Dates: May 24-31, 2017
Venue: ADD – University of Nairobi & Nairobi National Museum
Placemaking in Nairobi II – New strategies for Nairobi’s Public Place, May 8 2015 @ Bomb Blast Memorial Park
Date: Friday, May 8th, 2015
Venue: Bomb blast memorial park
Time: 6.00 pm
About
Interested in exploring how to transform public spaces into pleasant, welcoming and interactive places, contributing on how to up-scale and replicate small scale public spaces improvement initiatives, and shaping the citywide vision for public places? Then join us as we take this conversation a notch higher.This will be the climax of a Placemaking Design Lab which runs from May 4th-8th. At the Lab, 3 international and local expert teams will be challenged to develop placemaking strategies for 3 public spaces in the following areas: the city centre, a residential neighbourhood – Dandora and an informal settlement – Korogocho.
The Lab is part of the ‘Making Cities Together’ project – a year-long international knowledge exchange & platform about Placemaking & Public Spaces.
Program
1. Introduction by the MCT Project partners
2. Short intervention about Nairobi’s public spaces and the Lab’s contribution
3. Presentation of Placemaking Strategies by the teams
4. Selection of the winning concept
5 CocktailThe project is initiated by the International New Town Institute, the International Federation of Housing and Planning and Placemakers in close collaboration with Nairobi City County, UN-Habitat, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, private sector, DASUDA, UoN, TU-K, Kuwa among other local stakeholders.
Exhibition: Informal Studio – Marlboro South, Oct. 29 – Nov. 16 2014 @ Department of Architecture & Building Science – UoN
Exhibition Opening: 29th October 2014 at 7.00 pm
Venue: UoN, Department of Architecture & Building Science, Add Building, ground floor
Admission free
Exhibition dates: 30.10.2014 – 16.11.2014
The traveling exhibition Informal Studio: Marlboro South documents a university course on in-situ upgrading developed by26’10 South Architects with the University of Johannesburg, South Africa in 2012.
During a seven week period, fifty architecture students worked with community planners (residents) from the informally settled warehouses and open plots in the industrial area of Marlboro South bordering Alexandra Township.
Talk + Public Debate: Rights in the Age of Terrorism, Dec. 18 2012 @ University of Nairobi
Date: December 18, 2012
Venue: Main Campus – ED 213, University of Nairobi
Time: 2.30-5 pm
Entry: Free
Talk by: Dr. William F. Schulz – President and CEO Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Dr. William is a renowned author, scholar and speaker on human rights, security & terrorism
Presentation: Regional Economic Outlook by IMF, Oct. 22 2012 @ University of Nairobi
Date: October 22, 2012
Venue: Education Building – ED II
Location: University of Nairobi, Main Campus
Time: 2.30pm
Presentation by: Antoinette Sayah, Director – African Department, IMF and Sean Nolan, Deputy Director – Africa Department, IMF
Topics
Maintaining Growth in an uncertain world
Structural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Watch the seminar/Press Briefing: IMF Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa here