URBAN GOVERNANCE AND ITS DISCONTENTS 18-19 February, 2016 St Anne’s College, Oxford

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Welcome The city provides a particular lens through which we make the social and economic world visible. But how might we develop scholarship that recognises the differences between cities, acknowledges that they are characterised by particular histories and unique geographies and, at the same time, understands the potential to learn from different experiences? Much recent scholarship on the contemporary city has followed this question in different directions to consider what it might mean to generate understanding of emergent cities in the near future. Whether pursuing a ‘science of cities’, unpacking a metropolitan historical sensibility, or developing a notion of a new scholarship of comparative urbanism, such challenges raise particular questions around the future city that this conference seeks to address. Breaking down empirical and conceptual boundaries between cities of the global south and the longstanding urban concentrations of the affluent west, the megacities of the BRICs, and the rapidly growing urban concentrations across the globe, we explore debates that resonate for them all.

Over two days, we focus on four such clusters of discussion. We look at the tensions between the extemporised and the rational metropolis in our first dialogue that considers the juxtaposition of the spontaneous and the planned city. In our second dialogue we follow this juxtaposition with a consideration of the balance between the power of infrastructure to reshape the city, the normative dimensions of this restructuring, and the potential for urban democracy to mediate the tensions between the two. In Athens, Caracas, Dhaka, Istanbul and London the square and the public realm have, in recent years, become the site of a renewed focus of dissent in the face of such change. Hence, our third discourse examines the ‘right to the city’: a phrase with deep connections to Paris in 1968 and the writing of the French leftist Henri Lefebvre that has now been mainstreamed into UN policy discussion. Our fourth and final discourse focuses on the aesthetics of such change, how the horizon of the metropolitan tomorrow is made visible through a register that is aesthetic as much as economic, asking how art projects might reshape the way in which we rethink our urban futures.

In each of these areas of intense debate, the conference brings together scholars who are on the cutting edge of global urban research face-to-face with established and innovative practitioners—architects, activists, policy makers, and artists. Through a series of rigorous, yet accessible, public dialogues, practitioners and scholars will grapple with the intellectual and material implications of their interventions and theories on contemporary cities. Each debate will be preceded by a small panel of academics and practitioners presenting papers that speak to the same key issues as the respective debates and which will lay the groundwork for the following discussion.

The conference forms part of the ongoing work of the network of researchers and research centres that is the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities (http://www.futureofcities.ox.ac.uk) and links to the ESRC Urban Transformations programme (www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk). At a time when the world has become increasingly urban, the challenges of the shaping of cities of the 21st Century have never been more pressing. The Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities draws together a network of scholars and research that crosses the humanities, social, and natural sciences to address innovative ways of thinking about the major challenges facing humanity in the 21st century.

Professor Steve Rayner Co-Director, Future of Cities Programme

Professor Michael Keith Co-Director, Future of Cities Programme

Professor Steve Rayner Co-DirectorFuture of Cities Programme

Professor Michael Keith Co-DirectorFuture of Cities Programme

8:30 - 9:00 Registration Welcome and Introductory Remarks Professor Michael Keith, Co-Director, Future of Cities programme Professor Steve Rayner, Co-Director, Future of Cities programme

From Dogma to Style in Urban Planning Thomas Duschlbauer, Professor, University of Applied Sciences, St. Pölten On the Relationship Between Self-Organised Spatial Practices and Institutional Urban Planning Lígia Milagres, PhD Candidate, Mina Gerais Federal University Singapore as Model, Varanasi as Muse: The Evolution of India’s Smart Cities Mission Shahana Chattaraj, Postdoctoral Fellow, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford Small Property Rights Housing as Spontaneous Urbanization in China Li Sun, Postdoctoral Researcher, Delft University of Technology Zhi Liu, Director of the Peking University, Lincoln Institute Centre for Urban Development Bodies, Space and Atmospheres: Reinterpreting In/Formality Through the Lawscape Francesca Ansaloni and Miriam Tedeschi, Regional Planning and Public Policy, Università IUAV di Venezia

Reinier de Graaf Head of Urban Design, OMA Bruno Moser Head of Urban Design, Foster + Partners AbdouMaliq Simone Professor of Sociology and Urbanism, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

The Social Construction of Space in a Splintered Southern City Sérgio Carvalho Benício de Mello, PhD, City University London Cédrick Cunha Gomes da Silva, PhD Candidate, Federal University of Pernambuco Jouberte Maria Leandro Santos, PhD Candidate, Federal University of Pernambuco Building “Homes with Value”: Mortgage Finance and the Remaking of the Mexican City Georgia Hartman, PhD Candidate, University of California Medellin in Motion: Governmental Technologies of City-model Making Catalina Ortiz, Lecturer, University College London Comparing Smart City-Regional Governance Strategies in Bristol, Glasgow, Bilbao and Barcelona Igor Calzada, Future of Cities, University of Oxford The Future on/of Margins: Infrastructure Development as Social Justice in Casablanca, Morocco Cristiana Strava, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford

Susan Parnell Professor of Geography, University of Cape Town Antanas Mockus Former Mayor of Bogota, Columbia, 1995-1998; 2001-2003

9:15 - 11:00

11:30 - 12:45

14:15 - 16:00

16:30 - 17:45

Day 1 - Thursday 18th February 2016

9:00 - 9:15

Panel 1: Making the City - Spontaneous VS Planned?

Debate 1: Making the City - Spontaneous VS Planned?

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

12:45 - 14:15 Lunch

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

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break

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

17:45 Day 1 Close

18:00 - 19:00 Conference Drinks and Networking Session Sponsored by the Urban Transformations Network

9:30 - 10:00 Registration

An Informational Right to the City? Code, Content and Control of Urbanized Information Joe Shaw, PhD Candidate, Oxford Internet Institute Mark Graham, Associate Professor, Oxford Internet Institute The Right to the City Beyond Centrality: Foundational Urban Systems in a Post-Labour World Stephen Hall, Research Fellow, University of Leeds Alex Schafran, Lecturer, University of Leeds Participation and Its Discontents: Notes from Post-Revolutionary Cairo Safa Ashoub, Advisor, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit WJ Dorman, Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh

10:00 - 11:00

11:30 - 12:45

Sheela Patel Founding Director of the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers Mark Purcell Professor of Urban Planning, University of Washington

A Republic of Players: Imagining Urban Change in the “New” Ruhr Metropole Cynthia Browne, PhD Candidate, Harvard University The City as Immersive Exhibition of Past and Future: Using Time Layers for Participatory Inscription of Urban Memory Dr Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe, PhD Candidate, Harvard University Alberto Barradas Chacón De-muzzling the Muzzled Ones: Parisian Performance Poetry and Territories of Exception Cicilie Fagerlid, Associate Professor, University of Oslo Understanding Community Participation in Planning Through Theater Dr Paul Cowie, Research Associate, Newcastle University Katy Vanden, Cap-a-Pie, Newcastle Brad McCormick, Cap-a-Pie, Newcastle Gwilym Lawrence, Cap-a-Pie, Newcastle

16:15 - 17:30

Marcus Banks Professor and Head of School, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford University Mary Mattingly Artist

14:15 - 15:45

Day 2 - Friday 19th February 2016Panel 3: Mobilizing in the City - Amidst Global Urban Protest, the ‘Right to the City’ is the Right to What?

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

Debate 3: Mobilizing in the City - Amidst Global Urban Protest, the ‘Right to the City’ is the Right to What?

12:45 - 14:15 Lunch

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

15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break

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

17:30 - 17:45 Closing Remarks

Closing Remarks Professor Michael Keith, Co-Director, Future of Cities programme Professor Steve Rayner, Co-Director, Future of Cities programme

17:45 Day 2 Close