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Zeit Raum Forum 2025

Am 23.–24. September in Basel diskutiert das Zeit_Raum_Forum zum dritten Mal die Potenziale temporärer Nutzungen – als Plattform für temporäre Wirkungsräume steht es 2025 unter dem Schwerpunkt «Zwischennutzung – mehr als Lückenfüller: Vom…

Announcement Poster for City Collaboratory Event on 22 May 2026
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Save the Date – City Collaboratory 2026 in Basel

At the last City Collaboratory meeting in Geneva in May 2025, Urban Studies Basel was announced to host the City Collaboratory 2026. The City Collaboratory 2026 meeting is scheduled for Friday, 22 May. We are excited to host you in Urban…

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Understanding Coloniality of Infrastructure from Urban Africa

The final scientific output resulting from an SNF-funded project titled How Infrastructure Shaped Territory has been published under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Kenny Cupers, Chair of the Urban Studies programme at the University of Basel.…

Call for application poster - deadline 1st September 25
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Urban Popular Economy School, Nairobi 2-6 February 2025 - Call for participation - deadline 1st September 2025

The Critical Urbanism Program at the University of Basel, the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield, and the Socio-Cultural Anthropology Program at KU Leuven invite early-career researchers to participate in a School of Urban…

Art Basel - people using sport equipment that is very artsy
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The Materiality of Art Fairs: Art Basel

Critical Urbanisms + AA Visiting School Basel

Poster of the Liquid Urbanisms Conference
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Liquid Urbanisms in Africa: Thinking Climate Adaption with and through Water

Faced with rising sea levels, cities across the globe are being remade in an array of contact zones of the climate emergency to confront the threat of water. Recent scholarship has started to question the terracentric, territorially bound…

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NEW Block course coming up in the fall semester - "Observing and Restoring Border Landscape Continuities"

School's out for summer! We are pleased to announce that Fall 2025 Critical Urbanisms courses will also kick off again at the end of the summer with "Observing and Restoring Border Landscape Continuities," a block course happening from…
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Engaging the city in digital worlds: Southern smart urbanisms and the everyday

Please join us for Prof. Dr. Nancy Odendaal's Inauguration Lecture, taking place on 21st October 2025 at the Historische Kunstmuseum.

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