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UCL, Intel and Imperial to create Global Centre for Research in Sustainable Connected Cities
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Free UCL festival celebrates London and Literature
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Bartlett announces £100K in studentships to tackle inequality
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events at dpu
[Dialogues in Development Series] | [DPU Film Series]
>>>Events Term I - 2011
Date: Tuesday 18 October 2011
Time: 17.30-19.00
Venue:
Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL (Click to see map)
Can we reduce poverty without working with the poor? Without using their knowledge and their capacities?
Jockin Arputham is perhaps the world's best known urban grassroots leader. From
humble beginnings and for over 40 years, he has sought to get urban policies that
work with and not against low-income groups. Since 1986, the National Slum Dwellers
Federation that he founded has worked in an alliance with Mahila Milan and the NGO
SPARC.
He has also helped federations of "slum" or shack dwellers to form in many other
nations and helped form Slum/Shack Dwellers International, a network through which
the many national federations work together and learn from each other. In 2000 he
was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding. In
2010, the President of India nominated and bestowed on him its highest civilian
honor, the Padma Shri award.
this event is co-organised by dpu dialogues in development and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
>>>Past Events Term II - 2011
Metropolitan São Paulo water supply and sustainability: Dilemmas in maintaining growth
Speaker: Professor Zilton Macedo, Universidade Católica de São Paulo.
Zilton Macedo
is Professsor in the Faculty of Economics at the Catholic University of
São Paulo. He has worked at EMPLASA, the Metropolitan São Paulo
Planning Agency between 1975 and 1998. As a consultant, he has worked on
the socio-economic and environmental impacts of large projects such a
hydroelectric plants, railway renewal plans and State-level development
plans. Metropolitan São Paulo has a population of 22 million, holds 30%
of Brazilian industrial employment and is the main centre of financial,
health and technical services in the country. The city faces the dilemma
of how to maintain metropolitan growth without disadvantaging the
adjacent regions which currently provide its water supply.
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Making sense of the Japan earthquake and tsunami disaster: response and
resilience
This ‘emergency’ Dialogues in Development Session was put together in order to provide an analysis of the ongoing events in Japan related to the earthquakes, tsunamis and nuclear plant crisis.
Panelists:
- Ben Wisner - Author "At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters" (Routledge, 2004) Aon-Benfield Hazard Research Centre, UCL; Oberlin College; Visiting professor Kyoto University (2005).
- John Twigg – Senior Research Associate, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, UCL. Research on socio-economic vulnerability to natural disasters, institutional aspects of disaster management, risk communications, public education and early warnings.
- Camillo Boano, DPU, research on urban development, shelter and housing interventions, reconstruction and recovery in conflicted areas and divided cities, and on the linkages between society, space and built environment.
- Cassidy Johnson, DPU, research on post-disaster recovery and urban risk mitigation related to planning and building
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Donor Support for Rural Livelihoods: The One Village One Product (OVOP) Movement
Speakers:
Mr. Kimiaki Jin, Chief Representative, JICA UK
Ms. Jacinta Chipendo, Principal Rural Development Officer, Ministry of Industry and Trade in Malawi
One Village One Product (OVOP) is one of JICA’s activities the principal actors of which are the inhabitants of a community.
The original OVOP movement was launched in 1979 in Japan by then Governor of Oita Prefecture where he encouraged residents in villages and towns to select a possible product or industry distinctive to their village or town and foster it to be a nationally, or even globally, marketable one. However, the OVOP activities is not a simple process of fabrication of things but an objective-oriented endeavor for the development of human resources through fabrication of things.
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Transformative Social Policy and Poverty
Speaker: Prof Thandika Mkandawire Chair in African Development LSE
Prof Thandika Mkandawire will be discussing the ideas and debates that fed into the UNRISD's 2010 flagship report: "Combating Poverty and Inequality: Structural Change, Social Policy and Politics". Prof Mkandawire is currently Chair in African Development at the London School of Economics (LSE). Before that position, he was Director of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), where, amongst others, he oversaw the research and production of the latest flagship report: Combating Poverty and Inequality. Previous posts have included Director of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Development Research in Copenhagen, as well as teaching positions at the Universities of Stockholm and Zimbabwe. He currently holds the Olof Palme Professor for Peace with the Institute for Future Studies in Stockholm.
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Gender and the City
The Bloomsbury Gender Network (BGN) would like to invite you to participate in this colloquium to celebrate International Women’s Day, 2011. The BGN is a network of colleagues working on gender who are interested in sharing seminars, research and resources across the Bloomsbury universities. At the end of this half day colloquium you are invited to stay on for a BGN reception to celebrate the International Women’s Day as well as the second anniversary of the network.
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How people face evictions: Lessons from community resistances in nine cities
Speakers: Prof. Yves Cabannes, Cassidy Johnson (UCL/DPU) and Malavika Vartak (Amnesty International)
Forced and market-driven evictions are increasing dramatically worldwide, with devastating effects on millions of children, women and men across the globe. Despite this negative trend, however, many people-led initiatives have been successful in addressing this issue and reducing the number of evictions, developing new policies and proving that alternatives to forced eviction can be found.
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Longitudinal reflections on disaster recovery, experiences in Pakistan (2005-2010) A development practitioner in disastrous situations
Speaker: Maggie Stephenson UN-HABITAT Pakistan: Development and post disaster/post conflict recovery programmes
Architect and DPU alumna (MSc BUDD), Maggie has experience in the field of development, post conflict and post disasters. She was working in South Africa, Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan and Indonesia, Uganda, Sudan and Sri Lanka. Since 2005 she worked in UN- HABITAT, Pakistan in development and post disaster / post conflict recovery programmes.
Combining her experience as practitioner in the field working with NGOs, UN agencies and Governments in addition to her sensibility and background as Architect and Urban Designer. Maggie will present her most recent long experience in Pakistan to reflect on disasters and recovery intervention in the field of built environment from the 2005 Kashmir Earthquake to 2010 massive floods. She will offer the audience stimuli for debating the role of architecture, urban design and planning, the role of technical assistance, the critical institutional frameworks built in such contested environments as well as the role of production of knowledge and practice.
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Multidimensional Poverty Index: The Implications for Policy and Planning of the New MPI, released in the 2010 Human Development Report
Speaker: Sabina Alkire Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
Sabina Alkire directs the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), a research centre within the Department of International Development, University of Oxford. Her research interest include multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis, welfare economics, the capability approach, the measurement of freedoms and human development. The 2010 HDR's new 'multidimensional poverty index' (MPI) was implemented for 104 countries by Sabina Alkire and Maria Emma Santos, and is based on the multidimensional methodology Sabina and James Foster developed. In this presentation, Sabina will be exploring the implications of the MPI for policy and planning.
>>>Past Events Term I - 2010
WORLD HABITAT DAY
Can we have the Better Cities we want?
Reflecting on the realities of City Life in the 21st century
Speaker: Michael Safier
DPU Associate
and
Building Global Health - Better Habitat, Better Health
Speaker: Peter Williams
Archive
Chaired by: Caren Levy
DPU Director
Location:
Room 101, DPU Building
Date: Monday 4th Octuber 2010
17.30-19.00
>>>Past Events Term II - 2010
Conflict, Security and Poverty Reduction:
Measuring Human Security in West Bengal, India
Speaker: Dr Neela Mukherjee
Field Researcher and Practitioner on
community perspectives and
sustainable development
Chaired by: Professor Yvonne Rydin
Director UCL Environment Institute
Location:
Room 101, DPU Building
Date: Wednesday 15th September 2010
17.30-19.00
Inclusive resource recovery from waste or incineration technology: Challenges and experiences from Brazil
Speaker: Jutta Gutberlet
Department of Geography
University of Victoria,
Canada
Download presentation in PDF format
Introduction: Mansoor Ali
Practical Action, UK
Download summary discussion in WORD format
Location:
Room 101, DPU Building
Date: Friday 30th July 2010
13.00-14.30
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Speaker: Mihir
Shah
Member, Indian Planning Commission
Panel
Mihir
Shah, (Member, Indian Planning Commission)
Aromar
Revi, (Director, Indian Institute of Human Settlements)
Adriana
Allen, (Director, DPU Environment Programme, UCL)
Chair
Caren Levy (Director, DPU, UCL)
Location:
Room 101, DPU Building
Date: Wednesday 23th June 2010
17.30-19.00
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Entering the Ecological
Age: Resource Efficient Cities
Speaker: Peter Head
Director of Planning and Integrated Urbanism
Arup, London
Location:
Room 101, DPU Building
Date: Wednesday 17th March 2010
17.30-19.00
Speakers:
- Representative for People’s Movements in Haiti through network of COOPHABITAT People’s Urban Network, Santo Domingo
- Camillo Boano - Development Planning Unit, UCL
- Jo da Silva - ARUP International Development and Author of "Lessons from Aceh"
- John Twigg - Department of Engineering, UCL
- Ben Wisner - Aon-Benfield Hazard Research Centre, UCL; Oberlin College, Author "At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters" (Routledge, 2004)
Moderator: Cassidy
Johnson - Development Planning Unit, UCL
Location:
Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, Room BO2 (this is off site
from UCL main campus) Click
to see the map
Date: Tuesday 16th March 2010
17.30-19.00
Linking House and
Home: Reflections from the Global South
Speaker: Dr
Katherine Gough
Department of Geography
University of
Copenhagen, Denmark
Location:
Room 101, DPU Building
Date: Wednesday 24th February 2010
17.30-19.00
Popular Knowledge
Systems and Agriculture in West Africa
Speaker:
Jake Dan-Azumi.
PhD Student
Development Planning Unit
Location:
Room 101, DPU Building
Date: Thursday 11 February 2010
13.00-14.00
Affordable Housing and Neighborhood Upgrading: The Latin American Experience
Speaker: Eduardo Rojas.
Principal Urban Development Specialist
Inter-American Development Bank
Location: Room 101, DPU Building
Date: Tuesday 9 February 2010
17.30-19.00
>>>Past Events Term I - 2009
The Copenhagen ultimatum: It's Now or Never
Speaker: Nithi Nesadurai.
Coordinator of the Malaysian Climate Change Group
Location: Room 101, DPU Building
Date: Wednesday 2nd December 2009
17.30-19.00
The
Fading Away of the Modernist Paradigm and its Repercussions on Planning
Theory and Practice in the Asia Pacific Region: a Personal View
Speaker: Arif Hasan.
Chair, Orangi Pilot Project, Pakistan
Location: Room 101, DPU Building
Date: Tuesday 1st December 2009
17.30-19.00
India's Urban
Transformation: From Challenge to Opportunity
Speaker: Aromar Revi.
Director, Indian Institute of Human Settlements
(IIHS)
Location: Gavin De Beer LT.
Medical Sciences & Anatomy, Gower Street
Date: Wednesday 18th November 2009
17.30-19.00
Investigating the Role of the Culture in the Development of the Urban Built Environment
Speaker: Paul Jenkins.
Professor of Architecture and Human Settlement
School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Location: Room 101, DPU Building
Date: Thursday 12th November 2009
17.30-19.00
The Myopia of Long-term City Visioning: Locating Poor People's Economic Activities in Understandings of Urban Economic Growth
Speaker: Colin Marx.
Lecturer, Human Geography, Kingston University
Location: Room 101, DPU Building
Date: Thursday 5th November 2009
17.30-19.00
Real Estate Market, Urban Policy and the Entrepreneurial Ideology in Santiago de Chile's Urban Renewal
Speaker: Ernesto Lopez-Morales.
Faculty of Architecture and Planning, University of Chile
Location: Room 101, DPU Building
Date: Thursday 22nd October 2009
17.30-19.00
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