Martín Ávila from Konstfack in Stockholm is visiting the leading Semiotics Department at the University of Tartu in Estonia on the 2nd of September 2016. Supported by funds from Henrik Ernstson’s Read more
Martín Ávila from Konstfack in Stockholm is visiting the leading Semiotics Department at the University of Tartu in Estonia on the 2nd of September 2016. Supported by funds from Henrik Ernstson’s Read more
Announcement of 12 PhD Positions The newly formed interdisciplinary Research Training Group Critical Infrastructures: Construction, Functional Failures, and Protection in Cities at the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany (close to Read more
A new publication from our Situated UPE Collective was just published in Regional Studies by Mary Lawhon, Jonathan Silver, Henrik Ernstson and Joseph Pierce. It continues our contribution to Urban Political Read more
Joel Ongwech and Jonathan Silver have created a video demonstrating heterogenous energy infrastructure in Kampala. Check it out! Kampala is experiencing rapid urbanisation and resulting transformation with over two million people Read more
See below some of the great papers tagged by Antipode to our Situated UPE paper from 2014. Here is a great collection for those interested in re-making the study of urban political Read more
A couple of weeks back STOMPIE was screened on 25 Feb 2016 as a work-in-progress on how to weave together experiences of hiphop pedagogy with popular theatre. This was a ‘South-North’ collaboration around Read more
Check out a 5 minute ‘teaser’ of the film “1 Table 2 Elephants” that we are finalising in 2017. Filmed in Cape Town in 2015, it deals with ways of knowing urban Read more
Kibera in Nairobi: Bukonola (Bukky) Ngobi and Joe Mulligan from Kounkuey Design Initiative (KDI) gives the background to a video about life in Kibera that they facilitated in making. It displays important down-to-the-ground innovative Read more
The Aesthetical and the Political of Unequal Geographies *Save the date* and apply to the Annual ACC Seminar & PhD Course on Democratic Practices. Based on our broader project to Read more
What does hip hop, dance and story-telling got to do with democratic practices? What to make of pedagogical experiences to engage youth and marginalised groups across two so different cities like Read more