The rapidly growing number of people moving into cities all over the world presents a challenge of unprecedented size. It is crucial to find ways to make urbanisation a source for wealth, health and sustainability – which is shared. Mistra Urban Futures arranges Annual Conferences about Realising Just Cities, which are hosted at our research platforms.
The 2018 conference will take place in Cape Town, South Africa and focus on comparative co-production and how we jointly can address global urban challenges. The conference intends to share and reflect on a selection of the comparative projects that have been co-produced in Mistra Urban Futures’ second phase.
Can the SDGs be used to mitigate local challenges? The recent water supply crisis in Shimla, a city in the foothills of Himalaya, has made our Indian partners in Nagrika, Yutika Vora and Tarun Sharma, think about the role of the SDGs.
UN-Habitat's Executive Director Maimunah Mohd Sharif opened Mistra Urban Futures' and The New School's side-event at the UN High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) in July.
The HLPF was about the outcome and achievements so far of some of the Sustainable Development Goals, including the 'Urban Goal', SDG 11. 'We have the knowledge', David Simon said in his opening presentation. It is time to focus more on action, to go from 'what' to 'how'.
Mistra Urban Futures and The Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield are delighted to welcome three new members to the team. Charlie Spring (left) and Kristina Diprose (right) are both research associates working at the Sheffield-Manchester Local Interaction Platform funded by Mistra Urban Futures. Charlie will support the Self Organising Action for Food Equity Project and Kristina will support work around the Sustainable Development Goals. Ione Hine is the Research Impact Officer for the ESRC funded Jam and Justice Project.
An international team of social science researchers, including Mistra Urban Futures Director David Simon just published 'Urban Transformative Potential in Changing Climate' in Nature Climate Change. The researchers propose a number of actions within five areas, to the benefit of both practitioners and researchers. l
Many global development challenges and issues were raised during the DevRes2018 conference, such as digitalisation, food security, health, immaterial rights and the need for a 'post-development' shift, including 'pluriverse perspectives'. Mistra Urban Futures Director David Simon delivered a keynote speech.
Mistra Urban Futures colleagues from all platforms working within the ‘Urban Food Security and Value Chain’ project met prior to the DevRes conference to discuss challenges of conceptualising food systems using comparative co-production methods. The project is one of the comparative projects that is part of the ambitious research agenda for 'just cities'. and presented diverse food systems perspectives in a panel session.
Mistra Urban Futures is an international research and knowledge Centre for sustainable urban development. We believe that the co-production of knowledge is a winning concept for achieving sustainable urban futures and creating accessible, green and fair cities.
