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SUMMARY:CityLab Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Cities’ CityLab programme facilitates the co-production of policy-relevant knowledge to reduce urban poverty through the engagement of researchers\, government officials and civil society. Started in 2008\, the CityLab programme created a platform for interaction between practitioners and researchers and has generated a wide range of different kinds of knowledge on Cape Town. The CityLab programme also became a core component of Mistra Urban Futures\, a network of institutions involved in the co-production of urban knowledge in five cities around the world.\nPlease join us in reflecting on the Sustainable Human Settlements CityLab\, the Urban Violence\, Safety and Inclusion CityLab\, the Healthy Cities CityLab and the Public Culture CityLab. The co-ordinators of the CityLabs\, Dr Warren Smit\, Dr Mercy Brown-Luthango\, Dr Rike Sitas and Liza Cirolia\, will present key findings from the CityLab process\, followed by a discussion and a light lunch.\nThe symposium will be hosted on 18 August in Studio 3 in the Environmental and Geographical Sciences building on Upper Campus at UCT\, from 10h00 to 13h00\, followed by lunch.\nPlease RSVP to Rike Sitas on rike.sitas@uct.ac.za by 12 August 2016\nCityLab_Symposium_Invite
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LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Thinking infrastructure with the South
DESCRIPTION:HICCUP — Heterogeneous Infrastructure Configuration of Cities in Uganda Project: Thinking Infrastructure with the South\nIntroduction\nThe scale\, magnitude and intensity of urbanisation in Africa has attracted increasing attention given the nature of environmental\, social\, economic and more importantly\, political challenges it presents. The diverse ecology of Africa’s urban landscape raises serious questions that have provoked debate not only within academia\, but among public administrators\, civil society and the private sector as well. The HICCUP research initiative was conceived to provide a platform where critical questions especially about waste resource flows and the emerging multi-actor hegemonies\, the resulting networks\, how these multi-actor interactions are mediated within formal and informal institutional structures and processes. In addition\, the initiative will also explore other equally critical questions relating to sustainability and equality. Two subprojects will be undertaken to generate the kind of information that will shape our learning about the dynamics of urbanisation in Africa. The project will work in Kampala and Mbale\, two cities in Uganda where the focus will be on waste and sanitation.\n \nResearch Team\nThe workshop will be conducted by Drs. Henrik Ernstson\, Shauib Lwasa\, and Jonathan Silver\, who are part of a highly experienced team from various international institutions involved in the initiative. The workshop is intend to engage four students (3 MSc and 1 PhD)\, who have been selected to be part of the initiative to promote critical and radical thinking about Global-South Urbanism. The event will also be attended by several civil society organisations that could potentially be partners under the HICCUP initiative.\nAims of Workshop\na.    To finalise planning on practicalities of the research program (i.e. roles/responsibilities\, research timelines\, key outputs etc.)\nb.    To undertake some teaching and shared learning with the four the students\nc.    To visit some potential fieldwork sites\nd.    To meet some potential partners (ACTogether/NSDFU\, KALOCODE\, SSA/UHSNET\, LOGEL etc…)
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/makerere-university-kampala-workshop-15th-19th-august-2016/
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SUMMARY:Kigali and Rwanda: reflections on a capital city and its territory
DESCRIPTION:The ACC is honoured to welcome Professor Tomà Berlanda\, an architect with extensive international academic and professional experience\, to the Brown Bag Series.\nUnlike other African capitals\, Kigali has not been established as a city by a colonial power. Even though it was founded under German rule\, it became capital only after Rwanda’s independence from Belgium in 1962\, and until 1994 remained relatively small. The Belgian occupiers always remained hostile to the development of urban centres\, because they attributed to Rwanda the main function of providing work force\, to be employed in their other neighbouring colony to the west. During the first and second Rwandese republic\, the growing concentration of bureaucratic and administrative functions did increase the number of inhabitants\, without though giving rise to an uncontrolled expansion. During that time the government further attempted to consolidate the secondary urban centres\, and moreover maintain an economic and social structure based on agriculture.\nFrom the end of the 80’s onwards\, though\, following the introduction of the structural adjustment plans and the dismantling or privatisation of state owned industrial plants\, that approach has been left. Today\, urbanisation has become an intentional strategic goal of government policies\, and\, together with land tenure regularisation and the growth of private led industrialisation\, this has a huge impact in the re-design of the entire territory. In official documents this transformation is considered a goal to be pursued and encouraged through the reorganization of agricultural activities\, the concentration of investments in urban centres\, the adoption of measures aimed at moving and grouping population. This direction is apparent in policies and programmatic indications at national level and is further confirmed in documents at the local level\, from district plans to master plans.\nThe territorial imbalance in growth between the capital city and the rest of the country is a reason for concern\, and is at the same time the result\, and an indication\, of global phenomena and local circumstances. Furthermore\, it highlights the need to consider Kigali’s evolution in close connection to all that of the Rwandese countryside. Not only because of the migration of population\, but also because the establishment of a “competitive city in the global market” such as is conceived and pursued today requires massive investments and a gigantic drainage of resources. At the risk of resulting in a macro-cephalous capital detached from the rest of the country.\n \nAbout the speaker:\nBorn in Venice\, Tomà Berlanda is an architect with extensive international academic and professional experience. As of April 2015 he serves as Director and Professor at the School of Architecture\, Planning and Geomatics at the University of Cape Town\, where he pursues his research interests focusing on the implications that can be drawn from a non stereotypical reading of the African city and the practice of architecture in non- Western urban settings and landscapes. This follows upon his position as co-founder of asa studio in Kigali (2012-14)\, where he led an extensive design and build campaign to provide community based early childhood and health facilities across Rwanda. The award winning work has been published widely\, and included in the Afritecture: Building Social Change (2013) and the Africa: Architecture\, Culture and identity (2015) exhibitions.\nHe has held teaching positions at various institutions\, and has been Assistant Professor at Syracuse University (2009-10)\, Visiting Critic at Cornell University (2012) and Senior Lecturer at the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (2011-3). He has been member of the editorial board of rivista tecnica\, Lugano\, and a regular contributor for de Architect\, den Haag. He holds a Diploma in architecture from the Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio\, Swtizerland (2002) and a Ph.D in Architecture and Building design from the Politecnico di Torino\, Italy (2009). He is the author of "Architectural Topograhies" (Routledge\, 2014)\, as well as number of articles and chapters in international publications.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/kigali-rwanda-reflections-capital-city-territory/
LOCATION:African Centre for Cities\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Public Art and the Power of Place
DESCRIPTION:start again the new road at dawn.\nyesterday’s road has led\nto yesterday’s destination.\ntoday is a new chaos.\na new journey. a new city.\nneeding new paths. and new standards.\nBen Okri – The Ruin and The Forest\nCape Town remains stubbornly segregated\, with a large portion of the population living in undesirable conditions. Access to resources is still skewed towards the formal art market based in the City Bowl. Despite this\, there are numerous people engaging in critical and creative ways of re-articulating the potential of the city through art. Increasingly\, public-facing art is playing a central role in imagining a free\, inspired and inclusive reality.\nPublic Art and the Power of Place\, initiated by the African Centre for Cities at UCT\, with support from the National Lotteries Commission\, emerged as an experiment in finding new ways of representing and interconnecting with socio-political urban issues in Cape Town. It involved supporting seven public art projects in Cape Town’s townships in 2015. From Khayelitsha to Bonteheuwel\, optimistic and determined individuals explored the significance and impossibilities of place outside the City Bowl.\nThe ACC is excited to invite you to the closing event of the project at the Cape Town Library (Corner Darling and Parade Streets)\, where the stories and reflections of these projects will be used to ignite an open and constructive conversation about the present and the future of public art within the context of Cape Town. Through dialogue\, workshops and an archival exhibition the two-day intervention builds a platform for a collective exploration of publicness.\nAn African Centre for Cities project with guest curators Valeria Geselev and Naz Saldulker. See the attached programme\, check out the Facebook event or contact powerofplace@uct.ac.za for more details.\nPoP_Programme_18July\n \nFUNDED BY:\n\nThe NLC relies on funds from the proceeds of the National Lottery. The Lotteries Act guides the way in which NLC funding may be allocated. The intention of NLC funding is to make a difference to the lives of all South Africans\, especially those more vulnerable and to improve the sustainability of the beneficiary organisations. Available funds are distributed to registered and qualifying non-profit organisations in the fields of charities; arts\, culture and national heritage; and sport and recreation. By placing its emphasis on areas of greatest need and potential\, the NLC contributes to South Africa’s development.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/public-art-power-place/
LOCATION:Cape Town Library\, Cnr Parade and Darling Streets\, Cape Town
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SUMMARY:Democratic Practices of Unequal Geographies
DESCRIPTION: \nThe 2016 Annual ACC Seminar/PhD Course on Democratic Practices in Cape Town:\nThe Aesthetical and the Political of Unequal Geographies: \nReading across Political Philosophy and Global South Urbanism\nJuly 4-8\, 2016\, Seminar Room 1\, EGS Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town.\nOrganised by Henrik Ernstson and Andrés Henao Castro.\nThe seminar is given by the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town. To apply\, please send  your letter of interest no later than 6 May 2016 to Henrik Ernstson (henrikDOTernstsonATuctDOTacDOTza). We hope the seminar with its readings and discussions can contribute new angles and perspectives to your research.\nMore information on the 2016 theme\, reading and seminar methodology is given below.\nRationale for 2016: Aesthetics and politics!\nThe task is urgent and profound: How to make sense of rapid urbanization across Africa and the global South\, while (re)turning to explicitly think about emancipatory politics? What does the political mean in these contexts? What constitutes properly democratic practices of equality and freedom? What can we learn by rubbing political theory against urban studies of ‘the South’?\nThis annual seminar series emerges out of an interest to put into conversation political philosophy and global south urbanism. Importantly\, our objective is not that of supplementing a theoretical abstraction (e.g. ‘the political’) with some kind of concrete spatiality. Rather\, we are interested in the global south as an epistemological position and a field of experience that has specific contemporary sociomaterial realities that we hope can trouble and re-new both radical urban theory and political theory. Following last year’s seminar\, in which we related our readings of Plato to Rancière with critical urban studies of the South\, this year we gather a seminar that problematizes the relationship between the political and the aesthetic. This puts more focus on artists and activists that intervene materially and socially in the fabric of urban spaces\, and it brings us towards the political in a quite specific way.\nMore concretely we aim to relate questions around what Jacques Rancière calls the distribution of the sensible with interventions in urban spaces. We aim to push the seminar to think about the representation and troubling of an aesthetic regime from the perspective of how it has become embedded in urban and non-urban settings. We will exploit texts that have linked theoretically the political with aesthetic regimes and how this translates troubles and can be re-thought in the context of the global south. We want to ask\, for example:\n\nHow does the symbolic remaking of a space through an artistic intervention trouble the otherwise naturalization of that space as reducible to its presumable functions (i.e.\, market values)?\nWhat is the relationship between this interruption of the function of a space and that of politics?\nHow can artistic interventions force the community to confront that which it disavows?\nWhat kind of conflict do such forms of expressing the senses create within urban spaces?\nHow are those urban spaces transgressed\, circumvented\, rearranged\, reimagined\, etc.\, so as to trouble the very limits of what can be perceived and sensed in the city?\nHow do these spatial contestations take place today\, under what kind of aesthetic practices?\nAnd how could this possibly lead to processes of political subjectivization\, a politicization of collectivities\, bodies\, and spaces in the name of equality?\n\nIn light of 2015 and the student movement of South Africa\, questions of democracy\, decolonization and profound emancipatory change have brought these questions into even sharper focus. And this does not mean to forget other recent women\, workers and community rebellions\, nor the slow-grinding and incremental institutional changes of empowerment that is also ongoing. Indeed\, we hope this seminar/course will provide a chance for all participants to think about these recent events and processes. We hope it will contribute material and discussions through which you can re-think and sharpen your own research projects.\nSeminar Methodology\nOur seminar focuses on readings of political theory that interrogate the relationship between the aesthetical and the political\, across a variety of philosophical approaches. Yet it explores such relationship with a particular and rather unusual emphasis on urban and non-urban geographies of the global south. We want to discuss questions about representation\, intervention\, performativity\, sensuousness\, visibility\, audibility\, occupation\, inscription\, by placing these theories within uneven geographies that should trouble existing theoretical findings and help us to reformulate our research questions\, methodologies approaches and theoretical assumptions. In the readings we have chosen to place more emphasis on political philosophy as these are less known to most of us\, and since this makes best use of Dr. Andrés Heano Castro’s visit here at ACC in Cape Town. The texts on global south urbanism will bring in contextual and theoretical aspects into the seminar\, but we also rely on participants’ wider readings and their own research on urbanization\, global south and decolonization. Below you will find the current list of readings\, which will be updated.\nSchedule and Readings\nWe will meet for 3 hours every day. Andrés will talk for the first 30 minutes\, in order to provide context for the theoretical discussion: what is at stake in the texts\, where does the text stand in relation to intellectual debates\, and summarize main points\, etc. Then we open the floor for discussion in which the global south urbanism literature will enter as ways to unpack and think about the seminar questions\, how our empirical work are helped by these texts\, while challenging them and ‘speaking back’. Through this we will have a chance to re-think our own research and case studies. For each day we will provide questions to orient your reading\, and serve as starting point for our discussions. Based on this you can write down and raise your own questions to further give direction to the seminar. We will have a short 10 minute break two hours into the seminar and then we will return for another 45 minutes of discussion. Coffee and tea will be served during the seminar. (NB: Global south urbanism reading and questions will be complemented later alongside points 1-3 in the list below.)\nHow to Apply\nThe seminar/course is organized by Dr. Henrik Ernstson and Dr. Andrés Henao Castro. It forms part of the ACC’s new project NOTRUC\, Notations on Theories of Radical Urban Change\, which is lead by Dr. Henrik Ernstson and Professor Edgar Pieterse and it provides a terrain towards critical and radical (re)thinking on global south urbanism at ACC and beyond.\nApplication—Letter of interest\nThe seminar/course is open to PhD students and scholars. Please send an e-mail to Henrik Ernstson no later than 6 May 2016 including a 500 word motivation letter (why you would like to take this course) and a 2-page CV (not longer please). We will have between 12-18 seats available. You will know if you have been accepted a week after.\nNo course fee\nThere are no course fees. During the seminar there we will arrange coffee and tea every day\, and one dinner. The rest of food items and other costs will be on your own account.\nShort on the organizers\nDr. Andrés Fabián Henao Castro is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His research interests are the relationship between ancient and contemporary political theory\, particularly in reference to democratic and de-colonial theory and practices\, the question of political subjectivity and the distribution of political agency. Currently he is working on a book that explores the kind of subject-positions and forms of agency that are imagined and unimagined in the theoretical reception of Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone. As a member of the international research network on Performance Philosophy he is also developing a new project on radical interpretations of Plato’s allegories. He is also working on the relationship between text and textile by putting in conversation ancient and contemporary political weavers through their reception in contemporary feminist theory. Read more on his website: http://works.bepress.com/andres_fabian_henao_castro\nDr. Henrik Ernstson is a Research Fellow and Principal Investigator from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, Stockholm\, and an Honorary Visiting Scholar at the University of Cape Town\, where he has been since 2010. His theoretical and empirical work is focused on the politics and collective organizing around urban ecology\, from urban land and wetlands to waste and sanitation. With others\, he is developing a situated approach to urban political ecology drawing upon upon critical geography\, global South urbanism\, postcolonial theory and postfoundational political thought. For more information\, see http://www.situatedecologies.net and http://stanford.academia.edu/HenrikErnstson.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/democratic-practices-of-unequal-geographies-annual-phd-courseseminar/
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, EGS Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town\, University of Cape Town\, Cape Town \, Western Cape\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Revaluing the City
DESCRIPTION:Revaluing the City: Land\, Infrastructure and the Environment as a Catalyst for Change\nAfrica is experiencing an urban revolution involving the most rapid urbanization in history\, but amid severe constraints. There are calls to grow local and national economies\, enable employment\, upgrade governance\, improve global competitiveness\, and reduce inequalities and poverty. Problems of income inequality\, economic exclusion\, food insecurity\, inadequate transportation networks\, lack of urban services\, environmental degradation\, and climate change are huge challenges for cities across Africa.\nTransforming African cities on their own terms\, and making urban formations sustainable and equitable is an unprecedented challenge.\nStudy Space IX will explore these urban growth issues in South Africa’s oldest city\, Cape Town\, a profoundly unequal city from its days of slavery in the 17th century. Although labeled the continent’s least African city\, Cape Town shares the ingredient of ‘slum urbanism’ with poverty and social stress in growing\, sprawling informal settlements. There is relentless pressure to increase the density of residential land\, and to revalue the city’s recreational\, agricultural and public land\, and ecosystem services.\nDuring the course of the week\, twenty participants will develop a wider\, ‘southern’ perspective on balancing issues related to urban growth with a focus on income inequality and economic exclusion. Guest lectures will be on a variety of topics\, including:\n— Planning equitable and sustainable development\n— Property rights and land use law\n— Affordable housing and housing finance\n— Taxation and infrastructure finance\n— Cultural heritage and historic preservation\n— Environmental law\n— Climate change\n \nThe ACC is hosting Study Space IX on behalf of the Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth in the College of Law at Georgia State University\, Atlanta\, USA. The Center’s ninth intensive study week gives professionals\, practitioners and academics an opportunity to sharpen their understanding of metropolitan affairs in conversation with local experts. Previous Study Spaces have been held in Barcelona\, Bogota\, Denver\, Rio de Janeiro\, Istanbul\, Medellin\, Panama and Warsaw.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/revaluing-the-city-land-infrastructure-and-the-environment-as-a-catalyst-for-change/
LOCATION:UCT Graduate School of Business\,\, V&A Waterfront\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:‘A House for Dead People’: Memory and spatial transformation in Red Location\, Port Elizabeth
DESCRIPTION:ACC is pleased to be hosting the 2016 Ray Pahl Fellow in Urban Studies\, Dr Naomi Roux\, who will be presenting a paper entitled\, ‘A House for Dead People: Memory and spatial transformation in Red Location\, Port Elizabeth’.\nAbstract\nFollowing the end of apartheid in 1994\, several new projects of public memory and urban development were established in many South African cities. In Port Elizabeth\, the Red Location Museum was opened in 2006\, in a century-old informal settlement with strong histories of resistance activity. The museum was intended to acknowledge the area’s contribution to the liberation struggle\, and contribute to dismantling apartheid urban geographies by producing a tourist and cultural economy. However\, the project was highly contested from its inception by residents who felt that the priority for the neighbourhood should be housing and service delivery. Major housing-related protests erupted on the museums doorstep between 2003 and 2005\, and in late 2013 the new cultural precinct was closed down indefinitely. This paper examines the politics and controversies surrounding the Red Location developments between 1997-2013\, using this case study to consider the ways in which the protests around the museum are deeply rooted in historical and political histories which are made visible through residents’ radical claiming of ownership of the museum building.\n\nBio\nNaomi Roux is an urbanist and visual historian\, with a particular interest in the relationships between collective memory\, the politics of public space and urban transformation. She holds the Ray Pahl Fellowship in Urban Studies at the University of Cape Town’s African Centre for Cities for 2016. Prior to this she was the 2014-2015 Mellon Fellow in Cities and Humanities at LSE Cities. Her recent PhD (Birkbeck\, 2015) focused on the politics of collective memory in the context of the changing post-apartheid city\, using Nelson Mandela Bay in South Africa’s Eastern Cape as a case study. Previous work includes published research and exhibition projects focusing on heritage\, memory and place-making in sites including Kliptown\, Soweto; Yeoville\, Johannesburg; and ‘Little Addis’ in central Johannesburg.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/house-dead-people-memory-spatial-transformation-red-location-port-elizabeth/
LOCATION:Studio 3\, ENGEO Building\, Upper Campus. University of Cape Town\,\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Realising the Just City
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Cities in collaboration with Mistra Urban Futures is hosting a workshop on Realising the Just City.\nThe signing of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 demonstrated that there is an increasing global pledge to foster just cities that are ‘inclusive\, safe\, resilient and sustainable’. Although there is a shared commitment to socio-spatial justice\, how this can be realised is more complicated. This workshop aims to draw representatives from academic institutions\, civil society and the public sector together to discuss how just cities are understood\, and how to achieve them.\nMistra Urban Futures is made up of five local interaction platforms in four cities around the world: Cape Town (based at ACC)\, Gothenburg\, Greater Manchester\, Kisumu and Malmö. The purpose is to develop coproduced\, collaborative and comparative research across the cities. This workshop forms part of this research process.\nFor more information\, contact Rike Sitas on rike.sitas@uct.ac.za.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/realising-just-city/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Understanding Urban Governance: Entry Points for Climate Science
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to attend an FCFA online seminar on Understanding Urban Governance:\nEntry Points for Climate Science\n Friday\, April 15\, 2016 from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (SAST)\nOnline live web cast and in-person at Park Inn Radison\, Newlands\, Cape Town. \nRegistration instructions\nTo attend online or in-person\, please follow this link to register.\n\nFor online attendees: A URL for the webcast will be emailed to you an hour before the event starts.\nFor in-person attendees: Online registration does not guarantee a seat. Once registered\, the FCFA team will be in touch to confirm availability of seating.\n\nDescription: \nThis seminar presents a critical discussion on approaches for understanding the governance structures that shape medium-term development decisions taken in various African contexts and at various scales (e.g. city region\, catchment\, and national). More specifically\, the session aims to stimulate engagement and debate around these approaches to understanding urban governance and decision-making pathways\, and finding entry points for climate information to inform development decisions at the city-region scale. The aim is to sharpen the theoretical underpinnings and the practical application of these approaches within the Future Climate for Africa programme.\nChair: \nStef Raubenheimer – SouthSouthNorth \nSpeakers:\nDr Hannah Baleta – Pegasys Consulting\nProf Dianne Scott – University of Cape Town\, African Centre for Cities\nDr Glibert Siame – University of Zambia\nDr Tasila Banda – Zambia EC-LEDS Programme\nDiscussant:\nProf Sue Parnell – University of Cape Town\, African Centre for Cities\nThe seminar is structured around a panel discussion that will:\n\nPresent two approaches to understanding urban governance and decision-making;\nApply these to the case study of the Lusaka city-region;\nField critical feedback from practitioners working on climate resilience in Lusaka; and\nClose with reflections from the discussant and open Q&A session with in-person and online attendees.\n\nShare this event on Facebook and Twitter.\nWe hope you can make it!\nBest wishes\nFuture Climate for Africa and FRACTAL
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/understanding-urban-governance-entry-points-climate-science/
CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160413T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160413T163000
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SUMMARY:The urban network strategy - the panacea for urban and developmental ills?
DESCRIPTION:The ACC looks forward to generating a stimulating debate about the Cities Support Programme by hosting Dr Paul Hendler from iNSITE who will be presenting a paper co-authored by himself and Dr Arumugam Pillay (who will be present via Skype) entitled\, ‘The urban network strategy – the panacea for urban and developmental ills’.\nAbstract\nThe National Treasury\, through its Cities Support Programme (CSP)\, intends to get the eight metropolitan municipalities to run more efficiently\, become financially and ecologically sustainable and give the majority of their citizens access to employment and public and social amenities. The weakness of the strategy is its assumption of the inevitable upswing in the global business cycle\, the ability of cities to afford the infrastructure required for ongoing in-migration and the fact that it omits describing how broad-based\, inclusive and eco-sensitive economic development with significant employment opportunities should happen. The missing factor in the programme is state intervention aimed at economic restructuring: it simply assumes that both job creation and green manufacturing will happen without explaining how. Instead\, the paper argues that the challenge is to address the broader political economy context of sluggish growth\, low wages and high unemployment\, in order to support key CSP objectives. In this regard\, the paper identifies specifically the need for municipalities as public sector developers to directly support2 improved quality of life and work opportunities for both the urban and rural working classes\, and for the state to stem the outflow of funds from the country\, re-direct investment funds away from finance\, insurance and real estate (the jobless growth sectors) and into manufacturing and implement a coherent rural development based on technical and financial support for feasible ‘accumulation from below’ by current smallholder farmers and households in traditional areas.\nBio\nDr Paul Hendler is an extraordinary senior lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch’s School of Public Management\, and a founder of iNSITE that is working (through the Sustainability Institute\, Stellenbosch University) on the formulation of a financial mechanism for the investment of a civil society green savings fund in South Africa. Hendler has been researching the intersection of housing and the political economy for over 30 years in South Africa\, with an emphasis on critiquing neoliberal development.\nDr Arumugam (Morgan) Pillay is CEO of The Ekurhuleni Development Company. He is responsible for delivery of finance to and Social Housing. Pillay has almost 25 years of experience in Infrastructure Development and Finance within the government sector. Having worked at the National Housing Finance Corporation\, Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank\, and advising national and provincial government departments\, he is one of South Africa’s housing finance experts that has both theoretical and practical experience in the sector.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/critique-of-the-csp/
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Environmental & Geographical Sciences Building\, UCT Upper Campus
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160413
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160415
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SUMMARY:Conference: Giving Voice to Women Traders in the Informal Economy
DESCRIPTION:On 13 and 14 April 2016\, a conference exclusively for women traders – believed to be the first of its kind in Durban – was held with the support of the Foundation for Human Rights and implemented by Legal Resources Centre (LRC) and Asiye eTafuleni (AeT). The conference deliberated on the significance\, opportunities and challenges faced by women traders\, and sought to increase awareness of laws and traders’ rights under the theme: “Towards an inclusive economy: the voice of women informal traders.”\nRead more at http://aet.org.za.www12.flk1.host-h.net/conference-giving-voice-to-women-traders-in-the-informal-economy/
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/conference-giving-voice-women-traders-informal-economy/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Durban\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160322T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160322T140000
DTSTAMP:20260604T105852
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SUMMARY:Migration and African Cities
DESCRIPTION:Oliver Bakewell\, from the International Migration Institute\, at the University of Oxford\, will be on the changing relationship between migration\, diasporas and global development in a fascinating Brown Bag titled\, Migration and African Cities.\nOverview:\nThis presentation will look at different aspects of the complex relationship migration and African cities\, highlighting points of comparison and contrast with other regions of the world. Over the last century\, rural-urban migration has played a major part in the growth of African cities\, stimulating many debates about people’s cultural values and social practices changes as they move to urban areas. More recently\, there has been much concern about the role of some African cities as a transit point prior to international migration – the city as a stepping stone. Two other aspects have been less explored. First\, there is the role of cities as gateways into global markets\, which rely on the mobility of African traders across the globe –most notably to China in recent years. Second\, there is the movement across Africa that is creating distinctive ‘foreign’ populations to be found in cities in every part of the continent. Despite (or perhaps because of) having no policy\, ‘integration’ is taking place and people are becoming part of new societies\, contributing to the diversity and dynamism of many African cities.\n \nAbout the Speaker:\nOliver Bakewell’s research is centred on a broad interest in the changing relationship between migration\, diasporas and global development. This encompasses a number of strands which he is following through various research activities: social theory and migration; examining the boundaries between ‘forced’ and ‘voluntary’ migration; mobility within sub-Saharan Africa; and African borderlands.\n\nHe is the principal investigator for the project Theorising the Evolution of European Migration Systems (THEMIS) funded by NORFACE\, which examines the conditions that encourage initial moves by pioneer migrants to become established migration system. He is also leading research into the formation of African diasporas within the African continent as part of the Oxford Diasporas Programme. In addition\, he is undertaking ongoing research into the changing patterns of cross-border movements between Angola and western Zambia from the mid 1990s to today.\n\nOliver is Co-Director and Senior Research Officer\, and an Associate Professor at the International Migration Institute\, University of Oxford holds a PhD and MSc in Development Studies from the University of Bath and a BA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge. He has spent many years working with migrants and refugees as both a researcher and practitioner with a range of development and humanitarian NGOs. Immediately prior to joining ODID\, he was Senior Researcher at the International NGO Training and Researcher Centre (INTRAC) in Oxford.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/migration-and-african-cities/
LOCATION:African Centre for Cities\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160322T090000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160323T170000
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SUMMARY:Public talk and film screening in Namibia\, and workshop on Global South Urbanism.
DESCRIPTION:Our film “One Table Two Elephants” (work in progress version) will be screened and I will hold a discussion afterwards on 22 March 2016 here at NUST – Namibia University of Science and Technology. Tomorrow we are organising a workshop on Global South Urbanism and I am giving a lunch lecture. My great hosts are Guillermo Delgado and Phillip Luhl at NUST who I met at Antipode workshop in Durban some cheap back. See programme below.\nDr. Henrik Ernstson will be visiting the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) as part of the Integrated Land Management Institute (ILMI) “Land\, livelihoods and housing” programme.\nHe will be engaging with staff\, faculty and students of the university\, as well as invited guests\, on issues relating to urbanisation\, environmental humanities\, political ecology\, and global south urbanism.\n \nDRAFT PROGRAMME\nTuesday March 22\n9h00-15h00\nCITY WALK\nWith students from the Department of Architecture and Spatial Planning (DASP).\nLed by Guillermo Delgado and Phillip Lühl\, with comments from Henrik Ernstson.\nThe day will start at the foyer of the Department of Architecture and Spatial Planning with a brief introduction by Guillermo Delgado and Phillip Lühl. We will then leave with a mini-bus to different places in the city where we will walk through some of the key localities that define the socio-spatial condition of contemporary Windhoek.\n18h00\nFILM SCREENING: “One Table\, Two Elephants”\nVenue: School of Mining auditorium\, NUST\nComments by Jacques Mushaandja (JMAC) and Phillip Lühl (DASP).\nWednesday 23 March\n8h30-12h30\nWorkshop of Global South Urbanisms: PART 1\nWorkshop with students and faculty from the various courses at DASP and DLPS:\nThe workshop will be an opportunity to think together how research and teaching can be done in such a way that it “re-encounters” the African/Global South city.\n12h30\nLUNCH LECTURE: Global South Urbanisms and Situated Ecologies\nVenue: Foyer\, Department of Architecture and Spatial Planning (DASP)\nIn this talk Dr Henrik Ernstson will situate his work on urban ecology within the wider literature on Global South/postcolonial urbanism. This will include his studies in Cape Town on ways of knowing urban nature that deals with deep-seated knowledge politics that postapartheid and postcolonial cities requires us to face and which can be used as possible entry points to politicise urban environments. He will also describe a newly funded project on urban infrastructure and the politics around waste and sanitation management in Kampala\, Uganda. As a theoretical underpinning\, he will elaborate on a wider collaborative effort to build a Situated Urban Political Ecologies approach which also entails to support the building of critical urban scholarship among especially younger scholars of Africa with PhD courses and workshops.\n14h30-17h00\nWorkshop of Global South Urbanisms: PART 2\nWorkshop with students and faculty from the various courses at DASP and DLPS:\nThe workshop will be an opportunity to think together how research and teaching can be done in such a way that it “re-encounters” the African/Global South city.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/public-talk-film-screening-namibia-workshop-global-south-urbanism-2/
LOCATION:Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST)\, Namibia
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160315T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160315T140000
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SUMMARY:Visualising the Smart City
DESCRIPTION:The ACC is happy to announce the first brown bag event for 2016: Visualising the Smart City with Professor Gillian Rose.\nOverview:\nDigital technologies of various kinds are now the means through which many cities are made visible and their spatialities negotiated. From casual snaps shared on Instagram to elaborate photo-realistic visualisations\, digital technologies for making\, distributing and viewing cities are more and more pervasive. This talk will explore some of the implications of that digitisation for the cultural politics of representation. What and who is being made visible in these digitally mediated cities\, and how? What forms of urban materiality\, spatiality and sociality are pictured and performed? And how should that picturing be theorised? The talk will suggest that cities and their inhabitants are increasingly visualised through a mobile fluid ‘digital visuality’\, which is in fact evident across a number of visual practices. It will also propose that critical accounts of such visuality should focus less on readings of images and more on considering the (geographically-specific) flows and frictions of images.\nBio:\nGillian Rose is Professor of Cultural Geography at The Open University\, UK\, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her current research interests focus on contemporary digital visual culture\, urban spatialities and visual research methodologies. Her most recent funded research (with Monica Degen) examined how architects work with digital visualising technologies in designing urban redevelopment projects\, and she is extending this work into the digital mediation of urban spaces more broadly\, particularly in the context of ‘smart cities’.\nAs well as a number of papers on images and ways of seeing in urban and domestic spaces\, the fourth edition of her bestselling Visual Methodologies (Sage) will be published in March 2016.\nGillian blogs at visual/method/culture and tweets @ProfGillian.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/brown-bag-visualising-the-smart-city/
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, EGS Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town\, University of Cape Town\, Cape Town \, Western Cape\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160308T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160308T163000
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Sustainable Cities: from slogan to implementation
DESCRIPTION:ACC is excited to host representatives from Mistra Urban Futures who will be presenting on their forthcoming book entitled ‘Rethinking Sustainable Cities: from slogan to implementation’.\nOverview\nMistra Urban Futures’ forthcoming book provides detailed intellectual and practical histories of fair\, green and accessible cities – three key urban characteristics chosen to symbolise the research centre’s approach\, which utilises transdisciplinary co-production methodologies to promote sustainable urban solutions to specific local problems in each of its research platforms. These characteristics suffuse MUF’s work and Strategic Plan for 2016-19. David Simon will explain these agendas\, focusing particularly on the origins and current nature of urban greening discourses and the challenges to implementation to ensure that they make a substantive as opposed to purely marginal or incremental difference. Sue Parnell will do likewise in relation to fair cities.\nBios\nDavid Simon joined Mistra Urban Futures in September 2014 from Royal Holloway\, University of London\, where he still holds a part-time appointment as Professor of Development Geography. He was Head of theGeography Department there from 2008-11. He has vast international experience including grant-funded research on sub-Saharan Africa (especially Namibia\, South Africa\, Kenya and Ghana)\, Asia (especially Sri Lanka\, Thailand and the Philippines)\, the UK and the USA. He has also served as specialist advisor to UN-HABITAT on cities and climate change\, was one of only two academics on the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s specialist Africa Advisory Group prior to its disbandment\, and has consulted for various NGOs and national and international development agencies. Furthermore\, he is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.\nSusan Parnell’s early academic research was in the area of urban historical geography and focussed on the rise of racial residential segregation and the impact of colonialism on urbanisation and town planning in Sub-Saharan Africa. Since 1994 and democracy in South Africa her work has shifted to contemporary urban policy research (local government\, poverty reduction and urban environmental justice). By its nature this research is not been purely academic\, but has involved liasing with local and national government and international donors. Sue is also on the boards of several local NGOs concerned with poverty alleviation\, sustainability and gender equity in post-apartheid South Africa. She serves on a number of national and international advisory research panels relating to urban reconstruction.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/rethinking-sustainable-cities-from-slogan-to-implementation/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160224T030000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160224T163000
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SUMMARY:World-class city making in Africa – a view from Angola through the redevelopment of the Bay of Luanda
DESCRIPTION:The ACC is happy to announce the first academic seminar for 2016. Dr Sylvia Croese will be presenting a paper entitled\, ‘World-class city making in Africa – a view from Angola through the redevelopment of the Bay of Luanda’.\nAbstract\nThis paper examines the redevelopment of the Bay of Luanda as the epitome of a process of world-class city making that has unfolded in the capital of Angola since the end of the war in 2002. In an era that has been marked by ‘Africa’s rise’\, concomitant efforts towards the building of world-class African cities have generated growing research interest over the past years. However\, often these efforts are seen as uncritically adopted or externally imposed imitations of global/world city models.\nThis paper aims to take world-class city making in Luanda seriously by analyzing its dynamics on its own terms\, thereby moving beyond accounts that either romanticize or demonize this process. Based on an analysis of the history of the Bay of Luanda and the actors\, discourse and imaginaries involved in its redevelopment\, the paper makes three interrelated arguments. Firstly\, it argues that while discourses underpinning world-class city making may reflect external or economic drivers\, such as a desire to attract international investment\, the case of Luanda shows that this practice can be equally or even more strongly driven by internal or political objectives\, such as the pursuit of national legitimacy and domestic stability. From this follows that world-class city making in Africa does not necessarily have to be externally imposed\, managed or financed\, but that it can also be ‘home-grown’ and led by national rather than city governments\, especially in resource-rich and authoritarian states like Angola.\nFinally\, the paper argues that while the mainstream world-class city literature tends to focus on the futuristic nature of world-class city aesthetics\, the redevelopment of the Bay of Luanda shows how efforts to revive modernist colonial architecture may equally underpin world-class city making. The study of world-class city making should then not only consider ‘introspective’ vs ‘extrospective’ politics but also ‘retrospective’ rationales or the ways in which utopia and nostalgia intersect across time and space.\nBio\n\nDr Sylvia Croese is a post-doctoral research fellow at the department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town. She has written and conducted extensive research in and on Angola as a researcher and consultant and has an interest in issues related to housing and urban development\, local governance and electoral politics in Africa.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/world-class-city-making-in-africa-a-view-from-angola-through-the-redevelopment-of-the-bay-of-luanda-2/
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Environmental & Geographical Sciences Building\, UCT Upper Campus
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160215T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160215T180000
DTSTAMP:20260604T105853
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SUMMARY:Conference on Informality and the Urban Food System: Policy\, practice and inclusive growth through a food lens
DESCRIPTION:The Hungry Cities Partnership\, a research programme at the African Centre for Cities\, will hold a conference at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business on 15 February 2016.\nThe Hungry Cities Partnership is a research partnership led by the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town and the Balsillie School of International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University\, Waterloo\, Canada. Southern partner cities include Bangalore\, Kingston\, Maputo\, Mexico City\, Nairobi\, Nanjing and Cape Town. The focus of this five-year research programme is a collaborative\, inter-disciplinary research\, training and knowledge mobilization programme on urbanization\, food security\, informality and inclusive growth.\nSee the programme on the AFSUN website.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/conference-on-informality-and-the-urban-food-system-policy-practice-and-inclusive-growth-through-a-food-lens/
LOCATION:UCT Graduate School of Business\,\, V&A Waterfront\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151212T090000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260604T105853
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SUMMARY:Ghetto Trekk! Festival
DESCRIPTION:GHETTO TREKK! is a touring platform that is designed for visual art\, music\, film-making\, fashion\, design\, curatorship and theatre\, while providing a podium for individuals from a wide variety of communities to engage in meaningful conversations about the challenges that face our society – and to create social change to reflect\, reconstruct & address the negative connotation associated with our communities. It provides an opportunity to profile Unfunded & Self-Start Artists / Crafters / Entrepreneurs / NGOs / CBOs / Activists…and exhibit their works in different communities.\nDate: Saturday 12 December 2015\nTime: 09h00 – 21h00\nVenue: Bontehuewel\, Als Road connecting with Apricot Streets\nGoogle Map: -33.942233\, 18.544701
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/ghetto-trekk-festival-3/
LOCATION:Bonteheuwel
CATEGORIES:Art,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151209T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151209T210000
DTSTAMP:20260604T105853
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SUMMARY:Celebrating a bumper year of publishing
DESCRIPTION:Throughout 2015\, ACC researchers and associates have been involved in a wide range of activities including the release of the following publications: State/Society Synergy edited by Mercy Brown-Luthango; the African Cities Reader III\, edited by Ntone Adjabe and Edgar Pieterse; Mean Streets: Migration\, Xenophobia and Informality in SA by Jonathan Crush\, Abel Chikanda and Caroline Skinner; The Art of Public Space: Curating and Re-imagining the Ephemeral City by Kim Gurney; The Crossroads series of comics (1-4) by Koni Benson and the Tantraal Brothers and Cityscapes #7: Futurity\, edited by Tau Tavengwa and Sean O’Toole.\nHenrik Ernstson has been working on a documentary film project titled One Table Two Elephants which will be launching soon.\nWe invite you to join us in celebrating these projects
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/celebrating-a-bumper-year-of-publishing/
LOCATION:The Design Bank\, 75 Harrington Street\, Cape Town\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151206T040000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151206T210000
DTSTAMP:20260604T105853
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SUMMARY:Ghetto Trekk! Festival
DESCRIPTION:GHETTO TREKK! is a touring platform that is designed for visual art\, music\, film-making\, fashion\, design\, curatorship and theatre\, while providing a podium for individuals from a wide variety of communities to engage in meaningful conversations about the challenges that face our society – and to create social change to reflect\, reconstruct & address the negative connotation associated with our communities. It provides an opportunity to profile Unfunded & Self-Start Artists / Crafters / Entrepreneurs / NGOs / CBOs / Activists…and exhibit their works in different communities.\nDate: Sunday 06 December 2015\nTime: 16h00 – 21h00\nVenue: Kwa-Langa\, Zone 22 No. 16 at Noxolo Street\nGoogle Map: 33°56’39.2″S 18°32’19.5″E
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/ghetto-trekk-festival-2/
CATEGORIES:Art,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151205T160000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151205T210000
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SUMMARY:Ghetto Trekk! Festival
DESCRIPTION:GHETTO TREKK! is a touring platform that is designed for visual art\, music\, film-making\, fashion\, design\, curatorship and theatre\, while providing a podium for individuals from a wide variety of communities to engage in meaningful conversations about the challenges that face our society – and to create social change to reflect\, reconstruct & address the negative connotation associated with our communities. It provides an opportunity to profile Unfunded & Self-Start Artists / Crafters / Entrepreneurs / NGOs / CBOs / Activists…and exhibit their works in different communities.\nDate: Saturday 05 December 2015 \nTime: 16h00 – 21h00\nVenue: Valhalla Park\, Angela Road connecting to Charles Lane\,\nGoogle Map: -33.953538\, 18.574632\n 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/ghetto-trekk-festival/
CATEGORIES:Art,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151201T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151205T170000
DTSTAMP:20260604T105853
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SUMMARY:Africities 2015
DESCRIPTION:The CoJ\, South Africa’s economic hub\, will be hosting the 7th Africities Summit of cities and local governments of Africa on 1–4 December 2015. The summit is held every three years and looks at issues affecting urban and economic development in African cities. The theme for 2015 is ‘2063 Vision for Africa: Which contributions from the African local governments?’ It will explore the local government vision for the next 50 years and creative ways of solving the problems facing cities on the continent. more\n 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/africities-2015/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Johannesburg\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151128T173000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151128T233000
DTSTAMP:20260604T105853
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LAST-MODIFIED:20151117T071159Z
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SUMMARY:Artfricraft Studios Music Event
DESCRIPTION:Artfricraft Studios is one of the seven projects being supported by ACC as part of Public Art and the Power of Place. Artfricraft Studios will be hosting a series of events as part of their project. This music event will feature Very Lutumba\, Sylvestre Kabadassi and African All Stars. The purpose of these events is to use art as a way to draw different artists and residents together to challenge xenophobia.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/artfricraft-studios-music-event/
LOCATION:Delft Rent Office\, 583 Delft Main Road\, Cape Town
CATEGORIES:Art,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151128T100000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151128T120000
DTSTAMP:20260604T105853
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SUMMARY:Ghetto Trekk! Interview
DESCRIPTION:GHETTO TREKK! is a touring platform that is designed for visual art\, music\, film-making\, fashion\, design\, curatorship and theatre\, while providing a podium for individuals from a wide variety of communities to engage in meaningful conversations about the challenges that face our society – and to create social change to reflect\, reconstruct & address the negative connotation associated with our communities. It provides an opportunity to profile Unfunded & Self-Start Artists / Crafters / Entrepreneurs / NGOs / CBOs / Activists…and exhibit their works in different communities.\nIn this session\, project coordinator will be interviewed by Tinny Ntshili. They will be joined by Blaq Pearl.\nDate: Saturday 28 November 2015 \nTime: 10h00 – 12h00\nVenue: Cape Town Central Library\,\nGoogle Map: -33.925470\, 18.424417
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/ghetto-trekk-interview/
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151127T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151129T170000
DTSTAMP:20260604T105853
CREATED:20151117T072239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20151117T072239Z
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SUMMARY:Theatre in the Backyard: "Is He Mad?"
DESCRIPTION:Theatre in the Backyard is one of the seven projects being supported by the ACC as part of Public Art and the Power of Place. Theatre in the Backyard presents “Is He Mad?” written & directed by Mhlanguli George and performed by Lamla Ntsaluba. According to the project organisers\, “Is He Mad?”:\n‘A story of a man who doesn’t want to accept the death of his wife and has not become himself ever since\, the story is developed from the monologue from the well-known play of Dario Fo called “Accidental Death of an Anarchist” and some of the ideas are coming from the newspapers such as the Daily Sun\, the play deals with people who are ignorant about real issues in their lives.\nThe production will be performed in the backyard. Theatre in the Backyard has developed as a creative response to untapped resources of backyard life. Theatre in the Backyard uses actual backyards as the site for intimate theatrical production\, working closely and powerfully with available light\, space and other scenographic elements\nThe Director of Theatre in The Backyard spends a lot of time exploring different yards to eventually come up with a pure story\, this takes time as he has to use every element of the yard to put together the story\, one of his main objectives is to find character’s to this mysterious venture and ways of revealing the backyard secretes. This is theatre based on reality – raw and alive experience.\nWriter\, Director Mhlanguli George is the innovator of Theatre in the Backyard and founder and the Artistic Director of New-born Theatre Productions. Working as theatre writer\, director and the choreographer of the company\, he produced productions like “21st of march” ”June 16-isichotho semvula” “Teenage pregnancy” “Ndidliwa-ngumvandedwa” “Driven by faith”\, “Kwa-Nongqongqo” ”Fourth person in the yard” ”Letters” and “Finding the space”\nMhlanguli George has come up with a new form of theatre called “theatre in the backyard” that focuses on revealing secrets of the backyards good or bad. The first piece that George has created out of theatre in the backyard is called “Fourth person in the yard” and recently produced his second installation of theatre in the backyard “Is he mad?” Mhlanguli George worked at Uct Dance School as a lecture for 4th years introducing a new course “African Dance Performance Technique”\nThe Production manager/administrator Sisa Congress V Makaula is the Founding member of Rainbow arts Organisation\, one of the master minds in converting the Delft Rent Office to what is now known as Black Box Theatre\, He has written a number of theatre productions: Behind My Shadow which went to the NATIONAL FESTIVAL IN GRAHAMSTOWN in 2008 and 2009\, The Prophet Must Die recently performed at the Iqonga Creative Festival in Delft\, and Freedom Speech to name a few. Today\, Sisa Makaula is regarded as professional actor\, theatre-maker\, drama facilitator\, writer\, arts administrator and he is the Director and Executive producer of Rainbow Arts Organisation.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/theatre-in-the-backyard-is-he-mad/
CATEGORIES:Art,Theatre
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151125T173000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151125T190000
DTSTAMP:20260604T105853
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SUMMARY:MEAN STREETS book launch
DESCRIPTION:The ACC is proud to be associated with the publication of a major new title in southern African studies.\nMean Streets: Migration\, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa\, edited by ACC partners Jonathan Crush\, Abel Chikanda and Caroline Skinner\, demonstrates powerfully that some of the most resourceful entrepreneurs in the South African informal economy are migrants and refugees. Yet far from being lauded\, they take their life into their hands when they trade on South Africa’s “mean streets”.\nThirteen chapters draw attention to the positive economic contributions which migrants make to their adopted country. The book includes studies of: the creation of agglomeration economies in Jeppe and Ivory Park in Johannesburg; guanxi networks of Chinese entrepreneurs; competition and cooperation among Somali shop owners; cross-border informal traders; informal transport operators between South Africa and Zimbabwe. Migrant entrepreneurship is shown to involve generating employment\, paying rents\, providing cheaper goods to poor consumers\, and supporting formal sector wholesalers and retailers. Mean Streets also highlights the xenophobic responses to migrant and refugee entrepreneurs and the challenges they face in running a successful business on the streets.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/mean-streets-book-launch/
LOCATION:Book Lounge\, 71 Roeland Street\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151103T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151103T163000
DTSTAMP:20260604T105853
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SUMMARY:Informal Settlement as Complex Adaptive Assemblage
DESCRIPTION:The ACC is delighted to be hosting Prof Kim Dovey who will be presenting a paper entitled ‘Informal Settlement as Complex Adaptive Assemblage’.\nAbstract\nInformal urbanism\, from informal settlements to economies and street markets\, is integral to cities of the global South – economically\, socially\, environmentally and aesthetically. This paper seeks to unfold and re-think this informal/formal conception using two interconnected theoretical frameworks. First is assemblage theory derived from the work of Deleuze and Guattari\, in which a series of twofold concepts such as rhizomic/tree and smooth/striated resonate with the informal/formal construct. Second is theory on complex adaptive systems\, in which dynamic and unpredictable patterns of self-organisation emerge with certain levels of resilience or vulnerability. These approaches are drawn together into the concept of a complex adaptive assemblage\, illustrated with brief snapshots of urban informality drawn from Southeast Asian cities. The research challenge is to develop multi-disciplinary\, multi-scalar methodologies to explore the ways in which informality is linked to squatting\, corruption and poverty on the one hand\, and to growth\, productivity and creativity on the other.\nBio\nKim Dovey is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely on social issues in architecture\, urban design and planning.  Books include ‘Framing Places’ (Routledge\, 2008)\, ‘Fluid City’ (UNSW Press 2005)\, ‘Becoming Places’ and the forthcoming ‘Urban Design Thinking’ (Bloomsbury).  He leads research projects on informal settlements\, transit-oriented development and creative clusters.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/informal-settlement-as-complex-adaptive-assemblage/
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Environmental & Geographical Sciences Building\, UCT Upper Campus
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151101T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151130T170000
DTSTAMP:20260604T105853
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SUMMARY:Harare Academy of Inspiration
DESCRIPTION:The Harare Academy of Inspiration\, one of the seven projects ACC is supporting as part of Public Art and the Power of Place\, is running a daily programme of events at the Moholo Live House in Harare\, Khayelitsha. Please see the programme for details or contact the curators\nBrenda Skelenge 073-9401556 trendingkhalture@gmail.com\nValeria Geselev 071-5501427 yallashoola@gmail.com\nNaz Ping 084-7688199 naz.s@posteo.de
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/harare-academy-of-inspiration/
LOCATION:Moholo Live House\, 42 Ncumo Road\, Harare\, Khayelitsha\, Cape Town
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151026T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151026T140000
DTSTAMP:20260604T105853
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SUMMARY:Social Justice Coalition Panel
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/social-justice-coalition-panel/
LOCATION:African Centre for Cities\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151020T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151020T140000
DTSTAMP:20260604T105853
CREATED:20151013T093424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20151020T055300Z
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SUMMARY:BROWN BAG POSTPONED: Dwelling on the edge of Ulaanbaatar\, Mongolia
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE THIS BROWN BAG HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE AS UCT STUDENTS ARE PROTESTING FOR FAIR FEES.\nIn this brown bag\, Dr Rick Miller will be giving a talk on informal settlements in Mongolia.\nOverview\nThis talk will begin by introducing informal settlement in Ulaanbaatar – the ‘ger districts’. I will start by noting how Mongolia’s forms of informality are unique\, with the actual housing type of the ger being an accepted and even valorized emblem of domesticity\, and the ger district settlement pattern itself  pre-dating much of the core\, fixed structures of the city.  But Mongolia-specific characteristics aside\, the issues of informal settlement in Ulaanbaatar may still provide a more generalizable model for extending urbanization in other cities struggling to house their citizenry\, particularly for recalibrating legal regimes for making informality part of a solution to housing.\nBio\nRick Miller’s approach to studying informal settlements across cities of the developing world is informed by his training as both an architect and a social scientist.  Rick is a travelling faculty member of the School for International Training program on Cities in the 21st Century and a lecturer in the Department of Geography at UCLA\, from which he received his PhD.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/dwelling-on-the-edge-of-ulaanbaatar-mongolia/
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Environmental & Geographical Sciences Building\, UCT Upper Campus
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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