Date/Time
Date(s) - Wed - 13 Sep
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
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**UFC Special Seminar**
Dear friends of the UFC,
Please join Laura Burocco’s Seminar presentation entitled,’ Creative Economy and Gentrification from the South ’, Hosted by DUT’s Urban Futures Centre.
PRESENTER: Laura Burocco
TOPIC: ‘Creative Economy and Gentrification from the South’
DATE: Wednesday, 13th September 2017
TIME: 1pm-2:30pm
VENUE: Steve Biko Campus – DUT, UFC offices, S2 Block, Level 4, Room DP4.01B (UFC Common Room). Entrance Gate 1 & 2. 79 Steve Biko Road
Abstract:
The presentation will show her PhD project, and illustrate some of the findings of the study. The PhD compares the Creative District in Rio de Janeiro and the Maboneng Precinct in Johannesburg as two new creative hubs in the South in order to analyse the transformation of the economy of the areas (from manufacturing to creative) and how this transformation affects the physical and social environment around these two neighbourhoods. Often linked to urban regeneration projects “creative hubs” arise in the city, where local (and international) elites define urban enclaves, which work as city-state and concentrate power and elite interests. On sale is not simply a working or residential space, but a lifestyle which has no dialogue with the reality of the original lived spaces. This research interrogates who these new economic subjects are, the sustainability and interests of these new economies and who the real beneficiaries are. It analyses the phenomena of gentrification in the South as a new form of colonialism acting both in a local and global scale, reproducing relations of power and control on societies already marked by serious indexes of inequality, and reaffirming the intricate relation that characterized colonial societies
Bio:
Laura Burocco is currently a PhD candidate at Escola de Comunicação da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Communication Technologies and Aesthetic field of research, CAPES scholarship. Her research areas: cognitive capitalism, creativity and institutional critique, gentrification and decolonial studies. She graduated in Law by the State University of Milan and holds a Master in Urban Sociology by the State University of Rio – UERJ, and MBE Housing from the University of the Witwatersrand.
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