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SUMMARY:The Integrated City: Local Cultural Policy and Sustainable Integrated Urban Development
DESCRIPTION:This seminar at UCT’s African Centre for Cities looks to continue a set of dialogues around cultural governance and sustainable urban development in South Africa. It brings two processes together:\n\n  The Local Cultural Policy Agenda: South African cities are potential spaces for dynamic change as a result of being the nexus for flows of people and ideas. Culture is increasingly seen as significant in urban transformation.  A long-term approach to exploring innovative urban governance frameworks that forward the use of culture has been proposed as a research agenda. These speak to new national frameworks around integrated urban development as well as revisions to the Arts and Culture White paper.\nIntegrating the Dual City:  The African Centre for Cities recent Integration and Ideas Festival continue a interest in the role of culture for sustainable development\, putting forward a number of innovative provocations to address the dual city.  These included a strong focus on issues related to culture (memory\, storytelling and identity)\, placemaking (densified\, dynamic neighborhoods) and relationality (including through mobility\, solidarity networks\, “hubs”\, and the digital space).\n\nThe seminar objectives\n\nFurther a dialogue between researchers working in civil society and government concerned with the culture and its role in  urban transformation.\nTo test the viability of a specific provocation – the UCLG Agenda 21 for Culture – Culture Actions: a framework for  governance that furthers the use of culture for sustainable development in cities –  against provocations at the recent  festival\, and including engaging with practitioners.\n\nTo identify possible future paths of inquiry and collaboration amongst researchers based in Cape Town with those elsewhere in South Africa.\n\nWHEN: 17 August 2018\nTIME: 8.30 for 9:00-15:00\nVENUE: John Martin Room\, New Engineering Building\, UCT\nRSVP: Places are limited. Please send an RSVP email with any dietary requirements to africancentreforcities.rsvp@gmail.com  \nPROGROGRAMME\n8:30-9:00 Registration and coffee\n9:00-9:30   Welcome\, Introduction and Viewing of Exhibition\nIntroduction.  Providing the input on Local Cultural Policy Agenda\, responding to Integration ideas Festival and introducing the UCLG Agenda 21 for Culture Actions. \nSpeaker: Zayd Minty \n9:30-10:30 Cultural Narratives – Heritage\, Creativity\, Urban Change\nWorking with memory and notions of heritage\, building on local creativity\, provide a powerful way to build meaning for citizens and so build sense of purpose. Why is this important for cities and what can we do about it? \nPresenters: Naomi Roux (UCT) and Valmont Layne (UWC)\nRespondent: Deirdre Prins-Solani (Education\, Culture and Heritage Specialist)\n10:30-11:00 Tea\n11:00-12:00  Place Making and the potential of Socially Engaged Public Practise\nThere is a growing need for thinking about denser\, more livable spaces that are also more resonant and meaningful through socially engaged public art/practices.  How can local government make this happen? \nPresenters:  Rike Sitas (UCT) and Anna Selmeczi (UCT)\nRespondent: Brenda Skelenge (Lukhanyo Hub) \n12:00-13:00  Cultural Mapping and Planning\nThe CoCT’s Cultural Mapping and Planning initiative provides an opportunity for communities to revalue their tangible and intangible assets and begin dialogues for community change.  How is this relevant for cities?\nPresenters: Vaughn Sadie (UCT/DUT) and Laura Nkula-Wenz (UCT)\nRespondent: TBC \n13:00-14:00 Lunch\n14:00-15:00  Closing discussion \nWay forward for research\, policy and practice agendas and support network.  Led by Avril Joffe (Wits)\n 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/integrated-city-local-cultural-policy-sustainable-integrated-urban-development/
LOCATION:John Martin Room\, New Engineering Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops
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SUMMARY:Urban Humanities Seminar Series: Inclusive Cultural Governance: Integrating artistic and cultural practices into national urban frameworks by Avril Joffe
DESCRIPTION:Join African Centre for Cities for the second seminar the second seminar in our Urban Humanities series\, Zayd Minty will be responding to Avril Joffe talking about Inclusive Cultural Governance: Integrating artistic and cultural practices into national urban frameworks \nWHEN: 16 August 2018\nTIME: 15:00 to 16:30\nVENUE: Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town.\nSPEAKER\nAvril Joffe is an economic sociologist with experience in the field of cultural policy\, culture and development and the cultural economy. She is the head of the Cultural Policy and Management Department at the Wits School of Arts\, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.  Avril is an active member of UNESCO’s Panel of Experts for Cultural Policy and Governance undertaking missions to support African governments in developing cultural policies\, cultural industry strategies\, reporting on their implementation of the UNESCO Convention\, writing and editing training manuals and recently contributed to the Global Monitoring Report 2018 on the ‘Integration of Culture in Sustainable Development’. Avril is a member of the South African Ministerial Review Panel to draft a revised cultural policy for South Africa.  She is on the board of the National Arts Council and chairs the Audit and Risk Committee for the NAC.\nRESPONDENT\nZayd Minty is a professional cultural development manager and curator.  He has previously\, since 1993\, worked in and with the cultural sector\, civil society\, academia and government\, in various leadership roles.  In addition to cultural policy and strategy work\, he has curated various arts projects and festivals. He is currently registered at the African Centre for Cities doing a doctorate looking at Cultural Clusters and Urban Development in the Johannesburg Inner City.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/urban-humanities-seminar-series-avril-joffe-zayd-minty/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 7701\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Urban Humanities Seminar Series: Prof Sophie Oldfield "High Stakes\, High Hopes: Creating Collaborative Urban Theory"
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED TO TUESDAY\, 7 AUGUST DUE TO A CLASH WITH THE UCT MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR THE LATE PROF BONGANI MAYOSI. \nACC is excited to invite you to the first Urban Humanities Seminar Series. Prof Sophie Oldfield will be presenting a paper entitled ‘High Stakes\, High Hopes: Creating Collaborative Urban Theory’.\nABSTRACT: High Stakes\, High Hopes creates urban theory in the political and physical realities of everyday southern city life. This work examines the high stakes at play in a decade-long research and teaching partnership\, which has brought this university and the neighbourhood’s civic organization in Cape Town to research the city together to collaboratively build urban theory. In narrating the project and partnership\, this lecture will explore collaborative forms of urban theory\, immersed in the registers\, inspirations and meanings of everyday struggles and learning across the city. This approach brings together multiple voices\, registers and accounts\, shaping urban theory in shared spaces across the city. In this context of extreme urban inequality\, this approach to theorising infuses the personal\, political\, and public struggles through which urban theory is generated\, expertise opened up\, and solidarity and commitment built.\nBIO: Sophie Oldfield holds the University of Basel–University of Cape Town Professorship in Urban Studies\, based at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. Her research is grounded in empirical and epistemological questions central to urban theory. Focusing on housing\, informality and governance\, mobilization and social movement organizing\, and urban politics\, her work pays close attention to political practice and everyday urban geographies\, analysing the ways in which citizens and organized movements craft agency to engage and contest the state. She has a track record of excellence in collaborative research practice\, challenging how academics work in and between “university” and “community.”\n 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/urban-humanities-seminar-series-prof-sophie-oldfield-high-stakes-high-hopes-creating-collaborative-urban-theory/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 7701\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Urban Humanities Seminar Series 2018
DESCRIPTION:Academic Seminars (15:00 – 16:30)\n7 August\nHigh Stakes\, High Hopes: Creating Collaborative Urban Theory – Prof Sophie Oldfield\n16 August\nInclusive Cultural Governance: Integrating artistic and cultural practices into national urban frameworks – Avril Joffe with respondent Zayd Minty\n30 August\nin search of thick mapping: listening to Cape Town’s cities – Dr Sabina Favaro\n18 September\nVital Geopolitics – Gerry Kearns\n20 September\nThe invention of the ‘Sink Estate’: Consequential Categorization and the UK Housing Crisis – Dr Tom Slater\n18 October\nStorytelling as method: migration\, gender and inclusion in Durban – Dr Kira Erwin\n1 November:\nContextualising strategies to enable LGBT rights in Africa: legitimacies\, spatial inequalities and socio-spatial relationships – Dr Andy Tucker\n15 November\nRepresenting urban life in Africa and its diasporas – Dr Shari Daya and Dr Rike Sitas\nBrown Bags (13:00-14:00)\n23 August\n‘Auditing’ vernacular Cape Town as a sonic city – Valmont Layne\n6 September\npumflet: art\, architecture and stuff – Ilze Wolff\n27 September\nSpeculative Indigeneity – A (K)new Now – heeten bhagat\n11 October\nConversations on cultural mapping and planning – Alicia Fortuin\, Vaughn Sadie and Shamila Rahim\n25 October\nFalse Bay – Dr Hedley Twidle
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/urban-humanities-seminar-series/
LOCATION:Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, South Lane\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags,Lectures
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DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180731T173000
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SUMMARY:PUBLIC LECTURE: Soft Thresholds - RMA Architects\, Mumbai by Rahul Mehrotra
DESCRIPTION:Rahul Mehrotra\, Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design\, will give a public lecture entitled Soft Thresholds – RMA Architects\, Mumbai\, co-hosted by African Centre for Cities\, UCT Architecture\, Planning and Geomatics\, UWC Centre for Humanities Research and Wolff Architects.\nMehrotra\, who recently received a Special Mention at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale\, is a practicing architect\, urban designer\, and educator. His Mumbai-based firm\, RMA Architects\, was founded in 1990 and has designed and executed projects including government and private institutions\, corporate workplaces\, private homes\, and unsolicited projects driven by the firm’s commitment to advocacy in the city of Mumbai. The firm has designed a software campus for Hewlett Packard in Bangalore\, a campus for Magic Bus (a NGO that works with poor children)\, led the restoration of the Chowmahalla Palace in Hyderabad\, and formulated a conservation master plan for the Taj Mahal with the Taj Mahal Conservation Collaborative. The firm also recently designed and built a social housing project for 100 elephants and their caretakers in Jaipur as well as a corporate office in Hyderabad. The firm has designed several single family houses in different parts of India and one in Karachi\, Pakistan.\n\nRecently\, Mehrotra completed the Lab of the Future on the Novartis Campus in Basel\, Switzerland and in 2015 was a finalist in an international design competition for the Museum of Modern Art in Sydney.\nMehrotra has written and lectured extensively on issues to do with architecture\, conservation\, and urban planning and design in Mumbai and India. His writings include coauthoring Bombay: The Cities Within\, which covers the city’s urban history from the 1600s to the present; Banganga: Sacred Tank; Public Places Bombay; Anchoring a City Line\, A history of the city’s commuter railway; and Bombay to Mumbai: Changing Perspectives. He has also coauthored Conserving an Image Center: The Fort Precinct in Bombay. Based on this study and its recommendations\, the historic Fort District in Mumbai was declared a conservation precinct in 1995 – a first such designation in India. In 2000\, he edited a book for the Union of International Architects\, which earmarks the end of the last century and is titled The Architecture of the 20th Century in the South Asian Region. In 2011\, Mehrotra wrote Architecture in India – Since 1990\, which is a reading of contemporary architecture in India which he extended through an exhibition he cocurated titled The State of Architecture: Practices and Processes in India\, at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Mumbai in Jan 2016. This was followed in 2018 by an exhibition titled: The State of Housing : Realities\, Aspirations and imaginaries in India which showed between Jan and March 2018 and will travel over the next two years in India.\n\nMehrotra is a member of the steering committee of the South Asia Institute at Harvard. In 2012-2015\, he led a Harvard University-wide research project with Professor Diana Eck\, called The Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Mega City. This work was published as a book in 2014. This research was extended in 2017 in the form of a book titled Does Permanence Matter? Mehrotra’s latest co- authored book is titled Taj Mahal : Multiple Narratives which was published in Dec 2017. His current research is on the small towns and emerging urban conglomerations in India and is expected to be published as book in late 2018.\nRahul Mehrotra has long been actively involved in civic and urban affairs in Mumbai\, having served on commissions for the conservation of historic buildings and environmental issues\, with various neighbourhood groups and\, from 1994 to 2004\, as Executive Director of the Urban Design Research Institute in Mumbai. He studied at the School of Architecture\, Ahmedabad (CEPT)\, and graduated with a master’s degree with distinction in Urban Design from Harvard University. He has taught at the University of Michigan (2003–2007) and at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at MIT (2007–2010). From 2010 to 2015\, he chaired the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.\nWHEN: Tuesday\, 31 July 2018\nTIME: 16:00 to 17:30\nVENUE: Baxter Theatre\, Main Road\, Cape Town\nRSVP: Space is limited. Please send an email to africancentreforcities.rsvp@gmail.com to secure your seat.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/public-lecture-soft-thresholds-rma-architects-mumbai-rahul-mehrotra/
LOCATION:Centre of the Book\, 62 Queen Victoria Street\, Cape Town\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Integration & Ideas Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Integration Syndicate is a three-phase project that started off with a series of nine “episodes” over the course of 2017\, which explored the obstacles and solutions to social-spatial integration in the Cape Town metropolitan region. From these episodes\, in which a closed group of academics\, activists\, public and private sector actors participated\, five provocations were developed that represent five potential springboard ideas to create and facilitate greater socio-spatial integration.\nDuring the first half of 2018 the five provocations were presented to focus groups of stakeholders for critical input to further shape the ideas. Now the next step is to take these five ideas to a broader audience with a public event\, the Integration & Ideas Festival.\nIntegration & Ideas Festival programme\nYou are invited to join us for the Integration & Ideas Festival\nWHEN: 26 July 2018\nTIME: 08:00 to 17:30\nWHERE: Guga S’thebe\, Washington Street\, Langa\, Cape Town\nRSVP: Please complete the form here to RSVP for this event.\nIf you have any queries please send an email to integration.syndicate@gmail.com\n \n 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/integration-ideas-festival/
LOCATION:Guga S’Thebe\, Washington Street\, Langa\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops,Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180612T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180612T163000
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SUMMARY:Cities and Climate Change Seminar 4
DESCRIPTION:Working at the interface of climate science\, urban policy and practice: developing ideas of distillation and receptivity\nWHEN: 12 June 2018\nTIME: 3:00 to 4:30\nWHERE: Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town\nThe last seminar in the 4 part series on cities and climate change will focus on how the worlds of climate science and urban policy making and implementation are being brought closer together in ways that might support more evidence-based decision making on urban matters that are climate sensitive. Drawing primarily on the efforts of\, and experiences from\, the Future Resilience of African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL) project\, the speakers will present ideas and practices of distilling relevant\, actionable climate information and fostering greater receptivity to engaging\, co-producing and acting on climate information. Central to this is the creation of city learning labs as a space for bringing together a diversity of people and knowledge to generate new thinking and possibly nudge processes of decision making in new directions. Experiences of designing and implementing such labs in Maputo\, Lusaka and Windhoek will be discussed in relation to emerging concepts of distillation and receptivity. The seminar will provide an opportunity to share insights about working at science-policy-practice interfaces between those working in the climate space and those working in other urban science-policy domains\, like health\, water management\, housing and biodiversity.\nCHAIR: Prof Sue Parnell\nSPEAKERS:\n\nDr Chris Jack\, Principal Scientific Officer\, Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG)\, and ACDI Senior Fellow\nDr Di Scott\, African Centre for Cities\nDr Izidine Pinto\, Climate System Analysis Group
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/cities-climate-change-seminar-4/
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180611T083000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180611T164500
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SUMMARY:Cities\, geo-technologies and data-driven urbanism
DESCRIPTION:African Centre for Cities\, along with Prodig\, French National Centre for Scientific Research\, French Institute of South Africa and the French Institute for Research in Africa\, are presenting a one-day workshop entitled Cities\, geo-technologies and data-driven urbanism. \nThe programme is structured into four sessions with two sessions of strategic input from research and practice by various presenters (see below) and two work sessions to discuss and synthesize the inputs.\nWHEN: Monday\, 11 June 2018\nTIME: 08:30 to 16:45\nWHERE: Room 3B\, RW James Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town\n \nWhile a curated group of people have been invited to the workshop\, five places are still available. These places will be allocated on a first come\, first serve basis. To secure your spot send an email to elisabeth.peyroux@cnrs.fr or call  +2772 250 7804.\n \nPRESENTATIONS:\nInterdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives on cities and geo-technologies – Elisabeth Peyroux\, National Centre for Scientific Research\, Prodig\, & Nancy Odendaal\, School of Architecture\, Planning and Geomatics\, UCT\nTechnology and spatial governance in Southern cities – Nancy Odendaal\, School of Architecture\, Planning and Geomatics\, UCT\n(Big) Data\, knowledge\, and their use in decision-making and policy-making: Perspectives from ICT4D – Ulrike Rivett\, Department of Information Systems\, School of IT\, UCT\nDisruptive technologies\, new power relationships and challenges to urban governance – Sabelo Mahlangu\, School of Architecture and Planning\, Wits University & Samy Katumba\, Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO)\nLinking research\, practice and higher education – Herrie Schalekamp\, Centre for Transport Studies (CfTS)\, UCT\nGeospatial data analysis: The significant rise in local service levels coming from Cityspec intervention in Monwabisi Park and Lotus Park (Cape Town) – Chris Berens\, GIS expert\, Knowledge Management\, VPUU & Nhlanhla May\, Spatial Data Analyst\, VPUU\nCity making and the rise of urban and technology-oriented development interventions in Nairobi – Prince Guma\, Human geography and Planning\, University of Utrecht\nICT for e-Culture: cultural storytelling and innovative services. The “Smart Square” in Hamburg and its application in Cape Town – Sumarie Roodt\,  Department of Information Systems\, Commerce Faculty UCT & Jens Bley\, HafenCity University\nDemo of 3D scanning technologies applied to the built environment – Jason Stapleton CEO Metascale Services and Consulting (MSC)\n 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/cities-geo-technologies-data-driven-urbanism/
LOCATION:Room 3B\, RW James Building\, University Avenue North\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Towards the Just City: Race\, Space and Design
DESCRIPTION:Join African Centre for Cities and the School of Architecture\, Planning and Geomatics for a lunch time seminar by Prof Toni L. Griffin on 6 June 2018\, from 13:00-14:00 in Room 3.33\, Centlivres Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town.\nGriffin is the founder of Urban Planning for the American City\, based in New York\, specialising in leading complex\, trans-disciplinary planning and urban design projects for multi-sector clients in cities with long histories of spatial and social injustice. Recent and current clients include the cities of Detroit\, Memphis\, Milwaukee\, Pittsburgh\, and St. Louis.\nShe is also Professor in Practice of Urban Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design\, and leads The Just City Lab\, a research programme for developing values-based planning methodologies and tools\, including the Just City Index – a framework of indicators and metrics for evaluating public life and urban justice in public spaces.\n 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/toward-just-city-race-space-design/
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180531T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20180531T200000
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SUMMARY:My Just City is Black and White: Race\, Space and Design
DESCRIPTION:The Nelson Mandela Foundation along with African Centre for Cities and the US Embassy in South Africa are hosting a Nelson Mandela 100 Lecture to be delivered by Prof Toni L. Griffin entitled My Just City is Black and White: Race\, Space and Design.\nCities in both South Africa and the United States have long histories of spatial and social injustice\, and remain sites of inequality. There continues to be divisions along racial\, cultural and socio-economic lines despite shifts in patterns of ownership and changing demographics.\nWith the new impetus towards land justice in South Africa\, the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the African Centre for Cities\, with the support of the United States State Department\, will host a Nelson Mandela 100 lecture to facilitate public discourse on the issues of urban justice\, access to the city and overcoming segregation and displacement in cities.\nThe lecture will be delivered by Toni L. Griffin\, Professor in Practice of Urban Planning at the Harvard Graduate Centre of Design. Griffin is also the founder of Urban Planning and Design for the American City\, based in New York\, and until recently was a Professor of Architecture and the founding Director of the J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City at the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York. Part of Professor Griffin’s recent work seeks to define the core values of a just city and offer a performance measurement tool to assist cities and communities with evaluating how design facilitates urban justice in the built environment.\nThe lecture will allow for an international comparative discussion\, with two local respondents who will provide reflections\, followed by an open question and answer session.\nRespondents\nProfessor Edgar Pieterse\, DST/NRF Research Chair in Urban Policy\, and Director of the African Centre for Cities\, University of Cape Town\nMandisa Dyantyi\, Deputy General Secretary of the Social Justice Coalition\nDATE: 31 May 2018\nTIME: 18:00-20:00\nVENUE: The Nelson Mandela Foundation\, 107 Central Street\, Houghton\, Johannesburg\nRSVP: LeeD@nelsonmandela.org
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/just-city-black-white-race-space-design/
LOCATION:Nelson Mandela Foundation\, 107 Central Street\, Houghton\, Johannesburg\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Cities and Climate Change: Seminar 3
DESCRIPTION:Nate Millington will present a talk entitled Making sense of our water crisis: what can we learn from São Paulo? as part of our on-going series on Cities and Climate Change on 28 May 2018\, at 15:00 to 16:30 in Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT.\nBoth Cape Town and São Paulo have recently been marked by drought-induced water crises\, as pre-existing infrastructures were forced to confront changing climates\, continued growth\, and infrastructural breakdown. These dynamics coexist in intimate ways with long histories of auto-construction\, heterogeneous infrastructural development\, and uneven water security. While water insecurity has long marked cities in the global south\, multi-year droughts have resulted in water crises in southern cities with previously robust water management systems. Experiences of citywide scarcity in these two cities point to the increasing regularity and visibility of persistent water crisis at the global level\, which is drawing new actors into new coalitions and reconfiguring existing governance patterns. The intensity of the droughts that affected São Paulo in 2013-2015 and Cape Town in 2015-17 are undoubtedly outliers\, but when situated in multi-year frameworks the trends seem to suggest that water patterns in both cities are shifting in line with expanded water use and increased urbanization. This has implications not just for São Paulo and Cape Town\, but also for southern cities where water insecurity is more chronic.\nIn this seminar\, we think comparatively about São Paulo’s experience of crisis and its implication both for Cape Town as well for cities more generally. We ask how São Paulo’s experience with scarcity helps us to think through and make sense of Cape Town’s ongoing crisis. At the same time\, we are interested in thinking comparatively about the differences in how the two cities responded. Ultimately\, our intention is to think both globally and locally: to put two these two cities in conversation while being clear that global climate change is a planetary phenomenon.\n \nSpeaker: Nate Millington\nDiscussant: Anna Taylor\nChair: Gina Ziervogel\n \nWHEN: 28 May 2018\nTIME: 15:00 to 16:30\nVENUE: Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, Cape Town
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/cities-climate-change-seminar-3/
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Cities and Climate Change: Seminar 2
DESCRIPTION:The second seminar in the Cities and Climate Change series will explore low carbon urban energy transitions in (mostly South) African cities\, paying particular attention to the institutional dimensions of transforming energy systems to increase energy access and increase sustainability by reducing GHG emissions in growing cities.\n \nIn the 20th century\, grid electric power radically changed the face of household and community services\, industry and commerce. Influence over the electricity grid by powerful human actors also enabled establishment and maintenance of fundamental social and economic structures. However\, such influence has not remained uni-directional. The grid\, too\, has come to influence powerful human actors in ways probably not intended. Hilton Trollip will discuss Hodder’s (2014) use of the ‘entanglement’ concept with reference to analysis of historic and recent developments in South Africa’s energy system.\n \nSaul Roux will discuss research conducted within the Mistra Urban Futures – Knowledge Transfer Programme (MUF-KTP)\, which involved spending three years in the City of Cape Town\, embedded in its Energy and Climate Change Unit\, focussing on the conditions under which energy systems transition to more sustainable configurations\, through an exploration of the City’s electricity distribution system. Theoretically\, the study is situated within debates on socio-technical transitions and the multi-level perspective (MLP) of socio-technical change. Overall\, the study explored the implications of applying the multi-level perspective to cities (scale) in the Global South (geographical context) and examines and the role of regulatory and organisational conditions in shaping sustainable transitions.\n \nAnton Cartwright will bring these inputs into conversation with seminar participants around questions of governing low carbon\, sustainable and inclusive transitions in African cities.\n \nHodder\, I.\, 2014. The Entanglements of Humans and Things: A Long-Term View. New Literary History\, 45(1)\, pp.19–36. Available at:http://muse.jhu.edu/content/crossref/journals/new_literary_history/v045/45.1.hodder.html.\n \nSpeakers\n\nHilton Trollip\, senior researcher in energy policy\, Energy Research Centre\nSaul Roux\, legal campaigner\, Centre for Environmental Rights (previously ACC Mistra Urban Futures embedded researcher with City of Cape Town)\n\n \nChair & discussant\n\nAnton Cartwright\, institutional economics research fellow\, African Centre for Cities\n\nWHEN: 15 May 2018\nTIME: 15:00 – 16:30\nWHERE: Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Science Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/cities-climate-change-seminar-2/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 7701\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Academic Seminar Series: Cities and Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:What does transforming Cape Town into a zero carbon\, climate resilient city entail? What about Windhoek\, Accra or São Paulo? This series of ACC Seminars explores the intersection of urbanisation and climate change.\nThe first seminar in the series reflects on the recent international conference on cities and climate change\, the first of its kind convened by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Through a panel discussion between representatives from the City of Cape Town\, the African Centre for Cities\, UCT’s Climate System Analysis Group and the African Climate and Development Institute\, who all participated in the conference\, we will draw out key themes and debates surfacing within the climate change and cities field internationally\, as well as reflect on any notable silences or gaps. We will also share a snapshot of what inputs we offered to the international science and policy community concerned with cities and climate change. This will establish the main contours of the climate change and cities research space\, framing the three subsequent seminars in the series.\nThe second and third seminars will delve deeper into the mitigation / emissions and impacts / adaptation ‘sides’ of the climate change field\, focussing on the city scale. We will explore low carbon urban energy transitions in (mostly South) African cities\, paying particular attention to what it takes to reduce GHG emissions while reducing poverty and inequality in growing cities. And we will bring the water crises in the cities of Sao Paulo and Cape Town into conversation\, through critically reflecting on the notions of resilience and adaptation to see what lessons can be drawn for dealing with drought and water scarcity in cities.\nThe series will wrap up with a seminar discussing the science-policy-practice interfaces for addressing climate change in southern African cities\, drawing on work being undertaken in the Future Resilience of African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL) project. The discussion will centre on understanding urban climate governance\, how robust\, defensible and actionable climate information can be co-produced and how to create entry points and receptivity for the use of that climate information in decision-making that shapes the future of cities.\n \nDates\nThe series runs on Tuesday afternoons from 15:00 to 16:30 on:\n\n24 April 2018\n15 May 2018\n28 May 2018\n12 June 2018\n\nSpeakers and panellists:\n\nVictor Indasi\, climate science post doc\, Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG)\nAmy Davison\, Head of Environmental Strategy Implementation\, City of Cape Town\nAlice McClure\, FRACTAL coordinator\, Climate System Analysis Group\nAnna Taylor\, urban geography post doc\, African Centre for Cities (ACC) & CSAG\nLorena Pasquini\, risk governance research fellow\, African Climate and Development Initiative \nAnton Cartwright\, institutional economics research fellow\, African Centre for Cities\nHilton Trollip\, senior researcher in energy policy\, Energy Research Centre\nSaul Roux\, environmental law researcher\, Centre for Environmental Rights (previously ACC Mistra Urban Futures embedded researcher with City of Cape Town)\nNate Millington\, urban geography post doc\, African Centre for Cities\nDi Scott\, senior social scientist on the FRACTAL project\, African Centre for Cities\nChris Jack\, climate science senior researcher\, Climate System Analysis Group
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/academic-seminar-series-cities-climate-change/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town \, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Cities and Climate Change: Seminar 1
DESCRIPTION:The first seminar in the academic seminar series on Cities and Climate Change reflects on the recent international conference on cities and climate change\, the first of its kind convened by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Through a panel discussion between representatives from the City of Cape Town\, the African Centre for Cities\, UCT’s Climate System Analysis Group and the African Climate and Development Initiative\, who all participated in the conference\, we will draw out key themes and debates surfacing within the climate change and cities field internationally\, as well as reflect on any notable silences or gaps. We will also share a snapshot of what inputs we offered to the international science and policy community concerned with cities and climate change. This will establish the main contours of the climate change and cities research space\, framing the three subsequent seminars in the series.\n \nSPEAKERS\n\nVictor Indasi\, climate science post doc\, Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG)\nAmy Davison\, Head of Environmental Strategy Implementation\, City of Cape Town\nAlice McClure\, FRACTAL coordinator\, Climate System Analysis Group\nLorena Pasquini\, risk governance research fellow\, African Climate and Development Institute\n\nDISCUSSANT\nAnna Taylor\, urban geography post doc\, ACC & CSAG
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/cities-climate-change-seminar-1/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:ACC Brown Bag: Taken for a Ride by Matteo Rizzo
DESCRIPTION: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. \nHow does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism? Who has the power to influence its changing shape over time? What does it mean to be a precarious and informal worker in the private minibuses that provide such transport in Dar es Salaam? These are some of the main questions that inform Rizzo’s in-depth case study of Dar es Salaam’s public transport system over more than forty years.\nAccording to the author Taken for a Ride “is an interdisciplinary political economy of public transport\, exposing the limitations of market fundamentalist and postcolonial approaches to the study of economic informality\, the urban experience in developing countries\, and their failure to locate the agency of the urban poor within their economic and political structures. It is both a contribution to and a call for the contextualized study of neoliberalism.”\nMatteo Rizzo is a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at SOAS\, University of London. Matteo has degrees in Political Sciences from “Orientale”(Naples\, Italy)  and Development Studies and History from SOAS (MSc and PhD)\, where he also completed an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship. Matteo has taught at the LSE\, at the African Studies Centre in Oxford and in Cambridge\, where he was a Smuts Research Fellow in African Studies at the Centre of African Studies. Matteo is a member of the Editorial Working Group of the Review of African Political Economy\nand works on public transport for the International Transport Workers Federation.\nTaken for a Ride will be available for purchase at the Brown-bag session for a special price at only R250. Please bring along cash if you wish to purchase the book.\n 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/acc-brown-bag-taken-ride-matteo-rizzo/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, Upper Campus\, UCT\,\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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SUMMARY:ACC BROWNBAG Future Foreshore: are affordable housing and lowered freeways possible?
DESCRIPTION: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.\nSPEAKERS\nLisa Kane\nKane is a Honorary Research Associate with the Centre for Transport Studies at UCT and co-founder and board member of Open Streets\, Cape Town. Her PhD thesis considered the history and politics of engineering of the Foreshore freeway projects from its initiation to the 1980s\, and how that period has informed current thinking around road engineering in South Africa.\nRob McGaffin\nMcGaffin is a town planner and land economist.  He has worked as town planner with the City of Cape Town and the Gauteng Department of Economic Development\, and in property finance at several financial institutions. He was a Mistra Urban Futures Researcher with the ACC. He lectures in the Department of Construction Economics and Management at the University of Cape Town and is a founding member of the UCT – Nedbank Urban Real Estate Research Unit.\nCHAIR\nVanessa Watson\nWHEN: Thursday\, 8 March 2018\nTIME: 13:00 to 14:30\nVENUE: Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/acc-brownbag-future-foreshore-affordable-housing-lowered-freeways-possible/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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SUMMARY:One Table Two Elephants
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the screening of the film ONE TABLE TWO ELEPHANTS (84 minutes\, work in progress) at the ACC International Urban Conference 2018 in Cape Town.\n\n\nWHEN: Friday 2 Feb 2018\, 13:00-15:00\, and Saturday 3 Feb 2018\, 13:00-15:00\nWHERE: Neville Alexander Lecture Theatre 1A\, Upper Campus\, UCT (venue lies between the New Lecture Theatre and Leslie Social Science building)\n\n\n\nThe film is based on work in Cape Town by Jacob von Heland and ACC-based researcher Henrik Ernstson. These two screenings have been especially organised for the ACC IUC 2018 delegates and UCT film students. Each screening will be followed by a Q&A with Henrik Ernstson. RSVP not needed.\n\n\n\n\n\nSynopsis\n\nONE TABLE TWO ELEPHANTS is a film about bushmen bboys\, a flower kingdom and the ghost of a princess. Entering the city through it’s plants and wetlands\, the many-layered\, painful and liberating history of the city emerges as we see how biologists\, hip hoppers\, and wetland activists each searches for ways to craft symbols of unity and cohesion. But this is a fraught and difficult task. Perhaps not even desirable. Plants\, aliens\, memories and ghosts keep troubling efforts of weaving stories about this place called Cape Town.\n\nSituated and grounded in lived experiences across a range of groups\, this film follows different ways of knowing and tries to be a vehicle toward difficult yet urgently needed conversations about how race\, nature and the city are intertwined in our postcolonial world where history is ever present in subtle and direct ways.\n\nBased on years of research in Cape Town\, this ‘cinematic ethnography’ is directed towards a wider audience\, from the general public to students and scholars as it brings texture to understand a city like Cape Town\, while providing ample possibilities to translate what is happening “there” to conversations about your own city and surroundings.\n\n\n\n\nCreated by: Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson. Photography (DOP): Johan von Reybekiel. Sound: Jonathan Chiles. Production coordination: Jessica Rattle and Nceba Mangesi.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/one-table-two-elephants/
LOCATION:Neville Alexander Lecture Theatre 1A\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town\, Rondebosch\, Western Cape\, 7701\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:African Centre for Cities International Urban Conference 2018
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the establishment of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town\, the International Urban Conference draws together leading urban scholars and practitioners from all corners of Africa and the world to take stock of ground-breaking urban research\, to explore new avenues for enquiry and collaboration\, and to make visible the vibrant state of our broad and heterogeneous field.\nThe conference takes place from 1 to 3 February 2018\, at the University of Cape Town\, South Africa.\nWith nearly 300 individual papers\, over 80 panels and close to 20 roundtables\, the conference will provide an opportunity to engage with the scale and breadth of African and southern urbanism\, which calls for comparative readings of cities\, alternative modes of inquiry and new geographies of theory.\n \nTHE CONFERENCE HAS REACHED MAXIMUM CAPACITY. REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS NOW CLOSED. \n \nACCOMMODATION & TRAVEL\nWe recommend preferred supplier Flywell Travel for accommodation or travel queries.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/african-centre-cities-international-urban-conference-2018/
LOCATION:University of Cape Town\, Upper Campus\, Cape Town \, Western Cape \, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops
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SUMMARY:Friction in the Creative City: The Case of Bandung\, Indonesia
DESCRIPTION: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.\nSince the foundation of the Bandung Creative City Forum (BCCF) in 2008\, the city of Bandung\, capital of West Java has started referring to itself as an ‘emerging creative city’. Because of the significant role BCCF\, a civil society organisation\, played in developing this strategy\, Bandung relied far less on top-down\, consultant-driven strategies than most ‘creative cities’. While their largely bottom-up engagement with the ‘creative city script’ was well-received\, the practical execution of their ideas poses challenges in terms of negotiating priorities and strategies. The implementation became more complex and complicated when Ridwan Kamil\, BCCF’s first director\, was elected Mayor in 2013. The ensuing tensions concealed two important questions: What is the creative city? How to execute creative city strategies? Rather than engaging with these unspoken questions\, Bandung has become a creative city of many definitions and strategies\, while maintaining its singular brand. I explain the ensuing ‘friction’ (Tsing 2005) in two overlapping ways. First\, I contrast two notions of the creative city by building on the work of geographer Oli Mould. His book Urban Subversion and the Creative City distinguishes the uppercase ‘Creative City’ (the mainstream understanding of the term) – and the lowercase ‘creative city’ (the more grounded\, subversive understanding of the term). Second\, I build on the work of geographer Jamie Peck\, who critiques the global flow of ‘policy-fixes’ as being prone to becoming ‘fast policy’ (often captured in buzzwords)\, which inevitably collides with ‘slow policy’ of existing bureaucracies and power structures.\n \nMore on the speaker and respondent:\nChristiaan De Beukelaer is a Lecturer in Cultural Policy at the University of Melbourne. He obtained a PhD from the University of Leeds and holds degrees in development studies (MSc\, Leuven)\, cultural studies (MA\, Leuven)\, and musicology (BA\, Amsterdam). He won the 2012 Cultural Policy Research Award\, which resulted in the book Developing Cultural Industries: Learning From the Palimpsest of Practice (European Cultural Foundation\, 2015). He co-edited the book Globalization\, Culture\, and development: The UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2015\, with Miikka Pyykkönen and JP Singh)\, and a special issue on Cultural Policy for Sustainable Development for the International Journal of Cultural Policy (2017\, 23(2)\, with Anita Kangas and Nancy Duxbury). He is now working on the book Global Cultural Economy (co-authored with Kim-Marie Spence\, forthcoming with Routledge).\nLaura Nkula-Wenz is an urban geographer with a keen interest in postcolonial urban theory\, African urbanism and culture. Her research focuses on the transformation of urban governance and the construction of local political agency\, as well as the diverse relationships between cultural production and urban change. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Münster/Germany\, where she also completed a degree in Human Geography\, Communication Studies and Political Science. Laura recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Pôle de recherche pour l’organisation et la diffusion de l’information géographique (Prodig) in Paris and currently works on the Critical Urbanism Masters at the African Centre for Cities (UCT\, in cooperation with the University of Basel).
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/friction-creative-city-case-bandung-indonesia/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, Upper Campus\, UCT\,\, Cape Town\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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SUMMARY:ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series: Producing water scarcity in São Paulo\, Brazil: The 2014 Water Crisis and the Binding  Politics of Infrastructure
DESCRIPTION:The last instalment of the annual ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series is presented by Dr Nate Millington on Producing water scarcity in São Paulo\, Brazil: The 2014 Water Crisis and the Binding  Politics of Infrastructure at 15:00 in Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town.\nABSTRACT\nIn 2014\, political intransigence combined with a severe drought to push São Paulo\, Brazil\, to the edge of a profound water crisis. In this paper\, I consider the response to the crisis on behalf of the state government\, focusing on both the way that the crisis was narrated as well as responded to. I consider the suite of actions taken to cope with scarcity\, focusing specifically on the state’s employment of pressure reductions in the water pipes as opposed to a formal rationing. I argue that despite the state government’s claims that only a small minority was going without water\, the reality was that residents of the urban periphery were facing consistent water shortages. I argue that these shortages are representative of a form of infrastructural politics\, in which the seemingly most technically viable solutions to the crisis exacerbated inequality due to the inequity that is built into the city’s hydrological infrastructure itself. I conclude by thinking of the city’s crisis as indicative of the changing nature of daily life in contemporary cities in the wake of climate change at both the local and global scale.\nMore on the full seminar series here.\nMore on the NOTRUC programme here.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/acc-notruc-seminar-series-producing-water-scarcity-sao-paulo-brazil-2014-water-crisis-binding-politics-infrastructure/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Science and Cocktails: Can We Move Beyond the Divided City?
DESCRIPTION:Is urban segregation simply a fact of contemporary life? Are the shopping mall and gated community to blame for new forms of urban division? What role does the real estate market play in reproducing urban patterns? Is middle-class suburbia deracializing or not?\nDoes public investment in housing and social amenities worsen or improve urban divides? Do BRT systems help or hinder urban integration? Who\, if anyone\, can make a difference in altering spacial patterns of the city?\nIt is arguable that South African cities are more divided today compared to 1994. How can this be? Why are we seemingly unable to shift the contours of division and live differently?\nEdgar Pieterse will review the drivers of contemporary urban divides and explore the reasons why policy after policy since 1994 say the “right” things but achieve the opposite outcome. He will place his discussion in the context of the nature of both public and private investments into South African cities and illustrate the talk with data and policy experiments in Cape Town and Johannesburg.\nPieterse will conclude by putting forward what some of the preconditions for genuine urban transformation might be.\nDate: 28 November 2018\nTime: Doors open at 18:30\, no admittance after 20:00.\nVenue: The Orbit\, Braamfontein\, Johannesburg\nEntrance to the event: R20.\nNo registration is necessary but guests are strongly encouraged to arrive early. Dinner is served from 18:00. Guests wishing to have dinner before the event should book in advance with The Orbit and arrive by 18:30. (Last orders for dinner at 19:15 to make it to the event). Directions to the venue.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/science-cocktails-can-move-beyond-divided-city/
LOCATION:The Orbit\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Mistra Urban Futures Annual International Conference 2017
DESCRIPTION:Mistra Urban Futures Annual International Conference takes place from 13 to 15 November 2017 in Kisumu\, Kenya under the banner “Realising Just Cities – Learning Through Comparison”.\nThe rapidly growing number of people moving into cities all over the world also present a challenge of unprecedented size. It is crucial to find ways to make urbanisation a source for wealth\, health and sustainability – which is shared. Mistra Urban Futures arranges yearly a conference about Realising Just Cities.\nKeynote speakers include:\nCaroline Wanjiku Kihato\, Visiting Researcher at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg\, and a Global Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars\, Washington DC. Member of Mistra Urban Futures Board.\nEdgar Pieterse\, South African Research Chair in Urban Policy & Director of African Centre for Cities.\nFor more information click here.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/mistra-urban-futures-annual-international-conference-2017/
LOCATION:Imperial Hotel Kisumu\, Kisumu\, Kenya
CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops
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SUMMARY:Soft Infrastructure: Recalibrating Aesthetics\, Economies\, And Urban Epistemologies
DESCRIPTION:The African Academy for Urban Diversity; a joint initiative of the African Centre for Migration & Society; the African Centre for Cities; and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity invites you to a special public lecture by Dr Mpho Matsipa (Wits City Institute\, University of the Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg).\nA city like Johannesburg offers a glimpse into how immigration\, black female sexuality and shifts in urban retail economies provide important economic and cultural resources to urban residents and users. By exploring black cultural practices\, like braiding\, as both ontology and epistemology\, the lecture will explore how such practices recalibrate local economies\, infrastructures\, and aesthetic codes\, and thus might co-constitute emergent urban identities and a way of knowing the city. The intimate\, networked\, and fractal nature of black hair braiding spaces disrupts the rigid colonial spatial orders of the city and its architecture.\nHowever\, can such soft infrastructures sufficiently disrupt the grand narrative of African cities in ‘crisis’\, while also disrupting colonial and colonizing cartographies of African urban environment?\nBiography\nDr Mpho Matsipa is a researcher at the Wits City Institute. After completing her professional degree in Architecture at the University of Cape Town\, with a distinction in design\, Mpho was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and later\, a Carnegie Grant as a graduate student at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her PhD in Architecture\, from the University of California\, Berkeley\, is titled The Order of Appearances explored the entangled geographies of urban informality\, urban redevelopment and the politics of race\, gender and aesthetics in Johannesburg’s inner city. Mpho has written critical essays and reviews on public art\, culture and space for Art South Africa\, the Architectural Review and Thesis 11 (forthcoming).\nMpho has worked as an architect and she has been shortlisted in two prestigious national design competitions. She has curated several exhibitions\, including of the South Africa Pavilion at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition\, Venice Biennale (2008).She has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture and associate research scholar at Columbia GSAPP and Curator of Studio-X Johannesburg –  an experimental public platform on architecture and the city sponsored by Columbia University. She is currently co-curating a pan-African architecture exhibition at the Architecture Museum in Munich titled “African Mobilities: This is not a Refugee Camp Exhibition”\, that will open in April 2018.\nFor more information and to RSVP: info@migration.org.za\nDate:    Thursday 9 November 2017\nTime:    16:00 to 17:30\nVenue:  Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room\, South West Engineering Building\, East Campus\, University of the Witwatersrand
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/soft-infrastructure-recalibrating-aesthetics-economies-urban-epistemologies/
LOCATION:Humanities Graduate Centre Seminar Room\, South West Engineering Building\, East Campus\, University of the Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Falling Walls Conference: How Urban Studies Envision the New Era of the Metropolis
DESCRIPTION:African Centre for Cities Director Prof Edgar Pieterse will be one of the speakers at the Falling Walls Conference\, 8 to 9 November 2017\, Berlin. His talk is entitled How Urban Studies Envision the New Era of the Metropolis.  \nThe Falling Walls Conference is an annual global gathering of forward thinking individuals from 80 countries organised by the Falling Walls Foundation. Each year on 9 November – the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall – 20 of the world’s leading scientists are invited to Berlin to present their current breakthrough research.\nThe aim of the Conference is to:\n\nidentify trends\, opportunities and solutions for global challenges and discover international breakthrough research.\nconnect outstanding researchers from different disciplines and support the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas internationally.\nbuild bridges between business\, politics\, academia and the arts.\npromote the latest scientific findings among a broader audience.\ninspire people to break down walls in science and society.\n\nIn 15-minute-talks\, researchers from all disciplines present their work in front of 700 international guests. During the breaks\, the Falling Walls Forum becomes the place for high-level Q&A where the audience can ask questions and engage in discussions. A new peer-learning platform\, Falling Walls Connect\, gives the audience the opportunity to contribute their knowledge and expertise to fellow participants.\nThe Conference is broadcasted online via free livestream. All presentations are available in the Falling Walls Library.\nGet the full programme here. 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/falling-walls-conference-urban-studies-envision-new-era-metropolis/
LOCATION:Room 3.33\, Centlivres Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Berlin \, Germany
CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171108T150000
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SUMMARY:ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series: Contesting the Coast:  Infrastructure\, Ecology and Coastal Planning in New Orleans and the Mississippi River Delta - Cancelled
DESCRIPTION:This seminar focuses on environmental politics and regional urban planning based on a paper by Dr Joshua Lewis and Dr Henrik Ernstson called Contesting the Coast: Infrastructure\, Ecology and Coastal Planning in New Orleans and the Mississippi River Delta. The paper is presented by Dr Henrik Ernstson who works at ACC and is affiliated to KTH Royal Institute of Technology and The University of Manchester.\nThe presentation will take place on 8 November 2017\, at 15:00 in Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town.\nPlease note this seminar has been cancelled. \nABSTRACT\nFor over 150 years two major and capital-driven projects have re-worked the vast Louisiana coastal landscape. One has centered on ‘adapting’ the landscape to compete and increase for global maritime trade\, shortening the time distance from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico. The second has been about increasing the amount of space for real estate and urban development. However\, developing large-scale water infrastructure in a vast and complex ecosystem comes with unexpected social and ecological dynamics. Indeed\, our argument is that infrastructure has changed biophysical relations that have been stable for hundreds and thousands of years to fundamentally change how ecosystems operate and function with social and ecological effects. Based on in-depth historical research\, we develop an analytical repertoire for understanding historical interrelationships between water infrastructure\, regional environmental politics\, and large-scale coastal ecosystems. By further drawing on planning theory that has striven to de-center Habermasian consensus approaches (e.g.\, Vanessa Watson)\, this paper focuses on how knowledge controversies can help not only to ‘slow down reasoning’ (sensu Isabelle Stengers and Sarah Whatmore) to include more textured and situated ways of knowing the vast and complex Louisiana coastal landscape\, but also drives the making of proper political subjects (Jacques Rancière) that can interrupt and shape the wider administration of large-scale planning efforts. Our analysis shows how water infrastructure has produced persistent divisions in the body politic to hinder contemporary strategies to secure New Orleans and other settlements in the region from devastating storm surge and inundation. In a world under climate change\, when novel biophysical dynamics are constantly introduced\, we believe our textured case study can help to think about the new kind of politics we need to understand\, from the role of ‘ecological expertise’ (now siding increasingly with ‘engineering expertise’)\, to how ecological dynamics are shaping political subjectivities.\n \nMORE ON JOSHUA LEWIS & HENRIK ERNSTSON \nDr Joshua Lewis is based in New Orleans where he studies how infrastructure networks transform regional ecosystems and its effects on environmental justice and political processes. His historically grounded focus on the implementation and maintenance of large-scale water infrastructure connects between the local and the regional and across human geography\, ecology and sociology. He has also developed comprehensive vegetation studies in New Orleans (linked to a comparative study in Cape Town) to understand how hurricanes and urban development shape urban ecosystems and its often-unequal effect on different social groups. He completed his PhD at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at the Stockholm University in 2015 and he is now employed at Tulane University as Research Assistant Professor at the ByWater Institute where he is leading a novel ecological monitoring project in New Orleans that tracks ecological changes associated with a major green infrastructure and stormwater management project. With his studies in political ecology and urban ecology\, he also networks with partners in the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities program to deepen knowledge exchanges around urban ecology in partner cities. For more information\, go here: publications.\n \nDr Henrik Ernstson is developing a situated approach to urban political ecology that combines critical geography\, urban infrastructure studies\, postcolonial urbanism and collaborations with designers\, artists and activists. He has lead various projects to study collective action\, environmental conflicts and urban ecosystem management in Cape Town\, New Orleans and Stockholm\, and infrastructure politics in Kampala. Currently he is finalizing two edited books for MIT Press and Routledge\, “Grounding Urban Natures” (Ernstson & Sörlin) and “Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-Obscene” (Ernstson & Swyngedouw). With Jacob von Heland he has created the research-based cinematic ethnography film “One Table Two Elephants\,” a film that richly surfaces the politics of nature\, race\, and history in a postcolonial city (71 minutes\, screening 2018). In 2017 he was awarded The AXA Research Award for recognition of his innovative work on urban sustainability in the global South\, which will fund a research group to study petro-urbanism and urban infrastructure in Luanda with South-South connections to Brazil and China. He holds a PhD in Natural Resource Management from Stockholm University (2008) with postdoctoral positions at Stanford University (2013-2015) and the University of Cape Town (2010-2011). He lives in Cape Town and works at the African Centre for Cities\, while holding a Research Fellowship at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm contributing to KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory. In August 2017 he joined The University of Manchester as part-time Lecturer in Human Geography. For more information\, go here: publications and projects.\n 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/acc-notruc-seminar-series-contesting-coast-infrastructure-ecology-coastal-planning-new-orleans-mississippi-river-delta/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:The Global Nutrition Summit 2017
DESCRIPTION:Nutrition plays a critical role not only in child health and survival\, but also in driving economic prosperity for families and nations. It is encouraging to see increased attention from world leaders to address malnutrition in all its forms and in particular to reduce stunting everywhere. It will take continued efforts and dedication to ensure this progress continues.\nOn Saturday\, 4 November the Italian Ministry of Health and the City of Milan\, will host The Global Nutrition Summit 2017 in Milan – a high-level event on nutrition and food for healthier futures. The summit will take stock of global progress toward the nutrition-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and World Health Assembly global nutrition targets. They will also make additional commitments under the umbrella of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025)\, celebrate commitments made this year and discuss further action needed\, and launch the 2017 Global Nutrition Report.\nACC’s Senior Researcher Dr Jane Battersby will present as part of a session entitled Improving nutrition within planetary boundaries: Cities taking the lead during which she will focus on the rapidly shifting nature of malnutrition in Sub-Saharan African cities with overweight status and obesity emerging as new forms of food insecurity while malnutrition persists.\nModerator:\nDr Gunhild A. Stordalen\, President\, EAT Foundation\nSpeakers:\nMr Tom Arnold\, member of the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition\nMr Wayne Roberts\, PhD\, Canadian food policy analyst\nDr Jane Battersby\, Senior Researcher in Urban Food Systems\, African Centre for Cities University of Cape Town\nMs Anna Scavuzzo\, Vice Mayor of Milan\nMr Albert Anda Ntsodo\, Councillor of the City of Cape Town
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/global-nutrition-summit-2017/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Milan\, Italy
CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops
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SUMMARY:ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series: Reflection is Part of Rehabilitation: Interventions in the History of a Land Occupation
DESCRIPTION:The third seminar in the annual ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series is presented by Koni Benson on Reflection is Part of Rehabilitation: Interventions in the History of a Land Occupation at 15:00 in Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town.\nABSTRACT\nIn The Fire Next Time\, James Baldwin writes: “To accept one’s past- one’s history- is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is\, learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.” This paper looks at the dynamics of invention and uses of history in the politics of a land occupation in Tafelsig\, Mitchell’s Plain\, where\, in May 2011\, over 5000 backyard shack dwellers occupied land to set up shacks on an empty field adjacent to the Kaptiensklip train station.  From an initial 5\,000 people the group dwindled to about 30 families who continued to defend their right to erect structures under which to sleep. The city offered them temporary relocation to Blikkiesdorp\, a dumping ground\, miles away from their families and support networks. What ensued was a round of court cases and appeals and\, eventual eviction. What started as a document to record the brutality of the Anti-Land Invasion Unit became a co-authored book\, Writing Out Loud: Interventions in the History of a Land Occupation written by Faeza Meyer and Koni Benson.   The quote in the title of this paper comes from this book which creatively tracked 545 days of occupation\, and raises questions about housing struggles\, activism\, situated solidarity\, racism\, writing\, and feminist collaborative methodologies of approaching African history.  The paper today will present a draft of a new introduction to the book\, with the aim of sparking a conversation about Baldwin’s proposition of not inventing but of reflecting and using hard ‘truths’ about the past in the present\, in this case\, building and engaging struggles against ongoing segregation and criminalization of landlessness in Cape Town.\n \nMore on the full seminar series here.\nMore on the NOTRUC programme here.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/acc-notruc-seminar-series-reflection-part-rehabilitation-interventions-history-land-occupation/
LOCATION:African Centre for Cities\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series: ‘Nai-Rob-Me’ ‘Nai-Beg-Me’ ‘Nai-Shanty’: Historicizing Space-Subjectivity Connections in Nairobi from its Ruins
DESCRIPTION:The second seminar in the annual ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series is presented by Wangui Kimari on ‘Nai-Rob-Me’ ‘Nai-Beg-Me’ ‘Nai-Shanty’: Historicizing Space-Subjectivity Connections in Nairobi from its Ruins at 15:o0 in Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town.\nABSTRACT\nWhat can personal histories from poor urban settlements in Nairobi tell us about the history and future of this city? How do these entangled life stories belie vogue narratives of phenomena such as rural-urban migration\, urban-development and postcoloniality\, while also shedding light on the durability of empire? Through an ethnographic and archival exploration of the poor urban settlement of Mathare\, located close to central Nairobi\, I argue that urban planning emerges from within an assemblage of imperial political\, social\, economic and ecological ideas and practices\, to produce what I term ecologies of exclusion. In essence\, these planning interventions\, materializing from within epistemologies of empire\, co-constitutively manifest as neglect and force in Nairobi’s margins to create and sustain inequality in certain neighbourhoods—its ruins.\nIn addition\, I show how\, both now and in the past\, this mode of urban governance conjures up and sustains negative stereotypical subjectivities about certain populations in order to legitimize inequalities within its formal spatial management practices. Furthermore\, contemporary colonial modes of urban planning require a constant and ever more forceful militarization of poor urban spaces. Notwithstanding this now naturalized violent space-subjectivity enterprise\, those who have long been categorized as the “robbers\,” “beggars” and “shanty dwellers” of Nairobi engage with and emerge from these ruins of empire through unexpected ethical and political projects. And\, from within their urban struggles\, they render alternative subjectivities of self and space that articulate more grounded narrations of the history and possible futures of this city.\nMORE ON WANGUI KIMARI\nWangui Kimari completed a PhD in Anthropology at York University\, Toronto in 2017. Her research draws attention to the historical connections between formal urban spatial management and police violence in the city. She is a FURS writing-up grant recipient and\, together with Peris Jones\, received an Antipode Scholar- Activist Project Award in 2016. Wangui is also the participatory action research coordinator for Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC)\, a grassroots organization that documents and advocates against human rights violations in Mathare – Nairobi’s second largest poor urban settlement.\n \nMore on the full seminar series here.\nMore on the NOTRUC programme here.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/acc-notruc-seminar-series-nai-rob-nai-beg-nai-shanty-historicizing-space-subjectivity-connections-nairobi-ruins/
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SUMMARY:Joining Forces for Change: Building Learning Alliances for Social and Environmental Justice in Urban Sierra Leone
DESCRIPTION:African Centre for Cities is hosting the Co-Directors of Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre\, and lecturers from Institute of Geography and Development Studies\, Njala University\, Sierra Leone Joseph Macarthy and Braima Koroma for a talk entitled Joining Forces for Change: Building Learning Alliances for Social and Environmental Justice in Urban Sierra Leone\nDate: 24 October 2017\nTime: 16:00\nVenue: The Pink Room\, Centlivres Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town\nABSTRACT\nLearning alliances are becoming increasingly popular as an important means for co-producing knowledge about urban areas. While the shift from partnering among community organisations and other development agencies (e.g. NGOs) to universities and research organisations holds the promise of revolutionising knowledge production and its reliability\, it also serve not only to improve understandings about poor and marginalised groups but also helps in building strong relationships between and among the different stakeholders. However\, promoting such strategic partnership involving the university\, local community residents and their groups\, development organisations\, civil society and private sector actors has frequently involved providing answers to such questions as: what counts as learning alliance\, what kinds of knowledge should be produced\, for who and with what capacities?\nWe will discuss these and other related questions by arguing that SLURC’s learning alliance initiative has provided a platform for opening up both lateral and vertical opportunities for bringing to the doorstep of city authorities\, the key concerns and aspirations of informal communities. By way of this discussion\, we hope to stimulate debates on learning alliance as well as draw attention to more appropriate ways to ensure inclusive\, equitable and sustainably just urban development; change the mindset of different urban actors towards community-driven development approaches; including\, how best to manage relationships between stakeholders in making decisions about the city. This session is particularly interested in reflecting on the role SLURC is playing in building the capacity of informal settlement dwellers and contributing to influencing policy and urban decision-making processes. In this session\, we hope to reflect on some of the main findings from recent projects (livelihoods and urban humanitarian response) and discuss about some of the challenges and opportunities in establishing partnership and managing learning alliances.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/joining-forces-change-building-learning-alliances-social-environmental-justice-urban-sierra-leone/
LOCATION:Pink Room\, Centlivres Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series: Thinking Emancipatory Change through In-depth Urban Case Studies
DESCRIPTION:Cities are highly unequal places where histories of oppression is etched into the very machinery that makes them tick. This includes policies and regulations around who can trade and where\, the use of police or anti-eviction forces as an integral part of urban planning\, and how large-scale infrastructure projects can re-shape wider ecological dynamics to benefit some\, while putting others at risk.\n\nThis ACC seminar series stretches across these themes to focus broadly on urban politics through in-depth case studies of Cape Town\, Nairobi\, New Orleans and São Paulo provided by an interdisciplinary field of scholars from developmental economy\, critical anthropology\, feminist history and political ecology.\nThe seminar series has its origin in ACC’s Notations of Theories of Radical Urban Change (NOTRUC) project\, which will hold together the seminar series by facilitating a discussion with each presenter on what the political means in each study\, what possibilities the presenters see for empowerment and emancipatory change\, and what the detailed case study brings in thinking politics\, capitalism and emancipatory change in-and-through contemporary urban realities.\nAll seminars run from 15:00 to 16:30\n11 October 2017 – Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\nPost-Apartheid Spatial Inequality: Obstacles of Land on Township Micro-Enterprise Formalisation by Dr Andrew Charman\, Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation\, Cape Town\n \n25 October 2017 – Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\n‘Nai-Rob-Me’ ‘Nai-Beg-Me’ ‘Nai-Shanty’: Historicizing Space-Subjectivity Connections in Nairobi from its Ruins by Dr Wangui Kimari\, Department of Anthropology\, York University\, Toronto (PhD thesis)\, and Mathare Social Justice Centre\, Nairobi.\n \n1 November 2017 – Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\n‘Reflection is Part of Rehabilitation:’ Interventions in the History of a Land Occupation by Dr Koni Benson\, Department of History\, University of Western Cape\, Cape Town.\n \n8 November 2017– Studio 3\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\nContesting the Coast: Infrastructure\, Ecology and Coastal Planning in New Orleans and the Mississippi River Delta (written by Joshua Lewis and Henrik Ernstson) by Dr Henrik Ernstson\, Department of Geography\, The University of Manchester; KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory\, KTH Royal Institute of Technology; and the African Centre for Cities\, University of Cape Town.\n \n23 November – Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\nDelft as a site of Productive Disjunctures: Tracing Modes of Accessing and Transforming the City in Delft\, Cape Town by Dr Suraya Scheba\, Environmental and Geographical Science Department and the African Centre for Cities\, University of Cape Town.\n \n7 December 2017 – Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\nProducing water scarcity in São Paulo\, Brazil: The 2014 Water Crisis and the Binding Politics of Infrastructure by Dr Nate Millington\, Postdoctoral Research Fellow\, African Centre for Cities\, University of Cape Town.\n \nStudents welcome\nWe encourage teachers to contact us to bring their classes to attend all or some of the seminars. We also invite all interested students\, scholars\, policy makers and activists.\nThe series is organized by Dr Suraya Scheba and Dr Henrik Ernstson from NOTRUC the seminars are supported by funds from the Swedish Research Council Formas (Dnr: 211-2011-1519\, MOVE\, NOTRUC) and form part of the Situated Ecologies platform and The Situated UPE Collective.\n 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/acc-notruc-seminar-series-thinking-emancipatory-change-cape-town-nairobi-new-orleans/
LOCATION:African Centre for Cities\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
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