InfUr-
The Informal Urbanism Research Hub at the Melbourne School of Design
InfUr- is an assemblage of researchers and projects focused on the role of urban informality in the creative production of cities of both the Global South and North.
This includes the many ways urban informality intersects with formal urban systems, and a better understanding of the logic and resilient capacities embodied in self-organised urbanism. The Hub embodies a shared interest in how power is practised as a form of self-organisation, and in the struggles of marginalised populations to assert their right to the city.
The built environment disciplines and professions have traditionally focused on the formally authorised frameworks through which the city is planned, designed, constructed and governed. Yet all cities are produced by both formal and informal practices. Informal urbanism is not necessarily illegal, rather it is self-organised. It is not separate from but intersects with the formal structures of state regulation and control, often in reaction to practices of displacement, marginalisation and exclusion.
The InfUr- acronym evokes the ways informal urbanism infuses the formal city and often infuriates the state. Informal urbanism is the original or Ur-form of the city and of citizenship – it puts the Ur back into urbanism.
Co-Directors: Kim Dovey and Crystal Legacy
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Kim Dovey, Reden Recio, Crystal Legacy
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Researchers and grassroots networks in Manila worked to support the health and livelihood of the ‘urban poor’ during the pandemic and now during state-led recovery Read more
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Matt Novacevski, Kim Dovey
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Session 1 Recorded Session
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Kim Dovey, Redento Recio
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Presentation: Sanjeev Routray Discussants: Ishita Chatterjee, Ash Alam, Eric Gaisie & Adrian Marin Toro Session Co-chairs: Erich Wolff & Nabanita Islam This book describes the process of claims-making as an attempt by the political community of the poor to assert its existence and numerical strength, and it demonstrates how this struggle to be counted constitutes […]
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Presentations: Pamela Cajilig, Ha Minh Hai Thai, and Diah Asih (Roro) Purwaningrum Session Chair: Redento Recio Recorded Session Learning Southern urbanisms in the time of COVID-19: Methodological implications, empirical insights, and ethical dilemmas The multi-dimensional aspects and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have reshaped the landscape of scholarship. Researchers in different parts of the globe […]
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Anitra Nelson