Highlights from the 2020 School of Cities Urban Leadership Fellowship and Academy Virtual Research Festival!
Convener: Prof. Marieme Lo, Associate Director, Education, education.sofc@utoronto.ca
PAST SESSIONS
SESSION 1Thursday, September 24
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Sydney Narciso Wilson |
Between These Walls: How has the collapsed spatiality of COVID-19 created a new and gendered experience of 'Home’ |
Minh-Anh (Mia) NguyenGlobal Urbanism |
The Labour Dilemma in China’s Digital Industrialisation | |
Tzu Chen Wang |
Solutions to the Small Business Affordability Crisis? |
SESSION 2Thursday, September 24, 2020
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Philip Lu |
Simulating Autonomous Vehicle Fleets in Toronto |
Hikmat JamalSustainable Cities |
City & Crumpets |
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Naziha NasrinGlobal Urbanism |
Women's Everyday Struggles for Water Access in Dhaka |
SESSION 3Friday, September 25, 2020
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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 |
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Lubna Alli, Thomas Elias Siddall, Victoria McCutcheon, Brittany Livingston, Ali SajidCities of Inequality, Urban Solidarities, and Community Activism |
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SESSION 4Friday, September 25, 2020
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Ryan Khurana |
Toronto’s Smart City Future Post-Sidewalk Labs |
Atif KhanGlobal Urbanism |
Surveillance Cities | |
James K Gibb |
Sexual and Gender Minority Health Vulnerabilities during the COVID-19 Health Crisis | |
Lloyd McArton |
From the Outside In: Conversations with GTA Indie Musicians |
SESSION 5Thursday, October 8, 2020
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Ivee Yiyao Wang |
Alternative Concrete | |
Qin WangGlobal Urbanism |
Understanding Urban Informality Through Urban Food Systems and Water in Lima | |
Garrett T. Morgan |
Get with the Post-Pandemic Program: De-siloing Graduate Education in Planning, Public Health, and Architecture in Response to COVID-19 | |
Catherine LuCreative Cities: Cultural Growth in Complex Adaptive Cities |
A Multiplicity of Stories | |
Conroy T. Gomes |
Creative Activism: The Role of Art in Oppression and the City |
SESSION 6Friday, October 16, 2020
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Michael Cameron McCulloch |
Beyond Bike Lanes: Cycling Exclusive Infrastructure for Safer, More Sustainable Cities | |
Martha Cabaero, Arina Dmitrenko, Rahemeen Ahmed, Aurora Bolianatz and Elisabetta CampagnolaInfrastructure and Design / Design, Technology and Urbanism |
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Ze Xi (Jessica) Ye |
Sim George: Toronto From Home | |
Christine BaltCreative Cities: Cultural Growth in Complex Adaptive Cities |
The Alternative Maps Project: How Artists Can Help Us Imagine Livelier and Greener Toronto After COVID-19 |
SESSION 7Friday, October 23, 2020
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Daniel Tse |
Place Identity: Urban Water and the Anthropocene | |
Jigme Lhamo Tsering |
Compassion & Empathy: Contributing to a Community of Care using Tibetan Buddhist Philosophies | |
Kandeel Imran |
The Impact of COVID-19 on Immigrant-owned food businesses in Toronto's suburbs | |
Semilore Ajayi |
Missing Links: The effects of homelessness and unemployment on Youth in Nigeria |
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Rushay Naik |
Geneva: The “Infrastructure” of Peace? Contextualizing Urban and Political Geographies of Global Peacemaking in the City of Diplomacy |
SESSION 8Friday, October 23, 2020
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Ntombi Nkiwane & Sophia Zekiros |
Privatization of diagnostic laboratories in Kenya and South Africa and COVID-19 testing capacity | |
Michelle Verbeek |
Urban Disaster Risk & the Covid-19 Pandemic | |
Janelle Brady |
Black Mother's Community Research Project on the Schooling and Education Experiences for Black students | |
Amira Babeiti |
Global Sustainable Foods: Farmers Market |
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.
SESSION 9With guest ArtistsDenardo Hepburn, Storyteller and spoken word artist
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Adam El-Masri |
Cup Collective TO |
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Soukayna Remmal |
Sustainable Urbanization in Africa: Challenges and Policy Options | |
Evelyn Ascencio and Conroy GomesUrban Indigeneity/ Indigenous and Racialized Communities |
Community Organizing: Leading through Change |
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Closing and Virtual School of Cities Recognition Award! |
With performances from special guest artists!
Marieme Diop – Los Angeles based singer and songwriter
Marieme is a dynamic, innovative, buzzed about singer/songwriter with a presence at once as glamorous as she is brutally honest in her music. With music focused on themes of Self Love, Revolution, and Empowerment, this Senegalese-American songstress is making a name for herself with her signature sound featured on film and television and most recently as the voice of LinkedIn’s international campaign.
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Denardo Hepburn - Storyteller and spoken word artist original spoken words performance
Denardo Hepburn is a curious storyteller who explores the cross-sections of culture, humanity, expression, and art. He writes and performs poetry and prose celebrating blackness and Caribbean life; edits everything from books to essays to press releases; acts in stage plays with television and film aspirations; enjoys public speaking; produces; and is presently creating his debut podcast, which underscores the Bahamian diaspora in Canada and their successes, tribulations, and reasons for emigration. As a diasporic Bahamian in Toronto, Hepburn preserves The Bahamas’ culture through storytelling. His poetry mainly explores the juxtapositions of existence, blackness, Caribbean-ness, and modern-day life. In his quest to find his calling, he has served as a Foreign Service Officer, a Priority Manager, an Editor-in-Chief, and a Research Assistant, all while amassing provocative stories.