Wandering around public space and migration: a comparative gesture
A Socially Just Planning seminar.
Wandering around public space and migration: a comparative gesture
11 May 2021, 12:30 – 13:30
Contemporary interrogations have generated a rich albeit divided body of work on what urban public spaces are, and of what is happening within them today. This talk unfolds the intersection of public space and migration by reflecting upon the diverse yet fragmented corpus and experiences related to public space practices and ethnographies. i.e. The public space making in Mathare slum (Nairobi), the public space research in Dharavi (Mumbai), and other observations in Paris (France). As part of the comparative chapter of the dissertation, this talk echoes the call for a comparative gesture to foreground multiple learning methods from elsewhere and from below.
Min TANG is an urbanist and finalising her PhD at KU Leuven (Belgium) and Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (France). Her research interest lies in the pluralistic and inclusive urbanism within a more general question of 'living together in the urban'. The focal themes are neighbourhood transformation, public space-making and youthful collective life. Her multi-sites engagements are essentially in underprivileged urban settlements in Asia and Africa, and more recently, in refugee encampments in Paris.
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