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SUMMARY:Launch: CLAIMS to Energy Citizenship in South Africa
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Cities (ACC)\, in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen invite you to the public launch of the CLAIMS to Energy Citizenship project. The launch will take place under the theme “Infrastructure’s Transitions”\, where the project team will share the project overview\, structure and direction.\nCLAIMS to Energy Citizenship is a four-year research project funded by the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA). In the context of a contested energy transition\, the project explores claim-making\, citizenship\, and statecraft in Cape Town\, South Africa. The project aims to advance creative and interdisciplinary methods for contributing to thinking related to the politics of infrastructure transitions.\nThirty years after the formation of the post-apartheid state\, a series of global and national transitions are reconfiguring the energy landscape. We present these transitions not as contextual inevitabilities but as social facts that require critical observation and new modes of sense-making.\nThe event is titled Infrastructure’s Transitions as a tribute to Antina von Schnitzler’s influential work\, Democracy’s Infrastructure: Techno-Politics and Protest after Apartheid. This seminal book has inspired scholars across various disciplines to see infrastructure as a site where state-society relations and urban futures are substantiated\, contested\, and performed.\nWHEN | Thursday\, 31 October 2024\nTIME | 3PM – 5PM\nVENUE | Studio 5\, Environmental & Geographical Science Bld. UCT Upper Campus\nPlease RSVP here
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/claims-launch-2/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental & Geographical Science Bld\, UCT Upper Campus
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20241029T173000
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SUMMARY:Book launch: High Stakes\, High Hopes
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Cities\, University of Georgia Press and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of High Stakes\, High Hopes: Urban Theorizing in Partnership by Sophie Oldfield.\nSophie will be in conversation with Shireen Square\, Valhalla Park resident and Anna Selmeczi\, from the African Centre for Cities.\nHigh Stakes\, High Hopes tracks the building of urban theorizing in a decade-long urban research and teaching partnership in Cape Town\, South Africa. An argument for collaborative urbanism\, this book reflects on what was at stake in the partnership and its creative\, and at times\, conflictive\, evolution. Oldfield explores how research and assessment were reshaped when framed in neighborhood questions and commitments\, and what was reoriented in urban theorizing when community activism and township struggles were recognized as sites of valid knowledge-making.\nWHEN | Tuesday\, 29 October 2024\nTIME | 17H30 – 19H00\nVENUE | The Book Lounge\, 71 Roeland Street\, Cape Town\nPlease RSVP here
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/launch-high-stakes-high-hopes/
LOCATION:The Book Lounge\, 71 Roeland Street\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240718T173000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - Apartheid Remains by Sharad Chari
DESCRIPTION:UKZN Press\, The Book Lounge and the African Centre for Cities invite you to the launch of ‘Apartheid Remains’ by Sharad Chari.\nSharad will be in conversation with Omar Badsha and Caroline Skinner.\nDATE | Thursday\, 18 July 2024\nTIME| 17h30 for 18h00\nVENUE | The Book Lounge\, 71 Roeland Str\, Cape Town\nRSVP | booklounge@gmail.com\nAbout the book:\nIn Apartheid Remains\, Sharad Chari explores how people handle the remains of segregation and apartheid in South Africa as witnessed through portals in an industrial-residential landscape in the Indian Ocean city of Durban. Through long-term historical and ethnographic research\, Chari portrays South Africa’s twentieth century as a palimpsest that conserves the remains of multiple pasts\, including attempts by the racial state to remake territory and personhood while instead deepening spatial contradictions and struggles.\nWhen South Durban’s denizens collectively mobilised in various ways – through Black Consciousness politics and other attempts at refusing the ruinous articulation of biopolitics\, sovereignty and capital – submerged traditions of the Indian Ocean and the Black Atlantic offered them powerful resources. Of these\, Chari reads Black documentary photography as particularly insightful audiovisual blues critique. At the tense interface of Marxism\, feminism and Black study\, he offers a method and form of geography attentive to the spatial and embodied remains of history. Apartheid Remains looks out from South Durban to imaginations of abolition of all forms of racial capitalism and environmental suffering that define our planetary predicament.\nSharad Chari is Associate Professor of Geography and Critical Theory at the University of California\, Berkeley; Research Associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER); and author of Gramsci at Sea and Fraternal Capital: Peasant-Workers\, Self-Made Men\, and Globalization in Provincial India.\nApartheid Remains is published by UKZN Press.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/book-launch-apartheid-remains-by-sharad-chari/
LOCATION:The Book Lounge\, 71 Roeland Street\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230502T163000
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Localizing the SDGs in African Cities
DESCRIPTION:On the first UN Science\, Technology and Innovation in Africa Day\, 2 May 2023\, 15:00 SAST\, the International Science Council together with the African Centre for Cities present this webinar aimed at exploring effective ways of accelerating local action towards the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in African cities.\nBACKGROUND\nThe African continent represents the key hub in the global transition to a predominantly urban world\, with an urban population that is expected to grow threefold by 2050.This unprecedented scale and speed of urbanization comes with new and intensified challenges at the economic\, social\, and environmental level\, which will greatly determine the ways in which cities will grow and develop. If “cities are where the battle for sustainable development will be won or lost”\, the fate of African cities will have major implications for the extent to which the world will be able to achieve globally agreed development goals\, such as the SDGs by the year 2030 and beyond.\nImplementing the SDGs does not take place in a vacuum\, as the way in which global and local processes come together in any location are shaped by local history\, geography\, and politics\, among others. Therefore\, a recognition of both the global and local significance of the role of African cities requires a much better understanding of the nature\, drivers\, and management of urbanization\, not just in the continent’s megacities but also in its vast number of small- and intermediate-sized towns. It also means interrogating our universally defined understandings of what sustainable development means and the ways in which we think it can be achieved and measured in the African (urban) context.\n\nWhat are the barriers and constraints to achieving sustainable urbanization in urban Africa? What are enabling factors and opportunities?\nWhat is the role of local action and actors\, and how can they be advanced?\nWho are the movers and shakers?\nAnd what do we know\, and what do we still need to know\, in order to answer these questions?\n\nThese are the questions that a cohort of African researchers\, several of which are coming from the LIRA 2030 Africa community\, sought to address in the recently published book Localizing the SDGs in African Cities.\nTo launch the book and discuss with authors about their practical experiences of how the SDGs can be adapted to and implemented at the local level in ways that contribute to sustainable urbanization\, the ISC will convene this webinar on 2 May 2023.\nPROGRAMME\nWelcome\n\n\nKatsia Paulavets\, LIRA Programme manager\, International Science Council\n\nOpening remarks\n\nShipra Narang\, Chief\, Urban Practices Branch\, Global Solutions Division\, UN-Habitat\n\nKeynotes\n\nSusan Parnell\, Global Challenges Research Professor in the School of Geography at the University of Bristol and Emeritus Professor at the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town\nSylvia Croese\, Senior Researcher in the School of Architecture and Planning\, University of the Witwatersrand and Research Associate at the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town\n\nSpeakers\n\nKareem Buyana – Researcher at Urban Action Lab (UAL)\, Makerere University Uganda\nSafietou Sanfo – Agricultural Economist\, Senior Scientist at WASCAL/Associate Professor at Université Thomas Sankara\, Ouagadougou\, Burkina Faso\nPeter Elias\, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography\, University of Lagos\, Nigeria\nGilbert Siame\, Associate Professor\, Department of Architecture and Planning Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) andDepartment of Geography & Environmental Studies\, University of Zambia\n\nOpen discussion\nModerated by Katsia Paulavets\nREGISTER HERE
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CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH | theoriSE: debating the southeastern turn in urban theories
DESCRIPTION:African Centre for Cities invites you to the launch of theoriSE: debating the southeastern turn in urban theories\, edited by Oren Yiftachel and Nisa Mammon. This edited volume\, based on contribution to the TheoriSE? Workshop held at the University College London in late 2019\, features contributions by Gautam Bhan\, Mona Fawaz\, Amanda Hammar\, Mona Harb\, Irit Katz\, Colin Marx\, Faranak Miraftab\, Sophie Oldfield\, Catalina Ortiz\, Susan Parnell\, Libby Porter\, Jennifer Robinson\, AbdouMaliq Simone\, Carlos Vainer\, Vanessa Watson\, Tanja Winkler\, Haim Yacobi and Oren Yiftachel.\nThe book is dedicated to lasting memory\, courage\, rigour\, values and friendship of Professor Vanessa Watson\, who was not only a pioneer in Southern urban and planning theory\, but also a leading force in organising the workshop. \nPROGRAMME\n15:30 | Welcome and Introductions – Professor Edgar Pieterse\n15:35 | Editors in Conversation – chaired by Professor Edgar Pieterse\, with Oren Yiftachel and discussants Mona Fawaz and Mona Harb\n16:25 | Open discussion Q&A – chaired by Professor Edgar Pieterse\n16:55 | Closing remarks – Professor Nancy Odendaal\n \nWHEN | Thursday\, 2 March 2023\nTIME | 15:30-17:00\nVENUE | Upper Campus Residence Dining Hall (formerly Smuts Hall)\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town\, Rondebosch\n \nATTENDING IN PERSON?\nRSVP | africancentreforcities@gmail.com\nRefreshments served after the launch.  \n \nATTENDING ONLINE?\nREGISTER HERE\n \n \n \n 
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/book-launch-theorise-debating-the-southeastern-turn-in-urban-theories/
CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH | Disrupted Urbanism: Situated Smart Initiatives in African Cities
DESCRIPTION:African Centre for Cities is delighted to invite you to the launch of Disrupted Urbanism: Situated Smart Initiatives in African Cities by Prof Nancy Odendaal\, Head of Department\, School of Architecture\, Planning and Geomatics\, University of Cape Town (UCT).\nPLEASE NOTE: The venue for this launch has changed to the Baxter Theatre\, Main Road\, Rondebosch\, Cape Town.\nThe ‘smart city’ is often promoted as a technology-driven solution to complex urban issues. While commentators are increasingly critical of techno-optimistic narratives\, the political imagination is dominated by claims that technical solutions can be uniformly applied to intractable problems. Disrupted Urbanism: Situated Smart Initiatives in African Cities by Prof Nancy Odendaal provides a much-needed alternative view\, exploring how ‘homegrown’ digital disruption\, driven and initiated by local actors\, upends the mainstream corporate narrative. Drawing on original research conducted in a range of urban African settings\, Odendaal shows how these initiatives can lead to meaningful change. This is a valuable resource for scholars working at the intersection of science and technology studies\, urban and economic geography and sociology.\nACC Senior Research Liza Rose Cirolia. will be the discussant and ACC Deputy Director Assoc Prof Andrew Tucker will chair the session.\nWHEN | Wednesday\, 22 Feb 2023\nTIME | 15:30-17:00 SAST\nWHERE | Studio Rehearsal Room\, Baxter Theatre\, Main Road\, Rondebosch\, Cape Town. (Please note the updated venue)\nRefreshments served after the launch.\nDisrupted Urbanism: Situated Smart Initiatives in African Cities is published by Bristol University Press.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/book-launch-disrupted-urbanism-situated-smart-initiatives-in-african-cities/
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20221206T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20221206T180000
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SUMMARY:LAUNCHING THE URBAN ACADEMY: Smart cities\, clever urbanism: digitally enabled practices in urban Africa
DESCRIPTION:In 2021 the African Centre for Cities (ACC)\, an action-oriented research hub based at the University of Cape Town and UNITAC\, the result of a partnership between the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)\, the United Nations Office for Information and Communication Technology (UN OICT)\, and the City Science Lab @HafenCity University in Hamburg (CSL)\, initiated a collaborative platform for shared research interests under the banner of the Urban Academy. The collaboration is based on a shared interest in unpacking the intersection of technology\, society\, and cities to examine democratic decision-making\, new models of service delivery\, and the future of work.\nSupported by the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt\, we are delighted to invite you to the official launch of the Urban Academy on the 6 December 2022 that will be facilitated by Nokukhanya Mncwabe\, a human rights consultant who enjoys forming\, implementing and pulling apart policies and projects\, forging friendships across geographies and disciplines\, and being a tourist at home (Africa).\nWHEN | Tuesday\, 6 December 2022\nTIME | 15:00-18:00 SAST\nWHERE | Workshop 17\, 32 Kloof Street\, Gardens\, Cape Town\nRSVP | Please send an email to africancentreforcities@gmail.com\nPanel one: Introducing the Urban Academy: Smart Cities\, Clever Urbanism\nIn the first panel\, partnering directors Edgar Pieterse (ACC) and Gesa Ziemer (UNITAC and City Science Lab) will introduce why thinking about people-centred smartness is important for urban sustainability and justice from their different perspectives.\nPanel two: RISE Cities: Different approaches to make our cities more resilient\, intelligent\, sustainable\, and equitable \nThis interactive panel hosted by RISE Cities explores innovative urban practices in achieving resilient\, intelligent\, sustainable and equitable solutions and the role of responsible leadership. We are happy to invite the following to share their perspectives and facilitate their reflections:\nResilience – Dr Rudi Kimmie\, TSIBA\nIntelligence – Saidah Nash Carter\, Bright Insights Global\nSustainability – Murendi Mafumo\, Kusini Water\nEquity – Brian Green\, Group 44\nPanel three: Young and Online in African Cities: people-centred smartness and urban wellbeing \nIn the third panel we explore tech-enabled ways of making lives in African cities. The following panellists will bring brief reflections into a wider conversation about what it takes to shape research agendas about the role of technology in urban justice. It is also an opportunity to introduce a new collaboration under the Urban Academy\, supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung entitled Young and Online in African Cities.\nRike Sitas – Introduction: Youth in digital city-making\nDaanyaal Loofer – From undersea cables to street corners: smart African cities\nAlicia Fortuin – Platformization and the future of work\nNeil Hassan – Safe queer digital spaces\nLiza Cirolia – Techno-ambivalence and socio-technical infrastructure\nHilke Berger – A research agenda for the Urban Academy?\n \nSpace is limited so please RSVP to africancentreforcities@gmail.com with the subject line: Urban Academy RSVP. If you require any further information\, please contact rike.sitas@uct.ac.za.\n 
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LOCATION:Workshop 17\, 32 Kloof Street\, Cape Town
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Launch
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SUMMARY:JOBURG BOOK LAUNCH | Panya Routes
DESCRIPTION:African Centre for Cities invites you to celebrate the Johannesburg book launch of Panya Routes: Independent art spaces in Africa by Research Associate Dr Kim Gurney at Stokvel Gallery.\nDATE | Saturday\, 22 October 2022\nTIME | 12:00 noon\nVENUE | Stokvel Gallery\, 27 Boxes\, 4th Avenue\, Melville\nSPEAKER | Mokena Makeka\, Adjunct Professor at Cooper Union and Principal at Dalberg\nPanya Routes\, published by Motto Books\, is about the do-it-yourself\, do-it-together working principles of independent art spaces on the continent. The title refers to back roads or pathways collectively fashioned as escape routes or pragmatic workarounds\, thoroughfares for more nimble travellers. It speaks to the self-assembly of spaces built for purpose not profit\, collectively run and often artist-led or infused with artistic thinking. Creating their own infrastructures\, such spaces offer breathing room and act as urban indicators in fast-changing cities of flux\, Gurney posits\, and positions their alternative modes of institution-building as a form of artistic practice.\nStokvel Gallery is a prime example and in fact features in the book as emblematic of the collective structures (‘merry-go-rounds’) that artists fashion when faced with prevailing uncertainty\, and was a trigger for its research. Panya Routes spans Nairobi (GoDown Arts Centre)\, Accra (ANO Institute)\, Cairo (Townhouse)\, Addis Ababa (Zoma Museum) and Dar es Salaam (Nafasi Art Space). It makes correlations between artistic practices in these shapeshifting spaces\, and everyday know-how circulating in public life to surface working principles that are shared. Art is not only for saying things; it can sometimes do things and institute social imaginaries that exceed the status quo\, as Gurney’s book attests.\nAt this launch event\, Mokena Makeka will give a reflection on the dynamic relationship between contemporary art\, art practices and space\, and the African city. Artist\, curator and lecturer Gordon Froud will introduce his creation – the host venue. Kim Gurney will link the speakers with brief reference to Panya Routes.\nFor more information on the book go to Motto Books. Kim’s other two books are rooted in Johannesburg inner city: August House is Dead\, Long Live August House! and The Art of Public Space. \nPanya Routes was made possible with generous support from Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft\, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona and South African Research Chair in Urban Policy.
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SUMMARY:PANEL | What is Critical Urbanism?
DESCRIPTION:ACC is delighted to host a panel discussion centred on the newly published What is Critical Urbanism? edited by Kenny Cupers\, Sophie Oldfield\, Manuel Herz\, Laura Nkula-Wenz\, Emilio Distretti\, and Myriam Perret. Rather than a book launch this panel discussion\, which takes place on Tuesday\, 27 September from 16:00 to 17:30 will delve deeper into the book to unpack some of the debates and themes.\nUnderstanding and managing urban change in our global era demands a high degree of specialised and interdisciplinary knowledge. At the same time\, city planners\, architects\, researchers\, policymakers\, and activists are deeply immersed in the chaotic and often contradictory urban realities that they are asked to address. What is Critical Urbanism? offers an innovative toolkit for engaging these present realities across disciplinary specialisations and geographic purviews.\nCentral to the book is the research and pedagogy of the Critical Urbanisms programme at the University of Basel\, established in collaboration with the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. The programme’s renowned and emerging urbanists demonstrate the power of working with care and reciprocity across different contexts and institutions\, driven by engagement with varied communities of practice.\nPANELISTS\nProf Ola Uduku\, Head of the School  of Architecture and Roscoe Chair of Architecture\, University of Liverpool\nDr Emilio Distretti\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, University of Basel\nDr Maren Larsen\, Lecturer\, University of Basel\nIsabella Baranyk\, Contributor and Student in Critical Urbanisms\, University of Basel\nCHAIR\nDr Laura Nkula-Wenz\, Lecturer and Student affairs coordinator for the MA in Critical Urbanisms\, University of Basel\, based at the African Centre for Cities\nWHEN | Tuesday\, 27 September 20222\nTIME | 16:00-17:30 SAST\nREGISTER HERE\n 
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH | Panya Routes by Kim Gurney
DESCRIPTION:African Centre for Cities invites you to celebrate the launch of Panya Routes: Independent art spaces in Africa by research associate Kim Gurney.\nThe author will be in conversation with\, composer and multimedia artist\, Neo Muyanga.\nPanya Routes\, published by Motto Books\, is about the do-it-yourself\, do-it-together working principles of independent art spaces on the continent. Such spaces are built for purpose not profit and act as urban indicators in fast-changing cities of flux. Art is embedded into everyday life; it’s not only for saying things but also for doing things.\nDATE | Thursday 11 August\nTIME | 17:30 for 18:00\nVENUE | A4 Arts Foundation\, 23 Buitenkant Street\, Cape Town\nFor more information on the book go to Motto Books.\nThis book was made possible with generous support from Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft\, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona and South African Research Chair in Urban Policy.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/book-launch-panya-routes-by-kim-gurney/
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20210603T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20210603T163000
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SUMMARY:A Story of a Zambian Planner: Animating Integrity in Urban Planning
DESCRIPTION:The FCDO-funded Global Integrity Anti Corruption Evidence Programme supports research teams in not only creating actionable evidence\, but deepening engagement with practitioners. The Cities of Integrity research team have tried many different ways to communicate research more effectively with practitioners. Over the course of the project they have developed a series of animated videos illustrating the specific issues of corruption in urban planning and its consequences for cities and their publics. These animations have been used in workshops\, social media\, and direct engagement with particular groups such as early career planners.\n\n\n\nAs part of this event the team will screen the series followed by a panel discussion with the animators\, the research team\, and a representative from the Zambian Institute of Planners. We will discuss the advantages and limitations of using animated film in workshops and communications around integrity-strengthening as a response to corruption in planning. The Cities of Integrity team will reflect on their experience working with the production house in translating their research into accessible language and visuals and hone in on the question of impact together with the Zambian Institute of Planners as a key stakeholder.\n\n\n\nJoin us for the official premiere of their three-part series of animated shorts.\n\n\n\nZoom Registration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelistsBart Love – Director\, AnotherLoveProduction\, Cape TownLaura Nkula-Wenz – Cities of Integrity\, Project Coordinator\, African Centre for CitiesVanessa Watson – Cities of Integrity\, Principal Investigator\, University of Cape TownGilbert Siame – Cities of Integrity\, Co- Principal Investigator\, University of ZambiaPlanner from Zambian Institute of Planning (ZIP)\n\n\n\nAnotherlove Productions has been creating engaging visual content for clients from around the world for over a decade. They believe that a well-told visual story – be it an animation\, a documentary or an infographic – can challenge\, encourage and activate audiences whilst shifting perceptions. For this creative team\, a rigorous and engaged production process is as valuable as the final product. They are happiest when their clients have enjoyed working with them\, and they have a piece of meaningful and effective media at the end of it.\n\n\n\nThe Zambian Institute of Planning is a professional corporate body established by the Urban and Regional Planners Act of 2011 of the Laws of Zambia to register and regulate the practice of planning in Zambia\n\n\n\nProf. Vanessa Watson is an emerita professor at the School of Architecture\, Planning and Geomatics\, University of Cape Town. She is the Principal Investigator for the Cities of Integrity project. Dr. Gilbert Siame is a lecturer at the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Zambia (UNZA) as well as the Co-PI and Zambia research lead for Cities of Integrity. Dr. Laura Nkula-Wenz is a lecturer at the African Centre for Cities\, University of Cape Town and the project lead for Cities of Integrity.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/a-story-of-a-zambian-planner-animating-integrity-in-urban-planning/
CATEGORIES:Film,Launch
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH | Masters in Sustainable Urban Practice
DESCRIPTION:From siloed practitioner to urban integrator for sustainable African city futures – this new Masters programme\, convened by the African Centre for Cities\, at the University of Cape Town cultivates a new generation of Urban Champions.\n\n\n\nThe complex\, multi-dimensional demands of our rapidly urbanising world require holistic\, inter-disciplinary thinking and practice. However traditional professional paradigms and often-siloed institutions seem doomed to replicate the entrenched patterns and practices of path-dependent urban infrastructure provision and management. To overcome the often-fragmented ways in which urban questions are framed\, institutionalised\, and engaged by varied levels of government\, citizens\, civil society organisations\, and private sector actors\, we need a new kind of urban practitioner\, who can work across practices\, professional norms\, hierarchies\, sectors and urban problems. To meet this need\, the African Centre for Cities (ACC)\, UCT\, launches a new Masters in Sustainable Urban Practice\, which seeks to cultivates urban integrators who are able to discern opportunities for integration\, and can build the necessary coalitions for change; who are confident in varied cultures of communication and can build bridges between sectors\, fields\, and scales of urban practice.\n\n\n\nJoin ACC for the launch of the programme as Prof Edgar Pieterse\, director of the African Centre for Cities\, and South African Research Chair in Urban Policy\, and programme convenor Dr Mercy Brown-Luthango introduce this exciting new degree.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/launch-masters-in-sustainable-urban-practice/
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20200227T173000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20200227T173000
DTSTAMP:20260413T214510
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SUMMARY:Book launch: Participatory Theatre and the Urban Everyday in South Africa
DESCRIPTION:The South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning within the Wits School of Architecture and Planning\, the Chair in Local Histories and Present Realities at the History Workshop\, also at Wits\, and the African Centre for Cities at UCT would like to invite you to the joint launch of Njogu Morgan and Alexandra Halligey’s new books\, with guest speakers\, Ruth Oldenziel and Terry Kurgan.\nCycling Cities: The Johannesburg Experience by Njogu Morgan and Participatory Theatre and the Urban Everyday in South Africa: Place and Play in Johannesburg by Alexandra Halligey will be jointly launched on 27 February at the Breezeblock Cafe\, Johannesburg.\nRuth Oldenziel\, Professor in The History of Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology and programme leader of Cycling Cities: The Global Experience will speak to Morgan’s book while Terry Kurgan\, artist and writer based in Johannesburg\, editor and partner of Fourthwall Books and Research Associate of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research\, will focus on Halligey’s title.\n \nDATE: Thursday\, 27th February\nTIME: 17:00 for 17:30\nVENUE: Breezeblock Café\, 29 Chiswick Street\, Brixton\nPlease RSVP to alexandra.halligey@wits.ac.za by 24 February for catering and parking purposes.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/book-launch-participatory-theatre-and-the-urban-everyday-in-south-africa/
LOCATION:Breezeblock Cafe\, 29 Chiswick Street\, Johannesburg\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20191119T173000
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SUMMARY:Relaunch: Cityscapes Magazine
DESCRIPTION:African Centre for Cities invites you to the relaunch of Cityscapes Magazine on 19 November 2019\, 17:30 at The Book Lounge. The new issue is themed ‘Passages’ is a collection of stories that explore the nature(s) of movement\, the impact it has on how we live and who we are\, as well as the lives that are made – mobile and immobile – after the passage. \nPeople move. That is what we do. We move our bodies\, move house\, neighbourhood; we move across and through borders. We move because we want to and sometimes because we need to. To be with or away from family\, to adventure and experience new things\, on pilgrimage\, to escape\, learn\, and sometimes to return home when it calls us. We move through space\, we move up(becoming wealthier\, more affluent)\,down (becoming materially more impoverished)\, we also move ideas and resources. We move to work\, to search\, to find\, and sometimes to lose. \nWe move… It’s in our nature and has been since time immemorial. \nYet\, as the world becomes better connected\, moving has become a challenging and divisive experience at every scale you can imagine. We are building and strengthening physical borders to keep those we feel are “not worthy” from occupying the same spaces we do\, while inviting the “desirable” – the educated\, “clever”\, connected\, wealthy and talented – in. Our interest is in where people move to\, and why. Also\, how ideas and capital circulate\, traverse borders\, and what the impacts are once “there”. This is the reason we have produced this issue. The ninth issue of Cityscapes and our new tagline—Urbanism Beyond Geography—marks a re-launch\, after a hiatus (of sorts). \nAs the abundance of figures being released on the topic attests\, we have been moving to cities – everywhere. The magnetism of places larger than where we are from has attracted legions – for centuries – and is now just part of the human story. Cities are not a new construct\, and moving to them is really not that new a phenomenon. What’s different is the scale. In many economies\, cities are the places where opportunities lie\, where dreams can be fulfilled—or dashed\, but still given a chance—if you’re one of the lucky ones. We will always move to such places. Some inner instinct demands that we do. \nWhat we have to figure out is how we live together once we get there. How the resources we have can be more equitably shared\, and what we do when they are not. What do we do when the assets we have fuel distributional conflicts\, understandably\, with those who have been dealt a bad hand and have little to lose? \nWe have dug up stories that explore the nature(s) of movement\, the impact it has on how we live and who we are\, as well as the lives that are made – be they mobile or immobile – after the passage. It seems we move so that we are able to move some more. We move so we can “do better”\, jump from one station in life to another. We become mobile hoping that it will expand our choices and send us ever onward. \nBetween these covers\, we have tried to explore the question of what happens when we move to where we desire\, or leave where we cannot be any more. In a “new” place\, whether it’s for the short or long haul\, how do we keep the ideas we hold dear? How do we\, as “newcomers”\, maintain the cultures that define us? How can we embrace our new situation in a manner that changes both us and our new settings? \nOften\, the “new” is old too. It seeks to hold on to its idea of self and wants to be loved and embraced on its own terms. It does not want to lose itself to the influence of newcomers – reinforcements of sorts – that\, willingly or not\, are its lifeblood. \n 
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/relaunch-cityscapes-magazine/
LOCATION:The Book Lounge\, 71 Roeland Street\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20190318T130000
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SUMMARY:Launch of 'The Walk'
DESCRIPTION:African Centre for Cities invites  you to the launch of a new publication entitled The Walk. This publication\, which is based on a research study entitled The Prospects for Socio-Spatial Transformation in the Voortrekker Road Corridor by Mercy Brown-Luthango\, was supported by the French Development Agency (AFD) and focuses on Maitland\, Kensington and Factreton. The main concern of this study was to understand the vision of city officials and politicians\, as outlined in major policy documents\, and how this compares to the daily lived experiences of those who reside and conduct business in the three study areas. \nPlease join us for a series of panel presentations followed by a facilitated discussion on the prospects and challenges for socio-spatial transformation in the Voortrekker Road Corridor Integration Zone (VRCIZ). \nDATE: 18 March 2019 \nTIME: 11:30 to 13:00 (followed by lunch) \nVENUE: Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town \nPLEASE RSVP to africancentreforcities.rsvp@gmail.com by 16 March 2019 for catering purposes.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/launch-of-the-walk/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20181121T173000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20181121T190000
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH: 'Tomatoes & Taxi Ranks: Running our Cities to Fill the Food Cap'
DESCRIPTION:Join ACC for the Cape Town launch of Tomatoes & Taxi Ranks: Running our Cities to Fill the Food Gap\, by Leonie Joubert with Jane Battersby and Vanessa Watson published by the African Centre for Cities on Wednesday\, 21 November 2018\, 17:30 for 18:00 at The Book Lounge\, 71 Roeland Street\, Cape Town. Author Leonie Joubert will be in conversation with Nancy Richards. \nThe book is based on research conducted by the Consuming Urban Poverty team comprised of urban geographers\, sociologists\, economists and planners from the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town\, Copperbelt University in Zambia\, the University of Zimbabwe\, and the Kisumu Local Interaction Platform (KLIP)\, in Kisumu\, Kenya. \nTomatoes & Taxi Ranks\, illustrated with evocative photography by Samantha Reinders and Masixole Feni\, distills the research into a digestible read and is published alongside the academic book Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities (Routledge\, 2018) edited by Jane Battersby and Vanessa Watson. \nBoth book are available as Open Access downloads from www.tomatoesandtaxiranks.org.za \nHard copies of the book are available for purchase from The Book Lounge for R150. All proceeds are donated to the Open Box School Library project.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/launch-tomatoes-taxi-ranks-running-cities-fill-food-cap/
LOCATION:The Book Lounge\, 71 Roeland Street\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171006T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171006T180000
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SUMMARY:CT launch of 'August House is Dead\, Long Live August House!'
DESCRIPTION:Writer\, artist and research associate at the University of Cape Town’s African Centre for Cities (ACC)\, Kim Gurney pens a new book on the evolving art space August House in Johannesburg. \nAugust House is Dead\, Long Live August House! The Story of a Johannesburg Atelier\, published by FourthWall Books\, is a fascinating study of the role of the atelier and its artists in South Africa’s fractious art world\, and a consideration of the relationship between art and the ever-changing city of Johannesburg. \nJoin us for the official launch in Cape Town\, at 18:00 on 6 October 2017 at the A4 Arts Foundation.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/ct-launch-august-house-dead-long-live-august-house/
LOCATION:A4 Arts Foundation\, 23 Buitenkant Street\, Cape  Town \, 8001 \, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170927T180000
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SUMMARY:JHB launch of 'August House is Dead\, Long Live August House!'
DESCRIPTION:Writer\, artist and research associate at the University of Cape Town’s African Centre for Cities (ACC)\, Kim Gurney pens a new book on the evolving art space August House in Johannesburg. \nAugust House is Dead\, Long Live August House! The Story of a Johannesburg Atelier\, published by FourthWall Books\, is a fascinating study of the role of the atelier and its artists in South Africa’s fractious art world\, and a consideration of the relationship between art and the ever-changing city of Johannesburg. \nJoin us for the official launch in Johannesburg\, at 18:00 on 27 September 2017 at Point of Order Project Space\, Wits School of Arts.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/jhb-launch-august-house-dead-long-live-august-house/
LOCATION:Point of Order Project Space\, Wits School of Art \, Johannesburg\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151125T173000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151125T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T214510
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SUMMARY:MEAN STREETS book launch
DESCRIPTION:The ACC is proud to be associated with the publication of a major new title in southern African studies. \nMean Streets: Migration\, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa\, edited by ACC partners Jonathan Crush\, Abel Chikanda and Caroline Skinner\, demonstrates powerfully that some of the most resourceful entrepreneurs in the South African informal economy are migrants and refugees. Yet far from being lauded\, they take their life into their hands when they trade on South Africa’s “mean streets”. \nThirteen chapters draw attention to the positive economic contributions which migrants make to their adopted country. The book includes studies of: the creation of agglomeration economies in Jeppe and Ivory Park in Johannesburg; guanxi networks of Chinese entrepreneurs; competition and cooperation among Somali shop owners; cross-border informal traders; informal transport operators between South Africa and Zimbabwe. Migrant entrepreneurship is shown to involve generating employment\, paying rents\, providing cheaper goods to poor consumers\, and supporting formal sector wholesalers and retailers. Mean Streets also highlights the xenophobic responses to migrant and refugee entrepreneurs and the challenges they face in running a successful business on the streets.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/mean-streets-book-launch/
LOCATION:Book Lounge\, 71 Roeland Street\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150819T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150819T193000
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SUMMARY:Launch and discussion: The Art of Public Space
DESCRIPTION:WiSER and the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town invite you to a launch and discussion of The Art of Public Space: Curating and Re-imagining the Ephemeral City by Kim Gurney \nThe Art of Public Space (Palgrave\, 2015) takes as case study a trilogy of art interventions\, New Imaginaries\, which explored notions of public space in Johannesburg\, and reflects upon its broader implications in a research partnership between African Centre for Cities and Goethe-Institut South Africa. \n“Kim Gurney’s The Art of Public Space powerfully reiterates the ways in which urban actors do not inhabit worlds of preconceived social or subjective forms\, but rather ever-shifting milieus where different ways of conceiving and enacting life intersect\, and that artistic practice is a critical technology in re-imagining and reshaping these intersections. All technical practices conduct events\, but artistic work is proving most salient in opening up urban contexts to events that anticipate and posit new ways of living together. Leveraging the multiplicity of performances that make up every day Johannesburg\, the artistic projects offered here attempt to reconfigure what its residents already see and experience but in ways that push it somewhere else\, which collate and intensify these perceptions and experiences into new common grounds.” — AbdouMaliq Simone \nRespondents: Achille Mbembe (WiSER) with Molemo Moiloa (VANSA)\, Tanya Zack (urban researcher\, writer & explorer) and Kim Gurney (UCT)\, chaired by Edgar Pieterse (UCT).
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/launch-and-discussion-the-art-of-public-space/
LOCATION:WiSER\, 6th Floor\, Richard Ward Building\, University of Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Launch
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Africa's Urban Revolution
DESCRIPTION:UCT and The Book Lounge will be hosting the launch of Africa’s Urban Revolution\, the new volume edited by Susan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/book-launch-africas-urban-revolution/
LOCATION:Book Lounge\, 71 Roeland Street\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140220T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20140220T180000
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SUMMARY:Africa's Urban Revolution launch event
DESCRIPTION:Jo Beall (Director of Education and Society at the British Council) and Sean Fox ( Lecturer in Urban Geography and Global Development at the University of Bristol will participate in a panel discussion to mark the launch of ‘Africa’s Urban Revolution’\, a new publication from Zed Books\, edited by Susan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse of the African Centre for Cities. The volume “provides a comprehensive insight into the key issues – demographic\, cultural\, political\, technical\, environmental and economic – surrounding African urbanisation”. \nCo-editor Susan Parnell as well as chapter authors Carole Rakodi\, Tom Goodfellow\, David Simon and Haley Leck will join us at the event. Specially discounted copies of the book will be available for purchase. \nDrinks and light refreshments will be served\nRegistration is essential as space is limited
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/africas-urban-revolution-population-growth-conflict-affect-cities/
LOCATION:Africa Research Institute\, 55 Tufton Street\, London \, SW1P 3QL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20131128T080000
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SUMMARY:Cityscapes #4: Thinking relationally about north and south
DESCRIPTION:Photographer Jodi Bieber’s portrait of a member of the Dube Young Blood Shotokan Karate Club in Soweto introduces the focus of the fourth issue of Cityscapes: Soweto. Is it a viable model of what happens after informality? The question does not propose a simple answer. Soweto’s redevelopment is uneven. There are malls\, loft developments\, a theatre. More significantly\, there are roads and basic services. Change is afoot\, but not for all. Cityscapes\, a magazine project of the African Centre for Cities edited by Sean O’Toole and Tau Tavengwa\, offers an in-depth look at this emergent edge city on the southern periphery of Johannesburg. Also in the new fourth issue: a grouped series of reports\, essays and interviews tracing a zigzag path connecting Tel Aviv to Naples to Berlin to Guangzhou\, all cities where African migrants are a feature of the urban matrix. There is a speculative logic at work in this grouping. In her conversation with Gautam Bhan in this issue\, urban theorist Ananya Roy conjectures\, “what does it mean for us to think relationally about the north and south\, recognising that these are connected geographies in all sorts of ways?”
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/cityscapes-4-thinking-relationally-north-south/
LOCATION:Book Lounge\, 71 Roeland Street\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
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