Smart Eco Cities

[Smart Eco Cities @SmartEcoCities]

Paranoid urbanism and 15-minute cities. From debate, to discussions over coffee, and now a year and a half later veyr happy to see this collaborative piece published. https://t.co/0l9bWglHO8

[Smart Eco Cities @SmartEcoCities]

Platform urbanism and the variegation of social credit system(s) - good to see this collaborative piece of work finally published. https://t.co/SiATbw8OkJ

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

It's been a long process but happy to see our collaborative work on #infrastructure, #wellbeing and informality published! @drcbutler @ExeterGeography https://t.co/VuwkPfHGVy

[Smart Eco Cities @SmartEcoCities]

#ArtificialIntelligence and the city: great discussion by Federico Cugurullo of Trinity College Dublin at today's Exeter Urban event. Discussing how the city shapes AI and Ai also acts within and on the urban context. Discussant roundup by @Fede_Botta @ExeterGeography

[Smart Eco Cities @SmartEcoCities]

article link here: https://t.co/eMRwQWm9lk

[Smart Eco Cities @SmartEcoCities]

Urban #AI and #urban studies - good to see this multi-author collaborative piece in the Journal of Urban Geography. Discussing questions like what is distinctive about urban AI? What are the challenges of urban AI for urban #Governance? @ExeterGeography

[Smart Eco Cities @SmartEcoCities]

Data, #smartcities and power in an age of urban #Analytics and crisis. New book by @OlaSoderstrom and @AyonaDatta looks at these interlinkages, and looks beyond the 'usual' city cases. Great read for 2024! https://t.co/YaHlhqSo6R

[Smart Eco Cities @SmartEcoCities]

#ArtificialIntelligence and the post-#Smart city. Wonderful to collaborate with colleagues in New Zealand, Ireland and the UK. Published recently in @USJ_online @ExeterGeography

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

Great to see this paper on energy justice, solar energy, and S. Africa, Burkina Faso!

https://t.co/IEaC8WWlAQ

[Smart Eco Cities @SmartEcoCities]

New publication making the case for longer-term perspectives when assessing eco-urban projects. Using examples from China and the UK.

https://t.co/x96kVlyOw3

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

Great to see our work featured in a Newzroom Afrika interview by project partner Zonke Energy's Alex Densmore!
https://t.co/5N40kUYFG8 via @YouTube

@Jiskaja
@NewtonFund
@UoETranslationF

[PEAK Urban @PEAK_Urban]

What has @PEAK_Urban learnt about using Translational Knowledge to Shape Sustainable Urban Futures?

📺Catch-up with our @ICSD_Conf session: https://t.co/keIH9g9qIW

#ICSD2022 #UNGA2022 #Agenda2030 #SDGs #SUF #PEAKurban #urban #urbandesign #futurecities

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

Quotes from the community! Good to see one of the women entrepreneurs who connected to our solar microgrids being empowered:
'Solar has changed things for the business....[the UMBANE training] has hugely changed my business.'
@NewtonFund @Jiskaja @ThrieEnergy

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

And here's Umbane Shorts video number 4! A snapshot of some of the interactions we've been having in the Qandu Qandu community, Cape Town.

@NewtonFund

@UoETranslationF

@UniofExeter

https://t.co/jAXdi2brcw

[Energy for Wellbeing @energyforwbeing]

And we now have a volume/issue! Rethinking the off-grid city in the @urbgeog journal, with @Jiskaja, @kimN3, @NormanMathebula, @adensmore, @MMoorlach, Kerry Bobbins and others! A @BritishAcademy_ funded project.

https://t.co/b6ya8jGz5t

@UniOfExeterESE @ACDI_UCT

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

New 1-minute video! Challenges for energy access in informal settlements, based on our work with and in the Qandu Qandu community in Cape Town.
@ExeterGeography @ExeGeogECRN @ACDI_UCT @zakzad @Jiskaja @NewtonFund @ThrieEnergy @ZonkeEnergy

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

Virtual site visit to Qandu Qandu, Cape Town! #solarenergy #microgrid and business entrepreneurship for local women using solar-powered fridge #appliances https://t.co/ZMW0Kub4BK
@NewtonFund
@ACDI_UCT
@UniofExeter
@zakzad
@ExeterGeography
@UniofExeterESI
@ZonkeEnergy

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

This week we have our Business Bootcamp graduation ceremony to celebrate the end of the Umbane business training programme. 21 local women were taken through the basics of setting a sustainable solar-powered business
@NewtonFund
@ACDI_UCT
@UniofExeter
@zakzad
@ExeterGeography

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

Rethinking the off-grid city. Happy to see this piece published with colleagues from the universities of Exeter and Cape Town, and Zonke Energy and Thrie Energy Collective! @NewtonFund @ACDI @ExeterGeography https://t.co/FWEfnj5AYP

[Smart Eco Cities @SmartEcoCities]

A typology of platform urbanism - just published, with Federico Caprotti (Exeter), I-Chun Catherine Chang (Macalester College) and Simon Joss (Glasgow) @ICC_Chang @ExeterGeography
https://t.co/6zwFkBfvUt