Ethical and Power Dynamics in Urban Co-Production and Re-examining Boundaries
- Date
- Tuesday 12 November 2024, 10:00 - 15:10
- Registration
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Join us for an engaging session that challenges conventional best practices in participatory urban planning, fostering critical thinking on the ethical, moral, and practical dimensions of co-production. Through real-world cases and practical experiences, we’ll explore how to navigate power dynamics and limitations inherent in participatory urbanism. By examining both successes and failures, we aim to continuously ask, "What’s next?" and develop strategies for more effective, equitable, and just urban planning.
Hosted by the Œcumene Spaces For Dignity team, this workshop highlights a decade of work in the MENA region and Africa, showcasing the complexities of urban development through participatory practices. Looking at "Ethical Tinkering," a process of hands-on learning and reflection to refine urban co-production methodologies. Oecumene's approach emphasizes the need to address ethics and values in every urban planning phase.
Key Questions:
- How do limitations in urban settings drive changes that restructure the built environment and influence societal behaviour and policy?
- How can spatial practices reimagine sustainable urban futures through addressing old and new limitations?
- How can participatory urban planning integrate diverse perspectives while honouring shared values, ethical considerations, and social contracts?
| Itinerary | |
|---|---|
| 09.45 am | Registration and refreshments |
| 10.00 am | Introduction – Gehan Selim |
| 10.10 am | Unpacking urban realities: Ethical Co-production in Action - Insaf Ben Othmane H. and Layla Zibar |
| 11.10 am | Comfort break |
| 11.25 am | Collaborative visioning: Shaping urban futures through Hands-on Engagement |
| 12.15 pm | Lunch break |
| 13.15 pm | Addressing limitations and power dynamics (Discussion) - Nassar Tareq & Rasha Arous |
| 14.15 pm | Building the Blueprint: Crafting Co-production Strategies for lasting impact |
| 14.50 pm | Reflect, Connect and act: Final takeaways for Ethical urbanism – Insaf Ben Othmane H. |
| 15.10 pm | Close |
Please register here by 16:00 on 7 November 2024 to secure your place.
Insaf Ben Othmane is Oecumene Spaces for Dignity Founder Architect, Urban Strategist and Researcher.
Chaired by Gehan Selim, Deputy Director of the Leeds Social Sciences Institute and Hoffman Wood Professor of Architecture at the University of Leeds.