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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 Professor John Flint, Deputy Vice President for Research.  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: Beth Perry, Tom Goodfellow, John Flint

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

 Speakers and keywords: 

• Adam Leaver (housing financialisation, accounting in the city, portals)
• Aidan While (policing, security and drones)
• Rowland Atkinson (the ultra rich, libertecture, anticapitalism)
• Hannah Sender (rapid urbanisation, rent relations and displacement)

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

Speakers: 

• Madeleine Pill (the relational local state, multi-level governance)
• Krzysztof Nawratek (religious infrastructures as social infrastructures)
• Jun Zhang (smart urbanism, digital platforms and governmentality)

11:30 am: Break 

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

Speakers: 

• Linda Westman (just transitions in China)
• Ankit Kumar (energy justice in the Global South)
• Miguel Kanai (green infrastructure, extended urbanisation)

12:45 pm: Lunch and Networking

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

 Speakers: 

• SJ Cooper-Knock (music, queer storytelling and the city)
• Melanie Lombard (territorial peace-building)
• Nabeela Ahmed (borders, migration, territorial stigmatisation)
• Tom Goodfellow (transcontinental urbanism)

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

 Speakers

• Mic Martin (children and play in the built environment)
• Lee Crookes (youth voice in the Gleadless Valley)
• Cathy Wilcock (migrations and music)
• Hannah Lewis (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)
• Olivia Casagrande (indigenous urban epistemics and creative practice)
• Philipp Horn (indigeneity, citizen led planning and participation)
• Beatrice de Carli (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