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SUMMARY:The city is not a destination\, but a constant practice of becoming
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to an immersive exhibition exploring the Urban Everyday\, a showcase of creative works by postgraduate students who dare to look beneath the skyline. Through diverse media\, they examine the city as a living\, breathing site of emergence. From the quiet patience of waiting to the vocal energy of protest\, these works engage with the diverse ways in which urban life worlds are constantly renegotiated\, remade\, repaired and reimagined.\nThe Urban Everyday is one of the core courses on the MPhil in Urban Studies – Southern Urbanism programme. The course approaches urban studies through literature grounded in everyday practices central to the dynamism that shapes African and Southern city contexts and their transformations. It reflects on the productive tensions in and between structural forces (the state\, capital etc.) with ordinary forms of agency (citizenship\, collective movements\, and ordinary acts of encroachment) and thinks through the ways the everyday locates and disrupts theorising Southern cities.
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/tribe-events/urban-everyday-2026/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental & Geographical Science Bld\, UCT Upper Campus\, Studio 5\, Level 5 EGS Building\, UCT Upper Campus
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Launch: CLAIMS to Energy Citizenship in South Africa
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Cities (ACC)\, in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen invite you to the public launch of the CLAIMS to Energy Citizenship project. The launch will take place under the theme “Infrastructure’s Transitions”\, where the project team will share the project overview\, structure and direction. \nCLAIMS to Energy Citizenship is a four-year research project funded by the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA). In the context of a contested energy transition\, the project explores claim-making\, citizenship\, and statecraft in Cape Town\, South Africa. The project aims to advance creative and interdisciplinary methods for contributing to thinking related to the politics of infrastructure transitions. \nThirty years after the formation of the post-apartheid state\, a series of global and national transitions are reconfiguring the energy landscape. We present these transitions not as contextual inevitabilities but as social facts that require critical observation and new modes of sense-making. \nThe event is titled Infrastructure’s Transitions as a tribute to Antina von Schnitzler’s influential work\, Democracy’s Infrastructure: Techno-Politics and Protest after Apartheid. This seminal book has inspired scholars across various disciplines to see infrastructure as a site where state-society relations and urban futures are substantiated\, contested\, and performed. \nWHEN | Thursday\, 31 October 2024 \nTIME | 3PM – 5PM \nVENUE | Studio 5\, Environmental & Geographical Science Bld. UCT Upper Campus \nPlease RSVP here
URL:https://www.africancentreforcities.net/tribe-events/claims-launch-2/
LOCATION:Studio 5\, Environmental & Geographical Science Bld\, UCT Upper Campus\, Studio 5\, Level 5 EGS Building\, UCT Upper Campus
CATEGORIES:Conversation,Launch
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