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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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DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180129T140000
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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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DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20161128T140000
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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
DTSTAMP:20260414T120745
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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:20260414T120745
CREATED:20151013T093424Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151005T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151005T140000
DTSTAMP:20260414T120745
CREATED:20150916T094510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T094156Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260414T120745
CREATED:20150902T075016Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260414T120745
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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
DTSTAMP:20260414T120745
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141204T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141204T140000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED!! Speculative Design Ecologies: exploring relations between humans\, non-humans\, and artificial systems
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE\n\nSpeakers: Dr. Martín Ávila (Design for Sustainable Development at Konstfack Art and Design Institute in Stockholm) and Dr. Henrik Ernstson (African Centre for Cities\, University of Cape Town & KTH Environmental Humanities\, Division of History of Science\, Technology and Environment\, KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, Stockholm).\n\n  \n\nBased in the emergent practices around speculative design\, the seminar will depart from Dr. Martín Ávila’s thesis “Devices” that explored the notion of hospitality and hostility in design ecologies\, i.e. the assemblages between human and non-human agents that have emergent properties which we cannot fully control. This will lead into a discussion of the present project “Tactical Symbiotics”  to which Dr. Henrik Ernstson is also contributing. The  project Tactical Symbiotics searches for tactics that can reinforce the interdependence between cultural and biological variation and diversity through cooperation and/or togetherness between humans and non-humans.\n\nMove beyond the comfort zone: three speculative designs\nDuring 2014\, Dr. Ávila has worked in Argentina and developed three sub-projects called Doomestics\, Dispersal Machines\, and Spices/Species. These projects  are organized around questions such as: What if individual households would become parts of a decentred industry that capitalises on humans’ negative emotions to certain animals? What if agricultural machines would maintain the diversity of local ecosystems\, helping birds and insects pollinate and fertilize\, while producing food for humans? What if we could develop affection for insects and parasitoids that participate in the lifecycles of domestic plants? The projects are design-driven and uses speculative philosophy to make explicit alternative versions of the present or near future. By focusing on relations between humans and natural-artificial systems\, the projects strives to de-centre anthropocentric viewpoints to become a platform from which to provoke a possibility to reimagine everyday life.\nDoomestics work with the tension established by the ecological need (if we are to maintain biological diversity) to cohabit with beings that are perceived as dangerous\, undesirable or disgusting. Among them\, spiders\, scorpions and bats\, to name a few. The project stages a series of products that make these beings visible and integrate them in different ways to everyday urban life. Dispersal Machines proposes interventions in agricultural systems that most humans have no direct relationship to. This project conceives machines that complement\, supplement and/or maintain the activities of beings that participate in different natural processes such as the dispersion of seeds or pollen\, or the secretion of nutrients to the soil. Spices/Species addresses an intimate level of human relationship with nonhuman beings. This concerns plants eaten as food or used for medicinal purposes and the ecosystem functions they perform through forms of symbioses with\, for example\, insects and parasitoids.\nThe projects sketch and engage a diversity of responses that range from the intimate\, to completely detached human-nonhuman relations. They still have in common that they affect the diversity of\, and our relationship to\, urban and agro-ecosystems. By confronting us with alternative realities—and alternative emotions\, feelings and shivers—the project aims to open up new\, and perhaps surprising ethical and moral dimensions to revalue and re-evaluate our present relations with non-humans.\n \n\nThe project strives to formulate a different response to our planetary ecological crisis than those strategies that often sort under terms like “ecosystem services” or “natural resources”. One inspiration for the project can be found in how Michel De Certeau spoke of tactics as practices that evade strategies of power. The seminar will present underlying theory and practical design projects.\n\n—-\n\n\nMartín Avila is a Researcher\, and Senior Lecturer in Design for Sustainable Development at Konstfack in Stockholm\, Sweden. Martin obtained a PhD in design from HDK (School of Design and Crafts) in Gothenburg\, Sweden\, and has published his thesis entitled Devices. On Hospitality\, Hostility and Design (2012). The PhD work was awarded the 2012 prize for design research by the The Swedish Faculty for Design Research and Research Education. Currently working (2013-2016) on a postdoctoral project financed by the Swedish Research Council: Symbiotic tactics. Design interventions for understanding and sensitizing to ecological complexity.\n \n 
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/speculative-design-ecologies/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141126T130000
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SUMMARY:Sanitation politics in Mumbai and Cape Town
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Colin McFarlane and Jonathan Silver will reflect on  their past work in Mumbai and their new research on the politicisation of sanitation in Cape Town\, with particular reference to the ‘poo protests’.\nColin will reflect on his work in the politics of sanitation in Mumbai’s informal settlements. He will draw out some key processes through which sanitation is organised in Mumbai\, and the politics around that\, as well highlighting some of the theoretical challenges the research presented for thinking about infrastructure and other strands of urban theory.\n \nHe will also briefly reflect on emerging work on the politics of sanitation in Cape Town. Their aim is to deepen understanding of how sanitation is politicised in cities\, and to contribute to debate and ongoing work on sanitation politics in Cape Town. The objectives are to: examine why and how the ‘poo protests’ emerged in Cape Town; investigate why they took the form that they did; and contextualise the protests in the wider debates about service delivery\, urban politics\, and social justice in Cape Town.  They will conduct the research through interviews with a range of relevant actors including residents\, civil society groups\, municipal officials\, academics and political parties. The research builds on McFarlane’s work in India on the politics of urban sanitation\, and Silver’s work on the politics of urban infrastructure in South Africa. These previous research projects examined often ignored everyday experiences of sanitation and infrastructure and used the findings in discussions with municipal officials and civil society groups.\nColin McFarlane is an urban geographer whose work focusses on the experience and politics of informal neighbourhoods. This has involved research into the relations between informality\, infrastructure and knowledge in urban India and elsewhere. A key part of this has been a focus on the experience and politics of sanitation in informal settlements in Mumbai\, which was part of an Economic and Social Research Council ethnographic project on the everyday cultures and contested politics of sanitation and water in two informal settlements. His current work examines the politicisation of informal neighbourhoods in comparative perspective\, including African and South Asian cities.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/sanitation-politics-cape-town/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141017T010000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141017T140000
DTSTAMP:20260414T120745
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SUMMARY:Wake up\, this is Joburg!!!
DESCRIPTION:WAKE UP\, THIS IS JOBURG: ORDINARY TO OUTRAGEOUS ETHNOGRAPHIES OF URBAN LIFE\, is a series of ten photobooks by Tanya Zack and Mark Lewis about the city we hate to love but do anyway. Wake up\, this is Joburg tells the stories of ten ordinary\, interesting\, odd or outrageous denizens of the city of Johannesburg.\nThe series is published by Fourthwall Books (www.fourthwallbooks.com or www.facebook.com/fourthwallbooks). Note:  A limited number of the four titles will be available for sale at the Brown Bag at R150 each\, cash only.\nTanya Zack will talk to some of the stories of intersections of particular lives\, livelihoods and spaces that make up the first four titles in this series. These are:\nSkop: S’kop  takes readers into a disused parking garage in the inner city\, where cow heads are being chopped. It explores the informal business of chopping cow heads the stories of ‘the butchers and traders and entrepreneurs who have made this business uniquely theirs\, speak of the hardships of their work in the meat trade and the occasional rewards of making it on their own.\nZola: Under the Mooi Street off-ramp is an overflow rank for taxis waiting between peak hours to ferry people between the inner city and Zola\, Soweto. Here entrepreneurs cater all day to the needs of drivers from an array of mobile and stationary stalls\, selling food and snacks\, socks\, window wipers\, mobile phone attachments and bumper stickers with messages like ‘You also drive like shit so fuck off’.\nTony Dreams in Yellow and Blue: In the nondescript working class suburb of Turffontein\, which has always hosted migrants\, a restless outsider artist is at work transforming his home into a veritable castle of lights\, turrets\, murals\, manikins and stairways. He is an obsessive collector of ‘waste’\, but also an entrepreneur whose property is home to 17 rent-paying households.\nInside Out: This is a story of low-end globalisation—of food and other commodities traded and retailed informally across South Africa’s borders by people using the same principles as multinationals\, but with no formal credit or banking facilities.\n \nTanya Zack is a town planner. Her major areas of focus have been in housing research and policy development\, community participation and evaluation of large scale development projects. She has worked within local government and as a private consultant\, both on policy work and in practical projects. She has a close relationship to Wits University where she obtained a PhD for work on critical pragmatism in planning. Tanya grew up in the inner city suburbs of Johannesburg.Her current interest is in the narratives of entrepreneurs working in the Johannesburg CBD.\nImage credit: Mark Lewis
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/wake-joburg-ordinary-outrageous-ethnographies-urban-life/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141008T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141008T140000
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SUMMARY:Complicit masculinity on the African urban periphery
DESCRIPTION:In her talk titled “Entrepreneurs and consumers: complicit masculinity on the African urban periphery”\, Dr Jordanna Matlon will explore the relationship between masculinity and work in the double context of protracted economic and political crisis in Abidjan\, Côte d’Ivoire. She draws on participant observation fieldwork and interviews with men in Abidjan’s informal sector from 2008 to 2009\, and is supplemented by visual data. Ivoirian men who engage in informal activities overwhelmingly claim that they cannot be viable marriage partners\, and are thus incapable of achieving adult masculinity. “I examine two groups of men: political propagandists (orators) and mobile street vendors\, to understand how men affirm themselves in the absence of steady and dignifying work”\, she says. Both groups rejected the wage-earning working ideal as “Francophone” and asserted alternative modalities of economic participation as “Anglophone” men: entrepreneurs or consumers. Orators used ties to President Laurent Gbagbo’s political regime to secure livelihoods and pursue entrepreneurial identities. Vendors bypassed the state and asserted consumerist models of black masculinity from across the African diaspora. I employ “complicit masculinity” to examine how a relationship to capital mediates masculine identity. In doing so I demonstrate how men’s desires to counter gendered socioeconomic exclusion generate consent toneoliberal capitalism.\nAbout the speaker\nJordanna Matlon is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse and received her doctorate in Sociology from UC Berkeley in 2012. She uses participant observation\, interviews and visual analysis to study the livelihoods and lifestyles of men in Abidjan\, Côte d’Ivoire’s informal economy.  More generally\, she is interested in questions of race and belonging in Africa and the African diaspora\, and the ways “blackness” as a signifier – and in its intersection with gender\, class\, and national identity – illuminates understandings of popular culture\, postcoloniality and neoliberalism in the contemporary city. Jordanna’s work has appeared in Antipode\, Contexts\, Ethnography and Poetics\, among other places\, and she is currently preparing her book manuscript\, tentatively titled “I will be VIP!”: Masculinity\, Modernity and Crisis on the Neoliberal Periphery.\n \nVideo abstract:\nhttp://antipodefoundation.org/2014/02/17/narratives-of-modernity-masculinity-and-citizenship/
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/entrepreneurs-consumers-complicit-masculinity-african-urban-periphery/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140917T130000
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SUMMARY:Streets can be more than they are: Exploring Open Streets
DESCRIPTION:Open Streets Cape Town\, despite its short existence\, has succeeded in capturing the imagination of many local residents.\nWith origins in Bogota Colombia in the mid 1970s\, “Open Streets” has become a global movement with increased growth in the past five years. Tactics to explore and reclaim public space are central to the Open Streets philosophy. However\, tactics must be shifted and changed given the location and context. It is in this spirit that this talk will discuss the nature of Open Streets in other cities\, what has been possible in Cape Town to date\, future visions for the Cape Town Open Streets\, and what type of impact the programme\, and similar programmes\, can aim to have in terms of social development\, urban planning and economic opportunity.\nThe discussion will be reflective in nature addressing critical questions such as how can a powerful event translate into a lifestyle? how can it address conflicting uses of the street? and how can it genuinely bridge the spatial divide of our city?\nAbout the Speakers\nMarcela Guerrero Casas was born and raised in Bogota\, Colombia\, Marcela Guerrero Casas is passionate about cities and public space. Marcela holds a Masters in Public Administration and International Affairs from Syracuse University and has worked in policy and advocacy for almost ten years. Marcela moved to Johannesburg in 2006 and worked in Zimbabwe\, Swaziland and Kenya before moving permanently to Cape Town in 2011. In 2012\, Marcela co-founded Open Streets\, a citizen-led organization working to transform how streets are perceived\, utilized and experienced. Marcela is also a co-founder of SUR Collective\, a platform for cultural exchange between Latin American and Sub-Saharan African countries and is currently a contributor to the African Centre for Cities’ Serious Fun.\nDiana Sanchez-Betancourt is a senior researcher at the HSRC. She holds an MA in social sciences from Uppsala Universitet in Sweden and a BA degree in political science and international relations from Universidad Externado in Colombia. She is currently a World Social Sciences Fellow on Sustainable Urbanisation (2013-2015).Her research is trans-disciplinary and her main areas of interest include sustainable urbanisation\, citizen engagement\, social cohesion and collaborative work with Latin America. Amongst other projects Diana coordinates a cross-regional Learning Alliance on citizen engagement and oversight under the international ELLA (Evidence and Lessons from Latin America) programme\, and a study on citizen engagement in the sphere of local government within the Cities Support Programme led by National Treasury. Her most recent work\, to be published\, explores the relationship between public spaces\, social integration and sustainable urbanisation in Cape Town\, where she is also an activist and volunteer around these issues.\n 
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/streets-can-exploring-open-steets/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140813T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140813T140000
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SUMMARY:Cape Town’s new Development Charges Policy for Engineering Services
DESCRIPTION:The City of Cape Town has recently approved a new Development Charges Policy for Engineering Services.  This policy pins down some vexing questions.  \nWhen land use intensifies the municipality has to increase its infrastructure networks to accommodate the increased demand for services.  There is always a cost to the city\, but who should cover that cost: the developer or the body of ratepayers as a whole?  How should the municipality calculate that amount?  Should socially beneficial land use changes\, like low-income housing have to pay the same as land use changes that are commercially driven?  Should there be a different method of calculating this amount for small or emerging businesses as opposed to big businesses?  Why can’t the costs of extending the infrastructure networks be covered through monthly tariffs for the different services?\nNick Graham and Stephen Berrisford have been part of the professional team\, headed by AECOM\, drafting the new policy for the City of Cape Town.  They are also working on the National Treasury’s process to develop national law and policy on the subject.  They will share their experiences at the ACC’s Brown Bag session and explain the rationale behind the new policy as well as identify some of the implications for the city of the new approach.\nNick Graham is a Director at PDG\, responsible for the Urban Systems Practice Area. He is an urban geographer and registered professional engineer with Masters degrees in civil engineering\, environmental policy and urban geography.\nStephen Berrisford is an independent consultant specialising in the legal and policy frameworks governing urban land and development. He is trained as a lawyer and urban planner\, with degrees from the Universities of Cape Town and Cambridge. He works primarily in southern and eastern Africa as well as on global initiatives for agencies such as UN-Habitat\, Cities Alliance and the World Bank. Stephen is an adjunct associate professor at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town and visiting professor at the University of the Witwatersrand. He was the governance coordinator for the Urban Land Markets Programme Southern Africa (Urban LandMark)\, a UK aid-funded think tank focused on making urban land markets in southern Africa work better for the poor.\nImage credit: Barry Christianson
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/someones-got-pay-background-city-cape-towns-new-development-charges-policy-engineering-services/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140625T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140625T140000
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SUMMARY:Ronald Wall: Investment flows into African & European cities
DESCRIPTION:In his talk “South Rising? Exploring ten years of investment flows into African and European countries and cities” Ronald Wall compares ten years of investment flows into African and European countries and cities and also shows which social\, economic and spatial location factors are important for attracting these investments and how these differ across the two  regions. Wall includes GIS mapping of the networks and econometric results in his analysis. This will be followed by a discussion on how African cities could use this type of knowledge for development strategies.\n \nAbout the Speaker\nRonald Wall is an economic geographer and urban planner who has worked for various urban planning offices\, governmental organizations and academic institutions. He is head of the economic geography department at the IHS / Erasmus University Rotterdam\, The Netherlands. He specializes in economic network analysis e.g trade and investment flows between cities. Wall has worked on projects in Africa\, The Middle East\, Asia\, Latin America\, and Europe. Over the past 15 years\, the central focus of his work has been the development of resilient urban planning based on interdisciplinary collaboration and by understanding the local\, regional and global network characteristics of cities. He has worked with architects\, scientists\, policymakers and academics – and  won various architectural prizes\, been awarded several research grants and published in leading journals. Wall  lectures at a variety of urban planning and economics schools.\n 
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/south-rising-exploring-ten-years-investment-flows-african-european-countries-cities/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140423T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140423T140000
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SUMMARY:Towards Accessible Urban Areas
DESCRIPTION:Towards Accessible Urban Areas for Persons with Disabilities: Over 600 million people\, approximately 10% of the world’s population\, have some type of a disability. In developing countries\, due to the two fold correlation between disability and poverty\, up to 20% of the population has a disability. Due to structural\, environmental and attitudinal barriers they continue to face\, persons with disabilities are often prevented from fully participating in the economic and social life\, leading to their further impoverishment. Amidst a wide array of tools used to enable the full participation in the society of persons with disabilities\, accessibility and universal design are of significant importance when it comes to urban planning. This presentation focuses on transport and infrastructure within the urban setting\, and aims to further the understanding of the mobility and access issues experienced by persons with disabilities in developing countries\, and to identify specific steps that can be taken to start addressing problems.\nAbout the speaker\nMaša Anišić is a doctoral candidate at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Italy. Her doctoral thesis examines the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the impact of its innovative architecture on the stronger social\, economic and cultural rights fulfillment for persons with disabilities.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/towards-accessible-urban-areas-persons-disabilities/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140402T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140402T140000
DTSTAMP:20260414T120745
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SUMMARY:Policy & Governance Contexts for Scalable Community-Led Slum Upgrading
DESCRIPTION:The presentation first addresses the policy and governance contexts for the scalability of community-led slum upgrading based on the Shack/Slum Dweller International methodology. The methodology is based on that of the Indian Alliance (NSDF\, Mahila Milan\, SPARC)\, which comprises community-based organizations and NGOs\, in partnership with government\, delivering municipal services\, securing tenure and promoting slum upgrading. The presentation continues with the role of the Pune and Mumbai community-led toilet block precedents in South-South knowledge exchange.\nAbout the speaker\nRichard Tomlinson is Chair in Urban Planning in the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. Before going to Australia he served as an urban policy consultant in Southern Africa and as an academic in South Africa and the USA. His clients included the post-apartheid South African government\, and provincial and local governments\, The World Bank\, USAID\, UN Habitat international and local NGOs\, and also the private sector. As an academic he has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand and Columbia University\, as a Visiting Scholar and SPURS Fellow at MIT\, and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution. His most recent publications\, research and teaching concern the effects of Google and social media on urban policy knowledge products; urban policy processes and ‘international best practice’; slum upgrading; the BRICS and the urban legacy of sports mega events; and housing and the Australian city. His most recent book is an edited publication on Australia’s Unintended Cities: The Impact of Housing on Urban Development.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/policy-governance-contexts-scalable-community-led-slum-upgrading/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140304T130000
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SUMMARY:City governance in new authoritarian states
DESCRIPTION:The Case for Luanda\nMany states in Africa have been formally democratic since the 1990s and in terms of their institutional landscape\, look like electoral democracies\, with constitutions\, elections\, parliaments\, courts\, local governments\, private media and civic associations. Yet\, in practice these institutions may not operate under the kind of political freedom and legal security that can be found in liberal electoral democracies. In spite of a growing literature on the workings of this type of ‘new authoritarianism’\, there is little work on how the nature of such regimes in Africa translates to city governance. On the other hand\, few studies of African cities incorporate political regime theory in their analyses. As a result\, they are often either overly pessimistic or too optimistic with regard to the role of local governments and civil society in city governance. Based on a discussion of the role of the Angolan government and ruling party in the planning and governance of the capital city of Luanda\, this presentation argues in favour of a more grounded understanding of the African city.\nAbout the Speaker
\nSylvia Croese is a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University. Her PhD thesis\, entitled Post-war state-led development at work in Angola. The Zango housing project in Luanda as a case study\, looked into the ways in which distributive policies such as housing are used to contribute to regime legitimacy and survival in the city of Luanda\, thereby bringing together two theoretical bodies of work: one on political regimes and one centred around urban studies in Africa. Her current research further examines how governments that are formally democratic\, but authoritarian in practice manage their rapidly growing cities and how this in turn affects city dwellers’ perceptions of and engagements with the state.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/city-governance-new-authoritarian-states-case-luanda/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
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