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Contested Cartographies: Remapping Cape Town

Seminar Room 1 Environmental & Geographical Sciences Building, UCT Upper Campus

In this brown bag, Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk will introduce a working concept for new ways of understanding Cape Town. Overview: This concept presentation considers the mapping, naming, routing, disambiguations, planning, and compartmentalising of contemporary Cape Town. Using as a basis the idea of an atlas containing multiple maps of the city, this project considers expansions, degradings, mergings...

BROWN BAG POSTPONED: Dwelling on the edge of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Seminar Room 1 Environmental & Geographical Sciences Building, UCT Upper Campus

PLEASE NOTE THIS BROWN BAG HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE AS UCT STUDENTS ARE PROTESTING FOR FAIR FEES. In this brown bag, Dr Rick Miller will be giving a talk on informal settlements in Mongolia. Overview This talk will begin by introducing informal settlement in Ulaanbaatar - the ‘ger districts’. I will start by noting how Mongolia’s forms of...

Resilient Urban Development: perspective of the Massive Small Collective

African Centre for Cities UCT Upper Campus, Cape Town

In this Brown Bag, Lauren Hermanus will introduce the work of the Massive Small Collective, which seeks to make connections between small-scale urban sustainable development and resilience thinking. The Massive Small Collective understands resilience as social, economic and environmental sustainability under conditions of dynamic complexity. As individuals, households, businesses, and governments are faced with increasing...

Tackling Lighting Inequalities

African Centre for Cities UCT Upper Campus, Cape Town

Tackling Lighting Inequalities: About Urban Lighting, Design and ‘the Social’ The ACC is excited to introduce Mona Sloane, a visiting scholar for the London School of Economics and Politics. Mona will be presenting her work on 'Configuring Light/Staging the Social', a research programme she founded at the LSE at the final brown bag of 2016. About the...

Christiaan De Beukelaar

Friction in the Creative City: The Case of Bandung, Indonesia

Studio 5 Environmental and Geographical Science, Upper Campus, UCT,, Cape Town

Join the African Centre for Cities for a Brownbag session on 29 January 2018 from 12:45 to 14:00 by Christiaan De Beukelaer on "Friction in the Creative City: The Case of Bandung, Indonesia" hosted in Studio 5, Environmental and Geographical Science Building, Upper Campus, University of Cape Town. Since the foundation of the Bandung Creative...

Future foreshore winning bid, Cape Town.

ACC BROWNBAG Future Foreshore: are affordable housing and lowered freeways possible?

Studio 5 Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building, Upper Campus, Cape Town

Join ACC on Thursday, 8 March at 13:00 for the first in a series of Brownbag seminars. The hot topic of discussion is the winning bid for the redevelopment of the Foreshore Freeway Precinct, Cape Town. SPEAKERS Lisa Kane Kane is a Honorary Research Associate with the Centre for Transport Studies at UCT and co-founder and board member...

ACC Brown Bag: Taken for a Ride by Matteo Rizzo

Studio 3 Environmental and Geographical Science, Upper Campus, UCT,, Cape Town

Join ACC on Tuesday, 17 April at 13:00 in Studio 3 in the Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building on Upper Campus for the second talk in a series of Brown-bag seminars. Matteo Rizzo will be discussing themes emerging from his latest book Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis.  How...

Urban Humanities Seminar Series 2018

Environmental and Geographical Science Building South Lane, Upper Campus, UCT, Cape Town

Academic Seminars (15:00 - 16:30) 7 August High Stakes, High Hopes: Creating Collaborative Urban Theory - Prof Sophie Oldfield 16 August Inclusive Cultural Governance: Integrating artistic and cultural practices into national urban frameworks - Avril Joffe with respondent Zayd Minty 30 August in search of thick mapping: listening to Cape Town's cities - Dr Sabina Favaro 18 September Vital...

Urban Humanities Seminar Series: Valmont Layne on ‘Auditing’ vernacular Cape Town as a sonic city

Studio 3

We are excited to host Valmont Layne from the University of the Western Cape's Humanities Research Centre who will be reflecting on 'Auditing’ vernacular Cape Town as a sonic city' ABSTRACT: Cape Town offers a generative example of the postcolonial port city as an affective space – especially reading its vernacular musicking lifeworld as sonic...