You are invited to The 2020 School of Cities Urban Leadership Fellowship and Academy Virtual Research Festival! 

A weekly webinar series showcasing the School of Cities fellows and academy members’ engaged research, virtual simulations, social impact and creative projects.

Student fellows and academy members will present original and interdisciplinary research projects and the impact they have made through their research, social interventions and practice in this Virtual Research Festival, 9 webinar series, from September 24, 2020 to October 30, 2020. Free and open to all.

The School of Cities Urban Leadership Fellowship and Academy is a tri-campus interdisciplinary academic platform to foster student academic and civic engagement and leadership in city-building and urban scholarship. The Fellowship program and The Academy, structured around thematic working groups on critical urban challenges based on students' interest and research focus, provide an opportunity for ethical research, compelling conversations and interventions on critical urban challenges and issues, and in different fora of civic and social engagement. Our students are current U of T students with strong interest in and passion for cities and urban critical challenges, who have led an innovative and impactful project in 2019/2020.

Convener: Prof. Marieme Lo, Associate Director, Education, education.sofc@utoronto.ca

WORLD CITIES DAY

Friday, October 30, 2020
1:30pm – 2:10pm

Join us to mark and reflect on World Cities Day! 

Join our students and virtual community in a collective visioning exercise, “My City- My Story: One City, One Word” event. The aim of this naming and visioning exercise is to bring together diverse communities,  reflect on the symbolism of the day, share stories, and identify  a critical urban challenge, concern or excitement about one city that you are passionate about. Free and open to all and all languages.
 

REGISTER IN ADVANCE FOR THIS EVENT

PAST SESSIONS

SESSION 3 Friday, September 25, 2020 11:00am – 12:30pm
Session Details	Presenter	Presentation Title
	Mischa Young	The True Cost of Sharing: a Detour Penalty Analysis Between UberPool and UberX Trips in Toronto
	Judy Perpose	Rebuilding Toronto's Gig Economy: Reimagining Social Policy for Vulnerable Workers and Precarious Work
	Lubna Alli, Thomas Elias Siddall, Victoria McCutcheon, Brittany Livingston, Ali Sajid Cities of Inequality, Urban Solidarities, and Community Activism

SESSION 6 Friday, October 16, 2020 2:30pm – 4:00pm Special guest: Professor Shauna Brail, Associate Professor Institute for Management & Innovation, University of Toronto
Session Details	Presenter	Presentation Title
	Michael Cameron McCulloch	Beyond Bike Lanes: Cycling Exclusive Infrastructure for Safer, More Sustainable Cities
	Martha Cabaero, Arina Dmitrenko, Rahemeen Ahmed, Aurora Bolianatz and Elisabetta Campagnola Infrastructure and Design / Design, Technology and Urbanism
	Ze Xi (Jessica) Ye	Sim George: Toronto From Home
	Christine Balt  Creative Cities: Cultural Growth in Complex Adaptive Cities	The Alternative Maps Project: How Artists Can Help Us Imagine Livelier and Greener Toronto After COVID-19