The Ideas Festival: Re-imaging Infrastructure
As part of the African Infrastructure Futures Conference, the African Centre for Cities (University of Cape Town) and the Urban Futures Studio (Utrecht University), have mounted an exhibition of 10 case studies showcasing inspiring examples of infrastructure innovation from across the continent.
Africa Infrastructure Futures Conference: Building Common Purpose for Africa’s Urban Success
The African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town and its partners are convening an African Infrastructure Futures Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, from 21 to 23 November 2022.
Scientific hubris and a squeamish necropolitics: tracing continuities and discontinuities in AIDS discourses from the perspective of COVID-19
Andrew Tucker and Gerry Kearns have co-authored a paper entitled Scientific hubris and a squeamish necropolitics: tracing continuities and discontinuities in AIDS discourse from the perspective of COVID-19, in Social and Cultural Geography.
Report | The Cable is Coming
‘The Cable is Coming’ report uses the case of Uganda as an illustration of the diversity of intersections between small-scale electricity generation and urban development, raising critical questions related to the possibilities and risks of distributed technological systems in the context of Africa’s growing cities.
Community Engagement: A Practical Workbook for Local Government Practitioners
Community Engagement: A Practical Workbook for Local Government Practitioners, Wilmot Arendse and Mercy Brown-Luthango, aims to increase understanding constructive community engagement in informal settlements.
News
The Ideas Festival: Re-imaging Infrastructure
As part of the African Infrastructure Futures Conference, the African Centre for Cities (University of Cape Town) and the Urban Futures Studio (Utrecht University), have mounted an exhibition of 10 case studies showcasing inspiring examples of infrastructure innovation from across the continent.
Africa Infrastructure Futures Conference: Building Common Purpose for Africa’s Urban Success
The African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town and its partners are convening an African Infrastructure Futures Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, from 21 to 23 November 2022.
Recognition for ACC researcher Liza Rose Cirolia
Senior ACC research Liza Rose Cirolia has received a UCT College of Fellows’ Young Researcher Award 2022.
Reflection on the UTA-Do Workshop: the Importance of Place and Being Present
ACC PhD candidate Alicia Fortuin, reflects on her attendance of the UTA-Do African Cities Workshop for Early Career Researchers, hosted in Nairobi, Kenya from 23-27 May 2022.Â
POWER TALKS: a space for conversation about power in the creative and cultural sectors in South Africa
A multidisciplinary, multi-site programme in Gqeberha & Bhisho, Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg, which allows for a disruption of the performativity of critical debate that often skirts dissensus and discomfort in the dissection of power.
Laying the Table for a Better Food System
Urban Food Systems is one of the key thematics of ACC’s research, and we seeks different ways and platforms to…
Research
Scientific hubris and a squeamish necropolitics: tracing continuities and discontinuities in AIDS discourses from the perspective of COVID-19
Andrew Tucker and Gerry Kearns have co-authored a paper entitled Scientific hubris and a squeamish necropolitics: tracing continuities and discontinuities in AIDS discourse from the perspective of COVID-19, in Social and Cultural Geography.
Report | The Cable is Coming
‘The Cable is Coming’ report uses the case of Uganda as an illustration of the diversity of intersections between small-scale electricity generation and urban development, raising critical questions related to the possibilities and risks of distributed technological systems in the context of Africa’s growing cities.
A whole-of-government, whole-of-society approach to child nutrition
Join us as we look at a day in the life of 5-year-old Nosipho to see what she eats and what we can do together to ensure she has access to good nutrition daily.
Recipes for Partnering: Ingredients and methods for food system change in South Africa
Partnering and collaboration are essential elements for food system change, particularly in South Africa where the mandate for food is…
New African Urban University Report
The New African Urban University partnership is developing a research agenda to strengthen the role of African universities to advance…
Community Engagement: A Practical Workbook for Local Government Practitioners
Community Engagement: A Practical Workbook for Local Government Practitioners, Wilmot Arendse and Mercy Brown-Luthango, aims to increase understanding constructive community engagement in informal settlements.
Events
POWER TALKS: a space for conversation about power in the creative and cultural sectors in South Africa
A multidisciplinary, multi-site programme in Gqeberha & Bhisho, Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg, which allows for a disruption of the performativity of critical debate that often skirts dissensus and discomfort in the dissection of power.
Laying the Table for a Better Food System
Urban Food Systems is one of the key thematics of ACC’s research, and we seeks different ways and platforms to…
Reconstructing the future for people and planet
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS) and Bauhaus Earth bring together world-renowned practitioners and thinkers on crucial dimensions of the…
CALL FOR PAPERS | African Infrastructure Futures: Urban research, debates and priorities
The African Centre for Cities will be hosting a three-day conference entitled African Infrastructural Futures: Urban research, debates and priorities,…
Nobel Week Dialogue: The City of the Future
Take a second to picture your future home: what do you want it to be like? For well over half…
Unpacking co-production in second AURI workshop
The second workshop, co-hosted by African Urban Research Initiative (AURI) and Mistra Urban Futures programme, focused on knowledge co-production, and…
