Bio
Daanyaal Loofer is a PhD Candidate at the African Centre for Cities (ACC). He holds a Masters in City and Regional Planning from the University of Cape Town with a background in Geography, Environmental Sustainability and GIS from the University of the Western Cape.
At the ACC, his research is embedded in the Culture, Technology and Society cluster, where he forms part of the afrotecha.urban team. Here, Daanyaal researches worlding at the intersection of youth, technology and urban justice in African cities. His PhD research takes place simultaneously, considering how African counter-cartographies can be used to decolonise African urbanisms and craft fluid methods of urban practice. He has also contributed to the course design of the Smart Cities Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in the African Cities Lab project.
Daanyaal currently co-convenes the Adaptive Smart Cities elective course in the MSUP programme and teaches GIS and hybrid mapping techniques in the Bachelor of City Planning programme in the APG School at UCT.
Previously, he has served as the Validation Administrator at the Commonwealth Association of Architects; as a Zeit-Stiftung Research Fellow at the UNITAC City-Science Lab in Hamburg, Germany; and as a participant in the 2024 RC21 Doctoral School in Santiago de Chile.
