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STADTKOLLOQUIUM  February 2012

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Stadt-colloquia Feb 16

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Regan Koch <[log in to unmask]>

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Hi all,

We've got a nice colloquia session lined up for February. We'll be meeting
this coming Thursday, 16 Feb from 4-6pm in G07 Pearson Building, UCL. Two
doctoral students will be presenting some of their recent work--Sean Knox
from Durham University and Sobia Kaker from Newcastle University (see
abstracts below). A discussion/Q&A will follow each and then we'll head to
the pub for a drink. It's a great chance to meet a few other urban-related
postgrads, see what kind of work other people are up to, and socialize a
bit.

Hope to see you there,


Regan Koch
UCL Department of Geography


Abstract I:

Laboratories of Assembling: Experimentalism and Regeneration in
Newcastle-Gateshead. Sean Knox, Durham University.

In this paper I offer an account of the (re-)making of urban futures in
Newcastle-Gateshead. I do so by examining the emergence, composition and
enacting of the '1PLAN' - a spatial and economic master-plan for
Newcastle-Gateshead – which acts as a heuristic device for the assembling
of urban futures. In the paper I develop three entangled orientations to
understanding such processes. First, I conceive the making of the '1PLAN'
as emerging from and as driven by an array of urban desires, whose roots
are geographically diverse, politically embedded and that act as the
productive force of assembling. Second, I construct the doing of the
'1PLAN' as a set of creative and calculative experimental practices
situated in laboratories of assembling. In doing so, I visit the
laboratories of the architect, planner and regeneration officer as a means
to describe the taking-place of the differing experimental modes through
which the urban is learnt, known and produced. Third, I emphasise the role
that technologies and their artefacts – here I am thinking, among others,
of physical models, virtual models, visualisations, commercial feasibility
and institutional reports - play in the constructing of urban futures.
Specifically, I highlight their function as tools of learning and devices
of persuasion that enact and reflect urban desires. As means of
illustration I story the moments in which the three orientations are
entangled in the assembling of the '1PLAN'.

ABSTRACT II

Reflections from Fieldwork: Space, Security and Circulation in an
Archipelago of Enclaves.  Sobia A. Kaker

Using different types of enclaves (enclosed neighbourhoods, gated
communities, and ethnic/sectarian enclaves in informal settlements) as the
lens of analysis, Karachi is seen as a fractured city where space
(political and social) is highly contested, security is an imperative (and
an obsession), and circulation creates paradoxes of inclusion and
exclusion, security and insecurity, openness and restriction. The city is
a flashpoint of various forms of violence, which are wholly attributed to
sectarian, ethnic, and political violence.

This presentation dissects space, security and circulation in selected
enclaves of Karachi. The internal dynamics are put in context of external
dynamics to understand contests of space at the local, national, and
international level. The argument presented is that a careful analysis of
the spatial structure of the city, and closer attention to the geography
and politics in different enclaves might offer an alternative approach to
viewing violence in Karachi as the eruption of tensions in space, security
and circulation in the city. At a wider level, the presentation will aim
to highlight the manner in which cities are evolving in today’s globalised
world as fractured entities which become sites of local, national and
geopolitical struggles.

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