New Urban Imperatives Symposium: Session 2 - Towards Territorial Reparation

About

This session engages with the enduring harms produced by plantation logics, settler colonial urbanisation, racialised displacement, and protracted political conflict. Drawing on research grounded in the United States, Guatemala, Colombia, and Palestine, speakers explore how urban space becomes both a site of violence and a terrain of resistance, resurgence, and care. Presentations reflect on how planning, spatial design, and community memory respond to histories of anti-Black dispossession, settler encroachment, military occupation, and structural neglect. Speakers foreground Indigenous planning, reparative urbanism, and grassroots organising as transformative practices rooted in lived experience and relational geographies. 

This event is part of the Urban Lab 20 celebrations at the UCL Urban Laboratory.

Speakers

Catalina Mejía Moreno, Central Saint Martins

Diana Salazar, UCL

Mpho Matsipa-Okoye, UCL

Muzna Al Masri, UCL

Ala’a Shehabi, UCL