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On Tuesday 1st July, the UI will host a Sheffield Urbanism showcase to  celebrate and profile just some of the incredible urban research we undertake across disciplines in the Faculty of Social Sciences here at Sheffield. 

Sheffield Urbanism is a vibrant and inclusive community of interdisciplinary scholars in the Faculty of Social Sciences dedicated to understanding and positively impacting urban inequalities and injustice around the globe. It is an initiative brought together by the Urban Institute and our Associates in the Schools of Geography and Planning, Architecture and Landscape, Politics, IR and Sociological Studies, Management and Education to name a few.

The showcase event is part of an international week of Global Urban Dialogue with international visitors from urban research centres and labs around the world. Scholars from South Africa, Ghana, Brazil, Lebanon, Pakistan, India, China and Somalia.

The showcase is open to staff and students within the University, and we have limited places for external visitors who would like to find out more about our work. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. 

Lunch and refreshments will be available.

Please cancel if you are no longer able to come if we have a waiting list – you will receive an email and be able to edit your response to indicate if you cannot attend. 

DRAFT PROGRAMME

The showcase consists of a short introduction to Sheffield Urbanism and welcome from .  This is followed by six panel dialogues with colleagues within the Sheffield Urbanism community, and the opportunity for responses from our international visitors. 

0900 Registration and Refreshments

0930 am: Introductions and Welcome

Speakers: , , John Flint

10:00 am: Dialogue 1 - Power, technologies and housing financialisation (chair: Tom Goodfellow)

 Speakers and keywords: 

• (housing financialisation, accounting in the city, portals)
• (policing, security and drones)
• (the ultra rich, libertecture, anticapitalism)
• (rapid urbanisation, rent relations and displacement)

10:45 am: Dialogue 2 – Governance, planning and infrastructures in the city (chair: Miguel Kanai)

Speakers: 

• (the relational local state, multi-level governance)
• (religious infrastructures as social infrastructures)
• (smart urbanism, digital platforms and governmentality) 
• (density, planning, access) 

   

11:30 am: Break 

12:00 pm: Dialogue 3 - Climate, water and energy justice in space and place (chair: Aidan While)

Speakers: 

• (just transitions in China)
• (energy justice in the Global South)
• (green infrastructure, extended urbanisation)
• (community, energy, just transition)

12:45 pm: Lunch and Networking

1:45 pm: Dialogue 4 - Citizenship, identities and solidarities in times of crisis (chair: Beth Perry)

 Speakers: 

• (music, queer storytelling and the city)
• (territorial peace-building)
• (borders, migration, territorial stigmatisation)
• Tom Goodfellow (transcontinental urbanism)

2:30 pm: Dialogue 5  - Mobility, place and the life course (chair: Melanie Lombard)

 Speakers

• (children and play in the built environment)
• (youth voice in the Gleadless Valley)
• (migrations and music)
• (resisting migrant precarity and temporariness)

3:20 pm: Comfort Break

3:30 pm: Dialogue 6 - Epistemic urban politics and knowledge activism (chair: SJ Cooper-Knock)

Speakers

• Beth Perry (epistemic exclusions & the co-production of urban intelligence)
• (indigenous urban epistemics and creative practice)
• (indigeneity, citizen led planning and participation)
• (Architects Sans Frontières and co-design with and for communities)

4:15 pm CLOSE 

International Partners in Attendance

African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, South Africa

IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India 

Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana, Ghana

Department of Landscape Studies, Tongji University, China

Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Beirut Urban Lab, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Karachi Urban Lab, Institute of Business Administration, Pakistan

Hilin Research Institute, Somalia