Bartlett Publics: Pluralising
Bartlett Publics: Pluralising seeks to facilitate cross-learning on the principles and practices of international engagement better able to catalyse universities’ ‘public’ role and societal relevance.
Past events
Universities’ Role in Tackling the Climate Emergency: A ‘Glocal’ Perspective
15 November 2023
“The climate emergency will be addressed in and through cities!” This oft-repeated assertion is confronted in practice with the ambiguity of cities and urban areas’ relationship with the environment: at once exhausting ecosystems within and beyond their boundaries and spearheading innovative responses to escalating environmental crises. In this ambiguous – and existential - context, what is the role of universities, and built environment faculties specifically? Put another way, what does it mean for universities to truly take the climate emergency seriously?
Bringing in conversation Bartlett and international colleagues, this online seminar will interrogate the role universities can play as ‘glocal’ (simultaneously global and local) actors, with societal responsibility in the context of the climate emergency. It will explore implications for universities’s key functions - teaching, research and public engagement.
Speakers
- Amollo Ambole (Inaugural Program Director at African Mayoral Leadership Initiative)
- Aromar Revi (Indian Institute for Human Settlements)
- Priti Parikh (The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London)
- Tristan McCowan (Institute of Education, University College London)
Practising ethics in international engagement
24 January 2023
A webinar to discuss and rethink how we engage ethically within academia, with the public and private sectors, activists, NGOs and others, in and through international engagement.
‘Ethics’ is at the heart of our teaching & learning, research, and public engagement - or so it should be. Yet in practice, ethics too often gets addressed primarily through the lens of procedural requirements, which provide only partial guidance for thinking through the critical questions of who we engage with, for what purpose(s), and on what terms. Thinking and practising ethics in international engagement, moreover, raises additional challenges related to inequalities in the political economy of producing and accessing knowledge. How, then, can we co-construct ethical principles and practices in international engagement that contribute to addressing systemic inequalities? What are the levers of change we can individually and collectively push to expand our ethical practice in, and through, our teaching/learning, research, and public engagement?
Speakers
- Jane Rendell (The Bartlett School of Architecture)
- Maha Shuayb (University of Cambridge)
- Adriana Allen (The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, Habitat International Coalition)
- Wilbard Kombe (Ardhi University)
Chair
Barbara Lipietz (The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, Vice-Dean International)
Works referenced
Allen, A., Wesely, J., Blanes, P., Brandolini, F., Enet, M., Iacovini, R.F.G., Fassina, R., Flores Pacheco, B., Medina, G., Muniz, A. and Pérez, S., 2022. 'Crafting urban equality through grassroots critical pedagogies: weave, sentipensar, mobilize, reverberate, emancipate'. Environment and Urbanization, 34(2), pp.446-464
Broto, V.C., Ortiz, C., Lipietz, B., Osuteye, E., Johnson, C., Kombe, W., Mtwangi-Limbumba, T., Macías, J.C., Desmaison, B., Hadny, A. and Kisembo, T., 2022. 'Co-production outcomes for urban equality: Learning from different trajectories of citizens' involvement in urban change'. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, 4, p.100179.
Padan, Y., 2020. Researching Architecture and Urban Inequality: Toward Engaged Ethics. Architecture and Culture, 8(3-4), pp.484-497.
Rendell, J., 2020. 'Hotspots and touchstones: From critical to ethical spatial practice'. Architecture and Culture, 8(3-4), pp.407-419. DOI: 10.1080/20507828.2020.1792107
Roberts, D., Rendell, J., Padan, Y., Markowitz, A. and Osuteye, E., 2022. 'Practising ethics: guides for built environment research. The Journal of Architecture, pp.1-35.
Shuayb, M. and Brun, C., 2021. 'Carving out space for equitable collaborative research in protracted displacement'. Journal of Refugee Studies, 34(3), pp.2539-2553.
Partnerships in education research: A journey of unequal relations. By Maha Shuayb and Mai Abu Moghli
Practising ethics
Designed and produced by David Roberts, curated and edited by Jane Rendell.
See especially the Guides to Ethical Research Practice: https://www.practisingethics.org/practices
The Blind Spot: A Study on the Ethical Dilemmas that Senior Leaders and Experts Face in Collaborations Designed to Address Grand Challenges. By Dr Efrosyni Konstantinou
What role for the university in bringing about just sustainable futures?
23 June 2022
A conversation on the ‘public’ role of the university in a world of intersecting, ‘glocal’ (global/local) crises, with speakers at the interface of theory and activism from diverse and interlinked geographies. The session was held as part of the Annual Development Studies Association conference.
Speakers
• Franciso de Assis Comarú (Federal University of ABC)
• Mona Harb (American University of Beirut)
• Zarina Patel (University of Cape Town)
• Neha Sami (Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS)
Chair
Barbara Lipietz (The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, Vice-Dean International)