Faranak Miraftab on “Insurgent Practices of Hope and Care for Humane Urbanism"

07/11/22 • 35 min

In the first episode, Professor Faranak Miraftab will talk about “Insurgent Practices of Hope and Care for Humane Urbanism". She is a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a focus on Community Development for Social Justice and Transnational Planning. Her scholarship is situated at the intersection of sociology, geography, planning, and feminist studies, using case study and ethnographic methodologies. Her research concerns social and institutional aspects of urban development and planning, that address basic human needs, including housing and urban infrastructure and the services that support them. She is particularly interested in the global and local development processes and contingencies involved in the formation of the city and citizens’ struggles for dignified livelihood — namely, how groups disadvantaged by class, gender, race, and ethnicity mobilise for resources such as shelter, basic infrastructure, and services and how institutional arrangements facilitate or frustrate provision and access to such vital urban resources. Professor Miraftab is the author of a number of seminal papers on insurgency, a concept that she explores in her lecture.

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Roberto Rocco on "Duty of Care: Seeking the Just Transition to Sustainability"

In this episode, we hear the initiator and host of this podcast: Roberto Rocco. He is an Associate Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy at Bouwkunde. Roberto is trained as an architect and spatial planner with a master’s in planning by the University of São Paulo and a PhD by TU Delft. Roberto specialises in governance for the built environment and social sustainability, as well as issues of governance in regional planning and design. This includes issues of spatial justice as a crucial dimension of sustainability transitions.

He has also published extensively about informal urbanisation in the Global South and he does research on how informal institutions influence and shape planning at the local level. He is a consultant for the Union for the Mediterranean and has recently drafted the UfM Action Plan for Sustainable Urbanisation 2040.

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Mona Fawaz on "Urban Informality: Is the Informal an Enactment to the Right to the City?"

At this episode we have Professor Mona Fawaz. She is a professor in Urban Studies and Planning at the American University of Beirut. She recently co-founded the Beirut Urban Lab at the American University of Beirut, a regional research centre invested in working towards more inclusive, just, and viable cities. Mona is also the director of the Social Justice and the City research program based at the Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy at AUB. She was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies at Harvard University. She has served on numerous national, regional and international juries, including the Aga Khan awards in Two thousand nineteen. Mona’s research spans across urban history and historiography, social and spatial justice, informality and the law, land, housing, property and space, as well as planning practice, theory and pedagogy. Without further ado, let’s listen to Professor Mona Fawaz.

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