The Urban Political delves into contemporary urban issues with activists, scholars and policy-makers from around the world. In this episode, we discuss the Infrastructural Times. This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between temporality, infrastructure, and urban society.

- Urban Political podcast on Spotify

On November 5th, I’ll be presenting at the Cambridge City Seminar. In this talk, I draw on our collaborative research in Kenya to explore how the periphery increasingly becomes a networked space at the intersections of social, infrastructural, and digital exclusions from the city. Using the example of Kajiado, we can see how the informational periphery comes into being—marked by both geographic and informational distance from the state—and can be drawn near through citizen-led digitalisation initiatives.

- Cambridge City Seminar 24/25

I’m excited to announce that the project proposal ‘Digitalising commons: transformative technologies for land justice’, has been selected for funding by the UCL Research Progression Award (UKRI). I’ll be working together with Faith Alubbe (Kenya Land Alliance), Isaac Tobico (Nareto Latia) and Catherine Gateri (BIEA). The aim of this project is to co-create information systems that address the tensions between land justice and the digital technologies designed for land administrations in Kajiado, Kenya. 

The Observatorio Metropolitano de Agua para Lima-Callao (The Observatorio) is the result of this collaboration. As a co-produced digital observatory for water and data justice, funded by the Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality program, the platform is nearing completion. They are a national network made up of local government and civil society organizations to raise awareness, facilitate and promote consultation spaces to develop and manage Agenda 21 in Peruvian cities and to build capacities to support it.

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‘Dialogical spaces for a diverse university’ was one of the initiatives supported by the 2020 UT Incentive Fund. Our podcast launched on October 7, 2021 with its first episode during the University of Twente's Diversity Week. You can listen to all seven episodes on Spotify, Google Podcast, or Apple Pod. It is hosted by Fenna Imara Hoefsloot and Ana Maria Bustamante Duarte, produced by Sara Trejos from Sillón Estudios, and and only possible through the participation of very interesting and special external speakers and the University of Twente community.

— UToday article

— Dialogical Spaces website

In this first episode of Geoversity podcast, Brad Hillas and I talk about my PhD research, which was titled Knowledge Infrastructures for Just Urban Futures - A Case of Water Governance in Lima, Peru. 

- Geoversity.io