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Contested Knowledges for Just Urban Futures is a one-day seminar organised by Professors Tim May and Beth Perry at the University of Sheffield, which will take place on Tuesday 10th December at Channing Hall in Sheffield. The seminar is aimed at university academics engaged in urban reearch and practice and aims to explore the following question:

How does our commitment to just urban futures specifically manifest in practice, in the context of the wider co-productive turn and interest in different ideas about what it means to be an ‘engaged’ academic?

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An exhibition produced by Urban Institute researcher, Vicky Habermehl, Visiting Associate Liz Mason Deese and community researchers in Greater Manchester has been opened at the Manchester Central Library.

Read more about Whose Knowledge Matters Exhibition Opens as part of Manchester Histories Festival Peterloo 2019 Commemorations

Workshop: Thursday, January 31, 2019 - 18:00 to 20:00

Locaton: Anthony Burgess Foundation, Engine House Chorlton Mill 3 Cambridge Street, Manchester, M1 5BY

The workshop will take the form of a group discussion focused on participants' experience of engaging with plans, proposals and consultations. The 2016 Greater Manchester Spatial Framework (GMSF) and the newly released rewritten GMSF Jan (2019), provide the impetus to discuss citizens involvement in planning decisions.

Read more about Call for Participation: Workshop on Citizen Contributions to Spatial Planning

Read more about Joint Publication Launch

Valuing Urban Dissensus: Contested Knowledge Claims in Realising Just Cities, Call for Papers, RC21 Leeds, 11-13 Sep 2017

Read more about Call for Papers 'Valuing Urban Dissensus', RC21 Leeds

Contested Knowledges for Just Urban Futures

Whose Knowledge Matters Exhibition Opens as part of Manchester Histories Festival Peterloo 2019 Commemorations

Call for Participation: Workshop on Citizen Contributions to Spatial Planning

Joint Publication Launch

Call for Papers 'Valuing Urban Dissensus', RC21 Leeds