Category: 2019

  1. Nov 14, 2019 / Research Seminar #4 / Street entanglements

    Since the 1980s, Metro Manila’s Baclaran district has carved out a niche as a bargain hub for shoppers looking for affordable products.

    infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2019/11/14/nov-14-2019-research-seminar-4-street-entanglements

  2. Oct 10, 2019 / Research Seminar # 3 / Superkilen: Exploring human-nonhuman relations

    Superkilen is a much-lauded contemporary urban public space that has been widely photographed and the subject of public talks, articles, interviews, short films, books and awards, including the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2016.

    infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2019/10/10/oct-10-2019-research-seminar-3-superkilen-exploring-human-nonhuman-relations

  3. Sep 12, 2019 / Research Seminar # 2 / Citizen-led Transport Justice

    What does the generation of an alternative politics look like in the vexed arena of planning for future urban transport? The urban sociologist Mini Sheller (2018) in her new book Mobility Justice: The politics of movement in the age of extremes calls for the establishment of a new mobility commons.

    infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2019/09/12/sep-12-2019-research-seminar-2-citizen-led-transport-justice

  4. Aug 22 / PhD Workshop by Ananya Roy

    While on a visit at the MSD, Ananya Roy conducted a workshop with the graduate students from UniMelb and RMIT.

    infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2019/08/22/aug-22-phd-workshop-by-ananya-roy

  5. Aug 20, 2019 / Public Lecture by Ananya Roy

    This talk is concerned with the making of property. Thinking across the global North and global South, Ananya highlights how rights to property are established and contested.

    infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2019/08/20/public-lecture-by-ananya-roy

  6. Aug 8, 2019 / Research Seminar #1 / Contested Riverscapes in Jakarta

    The Ciliwung River in Jakarta is lined in part with informal settlements that have become subject to intersecting desires to erase informality, control flooding and build a modern global city.

    infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2019/08/08/aug-8-2019-research-seminar-1-contested-riverscapes-in-jakarta

  7. May 15, 2019 / Urban Choreography: Lecture by Kim Dovey

    During a visit to Dhaka, Kim Dovey gave a public lecture at the Institute of Architects, Bangladesh (with some spirited discussion about ‘livability for whom’).

    infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2019/05/15/urban-choreography-lecture-by-kim-dovey