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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
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20241029T193000
DTSTAMP:20260413T202654
CREATED:20241009T042049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T073214Z
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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:20241001T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20241001T140000
DTSTAMP:20260413T202654
CREATED:20240926T102429Z
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SUMMARY:Info Session: MPhil Urban Studies - Southern Urbanism
DESCRIPTION:The MPhil Southern Urbanism is designed to cultivate the next generation of urban thinkers from the South\, who are rooted in the realities\, theories and practise of cities of the Global South. Drawing together a diverse cohort of scholar and practitioners\, the programme uses a combination of guided learning in small-group seminars\, experimentation in various spaces of urban practice and independent thesis research to ground students in Urban Studies theory\, and new research methodologies.\nThis info session\, hosted by programme convenor\, Dr Anna Selmeczi will provide a brief overview of the pedagogical approach\, programme structure and entry requirements\, as well as discussion time to answer all your questions.\nAPPLICATIONS DEADLINE FOR SOUTH AFRICAN AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: 31 October 2024\nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/mphil-info-session/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240815T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240815T140000
DTSTAMP:20260413T202654
CREATED:20240805T135458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T150051Z
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SUMMARY:Brownbag seminar: African Landscape Architectures_Alternative futures for the field
DESCRIPTION:Based on landscape fieldwork across 11 African nations during 2022–23\, this talk speculates on the future of landscape architecture in Africa and the Global South. While visiting educational programs\, designed landscapes\, and meeting practitioners across African nations\, Gareth Doherty saw and registered various landscape practices as they exist on the ground\, whether professionally designed or not. Some forms of “grassroots” practice are more deeply engaged with solving the problems of our age—including climate change and social inequalities— than their more formalized and institutionalized counterparts.\nDetails:\nDate: Thursday\, 15 August 2024\nTime: 13h00 –14h00\nVenue: EGS Library\, EGS Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\nAbout the presenter:\nGareth Doherty is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design and principal of the Critical Landscapes Design Lab. Doherty takes a human-centered approach to landscape architecture\, applying ethnographic fieldwork and participatory methodologies to design and theory. His work critically reassesses 20th-century approaches to the observed landscape to advance new pedagogy\, tools\, and techniques that address contemporary design issues of equity\, identity\, cultural space\, and the human impacts of climate change. Doherty addresses these issues through research on designed landscapes across the postcolonial and Islamic worlds. Through what he terms “landscape fieldwork\,” Doherty unravels diverse landscape narratives that have not yet been formally documented as evidenced through his books\, Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State (University of California Press\, 2017)\, Landscape Fieldwork: How the Engaging the World Changes Design (University of Virginia Press\, forthcoming)\, and his recent fieldwork on African landscape architecture. Doherty was a Visiting Scholar at the African Centre for Cities in 2022–23.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/brownbag-seminar-african-landscape-architectures_alternative-futures-for-the-field/
LOCATION:EGS Library\, EGS Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240801T123000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240801T140000
DTSTAMP:20260413T202654
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SUMMARY:Brownbag seminar_ACCRETION THROUGH FRICTION: examining garbage flows in Dakar’s Baie de Hann
DESCRIPTION:Once the second most beautiful to the bay of Rio de Janeiro\, Dakar’s Baie de Hann is now known for its pollution. A largely EU-funded infrastructure project (2017-2021) promised to resolve the bay’s challenges. Jonas Le Thierry d’Ennequin challenges this modernist project from an Urban Political Ecology perspective. By examining how the bay’s infrastructure flows accrete (Anand\, 2015) since the 1980s\, he argues for the generative potential of “friction” in infrastructural development.\nDetails:\nDate: Thursday\, 01 August 2024\nTime: 12h30 –14h00\nVenue: Studio 1\, Level 5\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\nJonas is a UKRI-funded PhD candidate at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit\, University College London. He holds an MSc Urban Development Planning from UCL and a BA Global Challenges from Leiden University & Universidad de Chile. Prior to his doctoral research he worked as a strategic communications consultant in different sectors.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/examining-garbage-flows-in-dakars-baie-de-hann/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240730T120000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240730T130000
DTSTAMP:20260413T202654
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SUMMARY:Info Session - MPhil Southern Urbanism
DESCRIPTION:The MPhil Southern Urbanism is designed to cultivate the next generation of urban thinkers from the South\, who are rooted in the realities\, theories and practise of cities of the Global South. Drawing together a diverse cohort of scholar and practitioners\, the programme uses a combination of guided learning in small-group seminars\, experimentation in various spaces of urban practice and independent thesis research to ground students in Urban Studies theory\, and new research methodologies.\nIf you are interested in applying for the MPhil Southern Urbanism programme but still have some questions? This info session\, hosted by programme convenor\, Dr Anna Selmeczi will provide a brief overview of the pedagogical approach\, programme structure and entry requirements\, as well as discussion time to answer all your questions.\nAPPLICATIONS DEADLINE FOR SOUTH AFRICAN AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: 31 October 2024\nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/mphil-info-session_30-july/
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240722T123000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240722T140000
DTSTAMP:20260413T202654
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SUMMARY:Brown bag seminar: The visible hand of a transport mafia in Lagos (Nigeria)
DESCRIPTION:The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) is a recognized union\, an unofficial section of a political party\, and a ‘parastatal’ organization transporting millions of passengers in Nigeria. These multiple functions are seen by academics and the public as a problem. Many researchers consider NURTW as a mafia because of its collusions with political parties\, the police and civil servants\, an increasingly dominant interpretation characterizing popular transport organizations in the African continent. This project is aimed at understanding divergent views of ‘informal’ transport organization in Lagos\, the economic capital of Nigeria.\nTo do this\, historian and political scientist Laurent Fourchard works with photographer Andrew Esiebo to engage in a common fieldwork based on visual ethnography methods. By associating photography and ethnography\, they would like to explore the visible hand of an organization whose main functions are unseen\, hidden\, difficult to grasp or stigmatized.\nBio: Laurent Fourchard is a research professor at the National Foundation for Political Science (CERI) and teaching faculty at Sciences Po’s Urban School. He was Director of the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA) in Nigeria from 2000 to 2003 and visiting scholar at the University of Cape Town in 2008 and 2009. Before joining CERI in 2016 he was a research fellow at the research institute\, Les Afrique dans le monde at Sciences Po Bordeaux.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/the-visible-hand-of-a-transport-mafia-in-lagos-nigeria/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240718T173000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240718T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T202654
CREATED:20240619T171837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240710T064050Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240514T133000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240514T150000
DTSTAMP:20260413T202654
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SUMMARY:THE URBAN EVERYDAY - FINAL STUDENT EXHIBITION
DESCRIPTION:The ‘Urban Everyday’ offers a perspective on city-making that explores agency found in intersecting practices of occupation and adaptation\, engagement and participation\, resistance and protest\, as well as waiting\, encountering and imagining the city\, its inhabitants and the state. In tracking diverse forms of agency\, this framework of urban inquiry explores the substance of the city – its housing and land struggles\, experiences of work and strategies to make ends meet\, as well as questions of identity and belonging. It also examines how these diverse urban experiences frequently meet\, compete with\, and rub up against rights\, policies\, and state techniques.\nIn this exhibition\, postgraduate students present their creative reflections on different course themes and grapple with the question of how we can hold structural forces in productive tension with ordinary forms of agency. By focusing on seemingly mundane practices\, their works offer provocative points of entry for questioning how we theorize Southern cities and engage in imagining and building their future.\nParticipating students come from the following programs: MPhil Southern Urbanism (African Centre for Cities)\, MA Critical Urbanisms (University of Basel in collaboration with the African Centre for Cities)\, MA Urban Design and EGS Honours.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/the-urban-everyday-final-student-exhibition/
LOCATION:APG Foyer\, Centlivres Building Upper Campus University of Cape Town
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240411T153000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240411T163000
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SUMMARY:ACC Brown Bag - Living Off-Grid: Reflections from Ghana and Zimbabwe
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Percy Toriro – University of Zimbabwe and Issahaka Fuseini – University of Ghana\nJoin this discussion between Percy Toriro and Issahaka Fuseini\, who will share findings from their work as city partners in the LOGIC (off-grid) project. Percy will engage the theme of ‘Electricity visits us’: the challenges of living with poor infrastructure and services in an off-grid settlement\, with a focus on Dzivarasekwa\, Zimbabwe. Issahaka will speak to the realities of off-griddedness and various assemblages to adapt to water scarcity and sanitation challenges in Tamale\, Ghana.\nThese inputs will be followed by reflections by Hayley MacGregor (IDS) locating these discussions within the overlooked intersections between urban studies\, the “infrastructure turn” and emerging urban food\, nutrition and wider wellbeing debates.\nThis brownbag will build on the earlier conversations by Mercy Brown Luthango and Iromi Perera and the LOGIC (off grid) project\, speaking to research in two additional project cities.\nWHEN: Thursday\, 11 April 2024\nTIME: 15h30 – 16h30\nVENUE: Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\nPercy Toriro has over 20 years’ experience as a city planner\, having been the Chief Planner for the City of Harare for 10 years. Dr Toriro also leads the Urban Planning Program at the Municipal Development Partnership (MDP) a network spanning 15 Southern African countries\, engaging in urban development challenges. Percy holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town. His research has covered urban infrastructure\, urban housing\, urban informality\, housing\, governance\, food systems and environment. Percy’s work sees him interacting with national\, regional and local governments in different countries and cities. Percy served four terms as President of the Zimbabwe Institute of Regional and Urban Planners (ZIRUP). Percy holds an adjunct lectureship position at the University of Zimbabwe.\nIssahaka Fuseini is a senior lecturer at the University of Ghana\, Ghana. Issahaka holds a PhD from Stellenbosch University. Issahaka’s research interest spans food systems governance\, collaborative local-level governance\, and inclusive urban development. Issahaka previously worked at the African Centre for Cities\, University of Cape Town\, during which time he was involved in multi-country\, interdisciplinary projects aimed at improving urban food systems governance and nutrition security in nine cities in Kenya\, Zambia\, Zimbabwe\, Namibia\, and South Africa. Presently\, Issahaka is a co-investigator responsible for the Ghanaian component of a UKRI-sponsored multi-country research project (under the Global Challenges Research Fund’s Off-Grid Cities call) that is being implemented in five cities in Ghana\, South Africa\, Zimbabwe\, India\, and Sri Lanka. This project seeks to understand how access to or the lack of infrastructure\, broadly defined\, impacts the food and nutrition security of marginalised populations in cities in the Global South. Issahaka is also a lead partner in a city dialogue\, facilitated by RUAF/FAO\, that is aimed at developing a city-level food systems governance agenda for his home city of Tamale\, Ghana.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/acc-brown-bag-living-off-grid-reflections-from-ghana-and-zimbabwe/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240325T120000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20240325T130000
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SUMMARY:INFO SESSION | DAAD MPhil Southern Urbanism Scholarships
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Cities\, through Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)\, are calling for scholarship applications for 2025.\nDAAD are offering five In-Region Scholarships* for students from Sub-Saharan Africa who enrol for the MPhil Southern Urbanism (Masters in Urban Studies) programme at the University of Cape Town.\nIf you are interested in applying for the scholarship but have questions\, join MPhil Southern Urbanism convenor Anna Selmeczi for this information session.\nWHEN | Monday\, 25 March 2024\nTIME | 12:00-13:00 SAST\nJOIN ZOOM MEETING\nMEETING ID: 874 0499 7882\nPASSCODE: 254675
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/info-session-daad-mphil-southern-urbanism-scholarships-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230831T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230831T140000
DTSTAMP:20260413T202654
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SUMMARY:Lunchtime Lecture: Panya Routes - From platform to plotform
DESCRIPTION:Join ACC and the Michaelis School of Fine Art for a lunchtime lecture by Dr Kim Gurney on her latest book Panya Routes: Independent art spaces in Africa\, on Thursday\, 31 August 2023\, 13:00-14:00 at the Michaelis Lecture Theatre.\nIn this public talk\, Kim will share the innovative working principles that independent art spaces in fast-changing cities in Africa have in common as they navigate conditions of uncertainty and accelerated flux.\nThese key principles are at the heart of her latest book\, Panya Routes: Independent art spaces in Africa (2022)\, produced from research conducted whilst formerly affiliated to UCT’s African Centre for Cities (ACC).\nKim made correlations between curatorial strategies and everyday urban innovations to surface these findings. The featured spaces span five different countries: GoDown Art Centre (Nairobi\, Kenya)\, ANO Institute of Arts & Knowledge (Accra\, Ghana)\, Townhouse Gallery (Cairo\, Egypt)\, Zoma Museum (Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia)\, and Nafasi Art Space (Dar es Salaam\, Tanzania). They all self-assemble infrastructures of various kinds through refusals and reimaginations\, with implications for new modes of institution-building and thinking about city futures.\nAbout the book\nWHEN | Thursday\, 31 August\nTIME | 13:00-14:00\nVENUE | Michaelis Lecture Theatre\, Hiddingh Campus\nBIO\nKim Gurney is a researcher\, writer and visual artist. She is the author of three books: Panya Routes: Independent art spaces in Africa (Motto\, 2022)\, August House is Dead\, Long Live August House! The Story of a Johannesburg Atelier (Fourthwall\, 2017)\, and The Art of Public Space: Curating and Re imagining the Ephemeral City (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2015). Kim is currently based at the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape\, working on Flipside: The Inadvertent Archive (in production).
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/lunchtime-lecture-panya-routes-from-platform-to-plotform/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230825T123000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230825T133000
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SUMMARY:Ma in Sustainable Urban Practice Info Session
DESCRIPTION:From siloed practitioner to systems integrator for sustainable African city futures – the new Masters programme\, convened by the African Centre for Cities\, at the University of Cape Town cultivates a new generation of urban practitioner.\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.\nTo meet this need\, the African Centre for Cities (ACC)\, UCT\, launched a 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.\nJoin this information session with programme convenor Dr Mercy Brown-Luthango.\nWHEN | Friday\, 25 August 2023\nTIME | 12:30-13:30 SAST\nREGISTER HERE \nMORE ABOUT THE PROGRAMME
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/ma-in-sustainable-urban-practice-info-session/
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:MPhil Southern Urbanism Info Session
DESCRIPTION:The MPhil Southern Urbanism is designed to cultivate the next generation of urban thinkers from the South\, who are rooted in the realities\, theories and practise of cities of the Global South.\nDrawing together a diverse cohort of scholar and practitioners\, the programme utilises a combination of guided learning in small-group seminars\, experimentation in various spaces of urban practice and independent thesis research to ground students in Urban Studies theory\, and new research methodologies.\nAPPLICATIONS DEADLINE INTERNATIONAL & SA STUDENTS: 31 October 2023\nIf you are interested in applying for the MPhil Southern Urbanism programme but still have some questions? This info session\, hosted by programme convenor\, Dr Anna Selmeczi will provide a brief overview of the pedagogical approach\, programme structure and entry requirements\, as well as discussion time to answer all your questions.\nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/mphil-southern-urbanism-info-session-5/
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230515T130000
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SUMMARY:Lived experience as a pathway to community agency? Toward new framings of nutrition in urban South Africa
DESCRIPTION:The Nourished Child project took a lived experience approach to understanding how systems interacted in the lives of women to shape their and their children’s quality of diet. Central to the project was the development of a range of creative dissemination tools to engage policy makers\, and increase community agency.\nIn this presentation Jane Battersby reflects on the process\, politics\, and outcomes of the project\, and the potential of projects of this kind to affect long term transformative change.\nAhead of the presentation\, you can also view the Nourished Child exhibition in the foyer of the Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building.\nWHEN | Monday\, 15 May 2023\nTIME | 13:00-14:00\nVENUE |Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/lived-experience-as-a-pathway-to-community-agency-toward-new-framings-of-nutrition-in-urban-south-africa/
CATEGORIES:Brownbags,Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230511T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230511T140000
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SUMMARY:On tactical planning
DESCRIPTION:African Centre for Cities hosts visiting scholar Marco Di Nunzio for a seminar entitled On tactical planning\, on Thursday\, 11 May 2023\, from 13:00-14:00\, in the EGS Library\, Upper Campus\, UCT.\nABSTRACT\nThis paper looks at the work of planners by exploring the relations between strategic and tactical planning. By documenting the case of Addis Ababa’s construction boom\, he discusses how the overlapping between strategies and tactics in planners’ work embodies both the relative privilege of planners\, as experts and agents of vested interests in the city\, and the conditioned agency of planners\, as themselves are acted upon by the courses of action of more powerful agents. In this context\, strategic planning does not only fail. It is meant to fail\, or at least implemented partially\, because its purpose is to catalyse action\, not direct it. Instead\, tactical planning\, while being situational and contingent\, is not the realm of weak. Planners’ tactical agency contribute to further embed dominant orders of priority\, and hierarchies of entitlement into the spatial fabric of the city.\n\n\nBIOGRAPHY\nMarco Di Nunzio is an Assistant Professor in Urban Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of The Act of Living (Cornell University Press) and the director of award-winning documentary A Day in Arada. Since February 2020\, he is the founding editor of OtherwiseMag\, a magazine of ethnographic storytelling. He is currently a Leverhulme Research Fellow\, writing a book on Addis Ababa’s construction boom\, provisionally entitlement Conspiracies to Build.\n\n\n\nWHEN | Thursday\, 11 May 2023\nTIME | 13:00-14:00\nVENUE | EGS Library\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/on-tactical-planning/
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230502T150000
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
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/webinar-localizing-the-sdgs-in-african-cities/
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230419T130000
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SUMMARY:Segregation “bit by bit”: digital technologies\, housing market and the remaking of post-apartheid Cape Town
DESCRIPTION:African Centre for Cities is hosting a seminar by visiting scholar Julien Migozzi\, an Urban Studies Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow\, University of Oxford. Migozzi will present Segregation “bit by bit”: digital technologies\, housing market and the remaking of post-apartheid Cape Town\, on 19 April\, from 13:00-14:00\, in Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\nABSTRACT\nThis presentation will examine the joint processes of digitalisation and financialisation of the housing market in Cape Town\, and their consequences on the evolution of urban segregation. Migozzi’s mixed-method framework combines 18 months of fieldwork among real estate professionals with the creation of a database of 900\,000 transactions\, cross-analysed with longitudinal census data\, and covering the entire metropolitan area from 1990 to 2017. For this talk\, he will focus on three main points: first\, he will unpack how the housing market was reconfigured as a continuous flow of data through the adoption of digital technologies such as credit scoring and automated property valuation\, which allow the large scale datafication and classification of South African citizens and properties through an information dragnet of unprecedented sophistication and depth\, rooted in the technical legacies of apartheid and colonialism. Second\, he will explore how these changing market structures translate into the urban space by mapping the evolution of housing prices and mortgages across the post-apartheid city\, and by exploring the emergence of new neighbourhoods around the urban edge\, in the context of enduring levels of racial segregation. Third\, he will analyse how the reconfiguration of the market around a data imperative enabled a selective financialisation of housing\, tracing mortgage securitisation at the neighbourhood level\, and documenting the rise of institutional investors powered by rental platforms. Finally\, he will try to argue that thinking “from the market” allows us to engage more fully with the understanding of urban segregation in contemporary South Africa\, first by acknowledging  the central role of credit in shaping neighbourhood change and inequalities\, and second by conceptualising a market-based definition of  the middle class as a “filtered class”.\nBIOGRAPHY\nJulien Migozzi is an Urban Studies Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. His ongoing research combines computational analysis with expert interviews to examine how digital technologies reshape urban housing markets\, focusing on post-apartheid South Africa.\nWHEN | 19 April 2023\nTIME | 13:00-14:00\nWHERE | Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/segregation-bit-by-bit-digital-technologies-housing-market-and-the-remaking-of-post-apartheid-cape-town/
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230404T120000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230404T130000
DTSTAMP:20260413T202654
CREATED:20230322T130913Z
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SUMMARY:INFO SESSION | DAAD MPhil Southern Urbanism Scholarships
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Cities\, through Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)\, are calling for scholarship applications for 2024.\n\n\n\nDAAD are offering five In-Region Scholarships* for students from Sub-Saharan Africa who enrol for the MPhil Southern Urbanism (Masters in Urban Studies) programme at the University of Cape Town.\n\n\n\nIf you are interested in applying for the scholarship but have questions\, join MPhil Southern Urbanism convenor Anna Selmeczi for this information session.\nWHEN | Tuesday\, 4 April 2023\nTIME | 12:00-13:00 SAST\nREGISTER HERE  
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/info-session-daad-mphil-southern-urbanism-scholarships/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230302T153000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230302T170000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230222T153000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230222T170000
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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:20230215T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230215T140000
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SUMMARY:Critical Neighbourhoods – The Architecture of Contested Communities
DESCRIPTION:ACC invites you to join us as we host the editor of Critical Neighbourhoods – The Architecture of Contested Communities\, Paulo Moreira\, Porto-based architect and researcher on Wednesday\, 15 February for an online lunchtime talk on the book. \nPlease note: Due to student action on the UCT campus\, this event has been moved online.  \nABSTRACT \nAt a time when architectural and urban studies are moving towards seeking to accept and understand informal neighbourhoods rather than ignoring or eradicating them\, the need for experiments on the ground is becoming increasingly urgent. In recent years\, a growing number of architects and spatial practitioners have begun to act on their commitment to the idea that these settlements are here to stay and require selective intervention. Critical Neighbourhoods – The Architecture of Contested Communities analyses recent studies and practical actions in three different continents (Africa\, America and Asia). The volume is published by Park Books and edited by Paulo Moreira\, with contributions by Elisa Silva\, Julia King\, Matthew Barac and Ines Weizman\, and a preface by AbdouMaliq Simone. \nBIOGRAPHY \nPaulo Moreira is a Porto-based architect and researcher. He received his doctorate from London Metropolitan University\, and graduated from the Faculty of Architecture\, University of Porto (Portugal). Moreira authored chapters in academic journals and edited independent publications on informal neighbourhoods. He was awarded several grants and prizes\, including: Prize for Social Entrepreneurship (London Met\, 2009) and Noel Hill Travel Award (American Institute of Architects – UK Chapter\, 2009). He was a finalist in the RIBA President’s Award for Research 2019\, Cities & Community category. He is the editor of Critical Neighbourhoods – The Architecture of Contested Communities (Park Books\, 2022). \n  \nWHEN | Wednesday\, 15 February \nTIME | 13:00-14:00 \nVENUE | Due to student action on the UCT campus\, this talk has been move online.  \nZOOM LINK | https://bit.ly/3HZI43r
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/critical-neighbourhoods-the-architecture-of-contested-communities/
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230214T163000
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SUMMARY:On Trauma Imaginaries: Exploring the Intersections of Race\, Place\, and Planning
DESCRIPTION:Join ACC as we host an online seminar by Jocelyn Poe\, Visiting Assistant Professor and Provost Faculty Fellow at Cornell University\, entitled On Trauma Imaginaries: Exploring the Intersections of Race\, Place\, and Planning\, on Tuesday\, 14 February at 15:30. \nPlease note: Due to student action on the UCT campus\, this event has been moved online.  \nABSTRACT\nWorking as a practicing planner in primarily black communities\, I noticed a pattern of visceral reactions to planning processes. This pattern exposed a psycho-socio-cultural phenomenon that aligned with the characteristics of trauma. While planning theory has long acknowledged the profession’s role in producing racialised spatial realities\, few have explored how place-based trauma shape places\, spatial processes\, and spatial imaginaries. To fill this gap\, I analyse my experience in practice through autoethnography\, and then\, I assess the validity of this theory by exploring these concepts in South Central Los Angeles (SCLA)\, a place radically different from Mississippi. Through this process\, I identify\, describe\, and conceptualise this phenomenon as trauma imaginaries\, the intersection of spatial imaginaries and communal trauma. In doing so\, I developed a theory of communal trauma to understand how places hurt and how this hurt impacts spatial processes. I found that trauma was preventing places from achieving healthy growth and collective well-being\, and this trauma was directly linked to historical injustices. \nBIO\nJocelyn Poe\, Ph.D. is a Visiting Assistant Professor and Provost Faculty Fellow at Cornell University\, while also practicing as a certified planner with the American Planning Association. Her research engages mixed and remixed qualitative methodologies to explore how place\, planning\, and well-being intersect to spatialize injustice and inequity. Using her experiences as a practitioner in Jackson\, Mississippi\, she builds theory on communal trauma and trauma imaginaries to describe and understand a psycho-socio-cultural phenomenon happening in place and impacting planning processes. This trauma work informs an approach to a reparative praxis that can help planners achieve social justice and equity outcomes in historically underserved communities.  \nRESPONDENT | Nisa Mammon\, Adjunct Professor\, African Centre for Cities and Managing Director and Principal Planner\, NM & Associates Planners and Designers \nWHEN | Tuesday\, 14 February 2023 \nTIME | 15:30-16:30 \nVENUE | Due to student action on the UCT campus\, this event has been moved online. \nZOOM LINK | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87507483039?pwd=OUM5bzRnNVpEWGxzM21UN293MVh3Zz09
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/on-trauma-imaginaries-exploring-the-intersections-of-race-place-and-planning/
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230208T153000
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SUMMARY:Between ACC and the field: a reflection on two years of learning
DESCRIPTION:ACC invites you to join us as researcher Andrea Pollio reflects on his time as Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow jointly at the African Centre for Cities\, University of Cape Town\, and at the department of Urban and Regional Studies (DIST) at the Polytechnic of Turin. Andrea‘s talk will draw insights and lessons from his fieldwork on tech investment in Nairobi and his institutional embeddedness at ACC. Prof. Nancy Odendaal (Head of Department for the School of Architecture\, Planning and Geomatics) and Alicia Fortuin (Researcher\, ACC) will act as respondents.  \n  \nOnce overlooked in discussions about the emerging geopolitics of infrastructure\, cities in the global south are now recognised as sites where competing great powers materialise their diplomatic and geoeconomic interests through the financing of infrastructure systems such as railway corridors and ports. Yet these cities\, African cities in particular\, also play a vital role as testbeds of new technological standards in the scramble for digital infrastructure. From the operating systems of affordable smartphones\, to the inaccessible server rooms of national data centers\, booming African capitals like Nairobi are the experimental edge of a shift towards China in the technopolitics of the so-called ‘4th Industrial Revolution’. \nTo illustrate this point\, his presentation draws upon an ongoing research project about the presence of Chinese technology companies\, start-ups and investors in Nairobi\, one of Africa’s so-called Silicon Savannahs and one of the continent’s most acclaimed digital innovation scenes. The talk will combine insights from his fieldwork in Kenya with what Andrea’s learnt at the African Centre for Cities\, through his institutional embeddedness and the possibilities that were offered by the centre’s agendas and networks. \nWHEN | Wednesday\, 8 February 2023\nTIME | 15:30-17:00\, with light refreshments served after\nVENUE | Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town \nBIOGRAPHY\nAndrea Pollio is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow jointly at the African Centre for Cities\, University of Cape Town\, and at the department of Urban and Regional Studies (DIST) at the Polytechnic of Turin. His research interests are situated at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies (STS)\, urban studies and development economics. His published works mostly address the interface between technology\, development and urbanization in Africa. Andrea’s current book project charts the landing of private Chinese technology capital in Nairobi’s Silicon Savannah.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/between-acc-and-the-field-a-reflection-on-two-years-of-learning/
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY: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:African Infrastructure Futures: Building Common Purpose for Urban Success
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Cities\, along with its hosting partners\, convene the African Infrastructure Futures Conference from 21-23 November 2022\, in Cape Town\, South Africa. The conference is curated as follows: Day 1 will adopt a more traditional academic conference format and Day 2 and 3 will focus on the substance of policy and practice debates. \nPOLICY CONFERENCE | 22-23 November 2022 \nThe starting point of the two-day policy conference will be to establish a shared sense of urgency about the effects of dysfunctional urbanisation amidst an unfolding climate emergency that threatens to destroy infrastructure\, livelihoods and inter-generational mobility. The voices of youthful African climate activists will set the scene. \nNext\, we get concrete by defining in precise terms what the sustainable infrastructure opportunity is to forge a unique African pathway to address urbanisation and broader green growth imperatives. \nThen\, we locate the sustainable urban infrastructure imperative within the larger pan-African vision and programme for a common market and more diverse economies\, but all aligned with commitments in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for carbon reduction and imperatives of green industrialisation as promoted by UNECA. This is to acknowledge that cities can’t make progress without national government buy-in and leadership. \nOn the back of definitional clarity and macro implications\, the discussion will shift to questions of financing sustainable infrastructure and divesting from unsustainable technologies. There’s been a proliferation of discussions about the infrastructure gap. Instead of rehearsing those arguments\, we focus on three examples of attempted innovation and ask DFIs what it will take to mainstream these initiatives across Africa. \nHowever\, it would be a grave error to suggest that mainstreaming sustainable infrastructure approaches is simply a matter of technical competence and political will. It demands mindset change within society and leaders because too many Africans remain enamoured by visions of future urbanity that are carbon copies of Dubai\, Singapore and Shanghai. To insinuate this dimension into the conference we’ll host a TED-style talk by one of Africa’s leading architects\, which will serve as a reminder that our challenge is not simply to provide infrastructure but to create cities filled with opportunity\, beauty and cultural resonance. Cities are always civilisational projects. \nSound data is essential for evidence-based policy making and transparency fuels accountability and performance. The conference will explore the role of research\, data\, learning and intelligent feedback loops in forging partnerships to drive increased investment in sustainable infrastructure. \nLastly\, given the unique conditions that confront African cities\, it is essential that we invest in the creation of “city-level innovation ecosystems” to support the transition from unsustainable to sustainable infrastructure and urbanism. \nDOWNLOAD THE PROGRAMME \nThe Conference has reached capacity. 
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CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops
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SUMMARY:African Infrastructure Futures Conference: Urban research\, debates and priorities
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Cities\, along with its hosting partners\, convene the African Infrastructure Futures Conference from 21-23 November 2022\, in Cape Town\, South Africa. The conference is curated as follows: Day 1 will adopt a more traditional academic conference format and Day 2 and 3 will focus on the substance of policy and practice debates. \nTHE ACADEMIC CONFERENCE | 21 November 2022 \nThe one-day Academic Conference programme will kick-off with a keynote presentation by Prof Dilip M Menon\, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa\, Director\, and Mellon Chair in Indian Studies\, University of the Witwatersrand\, South Africa. The presentation is entitled Drowning Cities: Thinking urbanism in the age of global warming.  \nThree parallel sessions are structured along four thematic tracks: \nTRACK A – Design/Resilience \nSession 1: How Africa’s marginalised urban majority reframes the sustainability agenda\nSession 2: Resilience as a concept\, infrastructural practice\, and/or (re)imagination\nSession 3: Redirecting urban trajectories through speculative design practices and dispositions \nTRACK B – Power/Governance \nSession 1: Power and politics from urban peripheries\nSession 2: States and possibilities of urban infrastructure policymaking\nSession 3: Plural governance regimes: urban politics beyond the state \nTRACK C – Networks/Frontier \nSession 1: Finance as & of infrastructure: reframing financial and fiscal frontiers\nSession 2: Platformed cities and citizen\nSession 3: Enduring and emerging spatial imaginaries: from SEZs to ring road \nTRACK D – Everyday/Hybridity \nSession 1: Infrastructure’s multiplicities-circulations\, adaptations\, and composites\nSession 2: Everyday socio-infrastructural encounters in African cities\nSession 3: Decaying\, caring and repairing urban infrastructure \nThe day will conclude with a panel discussion entitled Propositions of the Present: Closing Reflections on the Potentials and Pathways for Urban Infrastructure Scholarship from Africa. \nDOWNLOAD THE PROGRAMME \nThe Academic Conference has reached capacity. 
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CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops
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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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CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:MPhil Southern Urbanism Info Session
DESCRIPTION:The MPhil Southern Urbanism is designed to cultivate the next generation of urban thinkers from the South\, who are rooted in the realities\, theories and practise of cities of the Global South. \nDrawing together a diverse cohort of scholar and practitioners\, the programme utilises a combination of guided learning in small-group seminars\, experimentation in various spaces of urban practice and independent thesis research to ground students in Urban Studies theory\, and new research methodologies. \nAPPLICATIONS DEADLINE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: 31 October 2022 \nAPPLICATIONS DEADLINE SA STUDENTS: 30 November 2022 \nIf you are interested in applying for the MPhil Southern Urbanism programme but still have some questions? This info session\, hosted by programme convenor\, Dr Anna Selmeczi will provide a brief overview of the pedagogical approach\, programme structure and entry requirements\, as well as discussion time to answer all your questions. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/mphil-southern-urbanism-info-session-4/
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:Power Talks Public Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join ACC and the Goethe Institut for a reflection session on Power Talks\, a programme which explored the nuanced forms\, dynamics and functions of power in creative and cultural sectors in South Africa. \nOver the past two months a series of multidisciplinary\, site specific programmes took place in Gqeberha and Bisho\, Durban\, Cape Town and Johannesburg. The programmes intended to serve as provocations for a dialectic on the nuanced forms\, dynamics and functions of power prevalent within the respective cultural scenes examined. It delivered a rich and varied experience\, conversation and engagement over the four sites and this reflection session provides an opportunity to share insights across the programme and sites. \nWHEN | Wednesday\, 12 October 2022 \nTIME | 19:00-20:30 \nREGISTER HERE \nPROGRAMME                                                                    \n19:00 – Introduction and framing of the session\n19:10 – Goethe Institut input\n19:20 – Power Talks Durban reflection\n19:30 – Power Talks Eastern Cape reflection\n19:40 – Power Talks Johannesburg reflection\n19:50 – Power Talks Cape Town reflection\n20:00 – Discussion and Q&A\n20:20 – Closing remarks\n  \n  \n 
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CATEGORIES:Conversation
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