Conference programme
The conference will take place from October 23 to October 26 and will be hosted by the School of Architecture and Planning on Wits University’s East Campus, Braamfontein, Johannesburg.
The programme published on this website might still be subject to changes. The event will take place in-person at the School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Information on the venue and the exact location of the rooms can be found here.
Conference Programme
For a detailed schedule and full information on sessions, presentations and plenary events, please click on the links for each day of the conference. A full list of sessions organised by theme can be found at the bottom of the page.
Wednesday, October 23
Registration for delegates will be open from 4pm. Please make sure to be there on time and to allow enough time for the security check at the entrance to the Wits campus.
Thursday, October 24
Friday, October 25
Saturday, October 26
List of Sessions
THEME: CRITICAL ENGAGEMENTS
- Session 1: African cities and urban migration: seeking social cohesion in an era of climate, economic, and political change
- Session 2: Translocality and transformation of urban spaces through internal migration
- Session 3: Diverse Economies in African Cities
- Session 4: Contemporary Critical Perspectives on Actors and Relationality in African Urban Property Development
- Session 5: Public Participation and Participatory Action Research in the Imagining and Development of African Urbanisms
- Session 6: African Urban Planning and its Contribution to the Global South Dialogue
- Session 7: National Government Actors in Urban Development: Beyond "City" Rhetoric
- Session 32: Critical approaches and understandings: Engaging overlooked aspects of urban governance and resilience
THEME: TRANSFORMATIVE PRACTICES
- Session 8: Knowing the City: Transformative Theoretical Practices of African Urban Scholarship
- Session 9: Transforming African city-making through an ethics of co-production
- Session 10: African Urbanisms through Feminist lenses: critical praxis and South-south dialogues
- Session 11: African Displacement Urbanism: Beyond Violence, Towards Repair
- Session 12:Between visions of the grand transition and informal solar panel businesses: exploring the role of renewables in the making of African cities
- Session 13: Informal rental housing in urban Africa
- Session 14: Who owns the African City?
- Session 15: RE-IMAGING AFRICAN CITIES: PROMOTING URBAN JUSTICE BY INTEGRATING AFRICAN IDENTITIES AND CULTURES INTO THE INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATION OF HOUSING AND LAND
- Session 16: Material Matters: Transitions and New Material Practices towards Regenerativity
- Session 17: Housing Economies in Urban Africa
- Session 18: Material Practices That Liberate Self-Builders
THEME: ALTERNATIVE FUTURES
- Session 19: THE GLOBAL IN AFRICA: SHAPING TERRITORY AT THE INTERSECTION OF SOVEREIGN, NATIONAL AND LOCAL AGENCY
- Session 20: PLANNING FROM THE MARGINS? TOWARDS THE TRANSFORMATIVE PATHWAYS IN PLANNING
- Session 21: PRAGMATIC COHABITATION IN REALMS OF URBAN CHANGE. CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES FROM SOUTHERN AFRICA
- Session 22: Unlearning The Known: Developing Future Capacities For Informal Settlement Upgrading
- Session 23: DISRUPTING DIGITAL DOOM AND DELUSION: EMERGENT URBAN FUTURES IN AFRICA
- Session 24: Youth and Digital Cities in Urban Africa
- Session 25: Researching with "urban" communities: practicing plurality in urban knowledge co-production
- Session 26: UNRAVELLING THE FALLACY OF INFORMAL URBANISM: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THEORIES AND METHODS
- Session 27: TRANSFORMATIVE APPROACHES TO ADDRESSING CLIMATE AND ENVIRNMENTAL CHALLENGES IN URBAN AREAS: LEVERAGING INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
- Session 29: PRIVATE FINANCE IN AFRICAN URBAN DEVELOPMENT: SPECULATION, VALUE, TERRITORIES
- Session 30: REVISITING GOOD GOVERNANCE IN URBAN AFRICA: IMPLICATIONS OF (DE)CENTRALISATION, (RE)CENTRALISATION, OR HYBRID GOVERNANCE ON SERVICE DELIVERY
- Session 31: YOUTH AND AFRICAN CITIES: WORK, HOUSING & URBAN FUTURES
