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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20151019T180000
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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:20260604T133104
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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
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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:20260604T133104
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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:20260604T133104
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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:20260604T133104
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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
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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/
CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150811T180000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150811T200000
DTSTAMP:20260604T133104
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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/
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150730T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150730T140000
DTSTAMP:20260604T133104
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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
DTSTAMP:20260604T133104
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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:20260604T133104
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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
DTSTAMP:20260604T133104
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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
DTSTAMP:20260604T133104
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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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X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Chemical Engineering Building UCT Upper Campus Cape Town South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=UCT Upper Campus:geo:18.4607236,-33.9592646
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150513T030000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150513T163000
DTSTAMP:20260604T133104
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SUMMARY:Performing a New Model of Active and Activist Citizenship in South Africa
DESCRIPTION:In this seminar\, Dr Chloé Buire will be presenting a paper entitled ‘Performing a New Model of Active and Activist Citizenship in South Africa’.\nAbstract\nIn 2014\, South Africa celebrated its “Twenty Years of Democracy”. Official commemorations emphasized the pride in belonging to the Rainbow Nation\, but commentators recalled the fragility of the national myth.  Many of these commentators feared that young people who have not lived under apartheid could endanger democracy because of their unstable and conflicting political identities.  In this context\, this paper explores the kind of citizenship promoted in youth policies and curricula\, and traces how citizenship has been reframed since the heyday of the democratic transition in the 1990s.  Emerging from this analysis is an “active citizen” whose commitment to social justice is measured against her or his contribution to the national economy.  Nevertheless\, interviews with key actors from government and civil society conducted in Cape Town reveal that the definition of a self-sufficient\, responsible\, and caring citizen is contested\, as projects developed to produce young citizens engage with critical thinking as well as with personal economic advancement. While academic education remains seen as the primary tool for building citizenship\, many are exploring alternative pedagogies and experimental training to challenge the status-quo of a profoundly unequal society.  The learning process of various actors involved in youth development suggests that South African citizenship is performed through this complex relationship between a model of economically active citizens and a model of politically conscious citizens.\n\nBiography\n\nChloé completed her PhD in geography at the University of Paris Ouest (France). Her doctoral work examined the practices of urban citizenship in Gugulethu and Heideveld (Cape Town). She worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) in 2012 and 2013\, where she explored the construction of political identities in Luanda\, Angola. Since January 2014\, Chloé is a post-doctoral research associate at Durham University (UK). She is currently doing fieldwork in Cape Town for YouCitizen\, a research project examining the meaning and experience of citizenship for young people in societies with histories of conflict and division (www.youcitizen.org).
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/performing-a-new-model-of-citizenship/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150508T190000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150508T213000
DTSTAMP:20260604T133104
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SUMMARY:Film screening: "Knowing Urban Environments through Photography and Film"
DESCRIPTION:Film screening: ONE TABLE TWO ELEPHANTS: A FILM ABOUT WAYS OF KNOWING URBAN NATURE by Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson.\nThe film takes an interest in how different groups create knowledge about urban nature\, thereby shaping the future of the city\, its ecology\, and its meaning to the people of the city. The story follows neighbourhood grassroots in Cape Town and how they relate to nature\, and how history and legacies of apartheid is bound up with values and meanings of nature. It also follows municipal ecologists and the knowledge practices they have developed to protect ecological functions and the biodiversity at the city-scale. By describing the work of these different groups\, and the city from their perspective\, we want to surface how different values and knowledge of urban nature is articulated and become part of public debate. For more information\, please visit our website: http://www.situatedecologies.net/archives/portfolio/ways-of-knowing-the-film
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/film-screening-of-acc-film-project-at-the-stanford-event-knowing-urban-environments-through-photography-and-film/
LOCATION:Stanford University\, 450 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA 94305\, United States\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150508
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150510
DTSTAMP:20260604T133104
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SUMMARY:“URBAN BEYOND MEASURE: Registering Urban Environments in the Global South”\, 8-9 May 2015
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Henrik Ernstson and Dr. Jia-Ching Chen are organizing an ambitious conference at Stanford University on the meeting between environmental scientists\, global South urbanists and STS scholars on the “Urban Beyond Measure: Registering Urban Environments of the Global South”\, May 8-9\, 2015 at Stanford University. Also included is a session on film and photography as environmental humanities response on how to register these urban environments beyond measure. For more information\, visit our website: https://urbanbeyondmeasure.wordpress.com/\n \nOrganizers: Henrik Ernstson (ACC) Jia-Ching Chen (Brown University)\nACC Speakers are: Henrik Ernstson and Susan Parnell\nExternal: Anne Rademacher\, Awadhendra Sharan\, Alisa Zomer\, Angel Hsu\, Garth Myers\, Malini Ranganathan\,  James Ferguson\, Jason Corburn\, Jenna Davis\,  Stephen Luby\, Perrine Hamel\, Timothy Choy\, Sarah Whatmore.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/conference-at-stanford-urban-beyond-measure-registering-urban-environments-in-the-global-south-8-9-may-2015/
LOCATION:Stanford University\, 450 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA 94305\, United States\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150423T160000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150423T180000
DTSTAMP:20260604T133104
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SUMMARY:Options for Reducing Violence in South African Cities
DESCRIPTION:South Africa is home to some of the world’s most violent cities\, with homicide rates well above global and national averages. While the homicide rate is a strong indicator of urban violence\, it does not capture non-lethal violence\, which is often hidden from public view\, in the home or in institutions. In order to create safer spaces in which women\, men\, girls\, and boys can live\, policy makers and practitioners need to know which sort of interventions work\, and which don’t.\nThis event brings together findings from two lines of work\, the African Centre for Cities’ research and analysis on the impact of informal settlement upgrading on safety and overall quality of life and the Safe and Inclusive Cities initiative which seeks to understand the drivers of urban violence and how they relate to poverty and inequalities. Discussion will focus on identifying concrete options for improving safety in South Africa’s cities.\nThis event is free\, but space is limited. Please RSVP to mercy.brown-luthango@uct.ac.za\nAGENDA\n4:00 Welcome and opening remarks by Prof. Gordon Pirie (ACC) and Ms. Cam Do (IDRC)\n 4:20 Conversation with:\nDr. Mercy Brown-Luthango\, ACC – Improving Safety for Informal Settlement Dwellers: Urban Upgrading\nDr. Hugo van der Merwe\, CSVR – Reducing violence while reducing poverty: The Community Work Program\nDr. Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz\, FLACSO-Costa Rica – Lessons for South Africa from Central America\n5:10 Questions and Answers\n 6:00 Close\nLight refreshments will be served.\n \nAbout the Presenters\nDr. Mercy Brown-Luthango has a background in Sociology of Work and has an interest in the economics of land use planning and social mobilisation among poor communities. She has worked on a diverse range of research topics\, including the “brain drain” in South Africa\, labour practices on wine farms\, gender relations in the workplace\, and the effect of global restructuring in the wine industry on South African producers. Currently\, Dr. Brown-Luthango is a Research Officer with the African Centre for Cities.\nDr. Hugo van der Merwe is trained in Conflict Analysis and Resolution and specializes in issues of transitional justice in South Africa and the African continent. He has led several research projects evaluating the impact of local and national transitional justice processes. Currently\, Dr. van der Merwe is the Head of Research at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in South Africa.\nDr. Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz is a Sociologist and expert in the labour market\, poverty\, and local economic development. He has published widely on these topics in addition to employment\, globalization\, social structures\, and many others. Since 1981\, Dr. Pérez Sáinz has worked as a researcher with FLACSO\, the Faculdad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences). He is currently based at FLACSO-Costa Rica.\n \nThe African Centre for Cities’ work presented at this event is supported by the Inclusive Violence and Crime Prevention (VCP) programme which is implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.\nSafe and Inclusive Cities is a joint initiative of the UK’s Department for International Development and Canada’s International Development Research Centre.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/options-for-reducing-violence-in-south-african-cities/
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Environmental & Geographical Sciences Building\, UCT Upper Campus
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150422T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150422T143000
DTSTAMP:20260604T133104
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SUMMARY:Josh Palfreman: Waste Ventures in East Africa
DESCRIPTION: Waste Ventures in East Africa: a critical examination of the science\, collection models and innovative technologies being employed by urban planners in Kenya and Tanzania\n\n\nIn this Brownbag\, Josh Palfreman will be reflecting on the science\, collection models and innovative technologies being employed by urban planners in Kenya and Tanzania in an effort to manage solid waste.\n\n\nAbstract:\n\nJosh Palfreman takes a market systems approach to develop a deeper understanding of solid waste management in Mombasa\, Kenya and Dar es Salaam\, Tanzania.  His presentation will provide insight into a waste characterization study. This study was conducted to underpin the formulation of strategic waste management policy\, geospatial analysis and scientific research to map formal and informal waste management stakeholders.  It further brings to attention how action research is used to support innovation and entrepreneurship in municipal solid waste collection models while piloting various technologies designed\, manufactured and maintained in East Africa that are tailored to local skill sets and infrastructure\, to enhance waste collection and recovery operations across the region. \n\n \nBiography:\nJoshua Palfreman is an urban planning and waste management professional with over six years of experience in East Africa. In 2009\, he founded WASTEDAR\, an NGO providing waste management services in Tanzania. Palfreman currently provides technical assistance to DFID on waste management programmes run by the development arm in Kenya and has recently published works relating to waste pickers and innovative collection models tailored to developing world waste characteristics and resources; work that will feature in this year’s Fifteenth International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium in Sardinia\, Italy.\n 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/reflections-on-youth-employment-and-waste-management-the-case-of-mombasa-kenya/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150413
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150417
DTSTAMP:20260604T133104
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SUMMARY:Mainstreaming Urban Safety & Inclusion in South Africa
DESCRIPTION:A four-day course for municipal officials and other practitioners to discuss violence and its prevention\, key concepts\, safer cities strategies\, policy frameworks\, urban upgrading for violence prevention\, and associated methodologies. A day-long field trip will observe measures taken in practice.\nThe focus will be on mainstreaming issues of safety and inclusion in South African urban policy and practice. The spotlight is on the relationship between urbanisation\, informality and violence.\nThe pilot course is convened by ACC’s Dr Mercy Brown-Luthango\, with input from VPUU (Michael Krause\, Jakub Galuska and other work stream leaders) and GIZ/VCP (Terence Smith and Christiane Erkens).\nThe event is funded by GIZ.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/mainstreaming-urban-safety-inclusion-in-south-africa/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, Upper Campus\, UCT\,\, Cape Town\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150326T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150326T140000
DTSTAMP:20260604T133104
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED!!! _ Relationship between Infrastructure Planning and Implementation in the Global South
DESCRIPTION:“Incipient thoughts about the Relationship between Infrastructure Planning and Implementation in the Global South”\nCurrent thinking on the relationship between infrastructure planning and effective implementation tends to stress the completion of a hierarchy of planning tasks well ahead of the year in which implementation must begin. This implies a process  of multi-year budgeting and knowing precisely what is to be done 3 to 4 years in advance of it actually happening. The general underpinning philosophy is that establishing implementation “certainty” well in advance is a necessary  pre-condition for successful implementation (usually defined as spending the budget allocated within the designated allocation period). Changing the game plan is seen as potentially catastrophic for implementation efficiency unless these changes are to be implemented 3 to 4 years in the future. As a consequence the delivery process becomes very rigid and it is difficult for politicians\, communities and practitioners to make a practical difference because things are bespoken for well in advance. The model is also very demanding of planners and implementers alike\, and often assumes the availability of reliable data for planning and the availability of competent professionals to effect delivery. In the developing world retaining rigidity in planning and implementation  is difficult in the context of volatile political and institutional environments. Moreover the reliability of planning information is often questionable. In any event planning and implementation processes in the developing world often need to be a lot more responsive and flexible than current established methodologies allow. There is as a consequence a need to develop and test new ways of conducting physical delivery processes in environments of uncertainty and complexity\, where a linear sequence of planning\, design\, procurement and implementation fails to deliver desired outcomes. The talk will examine some incipient thoughts in this regard drawn from the world of education infrastructure implementation.\nBiography:\nDan Smit is a highly experienced and accomplished development professional who has been involved in the international development field for more than 30 years. He has worked in many countries of the world and has undertaken substantial consulting work for inter alia the European Union\, USAID\, the World Bank\, GIZ and NUFFIC. He has been a Professor at one of the world’s leading international development schools\, the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague and has undertaken several international consultancies on their behalf. Dan Smit is a development all-rounder but has particular expertise in the fields of: international development aid; urban and regional planning; urban management and governance; housing and informal settlements; and infrastructure. In the academic arena he is well known for his writing on South African cities and on the relation between theory and practice. This ability to bridge theory and practice has enabled him to build a reputation for being able to keep the big picture squarely in mind whist simultaneously being able to systematically address the level of attention-to-detail that successful implementation requires.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/incipient-thoughts-relationship-infrastructure-planning-implementation-global-south-2/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150324T010000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150324T140000
DTSTAMP:20260604T133104
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SUMMARY:The Housing Affordability Challenge: What Are the Questions?
DESCRIPTION:In this Brownbag presentation\, Dr Robert Buckley will be presenting on ‘The Housing Affordability Challenge: What Are the Questions?’\nAbstract\nIn the past few years\, sixteen developing countries have mounted multi-billion-dollar urban subsidy programs. Unfortunately\, as currently structured\, very few of these programs will help address the housing challenges faced by cities. They are deeply flawed even if they come with support from leading think tanks such as the McKinsey Global Institute and from foreign advisors and investors. They often repeat the now severely criticized approaches pursued by OECD countries in the early post–World War II years\, when a similar moment in urban policy arose. Participants at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Conference Center discussed the proposed approaches as well as why it is perhaps not surprising that few foreign investors take any of the risks inherent in plans to reshape the cities of the developing world.\nBiography\nBob Buckley is a senior fellow in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School. Previously\, he was an advisor and managing director at the Rockefeller Foundation\, and lead economist at the World Bank. Buckley’s work at both the foundation and the World Bank focused largely on issues relating to urbanization in developing countries. He is particularly interested in the policy issues related to slum formation and approaches to dealing with them (see more here).\n 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/housing-affordability-challenge-questions/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150318T150000
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SUMMARY:Transnational Labor and Place Making in the Rustbelt US: Implications for Theorizing Place  and Politics of Place in the Global Era
DESCRIPTION:ACC is excited to host Prof Faranak Miraftab in the first of our academic Seminar Series for 2015. In this seminar ‘Transnational Labor and Place Making in the Rustbelt US: Implications for Theorizing Place  and Politics of Place in the Global Era’\, Prof Miraftab will be presenting from her forthcoming book (2016) entitled Making a Home in the Heartland: Immigration and Global Labor Mobility.\nAbstract\nAs a point observation I take an industrial town in rural rustbelt of the United States\, and study the rapid social transformation of this space due to transnational labor recruitment by the meat processing industry. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Illinois\, Mexico and Togo\, I unfold the global production and social reproduction of migrant workers; how they make place globally and locally; and how they renegotiate inter-racial relations to make a former sundown town their new home in Illinois.\nFocusing on an often overlooked space in urban scholarship of globalization and taken-for-granted processes of global labor mobility\, this study recovers voices and stories often hidden\, made invisible or left out of the picture\, to theorize place and place making relationally and stress the difference that place makes. Spanning urban studies\, human geography\, immigration and transitional studies\, Making a Home in the Heartland makes important intervention in the theorization of urban\, production and social reproduction of transnational migrants\, politics of place and place making.\nBiography\n\nFaranak Miraftab is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign. A native of Iran\, she did her undergraduate studies at the Tehran University; while in political asylum she earned her Master’s degree in Norway and later moved to the US and completed her doctorate at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her interdisciplinary ethnographic work crosses planning\, geography and transnational studies and is empirically based in cities of Latin America\, Africa and North America. As an urban scholar of globalization she is interested in the global and local development processes and contingencies involved in the formation of the city and citizens’ struggles to access dignified livelihood. She was named as a 2014-15 University Scholar\, a prestigious award bestowed on faculty at the University of Illinois campuses. Her most recent and forthcoming publications include Cities of the Global South Reader (Miraftab and Kudva\, Routledge 2014); Cities and Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World (eds. Miraftab\, Wilson and Salo\, Routledge April 2015)\, and Making a Home in the Heartland: Immigration and Global Labor Mobility (Miraftab\, Indiana University Press\, January 2016). Her presentation will draw on the latter\, a multi-sited ethnography concerning global production and social reproduction of migrant labor and how this makes for local development in the heartland US.\n 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/making-home-heartland-immigration-global-labor-mobility/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150210T080000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150213T170000
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SUMMARY:Hungry Cities Partnership Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Running from the 10th to the 13th of February 2015 is the second project meeting for the Hungry Cities Partnership\, an IDRC/SSHRC (Canada) partnership programme within the International Partnership for Sustainable Societies process. The project is a collaboration between Canadian Universities and universities and organisations in the global south. The University of Cape Town is the IDRC grant holder partnering with university partners in Kingston\, Jamaica; Mexico City; Maputo and Nanjing\, China. Other partners include the African Population and Health Research Centre in Nairobi and the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation in Chennai. \nThe project aims to promote inclusive growth in the informal food economy of cities of the global south.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/hungry-cities-partnership-meeting/
LOCATION:UCT\, Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150209T090000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150209T160000
DTSTAMP:20260604T133104
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SUMMARY:Migration and Informality Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The ACC\, SAMP\, GCRO\, IMRC\, Eduardo Mondlane University\, Queens University (Canada) and Wilfred Laurier University will be hosting a dissemination workshop at UCT to present the findings from a recent multi-country research project that examined the role of migrant entrepreneurs in South Africa\, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. \nThis dissemination workshop will present the results of the IDRC-funded Growing Informal Cities project\, which examined and profiled the role of migrant entrepreneurship in South Africa\, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The project was conducted jointly by the African Centre for Cities (University of Cape Town)\, the Southern African Migration Programme (SAMP)\, the Gauteng City Regional Observatory (GCRO)\, Eduardo Mondlane University and the International Migration Research Centre (IMRC).   Interviews and surveys were conducted in Cape Town\, Harare\, Johannesburg and Maputo with migrant entrepreneurs and cross border traders to better understand the linkages between migration\, informality\, inclusive growth and violence against migrant-owned businesses.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/migration-informality-workshop/
LOCATION:UCT\, Seminar Room 1 Chemical Engineering\, UCT Upper Campus\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141204T180000
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SUMMARY:"Not in my neighbourhood" - Filmscreening and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:FREE ENTRY\nPost-apartheid Woodstock is one of the few areas where low-income residents have been able to maintain a foothold close to inner-city work opportunities and cultural amenities. However\, the area’s historic cultural fabric and socio-economic diversity are increasingly threatened by soaring property prices that tend to make life for long-term tenants more and more unaffordable.\nIn light of the adverse effects of this process known as ‘gentrification’\, we would like you to participate in a dialogue\, inspired by the international documentary “Not in my neighbourhood” by Kurt Orderson.\nThis event will also be an opportunity to share stories and personal experiences\, as well as to explore alternatives for more inclusive urban development in Woodstock and Cape Town at large.\nAs part of this event we will have:\nKurt Orderson – Filmmaker\nMohammed Rahim (Rashied) – Woodstock Community Member (respondent to film preview)\nJodi Allemeier -Moderator and facilitator
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/neighbourhood-filmscreening-discussion/
LOCATION:City Hall\, Darling Street\, Cape Town\, 8001\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141204T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141204T140000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED!! Speculative Design Ecologies: exploring relations between humans\, non-humans\, and artificial systems
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE\n\nSpeakers: Dr. Martín Ávila (Design for Sustainable Development at Konstfack Art and Design Institute in Stockholm) and Dr. Henrik Ernstson (African Centre for Cities\, University of Cape Town & KTH Environmental Humanities\, Division of History of Science\, Technology and Environment\, KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, Stockholm).\n\n  \n\nBased in the emergent practices around speculative design\, the seminar will depart from Dr. Martín Ávila’s thesis “Devices” that explored the notion of hospitality and hostility in design ecologies\, i.e. the assemblages between human and non-human agents that have emergent properties which we cannot fully control. This will lead into a discussion of the present project “Tactical Symbiotics”  to which Dr. Henrik Ernstson is also contributing. The  project Tactical Symbiotics searches for tactics that can reinforce the interdependence between cultural and biological variation and diversity through cooperation and/or togetherness between humans and non-humans.\n\nMove beyond the comfort zone: three speculative designs\nDuring 2014\, Dr. Ávila has worked in Argentina and developed three sub-projects called Doomestics\, Dispersal Machines\, and Spices/Species. These projects  are organized around questions such as: What if individual households would become parts of a decentred industry that capitalises on humans’ negative emotions to certain animals? What if agricultural machines would maintain the diversity of local ecosystems\, helping birds and insects pollinate and fertilize\, while producing food for humans? What if we could develop affection for insects and parasitoids that participate in the lifecycles of domestic plants? The projects are design-driven and uses speculative philosophy to make explicit alternative versions of the present or near future. By focusing on relations between humans and natural-artificial systems\, the projects strives to de-centre anthropocentric viewpoints to become a platform from which to provoke a possibility to reimagine everyday life.\nDoomestics work with the tension established by the ecological need (if we are to maintain biological diversity) to cohabit with beings that are perceived as dangerous\, undesirable or disgusting. Among them\, spiders\, scorpions and bats\, to name a few. The project stages a series of products that make these beings visible and integrate them in different ways to everyday urban life. Dispersal Machines proposes interventions in agricultural systems that most humans have no direct relationship to. This project conceives machines that complement\, supplement and/or maintain the activities of beings that participate in different natural processes such as the dispersion of seeds or pollen\, or the secretion of nutrients to the soil. Spices/Species addresses an intimate level of human relationship with nonhuman beings. This concerns plants eaten as food or used for medicinal purposes and the ecosystem functions they perform through forms of symbioses with\, for example\, insects and parasitoids.\nThe projects sketch and engage a diversity of responses that range from the intimate\, to completely detached human-nonhuman relations. They still have in common that they affect the diversity of\, and our relationship to\, urban and agro-ecosystems. By confronting us with alternative realities—and alternative emotions\, feelings and shivers—the project aims to open up new\, and perhaps surprising ethical and moral dimensions to revalue and re-evaluate our present relations with non-humans.\n \n\nThe project strives to formulate a different response to our planetary ecological crisis than those strategies that often sort under terms like “ecosystem services” or “natural resources”. One inspiration for the project can be found in how Michel De Certeau spoke of tactics as practices that evade strategies of power. The seminar will present underlying theory and practical design projects.\n\n—-\n\n\nMartín Avila is a Researcher\, and Senior Lecturer in Design for Sustainable Development at Konstfack in Stockholm\, Sweden. Martin obtained a PhD in design from HDK (School of Design and Crafts) in Gothenburg\, Sweden\, and has published his thesis entitled Devices. On Hospitality\, Hostility and Design (2012). The PhD work was awarded the 2012 prize for design research by the The Swedish Faculty for Design Research and Research Education. Currently working (2013-2016) on a postdoctoral project financed by the Swedish Research Council: Symbiotic tactics. Design interventions for understanding and sensitizing to ecological complexity.\n \n 
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/speculative-design-ecologies/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20141126T130000
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SUMMARY:Sanitation politics in Mumbai and Cape Town
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Colin McFarlane and Jonathan Silver will reflect on  their past work in Mumbai and their new research on the politicisation of sanitation in Cape Town\, with particular reference to the ‘poo protests’.\nColin will reflect on his work in the politics of sanitation in Mumbai’s informal settlements. He will draw out some key processes through which sanitation is organised in Mumbai\, and the politics around that\, as well highlighting some of the theoretical challenges the research presented for thinking about infrastructure and other strands of urban theory.\n \nHe will also briefly reflect on emerging work on the politics of sanitation in Cape Town. Their aim is to deepen understanding of how sanitation is politicised in cities\, and to contribute to debate and ongoing work on sanitation politics in Cape Town. The objectives are to: examine why and how the ‘poo protests’ emerged in Cape Town; investigate why they took the form that they did; and contextualise the protests in the wider debates about service delivery\, urban politics\, and social justice in Cape Town.  They will conduct the research through interviews with a range of relevant actors including residents\, civil society groups\, municipal officials\, academics and political parties. The research builds on McFarlane’s work in India on the politics of urban sanitation\, and Silver’s work on the politics of urban infrastructure in South Africa. These previous research projects examined often ignored everyday experiences of sanitation and infrastructure and used the findings in discussions with municipal officials and civil society groups.\nColin McFarlane is an urban geographer whose work focusses on the experience and politics of informal neighbourhoods. This has involved research into the relations between informality\, infrastructure and knowledge in urban India and elsewhere. A key part of this has been a focus on the experience and politics of sanitation in informal settlements in Mumbai\, which was part of an Economic and Social Research Council ethnographic project on the everyday cultures and contested politics of sanitation and water in two informal settlements. His current work examines the politicisation of informal neighbourhoods in comparative perspective\, including African and South Asian cities.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/sanitation-politics-cape-town/
LOCATION:Davies Reading Room\, Room 2.27\, Environmental and Geographical Science\, UCT\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, 8000\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20141117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20141120
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SUMMARY:AAPS 2014 Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS) is hosting its fourth all-schools conference in 2014. The conference theme is ‘African Urban Planning and the Global South: Pedagogy\, Research\, Practice’.\nThe AAPS 2014 Conference will address the central themes and problems of African urbanization. It will focus on developing our understanding of these issues\, and how planning curricula can respond to them. While the conference is focused on sub-Saharan Africa\, the discussion will be extended to other contexts in the global South.\nAAPS 2014 will feature keynote presentations from a number of international experts on cities and urbanization in Africa and the global South\, including Edgar Pieterse (African Centre for Cities)\, Oren Yiftachel (Ben-Gurion University) and Colin MacFarlane (Durham University).\nThe conference is aimed at urban planning educators\, researchers and practitioners seeking to enhance their knowledge of the contemporary issues and debates surrounding African and Southern cities and urbanization. It will also appeal to other built environment professionals\, as well as academics in related disciplines with an interest in urban issues.\nThis is the first time that the AAPS conference will be open to wider attendance. AAPS welcomes submissions from those outside Africa working on urban issues in the global South.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/event/aaps-2014-conference/
LOCATION:Lagoon Beach Hotel\, Lagoon Gate Drive\, Milnerton\, Cape Town\, Western Cape\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops
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