Annual Conference Sheffield Manchester. What came next story. New Publications. Videos. Events. |
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4th Annual Conference in Sheffield, UK– lessons learned, impacts and outcomes 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. Our 4th Annual Realising Just Cities Conference was held in Sheffield, UK, 13- 18 October and focused on lessons,
impacts and outcomes of our ten years of experience. Mistra Urban Futures
has co-produced knowledge and action to support sustainable urban development
across cities in the Global North and South.
Our 2019 conference was hosted by
the Sheffield-Manchester
Local Interaction Platform and included representatives from partner
cities in Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Gothenburg, Kisumu, Malmö, Shimla, and
Stockholm. The comparative projects met
and worked on the final conclusions and outcomes such as books, policy briefs and
articles and in workshops.
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Mistra Urban Futures' new film – covering ten yearsIn connection with our Annual Conference Realising Just Cities in Sheffield-Manchester we have launched a video which sums up the work Mistra Urban Futures have done, in 7 countries, our partnerships, projects, publications, policy briefs and much more. We have over 40 partners worldwide.
Our contribution is to generate knowledge through co-creation across disciplines and between academics and practice at local and global levels in different research projects. Watch our recently launched video about our knowledge and research centre Mistra Urban Futures for urban sustainable development covering the years 2010 - 2019 below.
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Blogs from site-visits in Sheffield & Manchester
The delegation in Sheffield arranged well
planned site-visits in both Sheffield and Manchester. Several rapporteurs
produced blog-posts from the visits around the two cities. One group
viewed the highlights of “New and Old Sheffield”. Others took a tour of Kelham
Island, the birth place of social justice activist Mary Anne Rawson (1801–1887) and
winner of the UK & Ireland Urbanism Award “Great Neighbourhood” category
(2019). Other groups made excursions on the topics of climate change, energy supply
or to Heeley city farm.
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Blog "Cities stepping up the game"On 24 September Sylvia Croese, from Cape Town Local Platform, attended the second High Level Local and Regional Government Forum which took place on the sidelines of the UN SDG Summit. While the SDG Summit, the first to take place under the auspices of the UN General Assembly since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, counted with the participation of Heads of State and Government.The Local Forum featured the participation of local and regional government leaders, networks and their partners to showcase results on SDG implementation. Sylvia Croese's current research is about governance, localisation and implementation of global urban policies. She is the local researcher in Mistra Urban Futures´ comparative SDG project.
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What came next: Urban Agriculture creates sustainable food production and new work opportunitiesRapidly growing cities set new demands for sustainable food production. The ‘Green Production’ at the Gothenburg Platform focused on urban agriculture and has made contributions to developing new business models. The ‘Foodmaker’ course has been popular among both professional chefs, restaurant owners, food and sustainability interested people and civil servants.
“Small scale food-production increases the attraction of the farming areas and surroundings and creates a larger biological diversity. That is something tourists and citizens alike are interested in. We need to make food-production more visible in the city. It is very pedagogical for the consumer to see and learn about the whole process”, Martin Berg, project leader says.
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Theory and Practice in Urban ResearchIn March 2020, the new book "Comparative Urban Research – From Theory to Practice" will be published by Policy Press. It is a book about the innovative transdisciplinary research that has been the hallmark of Mistra Urban Futures for the past few years. The book is authored by 24 project members of our international comparative projects, researchers as well as practitioners, and edited by David Simon, Henrietta Palmer and Jan Riise. It covers topics such as neighbourhood transformation, housing justice, sustainable urban and
transport development, urban food security and cultural heritage. It will be freely available for download as Open Access. So
stay tuned!
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Sara Brorström: "Best Paper Award"Sara Brorström, PhD, University of Gothenburg and one of Mistra Urban Futures’ researchers in Gothenburg, was recently presented with a Best Paper Award for the 2018 article “How Numbers of the Future are Shaping Today: The Role of Foreceasts and Calculations in Public Sector Strategic Thinking”, published in the Financial Accountability and Management Journal (Scotland).
The article examines the role of numbers in forming a city strategy in the case of Gothenburg, Sweden. It illustrates how numbers make people act and react and shape the strategy process. The effect is paradoxical: the future‐looking strategy process becomes a forum for solving current problems. |
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When writing matters – Exploring writing as inquiryNew course within Urban Futures Open Research School running Urban Futures Open Research School started in November a shorter course on writing. The PhD course is aimed for PhD students, post-docs and professionals from practice. The course entitles the participants 4.5 ECTS.
Urban Futures Open Research School has since its start in 2017 held the popular PhD course Co-producing knowledge in transdisciplinary research – From practice to theory (2x7,5 ECTS) twice. Focus has been on transdisciplinary research and co-production – an approach where researchers and practitioners take on complex societal challenges together. 12 persons participated in November.
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The Stockholmnode: initiatives working with co-creation
What is the current state in Stockholm on co-creation for sustainable urban development? The Stockholm node of Mistra Urban Futures began mapping and investigating initiatives working with co-creation for social-ecological sustainability all over the Stockholm region.
Over 150 different processes were found. 26 of these were analysed in detail according to levels in involvement of participating actors, and the levels of complexity awareness with regards to co-creation displayed by their operations. The investigation showed that less than half conducted co-creation in a structured way by using deliberate strategies, methods or tools to facilitate the process. Those who did structure their co-creation process had little in common.
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New: Localisation of the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable
Development Goals in Cape Town
The research on
the comparative project ‘Implementing the New Urban Agenda (NUA) and the
Sustainable Development Goals: comparative urban perspectives’ in Cape Town is
based on an agreement between the City of Cape Town and the African Centre for
Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town under the Mistra Urban Futures’
Knowledge Transfer Partnership, which has been running since 2016. As part of
this, the City’s Policy and Strategy Department hosted Sylvia Croese as an
‘embedded researcher’ between 2017 and 2019.
Read the new report below. |
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28 March: Rethinking Higher Education Where: Gotehnburg, Wallenbergs Conference Centre. Organiser: University of Gothenburg, Chalmers University of Technology; Karolinska Institutet (KI)
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