open guest lecture // POLITICS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT: SCI-FI IMAGINARIES VS. GROUNDED EVERYDAY EXPERIENCES

(It is a masters level course and offered under Kassel University's Institute of Urban Development, Department of Sustainable Cities and Communities, to planners, architects and landscape architects; as part of Planning Future Cities: Governance and Contemporary Politics of Urban and Infrastructure Development Course by Dr. Gül Tuçaltan)

Technology in Shaping Urban Futures 

Part 1. OtherWorlds: Future Technologies and Societies in Science Fiction Literature (Dr. Ervin Sezgin, Local Governance Expert and Independent Researcher, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kerem Arslanlı,İstanbul Technical University) 

Politics of Urban Infrastructure: The questions of geography, justice, power and heterogeneity

Part 2. North-South Differences: Rethinking Smart Urbanism From the South (Dr. Prince Karakire Guma, Assistant Country Director, British Institute in Eastern Africa)

Part 3. Gender in/and Technology: Sanitary Infrastructures of Nairobi and Dar es Salaam (Dr. Anshika Suri, Postdoctoral Researcher, Urban Morphosis Lab, TU Darmstadt)

Teaching mode and language: Online (via Zoom); English
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83942180139