City Studio Launch Event
The Kelvin-Alexandra-Frankenwald City Studio launch was held on the 21st of May 2024 at the Marlboro Gautrain Station. The event gathered staff and students from the School of Architecture and Planning and Wits University at large, as well as officials, stakeholders, local residents and community leaders from the surrounding areas.
Scheduled from 2024 to 2026, this initiative prioritises spatial justice, sustainability, and urban resilience. Through innovative approaches, it aims to tackle persistent urban inequality in South Africa by identifying crucial factors and developing practical solutions, ultimately working towards a more equitable and sustainable urban future.
“The Kelvin-Alexandra-Frankenwald City Studio stands as a testament to the power of education, collaboration, and community engagement in driving forward the vision of a just and sustainable urban future.”
In “Bridging urban divides through education for a sustainable future”. Read the full article by Zenaye Skosana, with photos by Chanté Schatz, here
African Urbanisms: Critical Engagements, Transformative Practices, Alternative Futures
This conference is organised by the Wits-TUB-UNILAG Urban Lab and will take place in John Moffat Building, East Campus, Wits University 23-26 October 2024. The call for sessions and abstracts has closed. For updates on the programme and registration, click here.
Feminising Urban Struggle face-to-face seminars in São Paulo, Johannesburg and Dar es Salaam
CUBES, in partnership with academic institutions in Brazil, Tanzania and the Netherlands hosted a seminar series that explored the multiple and diverse urban struggles of marginalised women in transforming their peripheral territories in different contexts of the Global South, particularly, Southern Africa and Latin America
CUBES also organised the online international seminar titled Feminising urban struggle: bodies, territories and politics in women’s production and reproduction of peripheral spaces between 6-8 November, 2023.
Faces of the City seminars
Faces of the City is a seminar series run jointly by CUBES, the South African Chair for Spatial Analysis and City Planning (SC&CP), the Gauteng City Region (GCRO) and the School of Architecture and Planning. The series is scheduled 16h00-17h30 on Tuesdays during term time. The seminars are offered online, with some seminars blended to allow for face-to-face interaction.
To join the mailing list for weekly programme updates, please sign up using this link. The weekly programme is posted here.
Southern African Cities Studies Conferences
Since 2009, the SACSC series has provided an interdisciplinary forum for researchers examining urban issues in Southern Africa. The most recent conference in 2020, was hosted by the CUBES, the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO), and the South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning, in association with a network of South African urban research units.