Day 1 - February 18th

8.30- 9.00 - Registration

9.00 - 9.15 – Welcome and Introducing Remarks

9.15 - 11.00 – Panel 1: Making the City: Spontaneous VS Planned?

From Dogma to Style in Urban PlanningThomas Duschlbauer, Professor at the Department for Media and Economics, University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten,

Austria

On the Relationship between Self-organized Spatial Practices and Institutional Urban PlanningLígia Milagres, PhD Candidate, Mina Gerais Federal University, Belo Horizonte

Singapore as Model, Varanasi as Muse: The Evolution of India’s Smart Cities MissionShahana Chattaraj, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford

Bodies, Space and Atmospheres: Reinterpreting In/formality through the Lawscape Francesca Ansaloni, Regional Planning and Public Policy, Università IUAV di Venezia

Miriam Tedeschi, Regional Planning and Public Policy, Università IUAV di Venezia

Chaired by Nicholas Simcik-AreseResearch Associate, Future of Cities Programme, University of Oxford

11.00 - 11.30 – Coffee Break

11.30-12.45 – Debate 1: Making the City: Spontaneous VS Planned?

PROGRAMME

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12.45 – 2.15 – Lunch

Bruno Moser, Head of Urban Design at Foster + Partners

Reinier de Graaf, Partner at the Office for Metropolitan

Architecture (OMA), Head of its think-tank AMO

AbdouMaliq Simone, Professor of Sociology and Urbanism,

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic

Diversity

MEDIATOR:

Michael Keith, Director of COMPAS, University of Oxford

2.15- 4.00 – Panel 2: Governing the City: Where Do Infrastructure, Democracy, and Social Justice Meet?

The Social Construction of Space in a Splintered Southern City Cédrick Cunha Gomes da Silva, PhD Candidate, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

Building “Homes with Value”: Mortgage Finance and the Remaking of the Mexican City Georgia Hartman, PhD Candidate Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

Medellin in Motion: Governmental Technologies of City-model MakingCatalina Ortiz, Lecturer, The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London

Comparing Smart City-Regional Governance Strategies in Bristol, Glasgow, Bilbao & BarcelonaIgor Calzada, Future of Cities, University of Oxford

Chaired by Idalina BaptistaAssociate Professor in Urban Anthropology, Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford

4.00- 4.30 – Coffee Break

4.30- 5.45 - Debate 2: Governing the City: Where Do Infrastructure, Democracy, and Social Justice Meet?

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Susan Parnell, Professor of Geography, University of Cape

Town

Antanas Mockus, Former Mayor of Bogota, 1995-1998;

2001-2003

MEDIATOR:

Steve Rayner, James Martin Professor of Science and

Civilization, University of Oxford

Day 2 : February 19th

10.00 - 11.00 – Panel 3: Mobilizing the City: Amidst Global Urban Protest, the ‘Right to the City’ is the Right to What?

An Informational Right to the City? Code, Content and Control of Urbanized InformationJoe Shaw and Mark Graham, Oxford Internet Institute

The Right to the City Beyond Centrality: Foundational Urban Systems in a Post-labour WorldAlex Schafran, School of Geography, University of Leeds

Participation and Its Discontents: Notes from Post-Revolutionary Cairo Safa Ashoub, Independent Researcher

WJ Dorman, University of Edinburgh

Chaired by Claudio SopranzettiPostdoctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford

11.00 - 11.30 – Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.45 – Debate 3: Mobilizing the City: Amidst Global Urban Protest, the ‘Right to the City’ is the Right to What?

:

Sheela Patel, Founding Director of the Society for the

Promotion of Area Resource Centers

Mark Purcell, Professor of Urban Planning, University of

12.45 – 2.15 – Lunch

2.15- 3.45 – Panel 4: Representing the City: Can Art projects re-figure and Challenge Urban Futures?

A Republic of Players: Imagining Urban Change in the “new” Ruhr MetropoleCynthia Browne, Phd Candidate, Anthropology, Harvard University

The City as Immersive Exhibition of Past and Future: Using TimeLayers for Participatory Inscription of Urban MemoryDr. Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe, PhD Candidate, Anthropology/MES, Harvard Univeristy

Alberto Barradas Chacón

De-muzzling the Muzzled Ones: Parisian Performance Poetry and Territories of ExceptionCicilie Fagerlid, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo

Understanding Community Participation in Planning through TheaterDr Paul Cowie, Research Associate, School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape, Newcastle University

Katy Vanden, Brad McCormick & Gwilym Lawrence, Cap-a-Pie, Ouseburn Farm, Ouseburn Road, Newcastle

Chaired by Dominique DaviesBritish Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, English Faculty, University of Oxford

3.45- 4.15 – Coffee Break

4.15 - 5.30 - Debate 4: Representing the City: Can Art Projects Re-figure and Challenge Urban Futures?

Washington

MEDIATOR:

Susan Parnell, Professor of Geography, University of Cape

Town

Mary Mattingly, Artist

5.30 - 5.45 - Closing Remarks

Irit Rogoff, Professor of Visual Culture, Goldsmith

University

Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Reader in Fine Art (Art, Urbanism

and the Moving Image), Royal College of Art

MEDIATOR:

Marcus Banks, Professor of Visual Anthropology,

University of Oxford

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