Alternative visions on African Cities – Cases from East Africa

Garth
Myers Urban
Planner, Trinity College Hartford; Connecticut

Viviana d’Auria, Architect, ASRO,
KULeuven

Moderator Ann Cassiman IARA,
KULeuven

 

Cities
in Development

Spaces,
Conflicts and Agency

 

The 2011 Interdisciplinary
Debates on Development and Cultures seek to offer an in-depth reflection on the
development of cities in the Global South, and the different dynamics that shape
these urban sites today. Renowned architects, urban planners, anthropologists,
geographers, activists, artists, sociologists and engineers will share with us
their alternative, sometimes artistic, readings of these specific urban spaces.
The lectures will acknowledge both the tensions and conflicts at work in such
sites, as well as the opportunities that are generated thanks to or in spite of
them. Finally, the debates will also pay a great deal of attention to the
specific ways in which city dwellers’ ‘agency’ is enabled or disabled by such
urban environments.

 

 

 

Following
debates:

 

 

8
November 2011 | 7.30 pm

 

Cities
of Disaster – Cases from Asia

Shigeru Ban Architect, Cornell University, NY
(tbc)

Tom Corsellis Architect, Director of Shelter Center,
Geneva (tbc)

Moderator Bruno De Meulder ASRO,
KULeuven

22
November 2011 | 7.30 pm

 

The
Speculative City – Cases from Kinshasa & Mumbai

 

Arjun Appadurai Anthropologist, Goddard
Professor of Media, Culture & Communication,

NY
Univerity

Filip De Boeck Anthropologist, IARA,
KULeuven

Moderator Knut Graw IARA,
KULeuven

6
December 2011 | 7.30 pm

 

Cities,
Poverty and Religion – Cases from Africa and india

 

Carole Rakodi Geographer and Urban Planner, Em. Prof.
University of Birmingham

Vanessa Watson City and Regional Planner African Centre
for Cities, University of Cape Town

ModeratorHannah Leroux ASRO,
KULeuven/University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

 

20
December 2011 | 7.30 pm

 

Images
of the City – Cases from Indonesia

 

Aryo Danusiri Anthropologist, Sensory Ethnography Lab,
Harvard University

Stephen Cairns Architect, University of
Edinburgh

Moderator Lieven
De Cauter ASRO, KULeuven

 

This
debate series can be taken as an Elective course (S0E06) by all Master and Phd
students

 

Practical
information

 

When: Tuesdays 7.30-9.30
pm

Where: Auditorium STUK
|| Naamsestraat 96, 3000 Leuven

Contact and
Registration: cades@soc.kuleuven.be || www.cades.be/debates

Academic Coordinator Ann
Cassiman IARA, KULeuven

 

info:
www.cades.be/debates

 

 

 

 

Sylvia Tutenel

Administrative
Coordinator

Master of Cultures And
Development Studies – CADES

Master of European Politics And
Policies – MEPP

 

Faculty of Social Sciences –
Room 01.157 Parkstraat 45 – bus 3600 B-3000 Leuven – Belgium

Tel:
+32 (0)16 32 60 45