MOBILISING THE PERIPHERY – Focus Africa
MOBILISING THE PERIPHERY – #3 Focus Africa: Informality and Urban Pattern
Friday, 1 July and Saturday, 2 July 2016
The third symposium within the joint ANCB – Schindler Transit Management Group research project on contemporary urban peripheries worldwide
Friday, 1 July 2016, 6 pm – 8.30 pm
Reception and Exhibition Opening
The symposium commenced with a reception and opening of a small exhibition of visual works on urban pattern in Africa generously provided by Bouwer Serfontein and Lekan Jeyifous.
Welcome and Introduction
Eduard Kögel, Research Advisor and Programme Curator, ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin
Keynote: Describing the Sub-Saharan African Periphery
Remy Sietchiping, UN Habitat, Nairobi/Kenya – Mobilising the Periphery. Sub-Saharan Africa: Informality as Catalyst?
Astrid Ley, Technical University, Stuttgart/Germany – Africa’s Urban Transition
Lekan Jeyifous, Artist/Designer, New York/USA – Speculative Futures for the African City: Immanence and Imminence
Panel Discussion Moderated by Eduard Kögel
Saturday, 2 July 2016, 10 am – 1 pm
Introduction
Eduard Kögel, Research Advisor and Programme Curator, ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin
Impulse Talks 1: Responses to Informality and Urban Pattern
Bouwer Serfontein, Director, Holm Jordaan Group and Gary White & Associates, Stuttgart/Germany and South Africa – Africa Drawn, 100 cities
Aisha Walcott-Bryant, Manager of Cognitive Algorithms and Analytics Team and technical lead for the Mobility Team at IBM Research Africa, Nairobi/Kenya – Living Roads Project, Mobility for Developing Cities
Jan van den Broeck, Anthropologist, University Leuven/Belgium – Building the Kenyan City of the Future. Master-planned Technology Hub or Rugged Frontier Town?
Manuel Herz, Founder, Manuel Herz Architects, Basel/Switzerland – From Camp to City
John Paul Muwanguzi Senyonyi, Co-founder and Director, ANZA Magazine, Dar Es Salaam/Tanzania – An Expanding Diversity