[divider]
Around 60 people took part in the Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop on 12 and 13 May at the University of Sussex in Brighton.
Speakers drew inspiration from cities across the world to address the topic of ‘Nexuses of the Urban: Interactions between water, energy and food provision for sustainable cities’.
We are grateful to the speakers for allowing us to publish their content on the Nexus Network website. So if you were not able to attend the event, here is a flavour of the topics covered:
- Keynote speaker Dunu Roy from Hazards International, Delhi, spoke on The Urban Nexuses of Social Injustice
- Emily O’Brien from the Brighton and Hove Food Partnership, spoke on Sustainable and healthy food – views from the city of Brighton and Hove
- Bella Wheeler from the Brighton Unemployed Families Project asked How can networks, relationships and community help solutions to poverty and sustainability?
- Vanesa Castan Broto from University College London spoke on Urban infrastructure landscape and the politics of dwelling
- Tim Moss from Humboldt University of Berlin, looked at Unpacking and re-assembling the ‘urban nexus’: a socio-technical perspective on urban infrastructures.
- Liz Varga from Cranfield University addressed A scale perspective on the ‘urban nexus’: the integration of different scales of infrastructure system.
- Adriana Allen from University College London spoke on Stairways to heaven: the urban nexus in Lima
Following the event, people were inspired to explore the meanings of the Urban Nexus further, in a number of blog posts:
- Fiona Marshall from the STEPS Centre and Ritu Priya from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi published a blog on the STEPS Centre website on ‘Why we need to reveal the hidden connections at the heart of cities.’
- Suzanne Fisher-Murray posted Making visible the hidden cogs of the urban nexus on the STEPS Centre website.
For more details of the event, see the Urban Nexus webpage.