What a wonderful week we had at #UTADo2026 in Addis Ababa, hosted by the Urban Center. Looking forward to future editions!
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We closed #UTADo2026 by watching the beautiful documentary #MadeinEthiopia at the Goethe Institut. The documentary sparked debates on capitalism and its scalar violences, geopolitics and much more @acc-uct.bsky.social
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#UTADo2026 visited the Yimtubezina Museum where we learnt its history and its significance as a space that reflects public–private interaction, negotiation, and coexistence. We also caught their current exhibition @acc-uct.bsky.social
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A lively discussion on Energy, Finance and Technology in African Cities between Biniyam Bekele of FCDO and Henol Assefa of Precise Ethiopia moderat d by Liza Rose Cirolia #UTADo2026 @acc-uct.bsky.social
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#UTADo2026 writing track participants closed off the wee by discussing the peer review process: how to receive, analyse, work with and respond to reviews. They also developed the plan towards developing the papers they have been working on this week. @acc-uct.bsky.social @urbanstudiesfoundation.org
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Sylvia Croese’s keynote on Gradualism as it manifests in political governance and development projects across Angola. Chaired by Biruk Terrefe #UTADo2026 @acc-uct.bsky.social
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#UTADo2026 writing track participants discussing common paper structures before delving into drafting their paper abstracts based on discussion from previous day guided by Sylvia Croese and Liza Rose Cirolia @acc-uct.bsky.social @urbanstudiesfoundation.org
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Matthew Wakhungu of #KDI interactive session on projects of repair and corrective approaches to unjust urban life. Participants discussed what urban peripheries they interact with in their work #UTADo2026 @acc-uct.bsky.social
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Exploring #AddisAbaba through the Feeling/walking the city session of #UTADo2026 @acc-uct.bsky.social
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#UTADo2026 participants brought in their amazing research projects into the spaces. @acc-uct.bsky.social
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Wangui Kimari’s keynote on Water, Coloniality, Disobedience in which she walked us through the history of Nairobi through water. Using Flow, Foe and Folly she showed us the colonial logics of developmental urbanism. Chaired by Sylvia Croese #UTADo2026 @acc-uct.bsky.social
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Mentoring session spiced up with practicality of how practitioners from the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) work with different data for development. @acc-uct.bsky.social
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Biruk Terrefe gave a brilliant keynote on the politics of water through the different ontologies that crystallize its meanings from chemical properties to geopolitics. @acc-uct.bsky.social @terrefebiruk.bsky.social
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Archiving the city session exposed us to various ways Addis Ababa practitioners are navigating against the current of erasures. Panel: Endrias Teklu (Andimta), Salem Mekuria (Generational Perspectives), Daniel Temesgen ግምጃ. Chaired by Maheder Gebremedhin @acc-uct.bsky.social
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Second day of #UTADo2026, Keynote by Iromi Perera on their work in Colombo, advocating for a Just City. Insightful lessons on Urban Food, Injustices caused by different ‘modern’ infrastructure projects and the work by communities to gap fill after @colombourbanlab.bsky.social @acc-uct.bsky.social
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Grounding ourselves through Yousuf Al Bulushi’s Keynote on Fanon in the City #UTADo2026 @acc-uct.bsky.social
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Laying the basis for the week by discussing what is Southern Orientation? Led by Wangui Kimari
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Let the day break!
A lovely start of our 2026 UTA-Do workshop in Addis Ababa! #UTADo2026
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