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SUMMARY:The 2nd EAI International Conference on Smart Grid Inspired Future Technologies (SmartGIFT 2017)
DESCRIPTION:The smart grid is envisaged to be the next generation electric grid for Smart Cities. It enables the smart integration of conventional power generation\, renewable generation\, distributed generation\, energy storage\, transmission\, distribution and demand management. \nThe benefits of smart grid include the enhanced reliability and resilience\, higher intelligence and optimized control\, decentralized operation\, higher operational efficiency\, more efficient demand management\, and better power quality. However\, the large scale deployment of smart grid without proper utilizations causes new dimension of threats\, especially in the critical infrastructures that are highly depending on the availability of electricity. Hence\, the proposed theme for SmartGIFT 2017 is “Smart Grid Inspired Future Technologies: A smarter and more resilient grid”. The primary technical challenges to be addressed in SmartGIFT 2017 are related to the resiliency of Smart Grids\, Microgrids\, Distributed Grids and Distributed Resources\, with the focuses on the following tracks to ensure the smart cities based power generation and storage are prioritized and enable the minimal viable operation in the cities. \nTrack 1. Smart Control and Operation  \nTrack 2. Reliability\, Resiliency\, Cyber Security and Privacy \n Track 3. Communications\, Networks and Architectures \nTrack 4. Data Management and Grid Analytics \n\nThe event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation\, a leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT.\nAll accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library\, one of the world’s largest scientific libraries.\nProceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: EI\, ISI Thomson’s Scientific and Technical Proceedings at Web of Science\, Scopus\, CrossRef\, Google\nScholar\, DBLP\, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).\nAccepted authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their work through one of the following EAI endorsed publications: EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile\nCommunications and Applications\, EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems\n\nTopics\nSmartGift 2017 topics address the following issues of grid and related resources but not\nrestricted to: \n\nResilient and robust control for recovery of smart grid\nFlexibility and self-healing capability of smart grid\nElectric vehicle systems for smart grid\nSmart grid system architecture\nSmart grid electricity markets\nDecentralized decision making for smart grid\nPhishing analytic and system security for smart grid\nMicrogrid and islanding application and operation\nQuality-of-Service (QoS)\, energy-efficiency\, and fault tolerance in smart grid systems\nResource management of smart grid systems\nSmart grid infrastructural dependencies\nDistributed control and efficient optimization method for smart grid\nModelling and simulation of smart grid\nData analytics\, sensing\, processing and communication techniques for smart grid enabled cities\nManagement techniques for distributed energy generation and storage to increase power availability in smart grid enabled cities\nEnergy storage technologies for smart grid\nService engineering and algorithm design\nReal-world deployment experiences\nStandards and interoperability of smart grid\n\nImportant dates\n\n6 Nov 2016 – Workshop/Tutorial/Panel proposal deadline\n27 Nov 2016 – Full paper submission deadline\n8 Jan 2017 – Short papers and posters deadlin\n20 Jan 2017 – Notification and registration open\n13 Feb 2017 – Camera-ready deadline\n27-28 Mar 2017 – Conference date\n\nPaper submission guideline\nAuthors are invited to submit their original work that has not previously been published or under review in any other venue\, following the online guidelines. \nconference website
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/the-2nd-eai-international-conference-on-smart-grid-inspired-future-technologies-smartgift-2017/
LOCATION:London\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Urban
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SUMMARY:Smart Cities & Communities: Achieving Smart Urban Growth
DESCRIPTION:Are you looking to develop new perceptions\, experiences and ideas on what makes a city smart\, and how we can sustain our places and communities to thrive for generations to come? \nAt Smart Cities and Communities: Achieving Smart Urban Growth you will have the chance to explore the most innovative and efficient ways to use technology and data to tackle some of the biggest problems in urban areas. High-profile speakers from across the world will be sharing their projects and experiences to help you tapping your possibilities into the revolution towards a smarter city and community \nPlaces are going quickly for our Smart Cities & Communities conference and we are encouraging you to reserve or register your place today. \nWhat will you gain from attending this event? \n\n\nExplore the smarter and most innovative ways to support the complex needs of citizens and develop the infrastructure to overcome some of the grand societal challenges\nReceive practical advice and inspiration from a range of real-life examples from the leading authorities in smart city projects around the world and see how they are tapping their possibilities into the smart city revolution\nImplementing smart technologies to overcome the pressures on housing\, energy and transport\nDevelop new perceptions\, experiences and ideas on what makes a city smart\, and how we can sustain our places and communities to thrive for generations to come\nGain the maximum number of 6 CPD points\n\n\nSpeakers \n\nAndrew Collinge\, Assistant director\, Smart City Lead\, Greater London Authority Confirmed)\nCTO Office\, Amsterdam Smart City – Gemeente Amsterdam\nScott Cain\, Chief Business Officer\, Scott Cain\, Chief Business Officer\, Future Cities Catapult\nAmy Taylor\, Program Lead for IoTUK & CityVerve\, Digital Catapult\nTrevor P. Dorling\, Director\, Digital Greenwich and Smart City Lead\, Royal Borough of Greenwich\nJessica Ellis\, Strategic Partnership Board Member & Director\, Customer Success\, Bristol Is Open\nDavid Altabev\, Project Manager & Senior Programme Manager\, Nesta\nDr Sarah Gallacher\, Senior Research Associate\, Department of Computer Science\, University College London (UCL)\nNeil McInroy\, Chief Executive\, Centre for Local Economic Strategies
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/smart-cities-communities-achieving-smart-urban-growth/
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SUMMARY:The making of a permanent city for temporary residents
DESCRIPTION:This seminar\, part of a series on ‘Space and place’ organised by Professor Elisabeth Hsu and Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva\, is presented by Andreza de Souza Santos. Andreza is a Post-doctoral Research Associate within the Urban Transformations team with a global focus that includes South Asia\, Southern Africa and Latin America. \n10 March\, 15.30 – 17.00\, 64 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/the-making-of-a-permanent-city-for-temporary-residents/
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SUMMARY:Migration and Urban Transformation: boundaries in an age of resentment
DESCRIPTION:COMPAS Seminar Series\, Thursdays\, Hilary Term 2017 \nIn her speech to the 2016 Conservative Party conference\, Theresa May made the following statement “ … if you believe you’re a citizen of the world\, you’re a citizen of nowhere. You don’t understand what the very word ‘citizenship’ means”. \nIn this era plagued by doubt over what it means to ‘belong’ to a territorial boundary\, amidst mass migration\, populist nationalism\, and politics that divide so vividly along geographical lines\, what does it mean to be an urbanite? If the city has historically been seen as an “integration machine” (Keith 2016) the site where most people might describe themselves as “citizens of the world” and therefore\, to others\, “of nowhere\,” then this seminar seeks to better understand boundaries of the urban in terms of migration. As borders tighten because of and against the will of many\, are there increasing instances of people identifying as “citizens of the city” (or as “citizens of the non-city”)? And if migration has become a constitutive principle in the public’s understanding of city-ness\, perhaps the urbanite as proponent of cosmopolitan nowhere-ism\, then how must we now think of migration to places that are not framed as such (the ‘rural\,’ the suburban\, the post-industrial\, etc.”)? In sum\, as some boundaries become more rigid\, and as resentment turns within\, do boundaries of ‘the urban’ begin to transform? \n26 January \nRevaluing the informal: Urban development and brokerage in Recife’s favelas\, Brazil\nMartijn Koster\, Anthropology and Development Studies\, Radboud University\, Nijmegen\, The Netherlands \nIn analyses of urban development\, the informal often equates to spontaneously grown\, messy and dangerous neighbourhoods and the disorderly practices of their residents\, while the formal is associated with well-structured planning and administration. Moreover\, urban planning literature makes metaphorical use of the Deleuzoguattarian concepts of tree and rhizome\, where the formal is considered tree-like and the informal rhizomatic. Such analyses contribute to the reproduction of inequality as they portray the urban poor and their living environment as ‘wild’ and haphazard (rhizomatic)\, while bourgeois urban planning is considered well-organized and structured (tree-like). Countering this view\, building on long term ethnographic fieldwork on slum upgrading in Recife\, Brazil\, this paper reappraises the informal as a well-organized and stable domain of practices. Reversing the tree-rhizome metaphor\, the paper shows how\, from the perspective of marginalized city residents\, formal planning tends to be very arbitrary and unpredictable (rhizomatic)\, whereas informal practices and networks can be predictable and stable (arboreal). \nFurther\, this paper discusses the interconnections of the formal and the informal in particular assemblages. It approaches formal-informal assemblages by zooming in on the role of specific ‘assemblers’: community leaders from the favelas who operate as brokers between the formal urban development institutions and enterprises on the one hand and the residents of informal settlements on the other. They connect the official procedures of upgrading programmes with personalized relationships and transactions with residents\, bureaucrats\, politicians and entrepreneurs\, giving rise to an intricate entwining of the formal and the informal. \n02 February \nReconceptualising the household in the age of migration\nDr Frances Pine\, Dept of Anthropology\, Goldsmiths\, University of London \nThis paper is about shifting contexts of east-west European migration\, from the points of view of both sending households and individual migrants. I draw on my own ethnographic data from Poland\, spanning the past 30 years\, and on other material. The lives many migrants imagine before they leave their homes and the ones in which they find themselves on arrival often starkly diverge. I consider the conundrum of time as it plays out in complicated life courses that take people on journeys across borders and often continents\, putting their present time\, and the emotional\, economic\, and social relationships which comprise it\, on hold in search of a promised ‘better’ time in the future. I argue that in many cases migrants’ journeys must be considered as outcomes of complex negotiations with household members and other kin\, friends and peers\, and as risks taken at least partly consciously. What is being gambled is the challenge of present hardship against the imagination of a better future. Drawing on scholars such as Massey\, Harvey\, Guyer and Jackson\, I argue that the spatial fragmentation of migrant journeys is paralleled by temporal fragmentation\, where an imagined future is weighed against an existing but sometimes non-viable (economically\, politically\, socially) present. \n09 February \nContained: exploring out-of-the box tools to build resilience in refugee-receiving communities\nMarieke van Houte\, Research Fellow\, International Migration Institute (IMI)\, University of Oxford \nGlobally changing patterns of conflict and inequality\, leading to increased refugee flows\, have exacerbated existing tensions and polarization in refugee receiving communities\, which leads to decreased civic and political participation on one hand and escalations of violence and hostility on the other. Arguably\, resilient societies that are able to develop creative\, sustainable and proactive strategies to survive\, adapt\, transform and grow in the face of stress and shocks\, are less prone to polarization. \nHowever\, interventions to build resilience and to mitigate polarization struggle to find successful approaches\, as cognitive discussions between people disagreeing tend to lead to further polarization (Wojcieszak 2011\, Van Swol 2009)\, and social and arts based initiatives also risk to contribute to more rather than less polarization as they are often based on a normative agenda and reach biased audiences. \nBased on the findings from a pilot of CONTAINED Project\, an initiative that developed a trilogy of theatrical tools to connect experience\, research and learning on migration\, this explorative paper reflects a search for effective tools to provoke thoughts\, inspire dialogue and enhance empathy between refugees\, migrants and non-migrants\, with the ultimate goal of developing proactive responses against polarization in receiving societies. \nMarieke is a research fellow at the International Migration Institute (IMI) at the University of Oxford. Her research looks at the links between migration\, conflict and change. She specializes in migration from (post-) conflict countries\, return migration\, transnational (political) engagement of migrants\, and processes of structure and agency in mobility. Methdologically\, she wants to contribute to improved and innovative qualitative and mixed research methodologies in migration studies. Marieke is also exploring ways to communicate research results to wider audiences\, for example through (performative) arts. The insights and personal stories that she collected over the last decade form the research background of CONTAINED Project. Marieke is also a certified facilitator (joker) of participatory theatre and an actor of improvised theatre. \n16 February \nPacifying the Souls in Cities: Yi Migrations in Chengdu\, China\nDr. Yun Tang \nWith the development and urbanization boom in China\, the last three decades have seen a new trend of domestic migration towards urban cities. This new trend is characterized by the massive migration from the so-called ‘minorities’ regions. Lots of migrants come from communities with a social structure and cultural logic that vary greatly from that of the urbanites\, a difference that has been the source of conflict and culture shock. At the same time\, because of the household system (hukou)\, most migrations can’t get a household registration in the city\, even though they are settled there. That makes them citizens without citizenship. This embarrassing situation brings more severe challenges to urban planers and managers\, what’s more\, it leads a migrant’s ongoing sense of misplacement and a lack of belongs. \nRecent migration studies have contributed much on the motives\, dynamics and the politics of migrant life\, and pointed out that one cannot fully understand the relationship between migrants and urbanites without understanding the social-cultural logic of specific minority/ethnic group. However\, many scholars and managers often undervalue the social-cultural logic as the obstacle to development\, modernity and urbanization\, instead of regarding it as the key to pursue an alternative modernity or the hybridity in urbanization. \nBased on the ethnographic data\, this talk will first illustrate the exorcism ritual carried out by Yi migrations (mainly habitat in Southwest Sichuan of Southwest China) in Chengdu (the capital of Sichuan) as a symbolic way to perceive and overcome all the difficulties in urban life; and then go further to analyse the social-cultural logic embedded in this ritual. In conclusion\, this talk will rethink some popular trends in migration studies and propose a possible perspective to understand the urbanization. \nYun Tang is an anthropologist specializing in Southwest China. Her research interests lie in the topic on landscape\, environment\, disaster and folk religion. She was awarded her PhD degree in 2008\, and is now an Associate Prof. in the Southwest University for Nationalities (Chengdu\, China). She is also the special editor of anthropology of the Journal of Southwest University for Nationalities and an academic visitor of the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnology in the University of Oxford (Oct. 2016 – Oct. 2017). \nIn her doctoral research (2005-2007)\, she explored the landscape\, legends and historicity in a migration village in the Tibetan-Yi Corridor\, Southwest China. She also carried out fieldwork in this area on many subsequent occasions\, broadening her interests to environmental anthropology\, disaster studies\, migrations\, religion\, among others. One of her ongoing field researches (since 2010) focuses on the urbanization\, migration and rural construction in Chengdu; and another one (since 2012) has been on sacred mountain worship\, landscape\, myth and religious practices in Kham. She leads or joins 12 projects\, including leading the project of Local Experience and the Construction of Long-term Scientific Measure of Disaster Control in Southwest China (funded by the National Social Science Fund of China)\, and has joined the project of The Local in China’s Heritage: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections (funded by the Leverhulme Trust of UK). \nShe published two monographs (in Chinese): In the Name of Mountain: The Landscape\, Rumor and Historicity in the Cultural Contact in Central Guizhou (2008) and Stone of Otherness: the Ritual\, Landscape\, and Perception of Disaster (2016)\, and 25 papers\, including ‘Crossing Borders and Paradigms: the Intermediaries and the Reformation of Anthropology [in English]’ (in Cashier d’Extreme-Asie (23)\, 2014) and ‘Misunderstanding J. Frazer in “Frazer Lecture”: the “Regicide” in Divine Kingship and its Anthropological Debates’[in Chinese]. She also lectured 3 courses to graduate students: Theory and History of Anthropology\, Anthropology on Southwest China\, as well as Ethnography and Fieldwork. \n23 February \nViennese social furniture: Transforming urban hospitality with plywood and cable ties\nTom Scott-Smith\, Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced Migration\, Refugee Studies Centre\, University of Oxford \nWhen the London Design Museum awarded ‘Design of the Year’ to the IKEA refugee shelter last month\, the resulting attention strayed once again to the complete\, prefabricated unit. Drawing on recent fieldwork in Vienna\, this presentation explores a more modest but potentially more successful series of architectural interventions that have been pioneered in the Austrian capital over the past twelve months. Grouped under the heading of ‘social furniture’\, these interventions use mundane\, everyday items to transform empty office space and circumvent existing employment restrictions for asylum seekers. After explaining the central idea\, the seminar will evaluate the strengths and limitations of the model and place it in the context of Viennese urban planning. \n02 March \nMigrant urbanisms\, identity politics and claims to the city: Latin American commercial spaces in London\nDr Patria Roman-Velazquez\, Institute for Media & Creative Industries\, Loughborough University\, London \nBusinesses are at the heart of inner-city regeneration and at the centre of government initiatives for economic development. Empowering local communities in the transformation of places to encourage a greater sense of belonging\, and the development of locally-sensitive policy frameworks for urban regeneration in London\, are testament to the centrality of businesses\, places and people in visions and aspirations for London as a global city. \nIn London regeneration is taking place in some of the most deprived and ethnically diverse boroughs. Thus\, regeneration disproportionately affects disadvantaged communities across the UK’s regions\, cities and town centres. Spaces long inhabited by migrant and ethnic businesses could be lost as a result of intensive regeneration projects\, contributing to further isolation\, inequality\, displacement\, lack of ownership and sense of belongingness. The vibrant multicultural environment of London’s multi-ethnic business clusters where small independent businesses and community members can thrive\, is at risk. \nUsing the experience of working with Latin American retailers in London and many years of research with London’s Latin American commercial spaces in the capital the current presentation seeks to explore through whether claims to the global city become stronger or diluted under conditions of greater political and economic uncertainty. \nI will explore whether strategies and manifestations of migrant urbanism could provide a useful critique to the perspective that privileges efficiency of resources for London as a global city at the expense of socio–economic and distributional impact of regeneration for particular communities and the identity politics behind such strategies. \n09 March \nThe Need for ‘Smart Moves’: Metropolitan Challenges to ‘Old’ Certainties of State Order\nTassilo Herrschel\, University of Westminster\, London and Vrije Universiteit Brussel\, Belgium \n‘Metropolitan elite’ has become a new battle cry in current populist vilification of the architects of globalisation and its seemingly failed promise of rewards for all. It marks increasingly evident deep divisions – both actual and perceived – within European and North American Society between metropolitan ‘winners’ and the ‘rest’\, that run across states and through societies. These gaps give little consideration to administrative structures\, territorial arrangements or forms of state organisation\, reflecting instead a combination of anxieties\, sense of threat and perceived injustice in access to opportunities. Much of that conflictuality expresses itself in the clash between claims for borders and boundaries to be re-/erected as defensive bulwarks and manifestations of territorial ownership and control\, versus advocacy of openness and trans-border internationality. \nCities and metropolitan regions have become the foci of attention in this conflict between perspectives and agendas\, as they represent both – quests for competitiveness\, also supported by ‘their’ states eager to push out their best ‘horses’ in the competition of gains from globalisation\, and a sense of belonging to states as expressions of shared interests and cohesive community. In other words\, cities are located at the intersection between competitive localism\, a manifestation of regionally-scaled economic pre-eminence\, and acting as a tool of national economic development strategies in a globalised environment (Harding\, 2007\, Herrschel and Newman\, 2002\, Jobse and Needham\, 1988\, Scott\, 2001). The result\, it appears\, is a de facto clash of metropolitan versus non-metropolitan political and societal cultures and agendas\, which vie for own voices in the established state-based structures of power and identity. As cities’ ambitions increasingly reach across scales to the international or global level\, this has fundamental implications for the role and nature of territoriality\, democratic representation and participation\, legitimacy\, and political processes and mechanisms in both their individual manifestation and interaction with each other. \nFacing these challenges\, this paper argues\, cities have become active players in their own right – increasingly independent of the confines of ‘their’ respective nation states. This development also raises questions conventional disciplinary approaches to ‘city’/’city-region’ and ‘internationality’ and their ability to embrace this de facto ‘pixelisation’ of state territory by policy making urban entities. ‘Smart’ signals here policy innovation or\, at a more fundamental\, structural level\, political innovation\, driven inter alia by actors taking political risks as they leave established ‘safe’ practices and formulae and push the boundaries of familiar conceptual and disciplinary explanations offered by urban studies and international relations\, for instance. \nUsing the case of the international city-centric Øresund Region in southern Sweden\, and its conflict with the geo-societally integrationist\, conventional agenda of the surrounding administrative region of Skåne\, this paper looks at the contestation between state structure\, including internationality\, trans-scalar urban/metropolitan agency\, and concerns about democratic representation and voice. What lessons can be learned?
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/migration-and-urban-transformation-boundaries-in-an-age-of-resentment/
LOCATION:The Pauling Centre\, 58a Banbury Road\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX2 6QS\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Experimenting with Urban Living Labs (ULLs) beyond Smart City-Regions
DESCRIPTION:Bridging European Urban Transformations \nTo register for this free event\, please visit here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/experimenting-with-urban-living-labs-ulls-beyond-smart-city-regions-tickets-30193233775 \nWorkshop Series in Brussels 2016-2017 \nCo-organised in partnership by the University of Oxford – Urban Transformations & VUB – Brussels Centre for Urban Studies \nProgramme\nThis one-day workshop commences with an introduction from Prof Michael Keith\, co-ordinator of the Urban Transformations ESRC portfolio\, and Prof Bas van Heur\, co-ordinator of the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies. This will be followed by six slots and speakers who are experts in the field: three from the Urban Transformations ESRC portfolio projects and three from the VUB. This workshop will also include small debate groups led by each section. Each group will deliver their conclusions at the end of the workshop.This workshop emphasizes an interdisciplinary dialogue\, bridges the gap between theory and practice\, and encourages knowledge exchange between academics\, policymakers\, citizens and activists. \nPreliminary Agenda: \n9:00-9:15 Welcome: Organisers\nProf Michael Keith (UOxf-UT) & Prof Bas van Heur (VUB-BCUS) \n9:15-9:30 Welcome: Host institution & Partnership\nMs Marta Marin (Delegation of the Basque Country to the EU) & Mr Richard Tuffs (Director of ERRIN). \n9:30:9:50 Introduction:\nDr Tuija Hirvikoski (President of EnoLL\, European Network of Living Labs) \n9:50-10:50 Between the ULLs & Smart Cities in the Making\n(Section 1/3) \n• 9:50-10:20 Prof Simon Marvin (The University of Sheffield – Urban Institute)\nGovernance of Urban Sustainability Transitions: Advancing the Role of Living Labs \n• 10:20-10:50 Prof Gilian Rose (the Open University)\nSmart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes \n• 10:50-11:20 Debate: Between the ULLs & Smart Cities in the Making (Chair: Prof. Michael Keith\, UOxf-UT) \n11:20-11:50 Coffee-break & Networking \n11:50-12:50 Comparing ULLs & Smart City Cases\n(Section 2/3) \n• 11:50-12:20 Nicola da Schio & Prof Bas van Heur (VUB-BCUS)\nSmarterLabs: the environmental politics of air pollution.\nJPI-Urban Europe project. \n• 12:20-12:50 Dr Nicola Headlam (UOxf-UT)\nThe Urban Living Global Challenge: Desk research presentation \n12:50-13:20 Debate: Comparing ULLs & Smart City Cases (Chair: Prof. Bas Van Heur\, VUB-BCUS) \n13:20-14:20 Lunchtime \n14:20-15:20 Towards Experimental Cities? Forthcoming book presentation and ‘experimental’ interactive roundtable debate (Section 3/3) \n• 14:20-14:50 Dr Andrew Karvonen (KTH)\nBook presentation: Evans\, J.\, A. Karvonen and R. Raven\, (2016)\, Experimental City. London and New York: Routledge. \n• 14:50-15:20 14:50-15:20 Dr Federico Curugullo (TCD)\nCo-author of the book: Some comments \n15:20-15:50 Debate: Towards Experimental Cities? (Chair: Dr. Igor Calzada\, MBA\, UOxf-UT) \n15:50-16:00 Wrapping-Up and Conclusions (Prof. Michael Keith\, UOxf-UT) \nIn cooperation with:\n• ERRIN (European Regions Research and Innovation Network)\n• ENoLL (European Networks of Living Labs) \nHost institution:\n• Delegation of the Basque Country to the EU\, Eusko Jaurlaritza. \nHashtag:\n#ExperimentingULL\nMore information\nIf you are interested in participating in the workshop please register to the workshop via Eventbrite:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/experimenting-with-urban-living-labs-ulls-beyond-smart-city-regions-tickets-30193233775 \nFor further questions\, please contact the coordinator directly: igor.calzada@compas.ox.ac.uk \nThe previous workshop on 14th November in SMIT-VUB in Brussels\, was entitled: ‘(Un)Plugging Data in Smart City-Regions.’ The workshop builds on the first Brussels workshop of the ESRC Urban Transformations programme and forms part of a series of workshops entitled ‘Bridging European Urban Transformations’. \nCoordination:\n• Dr Igor Calzada\, MBA (UOxf-UT)\nwww.igorcalzada.com/about\n@icalzada & igor.calzada@compas.ox.ac.uk \n• Prof Bas Van Heur (VUB-BCUS)\n@basvanheur & bvheur@vub.ac.be \nBackground\nIn line with smart city and smart specialisation strategy (S3) policy discourses\, various governance implementations have been proposed in European cities and regions without considering appropriately the negotiations between stakeholders\, multiple expectations\, and possible or desirable urban futures jointly built by them. As such\, ‘smart’ technological solutions have not always focused on needs and usability by citizens\, and at times generate a governance misalignment between the ‘experimental city’ and publics\, citizens and stakeholders. \nIn this context\, to understand the inter-dependent challenges and opportunities for different stakeholders\, we might focus on the dynamics of urban complexity\, experimental research\, and alternative policy approaches to cities and regions. This workshop is an invitation to rethink ‘urban Europe’ around what might be seen as an experimental laboratory ‘turn’ research and policy intervention. Urban Living Labs (ULLs)\, exemplified by networks such as ENoLL (European Network of Living Labs) foreground projects that present active user involvement\, real-life settings\, multi-stakeholder participation\, multi-method approaches and co-creation. \nIn contrast\, the ‘smartness’ of some European urban strategies is dominated by a technological discourse centred on knowledge flows and data aggregation that allows the city-region to be managed by a given and fixed private and public partnership governance model. Nonetheless\, the contemporary city cannot be just reduced to its economic value generated by partnerships involving powerful public and private actors\, such as multinational corporations and the state. As Habermas pointed out\, “smartness in our city cannot be more technocratic than democratic”. \nParalleling this mainstream approach of smart cities and generally under the loose banner of ULLs\, urban laboratory initiatives have been increasingly emerging over the last few years as an approach to speed up socio-technological innovation involving multi-stakeholders in co-production processes\, and a form of collective urban governance and experimentation addressing the sustainability challenges and opportunities created by urbanisation. What is currently interesting are the ways that city innovation policies propose highly spatially specific and potentially transformative ‘stakeholder-helixes strategies’ (either triple\, quadruple or penta) which recognize that the strategies are in a cross-sectoral blend of the research base\, private capital\, and public expenditure through invoking civil society that knowledge societies. \nAn enormous potential for experimental forms in European city-regions exists\, as demonstrated by on-going ULL initiatives under the Urban Living Partnership (Birmingham\, Bristol\, Leeds\, Newcastle and York)\, JPI Urban Europe schemes and many international schemes such as ENOLL\, Mistra Urban Futures\, Urban Mechanics\, Guggenheim Urban Labs\, Urban Lab +\, the Guanghzhou International Award for Urban Innovation\, Rockefeller 100 resilient cities\, GUST snapshots\, urb@exp and ERC urban. \nBuilding on the emerging body of these policy initiatives and research\, the workshop Experimenting with Urban Living Labs Beyond Smart City-Regions will bring together a group of European academics and policymakers to think through how notions of ‘experimentation’ inform new ways of city working: \n1. What does inter-disciplinary integrating place making mean? How can we bring together expertise in areas such as computing\, mapping\, politics\, economy\, digital anthropology\, spatial analysis and urban planning?\n2. How can we deal with multi-stakeholder ‘helix strategies’? What are the roles of the private sector\, public authorities\, academia\, civil society and entrepreneurs/activists in these ULLs initiatives? What should the roles be?\n3. How can ULLs\, as a form of collective urban governance\, positively influence the smart policy agenda in Europe by going beyond its governance implications?\n4. What makes the ULL approach attractive and novel?\n5. How are ULL initiatives being operationalised in contemporary urban governance for sustainability and low carbon cities?\n6. What prospects are there for alternative funding and business models for cities and regions in Europe?\n7. What are the practical and political interventions needed within multi-stakeholder approaches\, and what are the potential concerns about data technopolitics?\n8. Is another urban governance model possible\, a third way between state and market? \nThis workshop considers the relationship between technology\, the city and policy innovation in cities and regions around Europe. More broadly\, it explores the strategic role of institutions in order to foster regional ecosystems of experimentation engaging the public sector\, the private sector\, academia\, civic society and social entrepreneurs/activists. \n 
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/experimenting-with-urban-living-labs-ulls-beyond-smart-city-regions/
LOCATION:Delegation of the Basque Country to the EU\,\, 27\, Rue des Deux Eglises. \, Brussels\, Brussels\, 1000\, Belgium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170208T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170208T123000
DTSTAMP:20260613T074600
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SUMMARY:Migration and housing: can we turn challenges into opportunities for cities?
DESCRIPTION:Following strong urbanisation and migration flows\, due to economic migration and geo-political turmoil\, cities are evolving as the centres of the universe for people to live\, work and play and for investors to put their money. As a result\, many cities increasingly face the unintended consequences of this development\, with affordability of housing being one of the most critical issues for European cities today. \n\n\n\nIn this session\, we will explore the potential solutions to make housing more affordable\, what the impact of migration flows is and how affordable housing influences city economic growth.  How can public and private sector collaborate to improve affordability for existing and future city residents? What are the opportunities and challenges we’re facing? \nSpeakers \n\nProf. Michael Keith\, Panellist\, University of Oxford\nJames Murray\, Panellist\, City of London\nBénédicte Paviot\, Moderator\, France 24\nYolande Barnes\, Panellist\, Savills\nNicolas Bearelle\, Panellist\, Re-Vive\n\n 
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/migration-and-housing-can-we-turn-challenges-into-opportunities-for-cities/
LOCATION:The Westin Paris – Vendôme\,  3 Rue de Castiglione\, Paris\, Île-de-France\, 75001\, France
CATEGORIES:Portfolio
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161114T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161114T160000
DTSTAMP:20260613T074600
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SUMMARY:Bridging European Urban Transformations
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Series in Brussels 2016-2017: Funded by the ESRC \n(Un)Plugging Data in Smart City-Regions \nCo-organised in partnership by the University of Oxford – Urban Transformations and VUB – Brussels Centre for Urban Studies \nDate: 14th November 2016 \nDuration: 9:00-16:00 \nVenue: SMIT (www.smit.vub.ac.be) – Boulevard de la Plaine 9\, 1050 Etterbeek\, Vrije Universiteit Brussel\, Brussels\, Belgium \nAttention to the application of new information flows and the development of the so-called ‘smart cities’ paradigm is increasing; however\, there is still limited understanding of the interconnections between ‘hard\,’ ‘smart’ infrastructures and economic\, political and social systems on metropolitan and regional scales. Furthermore\, this paradigm has often failed to deliver practical tools that can help us to better understand and intervene in our daily realities\, while also engaging with the various stakeholders that are important for our cities and regions. \nThe workshop aims to rethink the dominant technocratic and technology-centric smart city discourse: not by imagining cities beyond or before technologies\, but by accepting that city-regions are already fundamentally shaped by networked and mobile ICTs and by critically thinking through the governance consequences of the promises and realities of smart cities. For example\, many argue that smart city-regions will inevitably revolve around generating large amounts of data and that this in itself will lead to new insights and governance strategies. But in reality\, city-regions are much more complex and shaped by a large variety of different actors and organisations with often conflicting positions. Another strand of debate emphasizes the impact of near-universal uptake of smartphones and other hand-held devices as well as the impact of the Internet of Things i.e. networks of data-gathering sensors and cloud computing. Many use these devices and networks on a daily basis\, but what this means for city-regional governance and the power-laden relationships between citizens\, governments and companies remains an open question. All this makes truly ‘smart’ city-regional governance exceedingly difficult\, but at the same time a fascinating and rewarding scale for investigating the various meanings and usages of ‘smartness’. \nOver the last years\, various research projects across Europe have started investigating these issues. Most seek to develop not just critical analyses\, but also practical suggestions to tackle urban problems such as pollution\, health\, safety or mobility through the development and use of various types of mobile and networked data. Building on this emerging body of research\, the workshop (Un)Plugging Data in Smart City-Regions will bring together a group of European academics and policymakers in order to unpack and question: \n\nthe kinds of knowledge gained through the production\, distribution and use of ‘smart’ data;\nthe role data plays in the constitution of urban expertise and in mediating and transforming the relationships between citizens\, governments and companies; and\nthe ways in which data-driven knowledge and expertise tackles and/or reproduces inequalities in city-regions.\n\nMore broadly\, we aim to explore how new strategies of data collection\, storage\, and usage harness urban and regional smart governance models to guide city-regional decision-making processes. \nProgramme \nThe one-day workshop commences with a welcoming introduction from Prof. Michael Keith\, co-ordinator of the Urban Transformations ESRC portfolio\, and Prof. Bas van Heur\, co-ordinator of the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies as host institution. It will be followed by six slots and some speakers who are experts in the field: three from the Urban Transformations ESRC portfolio projects and seven from the VUB. The workshop will also include small debate groups led by each section. Each small group will deliver some conclusions at the end of the workshop. \nThe workshop wants to emphasize an interdisciplinary dialogue\, bridge the gap between theory and practice\, and encourage knowledge exchange between academics\, policymakers\, citizens\, and activists. \nIf you are interested in participating in the workshop please register to the workshop via this Evenbrite event: \nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/preview?eid=26793797971 \nAlternatively\, please contact coordinators directly via: igor.calzada@compas.ox.ac.uk \nCoordination \nDr Igor Calzada\, MBA (UOxf-UT) \nwww.igorcalzada.com/about \nhttps://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/people/igor-calzada \n@icalzada & igor.calzada@compas.ox.ac.uk \nProf Bas Van Heur (VUB-BCUS) \nhttp://www.cosmopolis.be/people/bas-van-heur \n@basvanheur & bvheur@vub.ac.be \n  \nPreliminary Agenda \n9:00-9:20 Welcome: Prof Michael Keith (UT-UOxf) & Prof Bas van Heur (BCUS-VUB) \n\n@MichaelKeith18 & keith@compas.ox.ac.uk\n@basvanheur & bvheur@vub.ac.be\n\n  \n9:20:9:40 Introduction: Mr Richard Tuffs \n\nDirector of ERRIN (European Regions Research and Innovation Network)\n\n  \n9:40-10:40 New Sources For Data Collection\, Storage And Usage (Section 1/3) \n\n9:40-10:10 Professor Peter Triantafillou (University of Glasgow & UBDC)\n\n@UrbanBigData & Peter.Triantafillou@glasgow.ac.uk \nUrban Big Data Centre \nhttp://ubdc.ac.uk/about/our-team/directors/peter-triantafillou/ \n  \n\n10:10-10:40 Dr Paul Cowie (Newcastle University & ESRC/Future Cities Catapult)\n\n@politicalidiot & paul.cowie@newcastle.ac.uk \nFuture Cities Catapult \nhttps://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/people/paul-cowie/ \n  \n10:40-11:10 Debate: New Sources For Data Collection\, Storage And Usage \n  \n11:10-11:40 Coffee-break and Networking \n  \n11:40-12:40 Urban Expertise for Citizen/Users Involvement (Section 2/3) \n\n11:40-12:10 Dr Carina Veeckman & Dr Paulien Coppens (SMIT-VUB)\n\n@VeeckmanCarina & carina.veeckman@iminds.be \n@PaulienCoppens & paulien.coppens@iminds.be \nHackAIR (Collective Awareness for Air Quality) \nhttp://www.hackair.eu \n  \n\n12:10-12:55 Professor Wolfgang De Meuter\, Lizzy Bleumers\, Jesse Zaman & Kevin Pinte (SOFT-VUB)\n\n@wdmeuter & wdmeuter@vub.ac.be \nFlamenco (Flanders Mobile Enacted Citizen Observatories) \nhttp://citizen-observatory.be \n  \n12:55-13:15 Debate: Citizen/Users Involvement \n  \n13:15-14:00 Lunchtime \n  \n14:00-15:00 Smart Knowledge and Expertise to Tackle Urban Inequalities (Section 3/3) \n  \n\n14:00-14:30 Professor Pieter Ballon (SMIT-VUB)\n\n@PieterBallon & pieter.ballon@vub.ac.be \nCity of Things: Data-Driven Living Lab for Socio-Economic Experiments \n  \n\n14:30-15:00 Dr Joana Barros (Birkbeck\, University of London)\n\n@jxbarros & j.barros@bbk.ac.uk \nRESOLUTION: Resilient Systems fOr Land Use TransportatION \nhttps://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/project/resolution-resilient-systems-for-land-use-transportation \n  \n15:00-15:30 Debate: Urban Inequalities \n  \n15:30-16:00 Wrapping-Up and Conclusions \n  \nIn cooperation with the RSA – Smart City Regional Governance for Sustainability Research Network \n\nhttp://www.regionalstudies.org/networks/network/smart-city-regional-governance-for-sustainability\nhttp://rsan-smartgov-events.ioer.info/index.html\n\n  \nHashtag (twitter) \n#UnpluggingData \nDo you have questions about ‘(Un)Plugging Data in Smart City-Regions’?Contact University of Oxford\, Urban Transformations ESRC & VuB (BCUS & Brussels Academy) (in collaboration with the RSA) \n 
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/bridging-european-urban-transformations/
LOCATION:Boulevard de la Plaine 9\, 1050 Etterbeek\, Vrije Universiteit Brussels\, Brussels\, Belgium
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161024
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SUMMARY:Designing Respect Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:4th – 23rd October 2016\nVenue: Museum of Tomorrow\, Rio de Janeiro \nTheatrum Mundi\, People’s Palace Projects and Museum of Tomorroware proud to present the 2016 edition of the global ideas competition Designing Politics\, set this year in Rio de Janeiro. \nDesigning Politics aims to test the potentials and the limits of design in addressing critical issues of urban politics and culture in different cities around the world. Following previous challenges held in New York and London\, this year’s brief focused on the issue of RESPECT\, asking\, “In an era of heightened inequality\, of racial and class violence\, of territorial stigmatisation\, can respect become politicised?” \nDuring July\, August and September we opened a call to artists\, planners\, activists\, and citizens of all kinds to identify settings for disrespect in the Olympic capital and design plans for an architectural\, urban\, performative or organisational intervention that enables respect between people across difference. \n62 exciting were received and can be viewed on our online gallery. Together\, the projects offer a new definition and activation of respect as an organising principle for the right to the city. 10 projects chosen by peer vote will be highlighted in an exhibition at theMuseum of Tomorrow/Museu do Amanhãand will be announced at the opening of the show DESIGNING RESPECT on October 4th. We would be delighted if you or anyone in your network would have the possibility to join us. \nThe expert jury includes Gringo Cardia\, Pedro Rivera\, Washington Fajardo\, Marcus Faustini\, Eliana Souza\, Jailson de Souza e Silva\, Luiz Alberto Oliveira\, Marcelo Dughettu\, Jane Hall\, Martin Dowle\, Olga Esteves Camper\, Ana Claudia Souza\, Paul Heritage and Adam Kaasa. \nFor more details\, visit www.designingpolitics.org/designing-respect \nOpening Hours\n10am – 6pm\, 4th – 23rd October 2016 \nAdmission\nClosed on Mondays\nFree on Tuesdays\nR$10 (full price) / $5 (concession) Wednesday to Sunday
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/designing-respect-exhibition/
LOCATION:Museum of Tomorrow\, Praça Mauá 1\, Centro\, \, Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil
CATEGORIES:Other Urban
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161020
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161021
DTSTAMP:20260613T074600
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SUMMARY:Habitat III - 20 October events
DESCRIPTION:Non-official Habitat III events with Urban Transformations involvement (participant or organizer)\nDisrupting urban risk traps: Towards transformative resilience\n9.30-12.30 Unofficial bi-regional networking event\nCampus of Sustainable Cities\, Auditorium \nTackling the accumulation of everyday risks and small episodic disasters into risk traps is a key challenge to meet the objectives of the New Urban Agenda. This networking event aims to bring together a community of practice across Latin America and Africa to foster productive exchanges and to stimulate critical and inspiring reflections on how different types of interventions can effectively contribute to disrupt urban risk traps\, while opening new paths towards transformative urban resilience. \nThe session is open to grassroots organisations\, NGOs\, researchers\, policy-makers\, local and national governments and regional and international agencies striving to seek strategic\, grounded and incremental ways to disrupt urban risk accumulation cycles. \nOrganization\nThe Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU)\, University College London\, cLIMA sin Riesgo and Urban Africa Risk Knowledge \nMore information \n\nImplementing gender transformation in the New Urban Agenda\n11.00-12.00 Next City World Stage Event\nWorld Stage Pavilion\, Habitat III Centre \n1. How do we understand gender transformation? This is an inherently political act closely associated with structural change in gender power relations that emphasises collective action – as distinct from ‘empowerment’ that addresses individual women’s agency and bargaining power. The gender transformation framework links gender asset accumulation pathways to empowerment and transformation. \n2. What are examples of transformative gendered interventions in cities? Panelists\, linked to global urban women’s networks\, share examples of gender transformation interventions\, long-term complex negotiated power struggles confronting gender inequalities and disparities. \n\nIn Recife\, Brazil\, Espaço Feminista\, with Huairou Commission\, struggled for women’s land titles in the Ponte do Maduro Master Plan; this empowered individual women\, but also structural transformation in land regularization processes.\nIn Indian cities\, SEWA\, supported by WIEGO\, has brought voice and visibility to informal women workers through lengthy\, successful mediation processes with city municipalities to recognize the legal rights of informal traders.\nIn Zimbabwe\, the Homeless People’s Federation\, a member of SDI\, organizes savings groups to negotiate with local government authorities to secure land\, upgrade housing\, and collectively upgrade.\nInternational migration affects women’s capability to claim their rights in cities; FLACSO\, a Quitobased research centre highlights the transformative experiences of Ecuadorian women.\nLondon-based Latin American Women’s Rights Service focuses on diaspora women’s rights to the city across global contexts.\n\n3. Does the NUA include gender transformation interventions? The NUA has a long way to go. Three of the 32 paragraphs referring to women include potential transformative interventions; on land tenure\, safe cities and informal economy. But even these lack an indication of the necessary means for implementation in practice.
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/habitat-iii-20-october-events/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161019T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161130T180000
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SUMMARY:Urban Life
DESCRIPTION:Future of Cities Seminar Series\, Michaelmas 2016\nWednesdays 16.30-18.00 – Hovenden Room\, All Souls College\, Oxford \n19 October – The Border and the City: Spatialities of the European Crisis\nDimitris Dalakoglou\, Chair in Social Anthropology\, VU University Amsterdam \n2 November – Racialized Citizens\, Security and the Paradox of Exclusion and Inclusion\nPiero Vereni\, Associate Professor\, University of Rome Tor Vergata \n16 November – The Global Urban Transition: Origins and Implications for Human Development\nSean Fox\, Lecturer in Urban Geography and Global Development\, University of Bristol \n30 November – The Block: Social Biography of a Building in Postsocialist Romania\nMaria Șalaru\, DPhil Candidate and Film Maker\, University of Oxford
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/future-of-cities-seminar-series-urban-life/
CATEGORIES:Other Urban
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161019
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161020
DTSTAMP:20260613T074600
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SUMMARY:Habitat III - 19 October events
DESCRIPTION:Habitat III events with UT involvement (participant or organizer)\nCreating safe and inclusive cities that leave no one behind\n8.00-9.00\, Side event\nRoom R14\, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana “Benjamin Carrion” \nAddressing security and inclusion in cities as universal issues\, at this side-event we will focus onhow well-managed urbanisation can revitalise urban spaces that had either been lost to violence or suffered from a lack of access to basic services and neglect.Practitioners\, community leaders and researchers will come together to ask what terms of inclusion are needed to adhere to the principles of the New Urban Agenda.At the street-levelwe ask: how is security understood by law-enforcement agencies in contemporary cities? And how does this relate to the lived experiences of city dwellers\, particularly the poorest and most marginalised?At the citylevelwe turn our gaze to the city wide socio-political and civic actors and institutions that govern urban security provision. And\,at the national-levelwe look at how the dynamics of security provision in cities relate to the processes of state building and peace building.Community leaders from Harare and Nairobi will introduce a short film produced by the Institute of Development Studies and Slum Dwellers International (SDI). The film profiles the voices of the most marginalised urban residents narrating what a fruitful\, violence-free life in the city means to them.The following discussion will cover what cities in the global north can learn from experiences in the global south\, and vice versa. Participants will hear from practitioners with hands-on experience of implementing successful municipal interventions\, alongside researchers who have studied and evaluated these interventions over long periods of time. The event will create a space for an evidence-based dialogue on safe and inclusive cities\, amongst high-level policy makers and researchers. The event will also aim to mobilise networks of key actors involved in the coconstruction of knowledge around safety and inclusion in cities in order to take the New Urban Agenda forward. Follow the event on Twitter #SafeCities. \nOrganization\nInstitute Of Development Studies (IDS) \nPartner organizations\nESRC Urban Transformations \n\nCity diplomacy: Connecting global cities strategically\n9.30-10.30\, Side event\nRoom R13\, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana “Benjamin Carrion” \nThis event explores the capacity of city diplomacy and transnational municipal networks to support effective implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 11 and the New Urban Agenda. It will convene representatives of key city networks\, as well as experts in global politics and urban planning\, to explore the challenges and possibilities of paradiplomacy\, networking\, and other collaborations\, to launch a global commission on city diplomacy\, and to develop a rating and training resource for urban collaborations. By gathering representatives of the major global and regional city networks\, as well as representatives of international active global cities\, the event will launch development of an action plan to encourage network-to-network collaboration on global challenges\, develop a roadmap to an index of city diplomacy efforts\, and roll out a training program in negotiation and diplomacy for cities (between December 2016 and July 2017) in order to further enhance the capacity of city diplomacy linked with major other processes such as the Sendai Framework and the Addis Ababa Agenda. The side event will be followed by additional international meetings of the commission\, specifically at COP22 in Morocco\, the C40 bi-annual summit in Mexico City\, a two-day commission UCL retreat at the University of Oxford\, the WHO Healthy Cities summit in Rotterdam\, and the Chicago Forum on Global Cities. \nOrganization\nThe Chicago Council On Global Affairs \nPartner organizations\nCity Leadership Initiative At University College London and the Center For Urban Engagement At Wheaton College \n\nHarnessing the role of technology and innovation in the New Urban Agenda\n12.30-13.30\, Side event\nRoom R7\, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana “Benjamin Carrion” \nThe world is urbanising fast and there’s a huge opportunity to use new and innovative technologies to solve the social\, environmental and economic challenges that cities are facing. While it is not the only solution\, technology has the potential to radically improve the lives of people in cities worldwide. It can also empower a new generation of informed citizens to innovate at community scale and better engage with their governments and neighbourhoods. Habitat III offers a chance to bridge the gap between urbanists\, sociologists\, technologists and city innovators and it is a unique opportunity to better understand the role that innovation has to play in the New Urban Agenda. Future Cities Catapult is hosting a debate bringing together city leaders\, civil society and the private sector. We want to hear how cities are supporting innovation new technologies and integrated city systems to address urban challenges. But we also want to provoke discussion around the changing relationship between citizens and local governments\, as well as the transformative ways in which cities are engaging with citizens to design products and services. How can technology can be applied to meet the targets under the SDG11? What opportunities and challenges cities and governments are seeing on its implementation? Why is it important to be able to adapt smart city strategies to each city? How do we enable citizens to take part in a collaborative city making process? The debate will be followed by networking drinks\, giving the opportunity to further engage with both speakers and participants. \nOrganization\nFuture Cities Catapult \n\nSafer cities\n13.00-15.00\, Special session\nNational Library\, Casa de la Cultura \nMore information \nOrganization\nUnited Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN- Habitat) \nPartner organizations\nUN Office For Disarmament Affairs (UNODA); UN Women; United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF); United Nations Interregional Crime And Justice Research Institute (UNICRI); United Nations Office On Drugs And Crime (UNODC); United Nations University (UNU); World Bank; World Health Organization (WHO) \n\nBuilding information modelling as a tool for capacity building for sustainable housing upgrading in informal settlements\n14.00-16.00\, Networking Event\nRoom R9\, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana\, “Benjamín Carrión” \nThe success of low income housing projects in the global South\, including settlement upgrading\, requires the participation of all stakeholders including residents. Howe ve r\, traditional participatory methods are limited in involving the wider community\, tend to be dominated by specific community interest groups and therefore often fail to enable genuine coproduction and bottom up decisions making. Major technical constraints here relate to tools for wider collaborative practices and information sharing. E merging BIM and related mobile devices can overcome such constraints by facilitating deeper participation of residents and other community stakeholders (e.g.\, CBOs\, NGOs) in housing and community upgrading. The technologies can greatly enhance residents’ capacities to easily participate in the design and execution of upgrading and housing projects. BIM systems can be linked to mobile devices through freely available mobile apps and cloud-based systems that now have increasing penetration among all income groups including informal communities. Accordingly residents’ requirements can be captured through their direct input into the project BIM system and merged with existing housing data to gain in-depth understanding of design optimisations and their implications for housing and occupants. This will also enable virtual assessment of design options by residents and other stakeholders that allows their informed participation in the decision making process. The proposed event\, therefore\, aims to introduce and critically appraise a new approach to building local community capacities through the use of BIM and mobile technologies in the design and delivery of sustainable housing and settlement upgrading. This will include demonstrating how BIM can be used to collect\, analyse and model housing performance data; managing development and upgrading projects’ information; and how residents and other stakeholders can participate constructively in the lifecycle of the sustainable housing and upgrading delivery using emerging mobile/cloud BIM. \nOrganization\nOxford Institute For Sustainable Development – Oxford Brookes University \nPartner organizations\nOxford Brookes University \n\nComplementary approaches to unlocking urbanization as a powerful economic development tool\n16.30-18.30\, Networking Event\nRoom R6\, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana\, “Benjamín Carrión” \nA knowledge sharing and ‘action learning’ event which brings together participants with notably different perspectives on urban economic and spatial development in the Global South. In particular the networking event will look at how different approaches can contribute to inclusive and sustainable economic prosperity. The concept is to solve a practical challenge for African urban leaders by integrating ‘top-down’ [macro-economic/ spatial planning] and ‘bottom-up’ [participatory\, community led\, locally financed] approaches to urban economic and spatial development. \nOrganization\nUK Department for International Development \n\nShaping informed cities\n17.00-17.45\, Urban Future\nUrban Futures Room \nUrban observatories can play critical roles in decision-making\, providing research and analysis relevant to the successful implementation of New Urban Agenda. The event seeks to showcase\, explore and promote discussion around the functions of existing institutions involved in the generation and analysis of data to support urban decision-making. These institutions can inform specific policy decisions\, implementation and monitoring\, and promote inclusive approaches to governance. The event is designed to strengthen the existing network of shared interest in evidence-based governance\, and deepen effective practices within this space. This focus of the session will be illustrated by a case study that profiles the work of the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO)\, a research agency that exists as a collaboration between two local universities and the Gauteng city-region government\, South Africa. The GCRO is unusual in the context of urban observatories in its engagement with multiple governance levels\, taking place across a heterogeneous city-region rather than a single\, constrained urban core. GCRO is tasked with helping to build a knowledge base that ‘government\, business\, labour\, civil society and residents all need’ (GCRO website\, ‘About’) to improve the economic\, social and environmental sustainability of the city region. The case study will include of one of GCRO’s recent work programmes on Green Assets and Infrastructure\, which provides some detailed insight in to methods used\, and the challenges and dilemmas that must be negotiated in this operating space. The presentation will illustrate the challenges of achieving evidence-based adaptive governance in a developing country urban context\, including the constitution of hybrid research agencies\, methodological approaches to knowledge co- production and the absorptive capacities of city executive systems. The topical content of the session links to Habitat III (H3) issue papers on Urban Governance and Urban Ecosystems and Resource Management. From the Governance perspective (‘enhanced governing capacities also rely on improved data gathering’)\, it seeks to understand how knowledge generation and analysis can be optimised in urban settings\, especially to enable responsive and adaptive governance approaches in fluid and unpredictable contexts. This includes ways in which multi-stakeholder civil society contributions can be made to city governance. Among other things\, the GCRO study will reflect on the role of tolerance and capacity to navigate uncertainty required of practitioners (in both the research and government domains) operating in this space. \nOrganization\nUCL City Leadership Lab \nPartner organizations\nGauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) \n\nThe Quito papers\n19:00-20:30\, Urban talk\nTeatro Nacional \nNearly a century ago\, the world’s leading architects wrote a ‘Charter of Athens’ proposing how cities could develop\, a document which guided planning throughout the 20th Century.  Today\, we need a new ‘Charter’ to address very different kinds of cities. \nIn this session\, three urbanists explore guidelines for the future: Richard Sennett (NYU) will present the concept of the Open City\, Saskia Sassen (Columbia) will ask who owns the city now and who should own it\, Richard Burdett (LSE) will address how cities should grow. This session will be chaired by Dr. Joan Clos (Executive Director\, UN-Habitat).
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/habitat-iii-19-october-events/
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SUMMARY:Habitat III - 18 October events
DESCRIPTION:Official Habitat III events with UT involvement (participant or organizer)\nRelación entre oferta y especialización en el uso de servicios modernos de\nla energía en el sector residencial\n8.00-9.00\, Side event\nRoom R8\, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana “Benjamin Carrion” \nExiste una oferta de energías modernas y no modernas\, como priorizar el acceso según los usos de los mismos. Los actuales hábitos de comportamiento y formas de consumo en las ciudades promueven una alta demanda energética y la utilización de una variedad de vectores energéticos en las urbes\, de servicios de energía modernos y no modernos lo cual tiene efectos sobre la sostenibilidad en el aprovisionamiento y uso eficiente de la energía.En este contexto el evento busca generar debate sobre como ofertar energéticos modernos a nivel de sector residencial la correlación existente entre la generación de energía y su uso final en el sector residencial urbano.El tema será abordado desde tres ejes: 1) situación actual de la oferta y el uso de la energía considerando los recursos y tecnologías de generación y su impacto en las formas de consumo del sector residencial; 2) Barreras y estrategias encaminadas hacia la especialización de la demanda para alcanzar la racionalidad en el uso de energía y potenciar el uso de los recursos locales; 3) Alternativas para la especialización y uso eficiente desde la demanda de energía.Para esto\, se contará con exposiciones nacionales e internacionales que recojan diferentes perspectivas de análisis. Con este evento se espera generar insumos e ideas considerando la toma de decisión y planificación energética\, el papel del desarrollo tecnológico\, así como los aspectos sociales\, culturales\, ambientales y de salud asociados al uso de la energía. \nOrganization\nMinisterio Coordinador De Sectores Estratégicos – Ecuador \n\nResearch and academia roundtable\n8.00-10.00\, Stakeholder roundtable\nRoom R21\, Casa de la Cultura \nKnowledge and Capacity after Quito: Mapping Out Academia’s Commitment to the New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Urbanization\nAcademics and researchers are advocates for the use of sound research methods\, and support the co-production and sharing of knowledge to better inform policy-making and to strengthen the capacity of government agencies to serve their constituents. The academic and research community could also monitor the development\, management\, governance\, and capacity building initiatives of human settlements worldwide. With a focus on the creation of a multi-stakeholder “knowledge platform” for sustainable urbanization and cutting-edge\, scalable capacity building initiatives\, this Roundtable will demonstrate how and why researchers and academics promote nature-based innovation\, robust science-policy interfaces in urban and territorial planning and policy formulation\, the use of a systems approach to understand and address complex urban issues\, as well as institutionalized mechanisms for sharing and exchanging information and capacity building techniques. The Roundtable will focus on a set of actions needed to create and operationalize the engagement and contribution of the research and academia constituency in the Quito Implementation Plan\, as well as in the monitoring of the New Urban Agenda. \nObjectives of the Roundtable \n\nMap out key priorities and activities that the academic and research community can pursue as part of its commitment to the New Urban Agenda and sustainable urbanization for the next twenty years.\nPresent and expand upon strategies to strengthen capacity building initiatives\, especially in key regions.\nEngage representatives of member states and policymakers in a discussion about the role and specific input of academia and research in the pursuit of sustainable urbanization.\nPresent and expand upon existing proposals to establish a global “knowledge platform” for sustainable urbanization.\n\nGuiding Questions  \n\nWhich should be the role of research and academia in the implementation of the New Urban Agenda?\nWhat value would a Multi Stakeholder Knowledge Platform for Sustainable Urbanization add to existing knowledge production and sharing efforts at the national\, regional\, and global scales?\nHow would a Knowledge Platform operate\, and what range of financial and human resources would it require?\nWhat forms of capacity development initiatives does the New Urban Agenda engender/ require to address urban and rural human settlements in equitable sustainable manner?\nHow can capacity development initiatives be scaled up and/ or rolled out in the most vulnerable regions of the world?\nHow can we ensure a strong engagement from all partner institutions and individuals in the implementation process of the New Urban Agenda? (And related issues\, including funding\, workshops\, etc.)\nHow can we ensure monitoring and evaluation the activities\, performance\, and achievements of the Constituent Group in the Quito Implementation Plan?\nWhat value would a Multi Stakeholder Knowledge Platform for Sustainable Urbanization add to existing knowledge production and sharing efforts at the national\, regional\, and global scales?\n\nRoundtable Follow Up\nHow do you propose to monitor the outcomes of this session in order to report back on progress at the 9th Session of the World Urban Forum (2018\, Kuala Lumpur\, Malaysia)? \n\nHabitatXChange – Linking knowledge to policy: How can the scientific community contribute after Quito?\n10.30-11.30\, Pavillion Panel Discussion\nStall 27\, Area B\, Exhibition Hall \nThe General Assembly of Partners brought a unique perspective to the Habitat III process and provided the scientific community with an unprecedented platform to contribute to the development of the New Urban Agenda. The need for continued scientific engagement in the post-Quito implementation phase is clear. However\, the mechanism through which the scientific community can come together and engage with other stakeholder groups has not yet been defined. This workshop session is an opportunity to develop a coherent approach that carves out a clear role for the community and allows it to efficiently coordinate its work and interface with decision makers. \nMore information \n\nImproving living conditions of the informal settlements in the global south cities\n11.00-12.00\, Side event\nRoom R7\, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana “Benjamin Carrion” \nThis side event aims to discuss how cities are dealing with slums and informal settlements and its main challenges\, as well as to identify the best ways to implement the corresponding guidelines presented in the New Urban Agenda.According to World Health Organization\, almost 828 million people live in slum conditions\, representing around one third of the world’s urban population. These residential areas are characterized by a lack of security of tenure\, scarcity of basic services\, public space and green areas and the absence of compliance with the formal arrangements of urban planning. The residents of these areas usually suffer more spatial\, social and economic exclusion from the urban services and opportunities. They express fear for their children’s lives due to the location of their homes\, and also face each day multiple types of risk\, like natural hazards\, violence\, and diseases.Considerable investment have already been made to improve the live conditions in the slums\, such as the provision of basic services as housing\, streets\, footpaths\, drainage\, clean water\, sanitation\, and sewage disposal\, education and health care. Efforts are also been made in legalizing or regularizing properties and bringing secure land tenure to residents. However\, the investments done in a neighborhood may cause gentrification\, which is another important issue to discuss when it comes to slum upgrading.Representatives of local governments\, international organizations and specialists are going to debate the priorities for slum upgrading\, measurement of the upgrading policies effects\, land tenure and the inclusion of the informal settlements in the urban planning.It is expected that this event contributes to establish a channel for future debate and best practices exchange\, and also to the trail to develop a framework for practical implementation of the slum upgrading guidelines stated in the New Urban Agenda. \nOrganization\nRio De Janeiro City Hall \nPartner organizations\nUN-Habitat Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (ROLAC); Cities Alliance-Pereira Passos Institute of the City of Rio de Janeiro \n\nTransformación de género\, acción colectiva y la Nueva Agenda Urbana*\n17.30-19.30\, FLACSO Event\nFLACSO\, Ave Diego de Almagro \n1. ¿Cómo entendemos la transformación de género? Este es un acto inherentemente político estrechamente asociado con cambios estructurales en las relaciones de poder de género que enfatiza la acción colectiva – a diferencia de la “”empoderamiento”” que se ocupa de la acción de mujeres individuales y el poder de negociación. El marco de la transformación de género vincula vías de acumulación de activos de género para el empoderamiento y la transformación. \n2. ¿Cuáles son ejemplos de intervenciones transformadoras de género en las ciudades? Las panelistas\, vinculadas a redes mundiales de mujeres urbanas\, comparten ejemplos de intervenciones de transformación de género\, negociaciones complejas de luchas de poder a largo plazo para confrontar las desigualdades y disparidades de género. \n\nEn Recife\, Brasil\, el Espacio Feminista\, con la Comisión Huairou\, ha luchado por obtener títulos de propiedad para las mujeres en el Ponte do Plan Maestro Maduro; la lucha empoderó a mujeres individuales logrando una transformación estructural en la regularización de tierras.\nEn las ciudades indias\, SEWA\, apoyada por WIEGO\, ha dado voz y visibilidad a las trabajadoras informales a través de procesos de mediación con gobiernos municipales para que estos reconozcan los derechos legales de comerciantes informales.\nEn Zimbabue\, las personas pertenecientes a la Federación de personas sin hogar\, miembro de SDI\, organiza grupos de ahorro para negociar con autoridades locales para asegurar la tenencia de la tierra\, mejorar la vivienda\, y otras mejoras\ncolectivas.\nLa migración internacional afecta la capacidad de las mujeres para reclamar sus derechos en las ciudades; FLACSO\, un centro de investigación con sede en Quito pone de relieve las experiencias de transformación de la mujer ecuatoriana.\nEl Servicio por los Derechos de la Mujer Latinoamericana (LAWRS) se centra en los derechos de las mujeres de la diáspora en la ciudad en Londres a través de contextos globales.\n\n3. ¿La NAU incluye intervenciones de transformación de género? La NAU tiene un largo camino por recorrer. Tres de los 32 párrafos que se refieren a las mujeres incluyen posibles intervenciones transformadoras; en la tenencia de la tierra\, ciudades seguras y la economía informal. Pero incluso para estos carecen de los medios necesarios para su aplicación en la práctica. \n* Non-official Habitat III event with direct UT involvement \n\nThe ESRC Urban Transformations network at Habitat III*\n21.00-24.00\, Informal gathering (invite only)\nCafé Mosaico\, Manuel Samaniego #30 y Antepara\, Itchimbía \n* Non-official Habitat III event organised by Urban Transformations
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/habitat-iii-18-october-events/
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SUMMARY:Habitat III
DESCRIPTION:Habitat III is the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development to take place in Quito\, Ecuador\, from 17 – 20 October 2016. \nIn Resolution 66/207 and in line with the bi-decennial cycle (1976\, 1996 and 2016)\, the United Nations General Assembly decided to convene the Habitat III Conference to reinvigorate the global commitment to sustainable urbanization\, to focus on the implementation of a New Urban Agenda\, building on the Habitat Agenda of Istanbul in 1996. \nWebsite
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/habitat-iii/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Quito\, Ecuador
CATEGORIES:Other Urban
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SUMMARY:Habitat III - 17 October events
DESCRIPTION:Habitat III events with UT involvement (participant or organizer)\nTransforming research into practices and policies – dialogues on implementation and evaluation of the new urban agenda\n8.00-9.00\, Side event\nRoom R19\, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana\, “Benjamín Carrión” \nThis session will bring together local authorities\, community leaders and researchers from Brazil\, South Africa and the United Kingdom to address how comparative research findings and methods in the planning process can facilitate the implementation and monitoring of the 2030 urban agenda. \nMore information \n\nSafer smarter cities for women and girls\n10.00-11.00\, Side event\nRoom R7\, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana “Benjamin Carrion” \nCan smart technologies make our cities safer for everyone\, or are they too challenging for city authorities attempting to manage complex strategic outcomes? This action-oriented workshop from the City Leadership Initiative and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) explores how digital technologies can give voice to women’s experience and contemplates the role of government in responding effectively. As a starting point the session will present findings from the UNHabitat’s Technical Working Group on Safer Smarter Cities\, exploring practical examples of how digital technologies are promoting safety outcomes in cities across the world. WAGGGS will also present data gathered through U-report (a platform designed to aggregate and amplify the voice of young people to speak out on issue that matter to them) on girls’ and young women’s experiences and perspectives. Through our global U-report poll\, we will be able to develop a clearer understanding of the challenges girls and young women face in navigating urban space and gain insight into what they consider to be the best solutions. As an interactive session we will allow space for participants to reflect upon and share how they plan to use digital technologies to promote safer cities for women in their own organisations. Participants are also invited to join an on-going community of organisations\, governments and institutions who are interested in developing knowledge and action in this area. \nOrganization\nCity Leadership Initiative UCL STEaPP; World Association Of Girl Guides And Girl Scouts \nPartner organizations\nUN-Habitat; Unicef; Liveable Cities; SAP \n\nReducing relocation risk in urban areas\n11.00-12.00\, Side event\nRoom R8\, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana “Benjamin Carrion” \nDensely‐populated urban centres are often exposed to multiple climate‐related hazards. Floods\, heat waves\, cyclones\, landslides and other events often have significant impacts on people’s lives and livelihoods\, particularly those of the poor. Risks are exacerbated by the changing climate and unplanned urbanisation. If unmanaged\, these risks can undermine hard‐won development gains. Many national and local governments are resettling people who live in areas affected by climate‐related disasters. Resettlement can occur as part of national level programmes to move people out high‐risk areas\, or as part of a local government development plan. This is often accompanied by the upgrading of vacated areas to reduce risk\, change land use\, with implications for those left behind or still living in the surrounding area. Relocation and resettlement (R&R) may reduce a region’s future climate‐related disaster risk\, but can also increase people’s poverty and vulnerability. The processes for making and implementing decisions on post‐ disaster relocation\, pre‐emptive resettlement and on‐site upgrading play a large part in determining whether outcomes are socially just\, and whether they actually reduce future risks for individuals\, urban regions and society as a whole. While urban resettlement programmes widespread\, the social and economic impacts of resettlement and relocation on individuals\, society and urban regions are not well understood either by experts or by those enacting them. The research carried out in the last 18 months examines the various social and economic implications of climate‐risk related resettlement and relocation policies in cities across three geographies: India in Asia\, Uganda in Africa\, and Peru\, Mexico and Colombia in Latin America. It seeks to understand the political\, economic and institutional contexts in which resettlement takes place; the costs benefits of resettlement from both the government and individual’s perspective; and how resettlement impacts people’s well‐being and resilience over different time frames. The research has compared approaches and attempted to identify climate‐related resettlement policies and practices deliver the most beneficial outcomes. The framing and approach to policy engagement is tailored for each country and informed by a steering committee including relevant government representatives. This event will share the findings from this research and urge the participants to reflect based on their own experiences towards more holistic and sustainable development planning. \nOrganization\nIndian Institute For Human Settlements \nPartner organizations\nThe Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) At UCL\, The Latin American Social Science Faculty (Facultad Latinoamericana De Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) and Makerere University \n\nSegregation and expulsion\n11.00-12.00\, Side event\nRoom MR6 \nThe twin evils of cities. Presented by Richard Sennett\, Saskia Sassen\, and Jean-Louis Missika. This session looks at the forces isolating social classes in the city or driving these groups out. The speakers will present both concrete data and analytic models. \nOrganization\nInstitute For Public Knowledge NYU \nPartner organizations\nLondon School Of Economics And Political Science; MIT \n\nExploring challenges\, partnerships and approaches to reducing inequalities and ensuring inclusive economic growth in cities\n12.30-13.30\, Side event\nRoom R12\, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana “Benjamin Carrion” \nThe side event will explore challenges\, partnerships and strategies to support cities in fostering equitable economic growth. The group will share experiences from their unique fields of work in cooperation with national and local governments\, organizations of informal workers\, non-governmental organisations and academic partners in rapidly urbanising cities. In the discussion with the audience\, the side event will collect recommendations that will inform the Joint Work Programme in the context of the New Urban Agenda. The discussion will be facilitated by William Cobbett\, Director of the Cities Alliance. \nOrganization\nCommonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF) On Behalf Of The Cities Alliance Joint Work Programme \nPartner organizations\nThe Ford Foundation And The World Bank\, UK Department For International Development (DFID)\, UN-Habitat\, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)\, Women In Informal Employment: Globalizing And Organizing (WIEGO)
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/habitat-iii-17-october-events/
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SUMMARY:Transforming research into practices and policies:  Dialogues on implementation and evaluation of the new urban agenda
DESCRIPTION:A Habitat III Side Event convened by: Urban Transformations Network\, United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council (UK-ESRC) \nTime: 17 October 2016\, 08:00 – 09:00\nPlace: Room R19 @ Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana “Benjamin Carrion” \nPartner organizations:\nUniversity of Oxford; Centre on Migration\, Policy and Society; Oxford Program for the Future of Cities; South African Local Government Association; Prefecture of Rio de Janeiro; Slum Dwellers International \nConference catalogue brief description of side event:\nThis session will bring together local authorities\, community leaders and researchers from Brazil\, South Africa and the United Kingdom to address how comparative research findings and methods in the planning process can facilitate the implementation and monitoring of the 2030 urban agenda. City planning has increasingly included different stakeholders\, but multi-level governance and dialogue have not always led to inclusive planning and outcomes. Building on Sustainable Development Goal #11\, and as demonstrated by the zero draft of the New Urban Agenda\, there is currently a renewed discussion on the importance of new skills in city planning for shaping equitable and sustainable cities. \nIn this event\, participants are invited to imagine new ways for academic research to inform and be informed by planning interventions. Supported by the UK Economic and Social Research Council’s Urban Transformations Network — a premier urban research funding body working through bilateral government partnerships across global north and south to direct comparative analysis — it aims to promote lasting partnerships between researchers\, community organizers and policy makers. Centrally\, speakers will debate what institutional support is needed to facilitate knowledge co-production and multi-level governance\, as well as identify key challenges for the communication and sharing of ideas. Making research part of urban policies and local practices is crucial for the implementation\, monitoring and evaluation of the New Urban Agenda post-Habitat III\, and new approaches to effective synchronization between science\, policy and practice are timely. \nThe discussions\, focusing on pressing thematic areas of housing\, gender inequality\, urban sustainability\, mobility and health\, include the following speakers: Gabrielle Guimarães (Senior Adviser for Multilateral Cooperation\, International Relations Department\, Rio de Janeiro City Hall)\, Parks Tau (Former Mayor of Johannesburg)\, Vanssa Castán Broto (UCL-DPU – Environment)\, Cathy McIlwaine (Queen Mary – Gender)\, Ramin Keivani (Oxford Brookes – Mobility)\, Sophie Hadfield-Hill (University of Birmingham) and Beth Chitekwe-Biti (Slum Dwellers International\, Zimbabwe). The panel will be moderated by Michael Keith (UT-ESRC\, COMPAS\, Oxford Future of Cities). \nDetailed summary of side event:\nThis session will bring together local authorities\, community leaders\, and researchers from Brazil\, South Africa and the United Kingdom to address how comparative research findings and methods on the planning process can facilitate the implementation and monitoring of the 2030 urban agenda. City planning has increasingly included different stakeholders\, but multi-level governance and dialogue have not always led to inclusive planning and outcomes. Emerging from criticism on modernist cities such as Brasilia and Chandigarh\, that did not correspond to the hopes of planners or the changing needs of their inhabitants\, there has been scepticism about state-centred urban planning. On the other hand\, building on Sustainable Development Goal #11\, and as demonstrated by the zero draft of the New Urban Agenda\, there is currently a renewed discussion on the importance of the planner for shaping inclusive and sustainable cities\, now potentially able to benefit from and be evaluated according to a wealth of knowledge produced on cities globally. \nIn this event community activists\, urban researchers\, and policy makers are invited to network towards imagining new ways for academic research to be coordinated in parallel with planning interventions. This event leverages the UK Economic and Social Research Council’s position — a premier urban research funding body working through bilateral government partnerships across global north and south to direct comparative analysis — to promote lasting partnerships between researchers\, community organizers\, and policy makers. Centrally\, speakers will debate what institutional support is needed to facilitate knowledge co-production and multi-level governance\, as well as identify key challenges for the communication and sharing of ideas. We will explore how both ethnographic and data driven research can work together to facilitate the monitoring of inclusivity across scales in rapidly urbanising areas. Specifically\, we will bring experienced researchers\, community leaders and policy makers together to discuss pressing thematic areas of housing and gender inequality\, urban sustainability\, and healthy mobility and how research execution and communication can be best tailored to support implementation of specific corresponding New Urban Agenda goals. Making research part of urban policies and local practices is crucial for the implementation\, monitoring\, and evaluation of the New Urban Agenda and new approaches to effective synchronisation between science\, policy\, and practice are timely. \nThe session will follow the following order of events: first\, researchers will start the debate by addressing their methods and findings on resilient cities\, mobility\, and housing and gender inequality. Scientific contributions will then address the question of how to transform research findings into policies and practices. This question will then be answered by mayors and community activists\, and followed by researcher responses to how communication in the pre\, during\, and post- research can tie efforts together in the long term. Attendees will then have a chance to question speakers\, followed by opening the floor to networking and conversation. Carefully documenting the discussions\, organisers will produce a series of editorial newspaper articles\, academic papers\, blog pieces\, and an edited book on best practices for the interface between research and multi-level governance. \nKey Objective 1:\nEstablish guidelines for how research methods and findings can usefully inform the New Urban Agenda. Four themes will be addressed: sustainability\, mobility\, and housing and gender inequality in Brazil\, South Africa\, China\, India and the United Kingdom. \nKey Objective 2:\nForm new frameworks for a clear science-policy interface\, to transform research findings in urban policies and local practices. The objective is to promote strong collaboration between very different forms of expertise\, specialisation\, and approach (qualitative\, quantitative\, technical\, administrative\, etc.) to address urban challenges. \nKey Objective 3:\nPromote knowledge co-production and multi-level governance in the implementation of the New Urban Agenda. Dialogues will specifically apply new research defining emerging avenues for collaboration between public\, private and community interests — targeting accountability throughout project implementation — for shaping inclusive and equitable cities in the 21st century. \nRelevance to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda:\nThe session targets challenges and opportunities for a multi-scale implementation of the New Urban Agenda. It presents on-going research and results in core Habitat 3 areas and\, through dialogue between experienced community activists\, policy-makers and researchers\, demonstrates how research findings materialize as practices and policies. It will emphasise the importance of a clear science-community-policy interface for the implementation and monitoring of the New Urban Agenda. \nEvent outreach strategy:\nThe Brazilian Secretary of Federative Affairs\, the Prefecture of Rio de Janeiro\, and the South African Local Governments Association ensure attendance of respective delegations. We are networking these with investigators and stakeholders from UK ESRC projects in Brazil\, South Africa\, India\, and China. This will be promoted in blogs\, social media\, and newspapers\, and speakers are encouraged to invite others working on the researcher/practitioner interface at a prior reception. \nEvent monitoring strategy:\nPrincipal investigators will be encouraged to write about projects (on housing\, healthy mobility\, energy sustainability\, and violence against women) in relation to the New Urban Agenda in various publications (i.e. The Conversation\, BBC Brazil\, and publishing houses for an edited book). ESRC Urban Transformations will follow and monitor this advice as guidelines until 2030\, as a priority for knowledge co-production and approaches to bilateral and multi-level research. \nPanellists:\n UT-ESRC PIs\n• Vanesa Castán Broto – Senior Lecturer at the Development Planning Unit at UCL and Principal Investigator of UT-ESRC project Mapping Urban Energy Landscapes (MUEL) in the Global South– speaking on environment.\n• Cathy McIlwaine – Professor of Geography at Queen Mary University of London and Principal Investigator of the UT-ESRC project Healthy\, Secure and Gender Just Cities: Transnational Perspectives on Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) in Rio de Janeiro and London – speaking on gender.\n• Ramin Keivani – Professor of International Land Policy and Urban Development at Oxford Brookes and researcher on the UT-ESRC project Brazil – UK Health Urban Mobility – speaking on housing and mobility.\n\nUrban Practioners\n• Beth Chitekwe-Biti – Representative from Slum Dwellers International\n• Parks Tau – Former Mayor of Johannesburg\n• Representatives from the Prefecture of Rio de Janeiro (Awaiting confirmation) \nModerator\n• Michael Keith – Director of COMPAS\, Co-ordinator of Urban Transformations (The ESRC portfolio of investments and research on cities)\, and Co-Director of the University of Oxford Future of Cities programme. \nThis event will emphasise the following UN Habitat Thematic Areas:\nThematic Area 2: Urban Frameworks\, Thematic Area 3: Spatial Development\, Thematic Area 5: Urban Ecology and Environment\, Thematic Area 6: Urban Housing and Basic Services
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/transforming-research-into-practices-and-policies-dialogues-on-implementation-and-evaluation-of-the-new-urban-agenda/
LOCATION:Place: Room R19 @ Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana “Benjamin Carrion”\, Room R19\, Qutio\, Ecuador
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SUMMARY:Call for Papers: Young people and the ‘New Urban Agenda’: addressing key themes of Habitat III
DESCRIPTION:University of Birmingham: 14 – 16 Sep 2016\nThis international two day conference will bring together academics working with children and youth to address key themes of Habitat III; a forum for debate\, critical reflection and interdisciplinary discussion.Young people and the ‘New Urban Agenda’ at the University of Birmingham will set the research agenda for young lives in urban contexts. \nOn 17th – 20th October\, 2016\, in Quito\, the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Development\, Habitat III will take place setting plans in motion for ‘A New Urban Agenda’ for the 21st Century. Taking Habitat III’s key urban themes of i) mobility; ii) planning and design\, iii) water and sanitation and iv) energy\, the Young people and the ‘New Urban Agenda’ conference at the University of Birmingham will bring together researchers working in these fields\, globally\, to set the research agenda foryoung lives in urban contexts within the framework of Habitat III. \nKey note speakers confirmed\nProfessor Louise Chawla\, University of Colorado\nDouglas Regan\, Chief\, Youth and Livelihood Unit\, UN-Habitat \nFor further information\, and to submit abstracts\, please visit: www.children-new-urban-agenda.com/
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/call-for-papers-young-people-and-the-new-urban-agenda-addressing-key-themes-of-habitat-iii/
LOCATION:University of Birmingham\, Birmingham\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Summer School: Understanding Urban Transformations through Data
DESCRIPTION:An ESRC Strategic Network: Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) \nOrganisers: Deljana Iossifova (University of Manchester)\, Ulysses Sengupta (Manchester Metropolitan University)\nDates: 12 – 16 September 2016\nLocation: Manchester School of Architecture\, University of Manchester & Manchester Metropolitan University \nKeynotes: Juval Portugali (Tel Aviv University)\, Denise Pumain (National Center for Scientific Research\, CNRS)\, Piyushimita Thakuriah (University of Glasgow)\nSpeakers: Peter Allen (Cranfield University); Panagiotis Angeloudis (Imperial College London); Murilo da Silva Baptista (University of Aberdeen); Shidan Cheng (Wuhan University); Christopher Doll (United Nations University); Alexandros Gasparatos (University of Tokyo); Daniel Graham (Imperial College London); Deljana Iossifova (University of Manchester); Roberto Kraenkel (São Paulo State University); Jun Luo (Wuhan University); Nir Oren (University of Aberdeen); Ulysses Sengupta (Manchester Metropolitan University) \nApplication deadline: 24 July 2016\, 23:59 (BST)\nNotification of acceptance: 8 August 2016\nDeadline for full papers: 14 October 2016 \nUnderstanding Urban Transformations through Data is an international summer school for PhD students and Early Career Researchers. It aims at improving our understanding of urban transformations through dynamic data analysis and modelling from a complexity perspective. \nThe week-long event will offer high profile keynotes\, lectures and workshops. Participants will test different approaches to modelling hands-on using a complexity science framework. They will work with ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ datasets. ‘Hard’ refers to datasets describing spatial morphology\, infrastructural provision\, etc.\, as dynamic adaptive systems. ‘Soft’ refers to datasets describing social epidemiology\, family structure\, changing norms\, personal narratives\, etc.\, as dynamic evolutionary systems. Participants will focus on a number of selected case studies which will be explored using transdisciplinary methods: \n•  Air pollution as an emergent process\n• The co-evolution of traditional (taxi) and ICT enabled (Uber) transport systems\n• Resilience of interdependent urban infrastructure systems\n• Proto-urban development on the periphery of a biofuel plantation in Mozambique\n• Rapid urbanisation at a large scale in China\n• Open Gov data for redevelopment in Manchester \nAt the heart of the summer school is transdisciplinary research and hence researchers are encouraged to apply from a variety of fields including\, but not limited to cognitive sciences\, game theory\, urban planning\, governance\, human geography\, economics\, ecology\, biology\, engineering\, computer science\, anthropology\, urban studies\, public policy\, urban sociology and environmental psychology. \nParticipants will ideally have some experience in data analysis\, spatial systems modelling\, social systems analysis\, social network modelling\, GIS modelling\, machine learning\, network analysis\, syntactical analysis\, computer programming\, computational modelling\, modelling transport systems\, data visualisation\, computer game development\, agent based modelling\, digital gamification or ICT tool development. \nUnderstanding Urban Transformations through Data is the third of a series of events funded through the ESRC Strategic Network Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS). The aim of DACAS is to promote an interdisciplinary complexity science approach to the study of urban data and the links between soft and hard systems as the basis for the development of innovative technological applications. DACAS connects non-academic stakeholders from the public\, private and third sectors and noted academics with backgrounds in various relevant disciplines in China\, Brazil and the UK. \nApplications: PhD and Early Career Researchers – regardless of their nationality\, institutional affiliation or disciplinary background – are invited to apply for the DACAS summer school in Manchester. To apply\, please visit https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dacas03. You will be asked to submit an abstract (300 words) and to provide a brief CV (up to two A4 pages\, .pdf or .doc file). \nYour abstract should outline how your disciplinary approach can contribute to a better understanding of complex urban transformation using data\, analytic methods and dynamic models. You should also clearly state how your own research will be advantaged by your participation in a complexity science based transdisciplinary team of researchers and practitioners.\nParticipation is free of charge and competitive bursaries are available. \nBursaries: Highly competitive bursaries are available and will be awarded based on the quality of the application and commitment to write a short working paper of 4\,000 words within one month of the event. Papers will be published on the DACAS website or may be selected for publication in an edited volume. \nIf you wish to apply for one of the bursaries\, please indicate this by ticking the appropriate box during the online submission of your application:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dacas03. \nFurther information: If you have any questions regarding this event\, please email the project assistant\, Ivana Tosheva (ivana.tosheva@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk)\, with DACAS Summer School in the subject field of your email. \nWebsite: www.dacas.complexurban.com
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/summer-school-understanding-urban-transformations-through-data/
CATEGORIES:Portfolio
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160905T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160909T170000
DTSTAMP:20260613T074600
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SUMMARY:Urban Transitions Global Summit 2016: Towards a better urban future in an interconnected age
DESCRIPTION:Urban Transitions 2016 will highlight the latest research and practice towards developing an urban future that is more economically competitive\, sustainable and resilient\, equitable and inclusive\, and digitally supported. \nThis major new event will bring together researchers\, policy-makers\, government representatives and practitioners to review the current challenges and opportunities afforded by our increasingly urbanised society. \nIt will highlight current research and innovation\, review where we are today and what needs to be done to develop an economically feasible\, sustainable and resilient future. \nMore than 15 keynote talks and expert panel sessions will be supplemented by workshops\, around 100 contributed presentations and extensive poster sessions covering a variety of cross-sector and cross-discipline research topics. \nMore information can be found at the conference website.
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/urban-transitions-global-summit-2016-towards-a-better-urban-future-in-an-interconnected-age/
LOCATION:Shanghai\, China
CATEGORIES:Other Urban
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160714T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160914T170000
DTSTAMP:20260613T074600
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SUMMARY:Cities in Transformation: Processes\, Problems and Policies
DESCRIPTION:14-15 July 2016\, St. Catharine’s College\, Cambridge \nThere is little doubt that cities are navigating a turbulent and uncertain context\, and face an unprecedented and intense set of economic\, social and environmental challenges. There is mounting evidence that different cities are demonstrating very different capacities to adapt\, cope with and respond to such challenges leading to diverse and unpredictable outcomes. Some cities have grown rapidly\, while others have lagged behind. Other cities have managed to ‘reinvent’ themselves\, and undergo economic resurgence\, while others have declined. Differences in adaptability mean that while some cities are experiencing the intensification and worsening of economic inequalities and failures\, other cities appear able to develop innovative solutions and new growth paths. In the context of the decentralization and devolution of policy-making and responsibility to cities and city-regions\, such differences between cities will assume increased significance. \nThe aim of this conference is to examine the different experiences and consequences of\, and challenges for\, cities of this process of transformation. \nPapers are invited that address the following and related topics: \nThe differing experiences of cities in the transition from industrialism to post-industrialism\nThe prospects for reindustrializing cities\nThe role of labour and skills in the transformation of cities\nThe implications of new technologies for the economic performance and spatial structure of cities\nThe implications of international investment\, trade and labour flows for city economies\nThe implications for social inequality in cities\nThe resilience of city economies\nThe potential and prospects of inclusive and/or equitable urban growth\nThe meaning and nature of ‘smart cities’\nThe ‘greening’ of the urban economy\nThe adaptability and resilience of city economies\nThe role and implications of big data for city development\nThe impact and ramifications of austerity and state and public sector restructuring for cities\nThe challenges of infrastructure development\, its funding and financing\, and roles in city growth and development\nEmerging models of city governance\nCity experiences in addressing societal challenges such as ageing\, the low carbon economy and resource constraints\nPolicy challenges and choices \nA refereed selection of papers from this conference will appear in a special issue of the Cambridge Journal of Regions\, Economy and Society in November 2017. Submissions may be made independently to this issue via the journal’s website. \nSee the conference website for more information. Abstracts of up to 400 words should be emailed to Francis Knights <fk240@cam.ac.uk> by 16 April 2016 for consideration.
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/cities-in-transformation-processes-problems-and-policies/
CATEGORIES:Other Urban
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160712T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160715T170000
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SUMMARY:Urban Marginality Researcher Links Workshop
DESCRIPTION:12 to 5 July 2016\nUniversidad La Salle\, Mexico City\, Mexico\nIn Mexico City\, as in many other large cities worldwide\, contemporary modes of urban governance have overwhelmingly benefited affluent populations and widened social inequalities. Disinvestment from social housing and rent-seeking developments by real estate companies and land speculators have resulted in the displacement of low-income populations to the urban periphery. Public social spaces have been eliminated to make way for luxury apartments and business interests. Low-income neighbourhoods are often stigmatized by dominant social forces to justify their demolition. Nevertheless\, the urban poor have however negotiated and resisted these developments in a range of ways. \nThe Newton Fund Researcher Links Workshop\, organized in collaboration by the University of Edinburgh and La Salle University\, seeks to explore these urban dynamics in Mexico City and beyond\, looking at the material and symbolic mechanisms through which urban marginality is produced and contested. It seeks to understand how things might be otherwise\, how the city might be geared towards more inclusive forms of belonging and citizenship. \nwebsite
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/urban-marginality-researcher-links-workshop/
LOCATION:Universidad La Salle\, Mexico City\, Mexico
CATEGORIES:Other Urban
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160705T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160707T153000
DTSTAMP:20260613T074600
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SUMMARY:7th ESRC Research Methods Festival (5-7 July 2016)
DESCRIPTION:National Centre for Research Methods is organising the 7th ESRC Research Methods Festival at the University of Bath. \nThe draft programme is now available \nBooking open until 13th June! Book your place here. \nFestival themes\nInternational knowledge exchange\nCohort and longitudinal methods\nAnalysis of complex data sets\nPedagogy of methods\nCareers and skills development \nKeynote speakers\nProfessor Jane Elliott\, Chief Executive of ESRC\nProfessor Emeritus Aaron Cicourel\, University of California in conversation with Professor Malcolm Williams (Cardiff); Dr. Emma Uprichard (Warwick)\, Dr. Robin Smith (Cardiff)\, Professor Roberto Franzosi (Emory) and Professor Paul Atkinson (Cardiff)\nProfessor Andrew Gelman\, Columbia University \nDay delegate rate\, including attendance and subsistence:\nStandard PGR – £70\nStandard non-PGR – £95 \nAdded costs include dinner (£30 pp) and accommodation (£36/£65 per night) \nDraft Programme\nLocation\nAccommodation\nPhD poster exhibition\nExhibitors and sponsors\nPublicity opportunities\nSmartphone app\nSocial programme
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/7th-esrc-research-methods-festival-5-7-july-2016/
LOCATION:Chancellors’ Building\, University of Bath\, Claverton Down\, Bath\, BA2 7AY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Urban,Portfolio,UT
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160620T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160624T170000
DTSTAMP:20260613T074600
CREATED:20160506T094021Z
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SUMMARY:Joint DACAS/ICTP-SAIFR Workshop on Modelling Urban Systems in São Paulo\, Brazil
DESCRIPTION:20-24 June 2016\, São Paulo\, Brazil\nThe aim of the ESRC Strategic Network: Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) is to promote an interdisciplinary complexity science approach to the study of urban data and the links between soft and hard systems as the basis for the development of innovative technological applications. DACAS connects non-academic stakeholders from the public\, private and third sectors and noted academics with backgrounds in various relevant disciplines in China\, Brazil and the UK.  \nDACAS will hold a workshop at the Institute for Theoretical Physics – South-American Institute for Fundamental Research in São Paulo\, Brazil\, 20-24 June 2016. \nThe week-long event will include talks\, workshops and collaborative sessions with the aim to identify how DACAS activities can help to address the specific challenges of Brazil’s urban transformation. Workshop activities will aim to identify data availability and needs and suitable techniques for modelling linked urban systems based on data. They are grouped in four interrelated tracks: \n•	Problem Formulation: Defining urban systems (scalar\, temporal\, behavioural and spatial\, etc.) and minimum and maximum levels of system definition for soft and hard systems\n•	Concept Transferability: Identification of appropriate theoretical concepts from the complexity sciences to challenge existing disciplinary research ontologies\n•	Appropriate Methods: Identification of data availability and needs and\, subsequently\, appropriate\, inadequate or incompatible methods for the collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data in the study of urban transformation and cities as complex adaptive systems\n•	Model Typology: Development of a model typology based on suitable model types from the various complexity sciences when applied to a study of data and cities as complex adaptive systems \nPlease get in touch if you wish to participate. Bursaries for PhD and Early Career Researchers are available. The call for applications is now open. \nCommittee: Roberto Kraenkel\, Deljana Iossifova\, Ulysses Sengupta
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/joint-dacasictp-saifr-workshop-on-modelling-urban-systems-in-sao-paulo-brazil/
LOCATION:ICTP-South-American Institute for Fundamental Research\, R. Dr. Bento Teobaldo Ferraz 271\, bloco IFT 01140-070\, Sao Paolo\, Brazil
CATEGORIES:UT
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160616T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160617T160000
DTSTAMP:20260613T074600
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SUMMARY:The Sociology of Contemporary Urban Life
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 16 June \nThe Lakehouse\, Heslington East campus\, University of York \n10:30 Registration and Coffee \n10:45-11:00 Welcome \n11:00-12:00 Phil Hubbard (Kent) Hipsters on the High Street: Local Shopping Streets as the New Urban Frontier \n12:00-13:00 Panel 1 \nAndrew Wallace (Leeds) Crafting the Global City: Micro-Brewing\, Place\, Class and Culture \nMarco Copercini (Potsdam) Production\, Creativity and the Aestheticization of Private Life as Driving Elements of the Creative Field of the City: Reflections from the Case of Berlin Creative Industries \n13:00-13:45 Lunch (provided) \n13:45-14:45 Emma Jackson (Goldsmiths) Bowling as Belonging: Urban Spaces of Conviviality Under Austerity \n14:45-15:45 Panel 2 \nAlex Black (Nottingham) Emptied in Anticipation: ‘Meanwhile’ Sites and the Urban Materiality of Waiting for Investment \nRebecca Prescott (Northumbia) Praxis as Practice: Investigating the Artistic Interstitial in Urban Place \n15:45-16:00 Coffee  \n16:00-17:00 David Pinder (Roskilde) Melting into Air: Urban Displacement\, Demolition and Performance \n17:00 Drinks \n18:30 Public lecture (York Festival of Ideas) \nRichard Sennett (London School of Economics) How Should Cities Grow? \n20:00 Meal for speakers at Walmgate Ale House \n  \nFriday 17 June \nK/133\, Kings Manor\, University of York \n09:30-10:30 Michael Keith (COMPAS\, Oxford) Cities of Arrival and the Ethics of the Absent \n10:30-12:00 Panel 3 \nPhil Cohen (Birkbeck) Precarious Knowledge\, Precious Lives: Some Ethnographic tales from East London’s Front Lines and Back Yards 1970-2015 \nVladimir Rizov and Will Paterson (York) Thinking about Class in the Urban: (in)Visibility in Politics and Documentary Photography \nGareth Millington (York) Horizontal Distributions: Urbanization and the Migrant in British Cinema \n12:00-12:45 Lunch (provided) \n12:45-13:45 Fran Tonkiss (London School of Economics) \n13:45-14:45 Panel 4 \nAlena Myshko (L’Aquila) Researching Regeneration Impacts on Urban Context and Social Practices by Applying the Walking Interviews Methodology \nTim Jones (Oxford Brookes) Riding in the Margins: The Contemporary Condition of Cycling as Urban Mobility \n14:45-15:00 Coffee \n15:00-16:00 Ayona Datta (Leeds) Winners and Losers: “Hashtag Governance” and Digital Citizenships in India’s 100 Smart Cities Challenge
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/the-sociology-of-contemporary-urban-life/
LOCATION:The Lakehouse\, Heslington East campus / K/133\, Kings Manor\, University of York\, York\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Urban,Portfolio,UT
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160615T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160617T170000
DTSTAMP:20260613T074600
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SUMMARY:Cities and Regions: Managing Growth and Change
DESCRIPTION:RSA 2nd North America Conference\, Atlanta\, USA\nIn the wake of the global financial crisis\, cities have searched for new policies and practices capable of addressing major shifts in socio-economic relations at the urban and regional scale. These divergent and differentiated efforts have led to the intensification of underlying problems in some cities and a return to growth in others. \nRegional policies\, particularly in the North American context\, responded to economic challenges by adopting new technologies and new institutional and organizational forms to manage growth and change at the city scale.  The result is a complex and uneven landscape of public and private actors delivering financial services\, scaling-up supply chains\, coordinating firm networks\, diffusing process and material innovations\, and organizing new forms of civic representation and participation. \nThis conference provides a platform for researchers to address the effects of these policy\, organizational\, and institutional innovations and their impact on work\, identity\, governance\, production networks\, infrastructure investments\, technology diffusion\, and ultimately place. The conference will focus on the policy implications of emerging forms of governance and policy delivery relative to uneven development and inequality in a post-crisis era of ongoing market liberalization\, financialization\, and global competition. \nAbstract submission and registration deadline now extended to  Thursday 21 April 2016. \nConference details
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/cities-and-regions-managing-growth-and-change/
LOCATION:Georgia Institute of Technology\, Historic Academy of Medicine\, Atlanta\, GA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other Urban
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160608T121500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160608T170000
DTSTAMP:20260613T074600
CREATED:20160527T104105Z
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SUMMARY:From Cities Policies to City Policy: Innovative Pathways to Urban Transformation
DESCRIPTION:Joint Urban Transformations and Policy Scotland event\nVenue: Zone B\, The Tontine Building\, 20 Trongate\, Glasgow \nThe last five years have witnessed substantial shifts in policy approaches to cities across a number of the OECD countries. Within this general trend\, the UK’s distinctive approach involving decentralisation and attempts to alter the governance arrangements at city region level is one of the most interesting and radical. The UK government has set out to boost productivity and competitiveness and to accelerate economic growth through ‘city deals’ negotiated between the Treasury and local authorities. These deals raise significant issues about local tax arrangements\, and central-local transfers and local autonomies. They also make major assumptions about local capacities to make sound investment decisions within well-informed economic strategies for city-regions. \nNot only have the deals struck between the Treasury and councils varied in scope and scale from place to place within in England but\, with new powers also shifting to the devolved administrations of the UK\, city deals in Scotland and Wales have unfolded in distinct policy as well as governance contexts. Although councils face similar pressures to cope with capital cutbacks and service restrictions\, different policy approaches in different city regions have emerged. Common threads include innovation in service provision and a shifting approach to investment strategies for economic development\, which have expanded beyond focus on skills/human capital and business/innovation to also involve significant investment commitments for infrastructure\, and smart technologies that\, it is argued\, will enable more effective management of resources. Increasingly these involve place based approaches\, where the aim is to maximise the opportunities available in a given physical/economic locality. \nArguably we are moving from an emphasis on national/Scottish policies for cities to new powers and technologies for each and every city so that individual city policy is coming to replace national cities policies. This conference highlights three key\, linked strands of this major shift: city deals\, smart cities and what we call metropolitan federalism. It is particularly appropriate that the event takes place at Glasgow’s Tontine business growth accelerator\, which incorporates challenge labs as a physical co-working space for high tech scale-ups. Having been the UK’s Future City Demonstrator project\, the city is now leading the way through its extensive new open innovation infrastructure and its leadership role on smart cities amongst UK core cities and the Scottish Cities Alliance. \nBoth at UK level and internationally\, there are also significant moves towards city devolution. Because of the Scottish independence/full fiscal autonomy/constitutional question\, debate about the powers and roles of Scotland’s cities has been muted compared with the prominence given to the ‘Northern Powerhouse’ in England.  The Scottish Cities Alliance has usefully focused on collaborative interactions within a set of cities but it has not made strong cases for city devolution within Scotland. Yet in governance terms there are similarities between multi-level government structures in Scotland\, Canada and Australia\, where provincial and state governments coexist with city- and federal tiers. \nSchedule
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/from-cities-policies-to-city-policy-innovative-pathways-to-urban-transformation/
LOCATION:Zone B\, The Tontine Building\, 20 Trongate\, Glasgow 
CATEGORIES:UT
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160422T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160422T170000
DTSTAMP:20260613T074600
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SUMMARY:Community Buildings\, Heating and Spaces: Drawing on Experiences
DESCRIPTION:This is the fourth seminar in the ESRC-funded Seminar Series Neighbourhood Ways of Knowing and Working co-organised by the Universities of Bristol\, Sheffield\, Leeds\, Newcastle and Oxford Brookes as well as the Department for Communities and Local Government. The seminar series is exploring neighbourhood working with academics\, policy-makers and community experts.  \nWhile there are concerns about neighbourhood working and localism\, there is also (guarded) optimism. There are opportunities for communities to use this framework for neighbourhoods to develop new initiatives\, co-produce local services or promote self-build schemes on publicly owned land. This seminar will focus on community building\, heating and spaces\, exploring experience and presenting findings. As with the series of seminars as a whole\, it will explore both the criticisms and the opportunities offered by neighbourhood ways of knowing and working. \nPROGRAMME:\n10.00 – 10.10   Welcome and Setting the Scene: Robert Rutherfoord (DCLG) and Antonia Layard (University of Bristol) \nHOUSING 1: 10.10-11.30am\n10.10-10.25 Matt Thompson (University of Liverpool)\n10.25-10.40 Marianne Heaslip (URBED and and Terrace21 Mutual Home Ownership) and Michael Simon (Granby 4)\n10.40-10.55 Tom Moore (University of Sheffield)\n10.55-11.10 Keith Cowling (Bristol CLT)\n11.10-11.30 Collaborative talking and questions \nCOFFEE 11.30-11.45 \nHOUSING 2: 11.45-12.45\n11-45-12.00 Martin Field (University of Northampton)\n12.00 -12.15 Charlie Fisher (Transition by Design & Oxford Brookes)\n12.15-12.30 Richard Lang (University of Birmingham)\n12.30-12.45 Collaborative talking and questions \nLUNCH (Old Council Chamber) 12.45–13.30  \nCOMMUNITY ENERGY – 13.30-14.30\n13.30–13.45 Jelte Harnmeijer (Hutton Institute)\n13.45-14.00 Ruth Bush (Edinburgh Council/University)\n14-00-14.15 Collaborative talking and questions \nCOMMUNITY SPACES (1) – 14.30 – 15.00\n14.40-14.45 Lorayne Woodend (South Lakeland District Council­)\n14.45-15.00 Naomi Fuller (Playing Out) \nCOFFEE (& Cake) – 15.00 – 15.15 \nCOMMUNITY SPACES (2)\n15.15 -15.30 Bob Smyth/Nicola Hazell (Groundspace)\n15.30 -15.45 Chris Chalkley (People’s Republic of Stokes Croft)\n15.45- 16.00 Collaborative talking and questions \nPOLICY RECOMMENDATIONS – 16.00-17.00\n16.00-16.30 Small table policy recommendation writing\n16.30-17.00 Discussions & (Any) Conclusions  \nThe event is free but advance registration is required.
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/community-buildings-heating-and-spaces-drawing-on-experiences/
CATEGORIES:UT
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160421
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160422
DTSTAMP:20260613T074600
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Urban research – beyond disciplinarity
DESCRIPTION:Many aspects of urban research are concerned with messy\, complex or ‘wicked’ problems (i.e. problems which are difficult to manage or resolve because of a diversity of actors and interests involved\, different perceptions of the problems\, uncertainties of outcomes and consequences\, etc.). Dealing with such complex problems makes urban research (and policy-making) a challenging endeavour. Over the last few years\, research funding has increasingly advocated interdisciplinary research approaches and the co-creation of knowledge between academics\, policy-makers and other stakeholders as important ways of addressing messy\, complex or ‘wicked’ urban problems. \nMore information
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/workshop-urban-research-beyond-disciplinarity/
LOCATION:Delft University of Technology\, Delft\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Other Urban
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160412T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160412T171500
DTSTAMP:20260613T074600
CREATED:20160411T093334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160411T093334Z
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SUMMARY:An Urban Observatory for Cardiff: Urban systems and public service delivery in austerity Britain
DESCRIPTION:Committee Room D\, City Hall\, Cardiff\, CF10 3ND (invitation only) \nThe purpose of the seminar is to build upon the work produced for the Foresight project and to\nintegrate with the Urban Transformations (UT) programme\, with a view to creating an ongoing\nplatform across urban futures focused universities. The Cardiff seminar will focus on a proposed\nUrban Observatory. \nThe data production and management needs for the city-region are taking on a new urgency given:\none\, the challenges of public management in a period of austerity; two\, new legislation in Wales which\nrequires greater data driven policymaking to assess wellbeing objectives; and\, three\, a desire to\nadvance the close relationships that have been struck between local officials and leaders and\nacademics engaged in the Cardiff city-region context. \nProgramme \n12:00-12:30 – Introduction and housekeeping – David Waite (Cardiff University) and Nicola\n Headlam (University of Liverpool/University of Oxford) \n12:30-13:15 – Introduction by Kevin Morgan (Cardiff University) and David Waite\n discussing: one\, the observatory concept in light of a wellbeing focus; two\, proposals for how\n the observatory would broadly work and be governed; and three\, comparative insights from\n observatories and how they operate and function in other cities. \n13:15-14:00 – Foresight (Mark Tewdwr-Jones\, Newcastle University) and Urban\n Transformations (Michael Keith\, University of Oxford) reflections on the observatory\n proposition (issues and challenges etc.). What can the observatory take on board and learn\n from these programmes and projects – both substantively and in terms of developing an urban\n network? \n14.00 – 14.30 – Coffee \n14:30-16:15 – Presentations from wider stakeholders who may contribute toward or offer a\n perspective on the proposed observatory. This segment will focus on particular projects\,\n policies and/or interventions that have a key role in shaping the city-region system. Reflections\n will be given on how such projects can be framed/considered in terms of wider wellbeing\n objectives. Also\, what are the implications for collecting and managing data? \nCalvin Jones\, Cardiff University – economy and devolution\nMark Barry\, Cardiff University – infrastructure/Metro\nDavid Llewellyn\, Valleys Regional Park – green infrastructure\nJane Forshaw\, Local Partnerships – green growth \n16:15-17:15 – Challenges for developing an observatory and building policy-facing research capacity. What are the initial steps and what relationships need to be struck?\nPaul Orders – Cardiff Council\nAlan Harding – New Economy\nGillian Bristow – Cardiff University\n17:15-19:00 – Networking drinks
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/an-urban-observatory-for-cardiff-urban-systems-and-public-service-delivery-in-austerity-britain/
LOCATION:City Hall\, Committee Room D\, Cardiff\, CF10 3ND\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:UT
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SUMMARY:Inheriting the City: Advancing Understandings of Urban Heritage
DESCRIPTION:Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage\, University of Birmingham\, is hosting an international conference from March 31 – April 4 2016 in Taipei\, Taiwan. \nAcademics\, policy makers and practitioners are invited to consider the ways that heritage is being protected\, managed and mobilised in rapidly changing and pressurised urban contexts. This multidisciplinary conference will explore the type of heritage\, both tangible and intangible\, that cities and towns will pass to future generations\, and the processes through which the heritage of cities is being re-made\, re-presented and re-used. \nVisit the conference website for further details.
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/inheriting-the-city-advancing-understandings-of-urban-heritage/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Taipei\, Taiwan
CATEGORIES:Other Urban
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DTSTAMP:20260613T074600
CREATED:20160126T103559Z
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SUMMARY:Smart Cities & Communities: Shaping the Future
DESCRIPTION:At Smart Cities & Communities: Shaping the Future conference you will get the opportunity to hear from leading speakers from across the globe from both Barcelona (designated “Smartest City of the World” in 2015 by Juniper Research) and the Republic of Singapore on the work that has been undertaken to make them two of the smartest cities in the world. \nWith the UK’s technology sector renowned for its creativity as well as pioneering research and development. Manchester has recently been given a 10 million pound funding project in order to help the UK to become a world leader in the adoption of Internet of Things technologies and inspire others around the world to create smarter cities and communities. Steve Turner\, Head of Smart Cities at Manchester City Council (confirmed to speak) will be leading this discussion. \nEvent website
URL:https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/smart-cities-communities-shaping-the-future/
LOCATION:Manchester Conference Centre
CATEGORIES:Other Urban
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