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The city is not a destination, but a constant practice of becoming
19 May @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm SAST
You are invited to an immersive exhibition exploring the Urban Everyday, a showcase of creative works by postgraduate students who dare to look beneath the skyline. Through diverse media, they examine the city as a living, breathing site of emergence. From the quiet patience of waiting to the vocal energy of protest, these works engage with the diverse ways in which urban life worlds are constantly renegotiated, remade, repaired and reimagined.
The Urban Everyday is one of the core courses on the MPhil in Urban Studies – Southern Urbanism programme. The course approaches urban studies through literature grounded in everyday practices central to the dynamism that shapes African and Southern city contexts and their transformations. It reflects on the productive tensions in and between structural forces (the state, capital etc.) with ordinary forms of agency (citizenship, collective movements, and ordinary acts of encroachment) and thinks through the ways the everyday locates and disrupts theorising Southern cities.