The first week of September marked an important milestone for the Hybrid Urbanisms project. The whole team travelled to Arequipa to visit our fieldwork sites and to meet with the authors of our planned edited volume on Hybrid Urbanisms in Secondary Cities in Ghana and Peru. As a special guest we also invited Prof. Dr. Julio Calderón Cockburn from Lima to discuss with us topics such as urban informality, planning policies and future scenarios for urban development in Peruvian Cities. After an afternoon full of discussions all authors agreed on the common schemes for the book and the writing process was officially started.
In the same week we could also open our Summer School “Practicing Interdisciplinarity in Planning and Design of Secondary Cities”. Thanks to funding from the German Academic Exchange Service we could bring a total of nine lectures from different universities in Germany and Peru and from different disciplines to Arequipa. Together with the 23 participants of the summer school we conducted fieldwork in the same areas where our Hybrid Urbanisms project work is taking place using the already existing good relations with the local neighbourhood associations. The summer school delivered very concrete project ideas to improve living conditions in Ángeles de la Cruz and Sector 10 in Peregrinos de Chapi, addressing topics such as public spaces, accessibility, climate adaption and social cohesion. Our cooperation partner, the Universidad de San Martín de Porres agreed to use the results of our summer school to further cooperate with the neighborhoods towards a realisation of some of the project ideas from our participants.
If you would like to know more, please visit the summer school section on this website.
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