The Epistemic Tangles of Urban Inhabitation ONLINE - DAY 1

The Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield addresses some of the major social, economic and environmental challenges facing our cities today and in the future.

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This is an opportunity to attend day 1 of this workshop ONLINE - see draft agenda for the day in the event description

<h3>DAY 1 - Thursday 23rd May (you need to register for both days)</h3> 1030 Welcome and Introduction – Beth Perry (Urban Institute) and Michele Lancione (Beyond Inhabitation Lab)<h4>Session 1 - Contested Urban Spaces (1100)</h4>Speakers (15 minutes each)<ul><li>Yichi Zhang - Life behind the Wire: the Chinese Shopkeepers in Downtown Kingston, Jamaica</li><li>Francisco Calafate-Faria and Sam Johnson-Schlee - Home and the World: Energy Retrofit and the Planetary Imaginary</li><li>Cloe St-Hilaire - Epistemic engulfment by proptech and finance in Canadian housing</li><li>Atriya Dey - Ways of Knowing the City: Informality, Urban Inhabitation and Epistemic Justice (online)</li></ul>Discussant Response (10 minutes)<ul><li>Chiara Iacovone</li></ul>Dialogue (35 min)============== 1245 Lunch==============Session 2 - Everyday Practices and Imaginative Speculations (1330)Speakers (15 minutes each)<ul><li>Aireen Grace Andal - Inhabiting otherwise and everything else in-between: Children’s creation of fictional cities from crayons to reimagining urban dwelling</li><li>Alana Osbourne - Quilting Time and Space: decolonial tours as wake-work</li><li>Elsa Noterman - Inhabiting speculation</li><li>Josefina Jaureguiberry-Mondion - Imperfect Affective Infrastructures: The Politics of Inconvenience in Radical Housing Projects</li></ul>Discussant Response (10 minutes)<ul><li>Elliot Rossiter</li></ul>Dialogue (35 min)==============1515 Break==============Session 3 - Rethinking Urban Knowledge Production in South Asia (1530)Speakers (15 minutes each)<ul><li>Saba Aslam - Situating urban inhabitation in Karachi through water infrastructures</li><li>Aseela Haque and Saanchi Saxena - Street Vending Geographies: Towards new epistemic vocabularies of urban inhabitation (online)</li><li>Vidushi Shukla - Paradoxical Spaces as Epistemic Frame: Reading Material Cultures of Balconies in Contemporary Delhi (online)</li><li>Adam Abdullah - Home Wasn’t Built in a Day: Entanglements and Contestations of Temporal Knowledge, Discourse and Practice in the Southern City (online)</li></ul>Discussant Response (10 minutes)<ul><li>Devra Waldman</li></ul>Dialogue (35 min)==============1715 End==============

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