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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:20260604T122207
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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:20260604T122207
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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:20260604T122207
CREATED:20151208T103122Z
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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:20260604T122207
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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/
LOCATION:Western Cape
CATEGORIES:Art,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151205T160000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151205T210000
DTSTAMP:20260604T122207
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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/
LOCATION:Western Cape
CATEGORIES:Art,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151201T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151205T170000
DTSTAMP:20260604T122207
CREATED:20150128T100409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150128T100659Z
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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:20260604T122207
CREATED:20151117T071159Z
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:20260604T122207
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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/
LOCATION:Western Cape
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151127T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151129T170000
DTSTAMP:20260604T122207
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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/
LOCATION:Western Cape
CATEGORIES:Art,Theatre
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151125T173000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151125T190000
DTSTAMP:20260604T122207
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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:20260604T122207
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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:20260604T122207
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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:20260604T122207
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SUMMARY:Social Justice Coalition Panel
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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:20260604T122207
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151019T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151019T190000
DTSTAMP:20260604T122207
CREATED:20151008T190756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20151009T133233Z
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SUMMARY:Adapting to Climate Change - Lessons From South African cities
DESCRIPTION:South Africa will be severely hit by climate change. Projections show that temperatures will rise by 3° to 6°C in some parts of the country. Already water-scarce\, South Africa will see a drastic change in its rainfall patterns\, with most of the country becoming drier. The rise in sea-level will at the same time threaten the development of coastal cities.\n \nAdapting to climate change is thus a necessity. It is also an opportunity to engage a truly sustainable development model – one robust enough to work in a changing environment and inclusive enough to accommodate the poorest and most vulnerable. It is particularly true of cities – some of whom have already developed ambitious strategies\n \nAs France is gearing up to host the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) in December 2015\, AFD invites you to a conference on « Adapting to climate change – Lessons from South African cities ».\n \nThe event will be opened by Her Excellency\, Mrs Elisabeth Barbier\, Ambassador of France to South Africa. Mrs Kobie Brand\, Regional Director for Africa at ICLEI\, Mrs Helen Davies\, Head of Environmental Policy and Planning at City of Cape Town\, and Mrs Anna Taylor\, Researcher at UCT\, will take part in the debate\, which will be moderated by Mrs Martha Stein-Sochas\, AFD Regional Director for Southern Africa.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/adapting-to-climate-change-lessons-from-south-african-cities/
LOCATION:Alliance Française\, 155 Loop Street\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151014T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151014T163000
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SUMMARY:Food and transnational gastronomic culture amongst Cameroonian migrants in Cape Town and The Hague
DESCRIPTION:In this seminar\, post-doctoral fellow at the African Centre for Cities\, Dr Henrietta M Nyamnjoh will present a paper entitled\, ‘This Christmas I go ‘touch’ some fufu and eru”: Food and transnational gastronomic culture amongst Cameroonian migrants in Cape Town and The Hague’.\nAbstract\nMigrants’ relation to ethnic food and their experiences of migration are dynamic processes\, experienced in a multiplicity of ways. This paper focuses on how mobility and migration are fast influencing the global food cultures and how increasingly foods are windows into the ways migrants live\, think\, and identify themselves. Foods are part of migrants’ cultural\, historical and even emotional repertoires. Based on ethnographic research amongst Cameroonian migrants in Cape Town and The Netherlands\, I explore how migrants travel with their gastronomic culture and/or improvise in the absence of ethnic foods. In the Netherlands\, whilst migrants have found ‘home-away-from-home’ through the many shops that sell food from home they still manage to create transnational food chains/links when visiting home. While in Cape Town\, despite these shops the absence of certain foods has prompted migrants to improvise and complement their foods\, it has also given rise to specialised restaurants that provide Cameroonian cuisine. Through this ethnography I maintain that gastronomic culture can be thought of as a strong bond that affirms migrants’ Cameroonian-ness and keeps them attached to the home country. I question too the extent to which mobility and transnationality reconfigure food experiences amongst migrant communities and argue for multiple understandings of how migrants relate to food to the exclusion of their everyday experience.\nBio\nHenrietta Nyamnjoh is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at African Centre for Cities and Environmental and Geographical Science\, University of Cape Town. Her research focus is on migration\, transnational studies\, migrants and urban transformation and religion. She recently completed a study on the use of Information and Communication Technologies amongst Cameroonian migrants in South Africa\, The Netherlands and Cameroon. The study (Bridging Mobilities: ICTs appropriation by Cameroonians in South Africa and The Netherlands) seeks to understand migrants’ appropriation of the new Information and Communication Technologies to link home and host country and the wider migrant community. She is also the author of “We Get Nothing from Fishing” Fishing for Boat Opportunities Amongst Senegalese Fisher Migrants (2010). She is currently working on transnational families and emotions amongst Cameroonians in Cape Town.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/food-and-transnational-gastronomic-culture-amongst-cameroonian-migrants-in-cape-town-and-the-hague/
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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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151005T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151005T140000
DTSTAMP:20260604T122207
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SUMMARY:Contested Cartographies: Remapping Cape  Town
DESCRIPTION:In this brown bag\, Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk will introduce a working concept for new ways of understanding Cape Town.\nOverview:\nThis concept presentation considers the mapping\, naming\, routing\, disambiguations\, planning\, and compartmentalising of contemporary Cape Town. Using as a basis the idea of an atlas containing multiple maps of the city\, this project considers expansions\, degradings\, mergings and rendings that have transformed the city over time not only from a spatial perspective\, but also culturally. How are people ‘emplaced’ in the city? What does the city look like to people based upon their distinct cultural belongings? What lies beneath our feet and flies above our heads?\nThis concept is both multi- and trans-disciplinary\, bringing together social scientists working in urban studies\, activists\, artists\, and writers to re-think the way the city looks to those who live in it\, to lift the map off the surface of the page and re-form it.\nAbout the speaker:\nIan-Malcolm Rijsdijk is a senior lecturer in the Centre for Film and Media Studies\, and director of the African Cinema Unit at the University of Cape Town. He has published widely on the filmmaker Terrence Malick (the subject of his PhD)\, as well as South African film\, wildlife documentary and literary fiction. He is currently working on early South African cinema and film cultures in South Africa. As Director of the African Cinema Unit\, he teaches in the MA in African Cinema and is also involved in developing postgraduate scholarship in African and South African screen studies. He is also a member of the Environmental Humanities South research program at the University of Cape Town. In 2013\, he received a Distinguished Teacher’s Award from the University of Cape Town\, and in 2014 a National Excellence in Teaching award from the Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association of South Africa. He is a fanatical birder and registered at lasser with the South African Bird Atlas project. One day he would like to see a Wandering Albatross.\n 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/remapping-cape-town-ian-rijsdijk/
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Environmental & Geographical Sciences Building\, UCT Upper Campus
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150917T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150917T140000
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SUMMARY:DALI project (DFID land based financing)
DESCRIPTION:Ian Palmer and Stephen Berrisford will share an overview of the key findings of the DFID land based financing project\, focussing on land value capture and infrastructure finance in Sub-Saharan Africa.\nOverview:\nThe rapid growth of African Cities brings with it a burgeoning demand for infrastructure. But the finance available to cities to build this infrastructure is constrained. Therefore opportunities offered by land-based financing are most important. A team based at the African Centre for Cities has recently completed a significant research project on this topic for the UK Department for International Development.  The findings from this research will provide the primary input for this brownbag session\, which will deal with the nature of urban infrastructure\, the institutions involved in providing infrastructure\, an overview of capital financing options and specific opportunities for using land-based finance. It will also touch on the role of property developers in providing and/or financing infrastructure\, the role of cities in raising finance associated with property developments and associated policy considerations.  Findings from case studies conducted in Ethiopia\, Kenya and Zimbabwe will also be reflected in the presentation.\nBios:\nStephen Berrisford is an independent consultant working in the field of urban planning law and policy in Southern Africa. He holds BA LLB and MCRP degrees from UCT and an MPhil in Land Economy from the University of Cambridge. Prior to establishing Stephen Berrisford Consulting in 2000 he held the post of Director: Land Development Facilitation at the national Department of Land Affairs and before that worked in the planning departments of the Cape Town and Johannesburg municipalities. During 2010 he was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Sheffield. His clients include the major international development agencies as well as all three spheres of government in South Africa. Stephen’s work focuses on the identification of practical and just legal solutions to the challenges of rapid urban growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has regularly published academic articles and book chapters since 1996 and has presented papers at a wide range of international conferences.\nIan Palmer is a founding partner of Palmer Development Group (PDG). PDG is a leading consultancy in South Africa in the field of municipal services policy\, research\, strategy and management. He has 37 years experience in the fields of civil engineering and development. Over the last 25 years\, 19 of which he has been the managing partner and then managing director of PDG\, he has been the team leader on over 100 projects in the realm of public sector service delivery including the fields of: municipal services planning\, municipal finance\, inter-governmental relations\, water and sanitation\, housing\, roads and public transport. He has degrees in civil engineering\, economics and environmental engineering. Ian is also an Adjunct Professor at UCT attached to the African Centre for Cities.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/dali-project-dfid-land-based-financing/
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Environmental & Geographical Sciences Building\, UCT Upper Campus
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150909T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150909T163000
DTSTAMP:20260604T122207
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SUMMARY:Overcoming water scarcity for good?
DESCRIPTION:Dr Suraya Scheba is an ACC research fellow who will be sharing a paper entitled\, ‘Overcoming water scarcity for good: querying the adoption of desalination technology in the Knysna Local Municipality of South Africa’.\nAbstract\nIn this paper I aim to query the Ecological Modernisation vision of green growth by focusing on the emblematic case of desalination technology as the solution to the threat of water scarcity. I focus the study on a drought crisis\, which resulted in the adoption of desalination in the Eden District Municipality (EDM) of South Africa. Focusing on the towns of Sedgefield and Knysna\, in the Knysna Local Municipality (KLM) of the EDM\, I ask the questions of ‘what\, how\, by whom\, why and to what end was desalination adopted?’. This interrogation is characterised by two movements\, firstly tracing the emergence and form of the crisis – solution consensus; and secondly reading this against an examination of the historical material relations constituting both crisis and solution. The paper is informed by research that was carried out over a period of 11 months\, from October 2011 to August 2012\, during which I undertook 91 semi-structured interviews\, extensive document analysis and participant observation.\nThe twin analytical movement described above is undertaken in five parts. Firstly\, I show that the dominant representation of ‘drought crisis’ insisted upon the indisputability of drought as a threat posed by an externalised nature. Next\, in examining the historical materiality of drought I counter this narrative by showing the drought crisis to be a socio-natural assemblage\, rather than an externalised threatening nature. This is a vital finding\, showing that the support for the adoption of desalination technology as a necessary response to ‘nature’s crisis’\, pivoted on the maintenance of an ideological fiction. In the third part of the paper\, moving on to an examination of the solution\, it emerges that an essential element supporting desalination adoption was the employment of exceptional disaster and environmental legislation\, enabling the urgent release of disaster funding to ensure water security for economic growth. This section also argues that the maintenance of the dominant crisis narrative served to produce a market opportunity for the desalination industry. In the remaining two parts of the paper I evaluate the ‘promise’ of the desalination techno-fix. Through focusing on the conditionality placed on disaster funding and its impact on project assembly\, I argue that the mechanisms and logic through which the solution consensus emerged had a direct bearing on project assembly and consequent problems and costs emerging out of the desalination solution from the outset. In sum\, the paper demonstrates that the adopted E.M. logic was a false promise that served to intensify the penetration of nature by capital\, and resulted in a deeper movement into crisis by moving the problems around as opposed to resolving them.\n\nBio\nSuraya completed her PhD in geography at the University of Manchester (UK). Her doctoral work examined the Ecological Modernisation vision of green growth by focusing on the emblematic case of desalination technology as the solution to the threat of water scarcity. The study was focused on a drought crisis\, which resulted in the adoption of desalination in the Eden District Municipality (EDM) of South Africa\, focusing specifically on the towns of Sedgefield and Knysna\, in the Knysna Local Municipality (KLM) of the EDM. Since May 2015 she works as a post-doctoral research fellow at the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of the Cape Town. In this capacity\, she forms part of a research team concerned with exploring theories and practices of emancipatory change. At one level\, her focus is on leading an in-depth study on Informality\, urban poverty and inequality in the low-income community of Delft\, Cape Town. This study forms part of a larger multi-sited research project\, positioned within a collaborative initiative between a handful of South African Research Chairs working on strategies to overcome poverty and inequality. At another level she will participate in workshops and discussions\, drawing on both grounded findings and theoretical debates\, to build empirically-informed theory and policy related to questions of transformative change.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/overcoming-water-scarcity-for-good/
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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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150820T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150820T170000
DTSTAMP:20260604T122207
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SUMMARY:Mistra Urban Futures Knowledge Transfer Programme (KTP) Learning event
DESCRIPTION:Join us in sharing the experiences of the Embedded Researchers at the conclusion of the first phase of the KTP partnership between the African Centre for Cities and the City of Cape Town.\nBringing together academic and practitioner knowledge can co-produce defensible and legitimate responses to policy challenges. The Knowledge Transfer Programme\, launched in 2012\, proceeded through the placement of four embedded researchers in departments at the City\, working on City projects and processes. The KTP\, through both the Embedded Researcher Programme and the City Officials Exchange Programme has sought to make policy and decision-making processes more accessible and applicable through the co- production of knowledge and the dissemination of both scholarship and practice.\nThis event focuses primarily on showcasing and learning from the work conducted by the four embedded researchers\, who have experimented with new ways of engaging and working with the City. The Panel Discussion will draw on the researchers’ lengthy engagement with urban policy processes and consider ways of tracking the impacts of co-produced knowledge.\n\nDate: 20 August 2015 \n3-4pm: Panel discussion: Co-producing knowledge for urban change: reflections on understanding impact \nPanellists: Anton Cartwright\, Anna Taylor\, Robert McGaffin and Saul Roux\, chaired by Edgar Pieterse\n4-5pm: Drinks reception celebration of the partnership\nRSVP to Saskia Greyling (saskia.greyling@uct.ac.za) by Friday 14th August 2015\n 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/mistra-urban-futures-knowledge-transfer-programme-ktp-learning-event/
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, UCT Research Office\, Allan Cormack House\, 2 Rhodes Ave\, Mowbray\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150819T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150819T193000
DTSTAMP:20260604T122207
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SUMMARY:Launch and discussion: The Art of Public Space
DESCRIPTION:WiSER and the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town invite you to a launch and discussion of The Art of Public Space: Curating and Re-imagining the Ephemeral City by Kim Gurney\nThe Art of Public Space (Palgrave\, 2015) takes as case study a trilogy of art interventions\, New Imaginaries\, which explored notions of public space in Johannesburg\, and reflects upon its broader implications in a research partnership between African Centre for Cities and Goethe-Institut South Africa.\n“Kim Gurney’s The Art of Public Space powerfully reiterates the ways in which urban actors do not inhabit worlds of preconceived social or subjective forms\, but rather ever-shifting milieus where different ways of conceiving and enacting life intersect\, and that artistic practice is a critical technology in re-imagining and reshaping these intersections. All technical practices conduct events\, but artistic work is proving most salient in opening up urban contexts to events that anticipate and posit new ways of living together. Leveraging the multiplicity of performances that make up every day Johannesburg\, the artistic projects offered here attempt to reconfigure what its residents already see and experience but in ways that push it somewhere else\, which collate and intensify these perceptions and experiences into new common grounds.” — AbdouMaliq Simone\nRespondents: Achille Mbembe (WiSER) with Molemo Moiloa (VANSA)\, Tanya Zack (urban researcher\, writer & explorer) and Kim Gurney (UCT)\, chaired by Edgar Pieterse (UCT).
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/launch-and-discussion-the-art-of-public-space/
LOCATION:WiSER\, 6th Floor\, Richard Ward Building\, University of Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg\, Gauteng\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Launch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150817
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150819
DTSTAMP:20260604T122207
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SUMMARY:Reconfiguring town and countryside for inclusive growth\, combating poverty and job creation: Policy workshop on spatial inequality
DESCRIPTION:Professor Edgar Pieterse and Adjunct Professor Stephen Berrisford are attending this high-level meeting organised by the Research Project on Employment\, Income Distribution and  Inclusive Growth (REDI3x3) at the Centre for African Studies\, University of Cape Town (UCT).\nProfessor Pieterse is delivering a keynote address entitle ‘Reimagining the City’ in a Session about using urban development to promote inclusive growth.\nStephen Berrisford is speaking about how land use management impacts on public finance in urban and rural areas.\nThe meeting is being attended by representatives from the Presidency\, National Treasury and National Planning Commission.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/reconfiguring-town-and-countryside-for-inclusive-growth-combating-poverty-and-job-creation-policy-workshop-on-spatial-inequality/
LOCATION:Western Cape
CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150811T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150811T200000
DTSTAMP:20260604T122207
CREATED:20150807T110330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150807T112643Z
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SUMMARY:Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts
DESCRIPTION:It is with great pleasure that the District Six Museum and the African Centre for Cities invite you to meet Dr Mindy Thompson Fullilove\, visiting from Columbia University in New York. Dr Fullilove is a professor of Clinical Psychology and Public Health\, and is interested in the links between the environment and mental health. She has researched\, written and designed projects which speak to this concern\, and is well-known for her critique as well as the development of various initiatives in New York and surrounding neighbourhoods.\nIn the introduction to her book Root Shock’\, she writes:\n“I present here the words of the people who have lived upheaval: the uprooted\, the planners\, the advocates\, the historians. Read their words with care for them and for yourself. Read their words\, not as single individuals living through a bad time\, but as a multitude all sharing their morsel of the same bad time. Read in that manner and I believe that you will get the true nature of root shock. Read in that manner\, and I believe you will be able to embrace the truth\, not as a fearful thing\, but as a call to join the struggle for a better tomorrow”.\nJoin District Six Museum and the African Centre for Cities  in a round-table discussion with Dr Fullilove during which time she will share with us some of the practical expressions of her work\, as well as her impressions of the mental health of Cape Town as a ‘recovering’ city. Discussion to be led by Rike Sitas of the African Centre for Cities and Bonita Bennett of the District Six Museum.\nBio\nDr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove is a board-certified psychiatrist who is interested in the links between the environment and mental health. She started her research career in 1986 with a focus on the AIDS epidemic\, and became aware of the close link between AIDS and place of residence. Under the rubric of the psychology of place\, Dr. Fullilove began to examine the mental health effects of such environmental processes as violence\, rebuilding\, segregation\, urban renewal\, and mismanaged toxins. She has published numerous articles and six books including “Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America’s Sorted-Out Cities\,” “Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It\,” and “House of Joshua: Meditations on Family and Place.”
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/district-six-museum-and-acc-host-dr-mindy-thompson-fullilove/
LOCATION:Western Cape
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150730T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150730T140000
DTSTAMP:20260604T122207
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SUMMARY:UN Sustainable Development Goals Target 11: Urban Indicators Pilot
DESCRIPTION:UN Sustainable Development Goals Target 11: Urban Indicators Pilot – City of Cape Town\n \n\n \nThis pilot study sought to test the proposed indicators for Goal 11 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals that succeed the Millennium Development Goals. Goal 11 marks the first explicit urban goal: To Make Cities and Human Settlements inclusive\, safe\, resilient and sustainable. The ACC was appointed by Mistra Urban Futures to test the Goal 11 indicators in Cape Town and partnered with Palmer Development Group (PDG) and the City of Cape Town (CCT) to do so\, as part of a larger pilot process in five cities worldwide. The pilot tested each proposed indicator against four parameters: data availability\, measurability\, utility and custodianship. It used an indicator specification format with which PDG engaged with a CCT team\, who in turn engaged with internal CCT stakeholders on the feasibility and usefulness of the indicators and collected data from them for analysis. The findings show that there are limitations regarding the informal context that characterises significant facets of the CCT\, the type of data that the CCT has at its disposal and the regularity with which it is able to access household and population data. However\, the majority of primary indicators are measurable and valuable and with improved collaboration with Statistics South Africa these will be increasingly measurable.\nAcross the five cities it emerged that there are great gaps and concerns\, in terms of universality\, common international standards and coherence of reporting mechanisms. The pilot also demonstrated the tension in striking a balance between reducing the number of indicators and increasing the policy relevance. The CCT found that being part of the research pilot was valuable for the CCT in a range of ways including internal CCT learnings and the direct influence on future CCT indicator work; CCT’s access to current indicator thinking\, processes\, tools and resources\, as well as the insights for CCT in terms of urban sustainable development priorities and challenges and how these are being managed by other cities.\nThe pilot study has demonstrated the importance of having undertaken live testing of the draft targets and indicators for Goal 11 in a set of diverse secondary and intermediate cities. If the urban SDG is to prove to be a useful tool to encourage local and national authorities alike to make positive investments in the various components of urban sustainability transitions as its proponents and developers intend\, then it is vital that it should prove widely relevant\, acceptable and practicable. Key recommendations from the final report to achieve these aims will be discussed.\nThis seminar will be presented by the following members of the pilot study team:\nNishendra Moodley was the PDG project lead and lead researcher for the pilot in Cape Town. He is a director of PDG and Chairperson of its Board.\nCarol Wright was the City Lead of the USDG pilot\, and co-ordinated the inputs from the City of Cape Town. Carol is Manager of Development Information in the City of Cape Town.\nNatasha Primo provided the alignment to the current CCT indicator and related work and active links to the City’s indicator working group which she leads. Natasha is the Head: Policy and Research in the DI&GIS Department of the CCT.\nHelen Arfvidsson has been the lead researcher for the Mistra Urban Futures’ Pilot Project to test potential targets and indicators for the urban sustainable development goal 11 across 5 cities.\n \n 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/un-sustainable-development-goals-target-11-urban-indicators-pilot/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150727
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150801
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SUMMARY:“Political Theory Meets Global South Urbanism: Where is the Political?”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Henrik Ernstson and Dr. Andrés Henao Castro are organising a week-long #SUPE literature seminar on “Political Theory Meets Global South Urbanism: Where is the Political?”\, July 27-31\, 2015 at ACC\, University of Cape Town.\nFor more information visit http://www.situatedecologies.net/archives/1417
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/acc-seminar-political-theory-meets-global-south-urbanism-where-is-the-political-july-27-31-2015/
LOCATION:African Centre for Cities\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150720T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150721T170000
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SUMMARY:Land value capture and infrastructure finance in Sub-Saharan Africa
DESCRIPTION:Why is it so difficult for city authorities in Sub-Saharan Africa to share in the cities’ land values in order to provide an additional stream of funding to invest in urban infrastructure? This is the key question which will be tackled in this day long symposium. The theme of the symposium derives from work currently being completed by ACC for the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DfID) on harnessing land values to finance urban infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa. This project is led by ACC adjunct professors Ian Palmer and Stephen Berrisford\, supported by a team of over twenty researchers from across the region. Read more here\nNB: RSVP is essential because seating is limited. Please RSVP by 15 June 2015 to Melanie Badenhorst on mel@pdg.co.za  or by calling +27 (0)21 671-1402
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/land-value-capture-and-infrastructure-finance-in-sub-saharan-africa/
LOCATION:Breakwater Lodge\, Portswood Rd\, V & A Waterfront\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150620T100000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150620T120000
DTSTAMP:20260604T122207
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SUMMARY:Briefing and Q&A: Public Art and the Power of Place
DESCRIPTION:Public Art and the Power of Place\, initiated by the African Centre for Cities at UCT\, with support from the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund seeks to support six public art engagements to be manifested in Cape Town’s townships in 2015 that explore the significance of place outside of the City Bowl.\nThe African Centre for Cities is looking for proposals for public art projects that: Have been developed by township-based artists (can be original work or developments of existing projects) // Offer new understandings or perspectives of urban realities of Cape Town’s townships through creative means // Have a public dimension: engage public spaces; include people; concern public interest; or face the public in a meaningful way.\nOn Saturday 20 June 10:00-12:00 we will be hosting a briefing and Q&A session for potential artists at Guga S’Thebe in Langa. Please join us to find out more about the project.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/briefing-and-qa-public-art-and-the-power-of-place/
LOCATION:Guga S’Thebe Arts and Culture Centre\, Washington Street\, Langa (right turn off Bunga Ave at Fisher's Corner Cafe) \, Cape Town\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150608T030000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150608T163000
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SUMMARY:Comparing urban civic networks: Insights from Britain
DESCRIPTION:In this seminar Prof Mario Diani from the University of Trento and ICREA at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra\, Barcelona will be presenting a paper entitled ‘Comparing urban civic networks: Insights from Britain’.\nAbstract\nComparative analyses of urban political civic networks are still relatively rare\, and those available are mostly conducted by an “aggregative” rather than a “relational” logic. They focus\, in other words\, on the distribution of the characteristics of individual and organizational actors rather than on the patterns of relation and interdependence between them. Drawing upon my just published book The Cement of Civil Society (Cambridge UP\, 2015)\, and focusing on civic networks in two British cities\, Bristol and Glasgow\, my talk illustrates how network analysis can contribute to a more nuanced understanding of local political networks. It shows in particular how the concept of “mode of coordination” may enable us to capture the differences between different styles of collective action.\n\nBio\nMario Diani is professor of sociology at the University of Trento\, and ICREA research professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra\, Barcelona. His research focuses primarily on social movements\, collective action\, and political networks. Publications include The Cement of Civil Society: Studying Networks in Localities (Cambridge University Press\, 2015)\, Social Movements (with Donatella della Porta\, Blackwell\, 20062)\,  and Social Movements and Networks (co-edited with Doug McAdam\, Oxford University Press\, 2003)\, as well as articles in leading journals such as American Sociological Review\, American Journal of Sociology\, Social Networks\, and Mobilization.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/comparing-urban-civic-networks-insights-from-britain/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150606T090000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150606T170000
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SUMMARY:The Cape Town Civil Society Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Cape Town Civil Society Conference invites Cape Town’s civil society organisations to reflect and share their experiences in mobilizing and influencing the urban environment\, from struggles around housing and service delivery\, to the protection of habitat and biodiversity. It will be held on 6 June 2015 in the Chemical Engineering Building on UCT’s Upper Campus. Civil society organisations that would like to participate can RSVP on the website: http://civnet.situatedupe.net/
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/the-cape-town-civil-society-conference/
LOCATION:Chemical Engineering Building\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops
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