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This module will consist of a two-week residential visit and engagement with staff, students and partner organisations in Johannesburg. It will involve real time collaboration with different actors and organisations there, including interaction with students from partner institutions, and option听for in-situ research. It will build core skills in the ethics of global urban practice through close听collaboration with scholars and practitioners in Johannesburg and the wider Gauteng region. The activities will听dovetail with the Engaged Urbanism and Cities Methodologies courses, reinforcing learning of听different ways to know and understand urban life, and enabling practical engagement with multidisciplinary听approaches and practices through which the futures of cities are being shaped. The听course will focus on building a pedagogy and urban practice which supports the engaged and听collaborative production of urban knowledge, policy and interventions through distinctive Co-Laboratory methods working with different actors e.g. government, communities, private sector,听international agencies. It will consolidate the city-focused learning on global urban history and theory听in the Cities Studio modules, through collaborative engagements with different听aspects of urban practice.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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