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Architects Without Frontiers with Professor Esther Charlesworth
Architects Without Frontiers: A Journey from Divided Cities to Zones of Fragility with Professor Esther Charlesworth.
Prof. Esther Charlesworth’s talk for Cities@Tufts and the Boston Urban Salon on May 1, 2024 focused on her nomadic design journey across the last three decades. In trying to move from just theorizing about disaster architecture to designing and delivering projects for at-risk communities globally, Esther started both Architects Without Frontiers (Australia) and ASF (International); an umbrella coalition of 41 other architect groups across Europe, Asia and Africa.
Architects Without Frontiers asks, how do we go from just pontificating about the multiple and intractable challenges of our fragile planet, to actually acting on them?
Professor Esther Charlesworth works in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University, where in 2016 she founded the Master of Disaster, Design, and Development degree [MoDDD] and the Humanitarian Architecture Research Bureau [HARB]. MoDDD is one of the few degrees globally, enabling mid-career designers to transition their careers into the international development, disaster and urban resilience sectors.
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Consuming the Creative City: Gastrodevelopment in a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy, Eden Kinkaid
Переглядів 514 місяці тому
Scholars have recently coined the term “gastrodevelopment” to refer to the leveraging of food culture as a resource and strategy of economic development. Drawing on a case study of Tucson, Arizona - the United States’ first UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy - Kinkaid uses the lens of gastrodevelopment to examine how food culture is transformed into a form of symbolic capital that animates a br...
How Local Govs Can Work with Grassroots Initiatives for Sustainability Transitions w/ Karin Bradley
Переглядів 935 місяців тому
In cities across the world grassroots initiatives organize alternative forms of provisioning, e.g. food sharing networks, energy cooperatives and repair cafés. Some of these are recognized by local governments as engines in sustainability transitions. In this talk, I will discuss different ways that local governments interact with, and use, such grassroots initiatives, drawing from case studies...
Dr. Maya Carrasquillo presents Infrastructure Apartheid
Переглядів 9910 місяців тому
“Infrastructure Apartheid to Liberatory Infrastructures”- this phrase highlights a fundamental shift in our framing of both harms and solutions, respectively, from individual and direct, to systemic and distributed. My aim, as we continue to not only challenge our theoretical framings but also our engineering approaches, is to research and pilot field work that ultimately bring us closer to an ...
Dr. Kristin Reynolds presents Urban Agriculture, Racial and Economic Equity: Action Research
Переглядів 8110 місяців тому
Urban agriculture has a long and diverse history throughout the world. Its health, social, and economic benefits for communities have been the subject of many studies and advocacy efforts seeking recognition of urban food production as a legitimate use of city space and as “real” agriculture. In the US, the past decade has seen policy support for urban food production expand at multiple scales ...
Audrey Petty presents High Rise Stories
Переглядів 10211 місяців тому
In this Cities@Tufts talk, Audrey Petty presents her book 'High Rise Stories', an oral history of high rise public housing in Chicago. Audrey Petty explores her work compiling and editing High Rise Stories, an oral history in which narrators describe their lives in Chicago’s now-demolished high rises. These particular high rises were among the largest public housing complexes in the United Stat...
Aseem Inam presents - Co-Designing Publics: Radical Democracy and Transformative Urbanisms
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Globally, contemporary cities face seemingly insurmountable challenges such as urban inequality, inadequate infrastructure, climate crisis, and increasingly, threats to democracy. In the face of such challenges, the Dr. Inam introduces the concept of "co-designing publics" by examining what lies at the potent intersection of the public realm and informal urbanisms. He defines the public realm a...
Steve Kadish & Barbara Kellerman - Results: Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work Done
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On April 12th 2023, Cities@Tufts featured Steve Kadish and Professor Barbara Kellerman to talk about Steve Kadish's book 'Results: Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work Done'. For more information, visit www.citiesattufts.com Follow us on twitter: CitiesAtTufts Talk Description Distilled into a four-step framework, Results is the much-needed implementation guide for anyone i...
Vikas Mehta presents Public Space: Paradoxes, Possibilities, and Propositions
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Public spaces are symbolic urban icons. Cities complete with their public spaces, often using them as tools for commodification to attract capital and labor. At the same time, public space is an expansive common social and material realm and the past decades have erased any doubts of the resurgence of public space in its political form. This is a good time to focus our attention on public space...
Countering Displacement through Collective Memory: the Texas Freedom Colonies Project
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This is a recording of Dr. Andrea Robert's presentation on 'Countering Displacement through Collective Memory: Recovering African American Landscapes Using The Texas Freedom Colonies Project Atlas' for Cities@Tufts, presented on February 8 2023 in the Spring 2023 session. About the talk In the decades following the Civil War, recently emancipated people created freedom colonies through intentio...
Erin Graves presents Real Estate for Radicals
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While a near consensus has developed in the US that there is a housing affordability crisis, it has done so while seemingly circumventing a debate about who deserves housing. The UN Declaration on Human Rights is quite clear on this point: housing is a human right and thus all humans deserve housing. This project, Real Estate for Radicals is case study based research on affordable community-own...
Rashad Williams presents Three Models of Reparative Planning: A Comparative Analysis
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"Description: As cities and states continue to experiment with reparations for the historical legacies of slavery and Jim Crow, an enduring question remains: how should subnational, particularly municipal, reparations be structured? To be sure, any formulation of reparative planning should certainly address the particularities of local context. More generally, though, reparative planning should...
Planetary Gentrification: impacts and futures
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"What is planetary gentrification (process)? Where in the world has it occurred (geography, spatiality)? When did it occur (temporality)? What have the impacts been (displacement)? And critically what might it’s future be like? These are all questions posed and discussed in Professor Lees’s wide ranging presentation. Professor Loretta Lees is an urban geographer who is internationally known for...
Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy
Переглядів 136Рік тому
"The injustices of the climate crisis require societal transformation. Climate policies that are transformative require integrating sacred, humanistic dimensions so that society can move beyond the narrow, patriarchal technocratic lens of climate isolationism that continues to dominate and be ineffective. Climate isolationism is a term that I use to refer to the common framing of climate change...
Gaming the System: Role Playing Spatial and Political Change
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A review of work that looks at how spatial games defined as processes with loose rules for others to interpret and execute as they see fit can become design tools to broaden the socio-spatial imagination and conversation.
The Energy Equity Project with Kyle Whyte and Justin Schott
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The Energy Equity Project with Kyle Whyte and Justin Schott
Transportation Inequities: What's Data Got to Do with It? with Tamika Butler
Переглядів 4592 роки тому
Transportation Inequities: What's Data Got to Do with It? with Tamika Butler
Punitive and Cooperative Cities with Stacey Sutton
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Punitive and Cooperative Cities with Stacey Sutton
Collective Land Governance for a Changing Climate with Linda Shi
Переглядів 2652 роки тому
Collective Land Governance for a Changing Climate with Linda Shi
Urban heat resilience: Governing an invisible hazard with Sara Meerow
Переглядів 2692 роки тому
Urban heat resilience: Governing an invisible hazard with Sara Meerow
Fahrenheit 911: Heat, Cities, and Climate Literacy from the Ground Up with Vivek Shandas
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Fahrenheit 911: Heat, Cities, and Climate Literacy from the Ground Up with Vivek Shandas
From Urban Resilience to Climate Justice with Kian Goh
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From Urban Resilience to Climate Justice with Kian Goh
The Green City and Social Injustice with Isabelle Anguelovski and James Connolly
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The Green City and Social Injustice with Isabelle Anguelovski and James Connolly
Arrested Mobility: Exploring the Impacts of Over-Policing Black Mobility in the US: Charles T. Brown
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Arrested Mobility: Exploring the Impacts of Over-Policing Black Mobility in the US: Charles T. Brown
Unequal Protection Revisited with Marccus D Hendricks
Переглядів 1182 роки тому
Unequal Protection Revisited with Marccus D Hendricks
Climate action in the Global South: is net zero (sufficiently) inclusive? with Jessica Omukuti
Переглядів 812 роки тому
Climate action in the Global South: is net zero (sufficiently) inclusive? with Jessica Omukuti
From Spatializing Culture to Social Justice and Public Space with Setha Low
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From Spatializing Culture to Social Justice and Public Space with Setha Low
The New Rules of (Planning) Engagement with Melissa Peters
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The New Rules of (Planning) Engagement with Melissa Peters
Housing is a Human Right: housing policy and organizing prior to COVID-19 & in the current pandemic
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Housing is a Human Right: housing policy and organizing prior to COVID-19 & in the current pandemic
A Journey to A Black Queer Feminist Urbanist Ethic and Practice with Kristen Jeffers
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A Journey to A Black Queer Feminist Urbanist Ethic and Practice with Kristen Jeffers

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @DavidAbieMorales
    @DavidAbieMorales 4 місяці тому

    🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 *🎯 The video is about a talk on "consuming the creative city: gastrodevelopment in a UNESCO creative city of gastronomy", presented at Tufts University.* 00:14 *🌍 The talk acknowledges that Tufts University's Medford campus is on colonized and traditional territory of the Massachusett people.* 00:29 *🧑‍🏫 The speaker is Dr. Eden Kinkaid, a human geographer and social scientist whose work focuses on sustainable and equitable food and agricultural systems, place, race, and development.* 01:37 *🏆 In 2015, Tucson, Arizona became the first city in the U.S. to be awarded the UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy designation, recognizing its rich agricultural history and vibrant food culture.* 02:07 *🤝 The speaker collaborated with Ellen Platt on this research project.* 03:04 *🌆 The UNESCO designation gave rise to the Tucson City of Gastronomy, a nonprofit organization that governs the designation and its use, leading to various activities like fundraising, marketing, educational programs, and food festivals.* 04:00 *🔍 The research project asks what the designation means for Tucson, how its food heritage is leveraged for development, and for whom, considering the potential risks of cultural appropriation, gentrification, and racialized dispossession.* 05:08 *💰 The speaker explores how gastrodevelopment produces and relies upon a circuit of extractive value production, which is racialized and involves the transformation of cultural capital into symbolic and economic capital.* 06:31 *🍴 Geographer Pascal Jart Marelli coined the term "gastrodevelopment" to refer to the leveraging of food culture as a resource and strategy of economic development, often driven by a network of urban elites and managers.* 07:39 *🌆 Gastrodevelopment is part of the creative cities model of urban development, where food culture is incorporated into a package of place-based amenities to attract a particular class of upwardly mobile, highly educated, and typically white consumers.* 26:39 *🌄 The value of the desert landscape in Tucson is reimagined as a white space that is "discovered" and made to bloom by white entrepreneurs and artisans, reproducing a racialized frontier mythology.* 27:22 *🏆 The UNESCO City of Gastronomy designation provides a structure for commodifying Tucson's food heritage and branding the city as a tourism destination.* 28:10 *📋 The city provides workshops to help local food producers develop and market their products using the City of Gastronomy designation, but this can lead to issues of cultural appropriation.* 30:46 *🌱 Marketing strategies often involve mainstreaming and commodifying indigenous and Latin American food traditions as "exotic" and "new" for white consumer audiences.* 32:12 *🏨 The City of Gastronomy brand is used by the local government and tourism sectors to position Tucson as a distinctive culinary destination to attract investment, businesses, and consumption.* 34:37 *🏢 The materialization of the City of Gastronomy brand tends to manifest in elite, white-dominated spaces of food consumption, rather than benefiting marginalized communities.* 36:36 *💥 Historically, projects of "revitalization" and "renewal" in Tucson have involved the displacement and destruction of Mexican American and racially diverse neighborhoods.* 38:16 *📢 The designation brings concerns about "cultural gentrification" and the appropriation of Latin American and indigenous food cultures by the dominant white food spaces and elite consumers.* 40:25 *🌍 There are alternative visions for leveraging food culture for community development that are more focused on addressing food and housing insecurity, rather than tourism and urban growth.* 42:19 *✍️ The report provided by the researchers aimed to highlight the issues of racism and exclusion within the dominant implementation of the City of Gastronomy designation, but faced resistance from the leadership.* 51:40 *💰 The UNESCO City of Gastronomy designation does not come with direct funding, but the city and county have provided grants and funding for related initiatives like a large food festival called P.* 52:36 *🍽️ The P festival, which celebrates maize, received significant public funding, despite increasing household food insecurity and evictions in the city during the COVID-19 pandemic.* 53:16 *📢 The speaker has suggested the City of Gastronomy organization should leverage its brand to direct more resources to community groups, but the leadership has not been receptive to this idea.* 53:45 *🎉 The P festival is a large, multi-city food and cultural event that is funded and promoted as a way to attract tourism to Tucson.* 54:25 *👏 The speaker is thanked for the fantastic presentation, and the video recording will be made available by the Shareable organization.* Made with HARPA AI

  • @alwinbenhaim6324
    @alwinbenhaim6324 10 місяців тому

    "promo sm" 💃

  • @Belrivers
    @Belrivers Рік тому

    Her work branches. Milking not a good question. Her work is organic and endless.

  • @ediddysmith2500
    @ediddysmith2500 Рік тому

    So she works for the world economic forum

  • @lilianblack3953
    @lilianblack3953 Рік тому

    𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙢 😴

  • @aderonkeaderinsola8153
    @aderonkeaderinsola8153 Рік тому

    Please what are the limitations of William's model

  • @MidnightRambler
    @MidnightRambler 2 роки тому

    White supremacy in Philly?🧐😆 with an all-white panel😂

  • @augaaso
    @augaaso 2 роки тому

    Thanks for the enlightening presentation Dr. Theresa. It certainly changed my perception of informal settlements in and near urban centres. Mohamed Hargeisa, Somaliland

  • @husseimstuck7011
    @husseimstuck7011 2 роки тому

    Great and insightful presentation! Thanks