in 2008 and 2009. Before joining CERI in 2016 he was a research fellow at the research institute\, Les Afrique dans le monde at Sciences Po Bordeaux.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/the-visible-hand-of-a-transport-mafia-in-lagos-nigeria/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240411T153000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240411T163000
DTSTAMP:20260414T064630
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SUMMARY:ACC Brown Bag - Living Off-Grid: Reflections from Ghana and Zimbabwe
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Percy Toriro – University of Zimbabwe and Issahaka Fuseini – University of Ghana\nJoin this discussion between Percy Toriro and Issahaka Fuseini\, who will share findings from their work as city partners in the LOGIC (off-grid) project. Percy will engage the theme of ‘Electricity visits us’: the challenges of living with poor infrastructure and services in an off-grid settlement\, with a focus on Dzivarasekwa\, Zimbabwe. Issahaka will speak to the realities of off-griddedness and various assemblages to adapt to water scarcity and sanitation challenges in Tamale\, Ghana.\nThese inputs will be followed by reflections by Hayley MacGregor (IDS) locating these discussions within the overlooked intersections between urban studies\, the “infrastructure turn” and emerging urban food\, nutrition and wider wellbeing debates.\nThis brownbag will build on the earlier conversations by Mercy Brown Luthango and Iromi Perera and the LOGIC (off grid) project\, speaking to research in two additional project cities.\nWHEN: Thursday\, 11 April 2024\nTIME: 15h30 – 16h30\nVENUE: Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\nPercy Toriro has over 20 years’ experience as a city planner\, having been the Chief Planner for the City of Harare for 10 years. Dr Toriro also leads the Urban Planning Program at the Municipal Development Partnership (MDP) a network spanning 15 Southern African countries\, engaging in urban development challenges. Percy holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town. His research has covered urban infrastructure\, urban housing\, urban informality\, housing\, governance\, food systems and environment. Percy’s work sees him interacting with national\, regional and local governments in different countries and cities. Percy served four terms as President of the Zimbabwe Institute of Regional and Urban Planners (ZIRUP). Percy holds an adjunct lectureship position at the University of Zimbabwe.\nIssahaka Fuseini is a senior lecturer at the University of Ghana\, Ghana. Issahaka holds a PhD from Stellenbosch University. Issahaka’s research interest spans food systems governance\, collaborative local-level governance\, and inclusive urban development. Issahaka previously worked at the African Centre for Cities\, University of Cape Town\, during which time he was involved in multi-country\, interdisciplinary projects aimed at improving urban food systems governance and nutrition security in nine cities in Kenya\, Zambia\, Zimbabwe\, Namibia\, and South Africa. Presently\, Issahaka is a co-investigator responsible for the Ghanaian component of a UKRI-sponsored multi-country research project (under the Global Challenges Research Fund’s Off-Grid Cities call) that is being implemented in five cities in Ghana\, South Africa\, Zimbabwe\, India\, and Sri Lanka. This project seeks to understand how access to or the lack of infrastructure\, broadly defined\, impacts the food and nutrition security of marginalised populations in cities in the Global South. Issahaka is also a lead partner in a city dialogue\, facilitated by RUAF/FAO\, that is aimed at developing a city-level food systems governance agenda for his home city of Tamale\, Ghana.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/acc-brown-bag-living-off-grid-reflections-from-ghana-and-zimbabwe/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230515T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230515T140000
DTSTAMP:20260414T064630
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SUMMARY:Lived experience as a pathway to community agency? Toward new framings of nutrition in urban South Africa
DESCRIPTION:The Nourished Child project took a lived experience approach to understanding how systems interacted in the lives of women to shape their and their children’s quality of diet. Central to the project was the development of a range of creative dissemination tools to engage policy makers\, and increase community agency.\nIn this presentation Jane Battersby reflects on the process\, politics\, and outcomes of the project\, and the potential of projects of this kind to affect long term transformative change.\nAhead of the presentation\, you can also view the Nourished Child exhibition in the foyer of the Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building.\nWHEN | Monday\, 15 May 2023\nTIME | 13:00-14:00\nVENUE |Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/lived-experience-as-a-pathway-to-community-agency-toward-new-framings-of-nutrition-in-urban-south-africa/
CATEGORIES:Brownbags,Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230511T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230511T140000
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SUMMARY:On tactical planning
DESCRIPTION:African Centre for Cities hosts visiting scholar Marco Di Nunzio for a seminar entitled On tactical planning\, on Thursday\, 11 May 2023\, from 13:00-14:00\, in the EGS Library\, Upper Campus\, UCT.\nABSTRACT\nThis paper looks at the work of planners by exploring the relations between strategic and tactical planning. By documenting the case of Addis Ababa’s construction boom\, he discusses how the overlapping between strategies and tactics in planners’ work embodies both the relative privilege of planners\, as experts and agents of vested interests in the city\, and the conditioned agency of planners\, as themselves are acted upon by the courses of action of more powerful agents. In this context\, strategic planning does not only fail. It is meant to fail\, or at least implemented partially\, because its purpose is to catalyse action\, not direct it. Instead\, tactical planning\, while being situational and contingent\, is not the realm of weak. Planners’ tactical agency contribute to further embed dominant orders of priority\, and hierarchies of entitlement into the spatial fabric of the city.\n\n\nBIOGRAPHY\nMarco Di Nunzio is an Assistant Professor in Urban Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of The Act of Living (Cornell University Press) and the director of award-winning documentary A Day in Arada. Since February 2020\, he is the founding editor of OtherwiseMag\, a magazine of ethnographic storytelling. He is currently a Leverhulme Research Fellow\, writing a book on Addis Ababa’s construction boom\, provisionally entitlement Conspiracies to Build.\n\n\n\nWHEN | Thursday\, 11 May 2023\nTIME | 13:00-14:00\nVENUE | EGS Library\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/on-tactical-planning/
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230419T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230419T140000
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SUMMARY:Segregation “bit by bit”: digital technologies\, housing market and the remaking of post-apartheid Cape Town
DESCRIPTION:African Centre for Cities is hosting a seminar by visiting scholar Julien Migozzi\, an Urban Studies Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow\, University of Oxford. Migozzi will present Segregation “bit by bit”: digital technologies\, housing market and the remaking of post-apartheid Cape Town\, on 19 April\, from 13:00-14:00\, in Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\nABSTRACT\nThis presentation will examine the joint processes of digitalisation and financialisation of the housing market in Cape Town\, and their consequences on the evolution of urban segregation. Migozzi’s mixed-method framework combines 18 months of fieldwork among real estate professionals with the creation of a database of 900\,000 transactions\, cross-analysed with longitudinal census data\, and covering the entire metropolitan area from 1990 to 2017. For this talk\, he will focus on three main points: first\, he will unpack how the housing market was reconfigured as a continuous flow of data through the adoption of digital technologies such as credit scoring and automated property valuation\, which allow the large scale datafication and classification of South African citizens and properties through an information dragnet of unprecedented sophistication and depth\, rooted in the technical legacies of apartheid and colonialism. Second\, he will explore how these changing market structures translate into the urban space by mapping the evolution of housing prices and mortgages across the post-apartheid city\, and by exploring the emergence of new neighbourhoods around the urban edge\, in the context of enduring levels of racial segregation. Third\, he will analyse how the reconfiguration of the market around a data imperative enabled a selective financialisation of housing\, tracing mortgage securitisation at the neighbourhood level\, and documenting the rise of institutional investors powered by rental platforms. Finally\, he will try to argue that thinking “from the market” allows us to engage more fully with the understanding of urban segregation in contemporary South Africa\, first by acknowledging  the central role of credit in shaping neighbourhood change and inequalities\, and second by conceptualising a market-based definition of  the middle class as a “filtered class”.\nBIOGRAPHY\nJulien Migozzi is an Urban Studies Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. His ongoing research combines computational analysis with expert interviews to examine how digital technologies reshape urban housing markets\, focusing on post-apartheid South Africa.\nWHEN | 19 April 2023\nTIME | 13:00-14:00\nWHERE | Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/segregation-bit-by-bit-digital-technologies-housing-market-and-the-remaking-of-post-apartheid-cape-town/
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230215T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230215T140000
DTSTAMP:20260414T064630
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SUMMARY:Critical Neighbourhoods – The Architecture of Contested Communities
DESCRIPTION:ACC invites you to join us as we host the editor of Critical Neighbourhoods – The Architecture of Contested Communities\, Paulo Moreira\, Porto-based architect and researcher on Wednesday\, 15 February for an online lunchtime talk on the book.\nPlease note: Due to student action on the UCT campus\, this event has been moved online. \nABSTRACT\nAt a time when architectural and urban studies are moving towards seeking to accept and understand informal neighbourhoods rather than ignoring or eradicating them\, the need for experiments on the ground is becoming increasingly urgent. In recent years\, a growing number of architects and spatial practitioners have begun to act on their commitment to the idea that these settlements are here to stay and require selective intervention. Critical Neighbourhoods – The Architecture of Contested Communities analyses recent studies and practical actions in three different continents (Africa\, America and Asia). The volume is published by Park Books and edited by Paulo Moreira\, with contributions by Elisa Silva\, Julia King\, Matthew Barac and Ines Weizman\, and a preface by AbdouMaliq Simone.\nBIOGRAPHY\nPaulo Moreira is a Porto-based architect and researcher. He received his doctorate from London Metropolitan University\, and graduated from the Faculty of Architecture\, University of Porto (Portugal). Moreira authored chapters in academic journals and edited independent publications on informal neighbourhoods. He was awarded several grants and prizes\, including: Prize for Social Entrepreneurship (London Met\, 2009) and Noel Hill Travel Award (American Institute of Architects – UK Chapter\, 2009). He was a finalist in the RIBA President’s Award for Research 2019\, Cities & Community category. He is the editor of Critical Neighbourhoods – The Architecture of Contested Communities (Park Books\, 2022).\n \nWHEN | Wednesday\, 15 February\nTIME | 13:00-14:00\nVENUE | Due to student action on the UCT campus\, this talk has been move online. \nZOOM LINK | https://bit.ly/3HZI43r
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/critical-neighbourhoods-the-architecture-of-contested-communities/
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230214T153000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230214T163000
DTSTAMP:20260414T064630
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SUMMARY:On Trauma Imaginaries: Exploring the Intersections of Race\, Place\, and Planning
DESCRIPTION:Join ACC as we host an online seminar by Jocelyn Poe\, Visiting Assistant Professor and Provost Faculty Fellow at Cornell University\, entitled On Trauma Imaginaries: Exploring the Intersections of Race\, Place\, and Planning\, on Tuesday\, 14 February at 15:30.\nPlease note: Due to student action on the UCT campus\, this event has been moved online. \nABSTRACT\nWorking as a practicing planner in primarily black communities\, I noticed a pattern of visceral reactions to planning processes. This pattern exposed a psycho-socio-cultural phenomenon that aligned with the characteristics of trauma. While planning theory has long acknowledged the profession’s role in producing racialised spatial realities\, few have explored how place-based trauma shape places\, spatial processes\, and spatial imaginaries. To fill this gap\, I analyse my experience in practice through autoethnography\, and then\, I assess the validity of this theory by exploring these concepts in South Central Los Angeles (SCLA)\, a place radically different from Mississippi. Through this process\, I identify\, describe\, and conceptualise this phenomenon as trauma imaginaries\, the intersection of spatial imaginaries and communal trauma. In doing so\, I developed a theory of communal trauma to understand how places hurt and how this hurt impacts spatial processes. I found that trauma was preventing places from achieving healthy growth and collective well-being\, and this trauma was directly linked to historical injustices.\nBIO\nJocelyn Poe\, Ph.D. is a Visiting Assistant Professor and Provost Faculty Fellow at Cornell University\, while also practicing as a certified planner with the American Planning Association. Her research engages mixed and remixed qualitative methodologies to explore how place\, planning\, and well-being intersect to spatialize injustice and inequity. Using her experiences as a practitioner in Jackson\, Mississippi\, she builds theory on communal trauma and trauma imaginaries to describe and understand a psycho-socio-cultural phenomenon happening in place and impacting planning processes. This trauma work informs an approach to a reparative praxis that can help planners achieve social justice and equity outcomes in historically underserved communities. \nRESPONDENT | Nisa Mammon\, Adjunct Professor\, African Centre for Cities and Managing Director and Principal Planner\, NM & Associates Planners and Designers\nWHEN | Tuesday\, 14 February 2023\nTIME | 15:30-16:30\nVENUE | Due to student action on the UCT campus\, this event has been moved online.\nZOOM LINK | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87507483039?pwd=OUM5bzRnNVpEWGxzM21UN293MVh3Zz09
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CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20220922T153000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20220922T170000
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SUMMARY:SEMINAR | Housing Opportunities for All
DESCRIPTION:ACC together with the Development Action Group (DAG)\, will be hosting a seminar entitled Housing Opportunities for All\, presented by Dr Krista Paulsen and Dr Vanessa Fry\, both fellows of the Mandela Washington Fellowship Programme. The Seminar\, on Thursday 22 September 2022\, from 15:30 to 17:00 will be chaired by Ryan Fester\, project coordinator for DAG\, one of Cape Town’s leading land and housing NGOs.\n\n\nDr Vanessa Fry and Dr Krista Paulsen\, of Boise State University\, are currently working with Ryan Fester of DAG to explore the challenges and solutions to providing affordable\, accessible housing. Both Boise\, Idaho\, and Cape Town\, are confronting accelerated growth and housing disparities associated with amenity-based migration and legacies of inequalities. Both scholars will share accounts and analyses of the Boise housing markets as well as the detailed strategies being employed to increase housing access in the region. With Fester\, they will work to draw parallels to the Cape Town context and discuss with participants possible common solutions.\n\n\nDr Krista Paulsen\, is a trained urban sociologist and practitioner of qualitative research methods. Krista has published and presented on dimensions of urban and neighbourhood change including processes of gentrification\, tourism incursion into neighbourhoods\, and social inequality and exclusion – all of which will be addressed in this exchange. Through her research and her role as Programme Lead for Urban Studies and Community Development\, she has developed numerous community partnerships that benefit both students and the larger Boise community\, including multiple community-engaged research projects on housing access and affordability. She has experience developing international collaborations between universities and is positioned to integrate products of this exchange into the curriculum within Boise State’s Interdisciplinary Programs.\n\n\nDr Vanessa Fry is the Director of Idaho Policy Institute and Associate Research Faculty at Boise State University in Boise\, ID\, and Adjunct Faculty at Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco\, CA. She leads students\, staff\, and faculty in providing innovative and objective mixed-methods research to help public sector\, private sector\, and nonprofit leaders overcome challenges and navigate change. She has focused both her work (both research and teaching) and education on utilising multi-sector\, evidenced-based solutions to address persistent social\, environmental\, and economic issues and meet the current and critical needs in communities. Her work requires identification and equitable engagement of collaborators\, flexibility\, creativity\, and tenacity. She holds a BA in biology and fine art from Wittenberg University (Ohio\, USA)\, a MBA in sustainable management from Presidio Graduate School (California\, USA)\, and a PhD from Boise State University (Idaho\, USA).\n\nWHEN | Thursday\, 22 September 2022\nTIME | 15:30 to 17:00\nVENUE | Davies Reading Room\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/seminar-housing-opportunities-for-all/
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190726T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190726T140000
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SUMMARY:Governing Cape Town’s Informal Economy
DESCRIPTION:ACC invites you to a special Brownbag lecture by Dr Graeme Young entitled Governing Cape Town Informal Economy\, on Friday 26 July at 13:00 to 14:00 in Studio 5\, EGS Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT.\nYoung\, a visiting QES Scholar\, has been working with the Office of the Premier of the Western Cape as part of the wider provincial food system strategy. This presentation will outline initial perspectives on research carried out to understand the institutional and policy landscape in which Cape Town’s informal economy is governed and offer theoretical insights that may be useful for engaging with broader questions surrounding urban governance in Cape Town and beyond.\nVENUE: Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\nDATE: Friday\, 26 July 2019\nTIME: 13h00 – 14h00
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/governing-cape-towns-informal-economy/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190410T120000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190410T130000
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SUMMARY:Whose Heritage Matters? Mapping\, Making and Mobilising Heritage Values for Sustainable Livelihoods in Cape Town and Kisumu
DESCRIPTION:Cape Town and Kisumu are two secondary African cities with high levels of poverty\, unemployment and inequality. There is much interest in developing sustainable approaches to harnessing tangible and intangible heritage to address these challenges. However\, cultural heritage is a value-laden concept\, particularly in the context of colonial histories and urban futures. Whose heritage matters? How can we negotiate competing and plural values? How can cultural heritage be mobilised to support sustainable livelihoods? Funded by the British Academy\, this co-produced action research project will bring different stakeholders and communities together to map heritage values and develop creative interventions to harness tangible and intangible heritage for sustainable development’.\nThis Brown Bag Seminar will introduce the project\, and open up a conversation about the role and value of heritage in sustainable and just urban development.\nWhen: 10 April 2019\nTime: 12:00 – 13:o0\nVenue: Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/whose-heritage-matters-mapping-making-mobilising-heritage-values-sustainable-livelihoods-cape-town-kisumu/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190128T123000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190128T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T064630
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SUMMARY:BROWNBAG SEMINAR: How Cities Respond to Climate Change: Ambition and Reality of European and African Cities
DESCRIPTION:Join ACC and ACDI for a lunchtime brownbag seminar by Diana Reckien\, Associate Professor\, University of Twente\, Netherlands entitled How Cities Respond to Climate Change: Ambition and Reality of European and African Cities.\nWHERE: Studio 5\, Level 5\, Environmental & Geographical Sciences Building (EGS)\nUCT Upper Campus\, Rondebosch\nWHEN: 12.30 – 1.30pm\, Monday 28 January 2019\nDiana Reckien will present some of her latest research on local climate planning in European cities\, that builds on a network of 30 collaborators across the EU-28.\nBuilding up a database of the climate change response of 885 cities in the EU-28 (representative of the urban profile in their country)\, Diana and colleagues were able to yield insights into which cities in Europe prepare climate (adaptation or mitigation) plans and what these plans entail. This provides information about\, e.g.\, the mitigation targets/ambitions and whether these would be sufficient to reach 1.5/2C\, prominent mitigation and adaptation sectors\, and modes of implementation (mainstreaming or not).\nDiana will then move to some of her work in African cities\, presenting recent research on mainstreaming in Kigali City (Rwanda) and on environmental urban migration in northern Kenya.\nShe will close with ideas and plans for future research\, e.g. potentially open up topics for collaboration\, such as perception based climate change impact analyses in African cities using FCM\, cascading impacts\, socially sensible adaptation options\, and/or the effectiveness of adaptation plans.\nBIOGRAPHY\nDiana Reckien is Associate Professor “Climate Change and Urban Inequality” at the University of Twente\, the Netherlands. She specializes at the interface of climate change and urban research\, with the aim to contribute to justice efforts.\nOne of her current research question is how climate change mitigation and adaptation policies affect and interact with social vulnerability\, equity and justice\, and how to set up adaptation and mitigation policies in order to avoid respective negative side-effects. Other research interests include method development for impact and adaptation assessments\, and modelling approaches\, social vulnerability\, and climate change migration.\nShe mainly investigates urban areas in Europe\, Asia (mainly India)\, and Africa. To do so\, she employs large comparative studies using social science methods\, such as questionnaires\, case study analyses and multi-variate statistics\, as well as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping (FCM).\nDiana is Coordinating Lead Author for “Chapter 17: Decision-making options for managing risk” of the Working Group II Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. She led parts of the Second Assessment Report for Climate Change in Cities (ARC3.2; Eds: Rosenzweig\, Solecki et al.; Cambridge University Press) – those that relate to equity and environmental justice. She serves on the Editorial Board of “Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews”(IF 8.050).\nHer publication record comprises roughly 70 publications\, including 25 peer-reviewed journal papers\, a number of book chapters\, and two special issues.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/brownbag-seminar-cities-respond-climate-change-ambition-reality-european-african-cities/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20181025T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20181025T140000
DTSTAMP:20260414T064630
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SUMMARY:Urban Humanities: False Bay: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities
DESCRIPTION:ACC is very excited to host Dr Shari Daya in conversation with Dr Hedley Twidle\, reflecting on the Environmental Humanities through encounters with False Bay.\nDr Twidle is a senior lecturer in the English Department at UCT.\n“I joined the department in 2010 as a lecturer in southern African and postcolonial literatures. Much of my current work addresses contemporary life-writing and non-fiction narrative. What\, after all\, does the word ‘literary’ signify in a phrase like ‘literary non-fiction’?  And how can one explore the array of non-fictional modes that are simultaneously drawn on\, refashioned and blurred into each other in South African writing: experimental auto/biography\, investigative journalism\, the Struggle memoir\, the diary\, microhistorical and archival reconstruction.\nMy research also explores the difficult relation between environmental thought and social history in southern Africa. Since 2013 I have been involved in the conceptualisation and planning of a new interdisciplinary M Phil in the Environmental Humanities\, launched in February 2015. I am also a member of the Archive and Public Culture research initiative\, a dynamic intellectual space where new research can be presented to experts in the field”.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/urban-humanities-false-bay-perspectives-environmental-humanities/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20181018T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20181018T170000
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SUMMARY:Urban Humanities: Storytelling as method: migration\, gender and inclusion in Durban
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\nStorytelling as a form of urban scholarship has the potential for empathetic ways of producing knowledge\, understanding\, seeing and being in the city. This seminar explores how storytelling in a multitude of forms can be a productive method for data collection\, public dissemination and advocacy for social justice. It discusses this based on a year and half long partnership project between scholars and civil society organisations on Migration\, Gender and Inclusion in the city of Durban. In this project women’s stories of arriving in the city and making it something like home were positioned at the centre of project activities. Thirty oral histories of migrant women\, both South African women living in a Durban hostel and women arriving from the DRC\, Zimbabwe\, Nigeria and Uganda formed the primary data set. These narratives were then developed into a verbatim theatre performance titled The Last Country that was performed in many different settings around the city. The seminar outlines how the play was both a form of storytelling in itself\, making accessible the oral history data to a broader public audience\, and a form of data collection through discussion sessions with audience members and city officials. This seminar looks at the learnings and challenges we experienced through being a part of a project built around the idea of sharing stories in the city.\n \nBIOGRAPHY\nDr Kira Erwin is a sociologist and senior researcher at the Urban Futures Centre at the Durban University of Technology. Kira’s research and publications focus largely around race\, racialisation\, racism and anti-racism work in South Africa. She is interested in how place identities related to space and the built environment impact on ideas of social difference. Kira makes use of creative participatory methods in her research and engagement projects\, and collaborates with colleagues in the creative arts to design forms of storytelling that extend research findings beyond the walls of academia.\nWHEN: 18 October 2018\nTIME: 15:00 – 16:30\nVENUE: Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/urban-humanities-storytelling-method-migration-gender-inclusion-durban/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180927T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180927T140000
DTSTAMP:20260414T064630
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SUMMARY:Urban Humanities: Speculative Indigeneity – A (K)new Now by heeten bhagat
DESCRIPTION:Join ACC for a brown bag lecture by PhD student heeten bhagat on entitled Speculative Indigeneity — A (K)new Now. \nHeeten holds a BA in Design and Merchandising from The American College in London and a Masters in Audio Visual Production from London Metropolitan University.\nHis initial training as a pattern cutter has allowed him the chance to grow\, and\, to experience and work: designing period costumes; building sets for adventure programmes; making experimental films; curating a national gallery; teaching at a French university; providing strategic support to newer organisations; making curious podcasts; and inviting a provocative hybridity to his family’s cookbook.\nCurrently journeying through a PhD\, he simultaneously offer creative\, strategic\, and manual support to a number of organisations and communities regionally.\nHis research delves into notions of indigenousness and indigeneity in contemporary Zimbabwe. Of particular focus is the objective to explore/engineer/imagine methodologies\, through speculative research\, that trouble indigenous essentialisms.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/urban-humanities-speculative-indigeneity-knew-now-heeten-bhagat/
LOCATION:Studio 3\,\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180906T123000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180906T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T064630
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SUMMARY:Urban Humanities Seminar Series: pumflet - art\, architecture and stuff by Ilze Wolff
DESCRIPTION:Ilze Wolff co-directs Wolff Architects with Heinrich Wolff and co-founded Open House Architecture (OHA)\, a research practice that documents and reflects on Southern Africa architecture in Cape Town. In 2016/7 she was the recipient of the L’erma C International Prize for Scholarly Works in Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture\, Rome\, for her dissertation Unstitching Rex Trueform\, the story of an African factory\, published in 2018. The work of Wolff Architects has exhibited at the Venice Biennale; MOMA\, New York; Louisiana MOMA\, Denmark; Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture\, Shenzhen; and the Chicago Architecture Biennale. OHA/Wolff regularly host exhibitions\, interventions\, publications and talks in collaboration with artists and scholars so as to develop an enduring public culture around the city\, space and personhood. In 2018 she was shortlisted for the Architectural Review’s Moira Gemmill Emerging Architect of the year award and is currently a fellow at the University of the Western Cape’s Centre for Humanities Research.\n‘pumflet’ was founded in 2016 by the pumfleteers collective (Wolff and Kemang Wa Lehulere) in order to publish interventions into the social imagination. The talk will show recent pumflet projects and reflect on some of the themes that ground the work and that are beginning to emerge such as\, nostalgia vs histories of the present; the importance of the social imagination\, aesthetics of repair and conversations as scholarly discourse.\n\n\nWHEN: Thursday\, 6 September 2018\n\nTIME: 12:30 to 13:30\nVENUE: Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/urban-humanities-seminar-series-pumflet-ilze-wolff/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180823T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180823T140000
DTSTAMP:20260414T064630
CREATED:20180730T114520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180820T074817Z
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SUMMARY:Urban Humanities Seminar Series: Valmont Layne on 'Auditing' vernacular Cape Town as a sonic city
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to host Valmont Layne from the University of the Western Cape’s Humanities Research Centre who will be reflecting on ‘Auditing’ vernacular Cape Town as a sonic city’\nABSTRACT: Cape Town offers a generative example of the postcolonial port city as an affective space – especially reading its vernacular musicking lifeworld as sonic expressions of oceanic and terrestrial worlds. In this talk\, Valmont Layne share some of the opportunities and challenges of doing this work\, and will reflect on the possible implications for new epistemic engagements with the postcolonial city drawing on literatures on affect and on sound studies.\nWHEN: Thursday\, 23 August 2018\nTIME: 13:00-14:00\nVENUE: Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Science Buildings\, Upper Campus\, UCT
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/urban-humanities-seminar-series-valmont-layne-auditing-vernacular-cape-town-sonic-city/
LOCATION:Studio 3
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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ORGANIZER;CN="African Centre for Cities":MAILTO:accurbanconference@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180802T010000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20181115T163000
DTSTAMP:20260414T064630
CREATED:20180801T132654Z
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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://nervous-rhodes.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:20180417T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180417T140000
DTSTAMP:20260414T064630
CREATED:20180403T103457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180416T091307Z
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SUMMARY:ACC Brown Bag: Taken for a Ride by Matteo Rizzo
DESCRIPTION:Join ACC on Tuesday\, 17 April at 13:00 in Studio 3 in the Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building on Upper Campus for the second talk in a series of Brown-bag seminars. Matteo Rizzo will be discussing themes emerging from his latest book Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism\, Precarious Labour\, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis. \nHow does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism? Who has the power to influence its changing shape over time? What does it mean to be a precarious and informal worker in the private minibuses that provide such transport in Dar es Salaam? These are some of the main questions that inform Rizzo’s in-depth case study of Dar es Salaam’s public transport system over more than forty years.\nAccording to the author Taken for a Ride “is an interdisciplinary political economy of public transport\, exposing the limitations of market fundamentalist and postcolonial approaches to the study of economic informality\, the urban experience in developing countries\, and their failure to locate the agency of the urban poor within their economic and political structures. It is both a contribution to and a call for the contextualized study of neoliberalism.”\nMatteo Rizzo is a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at SOAS\, University of London. Matteo has degrees in Political Sciences from “Orientale”(Naples\, Italy)  and Development Studies and History from SOAS (MSc and PhD)\, where he also completed an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship. Matteo has taught at the LSE\, at the African Studies Centre in Oxford and in Cambridge\, where he was a Smuts Research Fellow in African Studies at the Centre of African Studies. Matteo is a member of the Editorial Working Group of the Review of African Political Economy\nand works on public transport for the International Transport Workers Federation.\nTaken for a Ride will be available for purchase at the Brown-bag session for a special price at only R250. Please bring along cash if you wish to purchase the book.\n 
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/acc-brown-bag-taken-ride-matteo-rizzo/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, Upper Campus\, UCT\,\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180308T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180308T143000
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SUMMARY:ACC BROWNBAG Future Foreshore: are affordable housing and lowered freeways possible?
DESCRIPTION:Join ACC on Thursday\, 8 March at 13:00 for the first in a series of Brownbag seminars. The hot topic of discussion is the winning bid for the redevelopment of the Foreshore Freeway Precinct\, Cape Town.\nSPEAKERS\nLisa Kane\nKane is a Honorary Research Associate with the Centre for Transport Studies at UCT and co-founder and board member of Open Streets\, Cape Town. Her PhD thesis considered the history and politics of engineering of the Foreshore freeway projects from its initiation to the 1980s\, and how that period has informed current thinking around road engineering in South Africa.\nRob McGaffin\nMcGaffin is a town planner and land economist.  He has worked as town planner with the City of Cape Town and the Gauteng Department of Economic Development\, and in property finance at several financial institutions. He was a Mistra Urban Futures Researcher with the ACC. He lectures in the Department of Construction Economics and Management at the University of Cape Town and is a founding member of the UCT – Nedbank Urban Real Estate Research Unit.\nCHAIR\nVanessa Watson\nWHEN: Thursday\, 8 March 2018\nTIME: 13:00 to 14:30\nVENUE: Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/acc-brownbag-future-foreshore-affordable-housing-lowered-freeways-possible/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180129T124500
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180129T140000
DTSTAMP:20260414T064630
CREATED:20180128T100122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240602T100517Z
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SUMMARY:Friction in the Creative City: The Case of Bandung\, Indonesia
DESCRIPTION:Join the African Centre for Cities for a Brownbag session on 29 January 2018 from 12:45 to 14:00 by Christiaan De Beukelaer on “Friction in the Creative City: The Case of Bandung\, Indonesia” hosted in Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town.\nSince the foundation of the Bandung Creative City Forum (BCCF) in 2008\, the city of Bandung\, capital of West Java has started referring to itself as an ‘emerging creative city’. Because of the significant role BCCF\, a civil society organisation\, played in developing this strategy\, Bandung relied far less on top-down\, consultant-driven strategies than most ‘creative cities’. While their largely bottom-up engagement with the ‘creative city script’ was well-received\, the practical execution of their ideas poses challenges in terms of negotiating priorities and strategies. The implementation became more complex and complicated when Ridwan Kamil\, BCCF’s first director\, was elected Mayor in 2013. The ensuing tensions concealed two important questions: What is the creative city? How to execute creative city strategies? Rather than engaging with these unspoken questions\, Bandung has become a creative city of many definitions and strategies\, while maintaining its singular brand. I explain the ensuing ‘friction’ (Tsing 2005) in two overlapping ways. First\, I contrast two notions of the creative city by building on the work of geographer Oli Mould. His book Urban Subversion and the Creative City distinguishes the uppercase ‘Creative City’ (the mainstream understanding of the term) – and the lowercase ‘creative city’ (the more grounded\, subversive understanding of the term). Second\, I build on the work of geographer Jamie Peck\, who critiques the global flow of ‘policy-fixes’ as being prone to becoming ‘fast policy’ (often captured in buzzwords)\, which inevitably collides with ‘slow policy’ of existing bureaucracies and power structures.\n \nMore on the speaker and respondent:\nChristiaan De Beukelaer is a Lecturer in Cultural Policy at the University of Melbourne. He obtained a PhD from the University of Leeds and holds degrees in development studies (MSc\, Leuven)\, cultural studies (MA\, Leuven)\, and musicology (BA\, Amsterdam). He won the 2012 Cultural Policy Research Award\, which resulted in the book Developing Cultural Industries: Learning From the Palimpsest of Practice (European Cultural Foundation\, 2015). He co-edited the book Globalization\, Culture\, and development: The UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2015\, with Miikka Pyykkönen and JP Singh)\, and a special issue on Cultural Policy for Sustainable Development for the International Journal of Cultural Policy (2017\, 23(2)\, with Anita Kangas and Nancy Duxbury). He is now working on the book Global Cultural Economy (co-authored with Kim-Marie Spence\, forthcoming with Routledge).\nLaura Nkula-Wenz is an urban geographer with a keen interest in postcolonial urban theory\, African urbanism and culture. Her research focuses on the transformation of urban governance and the construction of local political agency\, as well as the diverse relationships between cultural production and urban change. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Münster/Germany\, where she also completed a degree in Human Geography\, Communication Studies and Political Science. Laura recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Pôle de recherche pour l’organisation et la diffusion de l’information géographique (Prodig) in Paris and currently works on the Critical Urbanism Masters at the African Centre for Cities (UCT\, in cooperation with the University of Basel).
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/friction-creative-city-case-bandung-indonesia/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, Upper Campus\, UCT\,\, Cape Town\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20161212T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20161212T140000
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SUMMARY:Tackling Lighting Inequalities
DESCRIPTION:Tackling Lighting Inequalities: About Urban Lighting\, Design and ‘the Social’\nThe ACC is excited to introduce Mona Sloane\, a visiting scholar for the London School of Economics and Politics. Mona will be presenting her work on ‘Configuring Light/Staging the Social’\, a research programme she founded at the LSE at the final brown bag of 2016.\nAbout the topic:\nLight is central to how people experience and use city spaces\, and to how urban systems operate. Through light\, we carve out spaces for social life. Light impacts on the public space in the crucial hours after dusk\, enabling or problematizing social activity\, economic and commercial development\, security\, safety and public order\, access\, participation and identification with urban public life. Furthermore\, public lighting also has significant cost impacts on local authorities’ budgets while currently undergoing a massive technological revolution which puts it centre stage in a number of urban discussions\, ranging from big data and urban governance\, cutting down economic and environmental costs in relation to climate change and sustainable urban development\, to aesthetics and city branding.\nThis brown bag seminar discusses the of status public lighting and design in the UK and in London specifically. It outlines how public lighting is a barometer of developing socio-spatial inequalities in the urban context and allows rich insight into how urban inequalities are lived out and responded to. The speaker will suggest strategies for responding to these challenges.\nAbout the Speaker:\nMona Sloane is a visiting academic at the ACC and a final-year PhD student in the LSE Department of Sociology. She is an ethnographer and works and publishes on the sociology of design\, material culture\, aesthetics and cultural economy as well as lighting design and public space. She holds an LSE PhD scholarship\, an MSc in Sociology from the LSE and a BA in Communication and Cultural Management from Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen. She also is co-founder and former member of the LSE-based research programme Configuring Light/Staging the Social which explores the role of light and lighting in everyday life and urban design.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/tackling-lighting-inequalities/
LOCATION:African Centre for Cities\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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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://nervous-rhodes.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:20151026T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151026T140000
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SUMMARY:Social Justice Coalition Panel
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URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/social-justice-coalition-panel/
LOCATION:African Centre for Cities\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151020T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151020T140000
DTSTAMP:20260414T064630
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SUMMARY:BROWN BAG POSTPONED: Dwelling on the edge of Ulaanbaatar\, Mongolia
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE THIS BROWN BAG HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE AS UCT STUDENTS ARE PROTESTING FOR FAIR FEES.\nIn this brown bag\, Dr Rick Miller will be giving a talk on informal settlements in Mongolia.\nOverview\nThis talk will begin by introducing informal settlement in Ulaanbaatar – the ‘ger districts’. I will start by noting how Mongolia’s forms of informality are unique\, with the actual housing type of the ger being an accepted and even valorized emblem of domesticity\, and the ger district settlement pattern itself  pre-dating much of the core\, fixed structures of the city.  But Mongolia-specific characteristics aside\, the issues of informal settlement in Ulaanbaatar may still provide a more generalizable model for extending urbanization in other cities struggling to house their citizenry\, particularly for recalibrating legal regimes for making informality part of a solution to housing.\nBio\nRick Miller’s approach to studying informal settlements across cities of the developing world is informed by his training as both an architect and a social scientist.  Rick is a travelling faculty member of the School for International Training program on Cities in the 21st Century and a lecturer in the Department of Geography at UCLA\, from which he received his PhD.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/dwelling-on-the-edge-of-ulaanbaatar-mongolia/
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Environmental & Geographical Sciences Building\, UCT Upper Campus
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151005T140000
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SUMMARY:Contested Cartographies: Remapping Cape  Town
DESCRIPTION:In this brown bag\, Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk will introduce a working concept for new ways of understanding Cape Town.\nOverview:\nThis concept presentation considers the mapping\, naming\, routing\, disambiguations\, planning\, and compartmentalising of contemporary Cape Town. Using as a basis the idea of an atlas containing multiple maps of the city\, this project considers expansions\, degradings\, mergings and rendings that have transformed the city over time not only from a spatial perspective\, but also culturally. How are people ‘emplaced’ in the city? What does the city look like to people based upon their distinct cultural belongings? What lies beneath our feet and flies above our heads?\nThis concept is both multi- and trans-disciplinary\, bringing together social scientists working in urban studies\, activists\, artists\, and writers to re-think the way the city looks to those who live in it\, to lift the map off the surface of the page and re-form it.\nAbout the speaker:\nIan-Malcolm Rijsdijk is a senior lecturer in the Centre for Film and Media Studies\, and director of the African Cinema Unit at the University of Cape Town. He has published widely on the filmmaker Terrence Malick (the subject of his PhD)\, as well as South African film\, wildlife documentary and literary fiction. He is currently working on early South African cinema and film cultures in South Africa. As Director of the African Cinema Unit\, he teaches in the MA in African Cinema and is also involved in developing postgraduate scholarship in African and South African screen studies. He is also a member of the Environmental Humanities South research program at the University of Cape Town. In 2013\, he received a Distinguished Teacher’s Award from the University of Cape Town\, and in 2014 a National Excellence in Teaching award from the Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association of South Africa. He is a fanatical birder and registered at lasser with the South African Bird Atlas project. One day he would like to see a Wandering Albatross.\n 
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/remapping-cape-town-ian-rijsdijk/
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Environmental & Geographical Sciences Building\, UCT Upper Campus
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150917T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150917T140000
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SUMMARY:DALI project (DFID land based financing)
DESCRIPTION:Ian Palmer and Stephen Berrisford will share an overview of the key findings of the DFID land based financing project\, focussing on land value capture and infrastructure finance in Sub-Saharan Africa.\nOverview:\nThe rapid growth of African Cities brings with it a burgeoning demand for infrastructure. But the finance available to cities to build this infrastructure is constrained. Therefore opportunities offered by land-based financing are most important. A team based at the African Centre for Cities has recently completed a significant research project on this topic for the UK Department for International Development.  The findings from this research will provide the primary input for this brownbag session\, which will deal with the nature of urban infrastructure\, the institutions involved in providing infrastructure\, an overview of capital financing options and specific opportunities for using land-based finance. It will also touch on the role of property developers in providing and/or financing infrastructure\, the role of cities in raising finance associated with property developments and associated policy considerations.  Findings from case studies conducted in Ethiopia\, Kenya and Zimbabwe will also be reflected in the presentation.\nBios:\nStephen Berrisford is an independent consultant working in the field of urban planning law and policy in Southern Africa. He holds BA LLB and MCRP degrees from UCT and an MPhil in Land Economy from the University of Cambridge. Prior to establishing Stephen Berrisford Consulting in 2000 he held the post of Director: Land Development Facilitation at the national Department of Land Affairs and before that worked in the planning departments of the Cape Town and Johannesburg municipalities. During 2010 he was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Sheffield. His clients include the major international development agencies as well as all three spheres of government in South Africa. Stephen’s work focuses on the identification of practical and just legal solutions to the challenges of rapid urban growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has regularly published academic articles and book chapters since 1996 and has presented papers at a wide range of international conferences.\nIan Palmer is a founding partner of Palmer Development Group (PDG). PDG is a leading consultancy in South Africa in the field of municipal services policy\, research\, strategy and management. He has 37 years experience in the fields of civil engineering and development. Over the last 25 years\, 19 of which he has been the managing partner and then managing director of PDG\, he has been the team leader on over 100 projects in the realm of public sector service delivery including the fields of: municipal services planning\, municipal finance\, inter-governmental relations\, water and sanitation\, housing\, roads and public transport. He has degrees in civil engineering\, economics and environmental engineering. Ian is also an Adjunct Professor at UCT attached to the African Centre for Cities.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/dali-project-dfid-land-based-financing/
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Environmental & Geographical Sciences Building\, UCT Upper Campus
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150422T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150422T143000
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SUMMARY:Josh Palfreman: Waste Ventures in East Africa
DESCRIPTION: Waste Ventures in East Africa: a critical examination of the science\, collection models and innovative technologies being employed by urban planners in Kenya and Tanzania\n\n\nIn this Brownbag\, Josh Palfreman will be reflecting on the science\, collection models and innovative technologies being employed by urban planners in Kenya and Tanzania in an effort to manage solid waste.\n\n\nAbstract:\n\nJosh Palfreman takes a market systems approach to develop a deeper understanding of solid waste management in Mombasa\, Kenya and Dar es Salaam\, Tanzania.  His presentation will provide insight into a waste characterization study. This study was conducted to underpin the formulation of strategic waste management policy\, geospatial analysis and scientific research to map formal and informal waste management stakeholders.  It further brings to attention how action research is used to support innovation and entrepreneurship in municipal solid waste collection models while piloting various technologies designed\, manufactured and maintained in East Africa that are tailored to local skill sets and infrastructure\, to enhance waste collection and recovery operations across the region. \n\n \nBiography:\nJoshua Palfreman is an urban planning and waste management professional with over six years of experience in East Africa. In 2009\, he founded WASTEDAR\, an NGO providing waste management services in Tanzania. Palfreman currently provides technical assistance to DFID on waste management programmes run by the development arm in Kenya and has recently published works relating to waste pickers and innovative collection models tailored to developing world waste characteristics and resources; work that will feature in this year’s Fifteenth International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium in Sardinia\, Italy.\n 
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/reflections-on-youth-employment-and-waste-management-the-case-of-mombasa-kenya/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150324T010000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150324T140000
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SUMMARY:The Housing Affordability Challenge: What Are the Questions?
DESCRIPTION:In this Brownbag presentation\, Dr Robert Buckley will be presenting on ‘The Housing Affordability Challenge: What Are the Questions?’\nAbstract\nIn the past few years\, sixteen developing countries have mounted multi-billion-dollar urban subsidy programs. Unfortunately\, as currently structured\, very few of these programs will help address the housing challenges faced by cities. They are deeply flawed even if they come with support from leading think tanks such as the McKinsey Global Institute and from foreign advisors and investors. They often repeat the now severely criticized approaches pursued by OECD countries in the early post–World War II years\, when a similar moment in urban policy arose. Participants at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Conference Center discussed the proposed approaches as well as why it is perhaps not surprising that few foreign investors take any of the risks inherent in plans to reshape the cities of the developing world.\nBiography\nBob Buckley is a senior fellow in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School. Previously\, he was an advisor and managing director at the Rockefeller Foundation\, and lead economist at the World Bank. Buckley’s work at both the foundation and the World Bank focused largely on issues relating to urbanization in developing countries. He is particularly interested in the policy issues related to slum formation and approaches to dealing with them (see more here).\n 
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/housing-affordability-challenge-questions/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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