Urban Nexus 8
The Urban Nexus: disparities between citizens and users
Ralitsa Hiteva from SPRU at the University of Sussex spoke on ‘disparities between citizens and users’ at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop on 12 May 2016. Here is the text of her presentation: This intervention is ‘inspired’ by a feeling of uneasiness that comes with thinking about what is being disassembled when different […]
The Urban Nexuses of Social Injustice
Dunu Roy, from Hazards International, Delhi spoke on The Urban Nexuses of Social Injustice at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop on 12 May 2016. Read the full paper here DunuRoy_UrbanNexusesofInjustice_May2016Brighton Dunu Roy says The present nexus of resource use is clearly unsustainable and unjust. The use of superior and more efficient technologies is only […]
How can networks, relationships and community help solutions to poverty and sustainability?
Bella Wheeler from the Brighton Unemployed Families Project spoke at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop on 12 May 2016. Neoliberal discourse puts emphasis on individual behaviour change as the solution to issues of poverty and sustainability but in an increasingly interconnected world, ideas of ‘the individual’ are inadequate for addressing what are understood to […]
Stairways to heaven: the urban nexus in Lima
Adriana Allen, Professor of Development Planning and Urban Sustainability, University College London, UK, spoke on Beyond urban risk traps? Seeking the nexus through the everyday, at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop on 12 May 2016. In the informal settlements on the edges of cities like Lima, a sizeable number of women and men struggle […]
A scale perspective on the urban nexus
Liz Varga from Cranfield University, UK, spoke on A scale perspective on the ‘urban nexus’: the integration of different scales of infrastructure system at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop on 12 May 2016. Infrastructure systems have unique design characteristics that often lead to inertia and constrained future innovation. Is there potential for new forms […]
Urban infrastructure landscape and the politics of dwelling
Vanesa Castan Broto, University College London, UK, spoke on Urban infrastructure landscape and the politics of dwelling at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop on 12 May 2016. Vanesa outlined an attempt to rethink theoretical approaches to understand how infrastructure relates to processes of urbanization in the city. Taking a landscape perspective on dwelling practices, […]
Unpacking and re-assembling the urban nexus
Tim Moss, Guest Professor in the Integrative Research Institute on the Transformation of Human-Environment Systems at the Humboldt University of Berlin, spoke on ‘Unpacking and re-assembling the ‘urban nexus’: a socio-technical perspective on urban infrastructures’ at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop. Tim spoke on the aspirations and critical questions of nexus thinking; the meanings […]
Sustainable and healthy food – views from the city of Brighton and Hove
The Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop was held on 12 and 13 May 2016 at the University of Sussex. Around 60 people were involved and took stock of what kind of plural understandings of ‘urban nexuses’ are emerging, produced by (partnerships between) activists, communities, think tanks, corporations, and multilateral organizations, natural scientists, humanities scholars and […]
