3rd UROLab Jozi

Comrades!

2 – 4 November, the Braamfontein City Studio 2016 of the School of Architecture and Planning will host a 3 day URO Urban Orders workshop in a transdisciplinary research network with Aarhus University in Denmark.  The URO LAB focuses on the relationship between the appropriation of urban spaces and new forms of urban citizenship.

The Johannesburg workshop will use the #FeesMustFall movement, whilst exploring the themes of access, education + resources, as springboard into the urban orders of and in Braamfontein.

The overarching theme for the duration of the workshop is local forms of contestation.  This theme will be explored over the duration of the workshop and will be the common denominator.
Over the period of the workshop, days will be divided into 2 parts:
– Morning [AM] + Afternoon [PM].

Draft programme
2 Nov. Day 1:                            

§  AM – Accessibility [knowledge + space] – Intro + background URBAN ORDERS – UROLab, summary of Aarhus + GOVERNING THE NARCOTIC CITY Workshop Kreuzberg + A look back to the 2^nd UROLab on Discourses on Drug Use, Dealers and Migration around the Görlitzer Park in Berlin-Kreuzberg

§  PM – Resources – the case of Braamfontein, the University + people, with education + gentrification being the sub theme.  The afternoon session will concern itself with understanding the site for the Braamfontein Studio + URO Lab Joburg, the University within the site and finally the individual who interacts with the site.  The intro to the area will happen in three scales.  1. District; 2. Precinct; 3. Individual [person – the City + Braamfontein Citizenry]

3 Nov. Day 2: 

§  AM – Inequality [knowledge + space] – City Tour

§  PM – Education vs Economy: Braamfontein Stakeholders Forum with access + resources being a main driver of the discussions.

4 Nov. Day 3:

§  AM – Contested Rhythms of Braamfontein from the perspective of the Everyday. 

Living + Accessing the Contested City: Introduction to the Braamfontein Case – 

Inquiries into:

-        #FeesMustFall: Student Voices

§  PM – what can be?  Braamfontein Re-Imagined.  Summary of reflections.  Close and farewell.

The participants will constitute of Wits internal + external voices.  These will be made up of academics, professionals, students, the City, developers, street users etc.

The Braamfontein City Studio would benefit massively from your participation under the themes of, Access, Resources, Inequality + Education.

If keen, please get in touch by noon Friday 21 October 2016 solam.mkhabela@wits.ac.za, with a 5 sentence motivational proposal of where you may be inserted into the program, so your voice may be included.  You may act as a tour guide; breakaway workshop session coordinator; panellists or you may simply present your work in one of the themes.
AMANDLA!!!