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- Making Space for Care: Reflections from the BK Feminist Week
What does it mean to build a system of care inside spaces not built for it? In this episode, we had a conversation with Irene Luque Martin, Emmelot Linssen, Megha Sahu, Jonne van Bunningen and Isabella Jaramillo, five voices from within the university reflecting on the making of the Feminist Week and other actions as an experiment in horizontal leadership, collective organising, and creating care and safe spaces. The episode explores care as a radical practice, the friction of institutional life, and the power of doing things differently together, and highlight key takeaways from the event’s impact so that you can also take it further wherever it is your sphere of action.
This episode is dedicated to the BK Feminist Week, an event held between the 3rd and the 7th of March 2025 at TU Delft. The week was planned with lectures, workshops, and events to generate discussions, and the assembly's internal events to give space for the organisational team and “the village” to discuss ways of organising for the near future. The theme of the week this year was called Pasts, Present and Futures as a way to understand the plurality of stories from the past, to converge all together in the present at the faculty, but also to build desires and ideas for the future.
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1 hr 3 min - Vanesa Castán Broto on "The Twin Challenges of Climate Action and Rapid Urbanisation"On this episode, we have Professor Vanesa Castan Broto from the University of Sheffield in the UK. Vanesa is a scholar on the governance of global environmental change in the urbanisation age. Her previous books include An Urban Politics of Climate Change and the edited collection Participatory Planning for Climate Compatible Development in Maputo. Both are unmissable books! She was also a contributing author to UN-Habitat's 2016 World Cities Report. In 2016, she received the Philip Leverhulme Prize for contributions to Geography. In 2013, she received a United Nations Award for Lighthouse Activities that contribute to fighting climate change with a focus on the urban poor. Vanesa’s research focuses on the governance of global environmental change in the urbanization age. She focuses on three interrelated themes: 1) the governance of climate change in urban areas, 2) urbanization and the dynamics of energy transitions, and 3) barriers to the implementation of climate change action.
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39 min - Just City in Kenia: a conversation with Titus Kaloki
Roberto Rocco and Hugo Lopez interview Titus Kaloki on addressing spatial justice through inclusive urban planning. The episode has three main topics: (1) Smart City vs Just City, (2) The idea of transformative change-making, and (3) the work for a socially just public transport.
Titus Kaloki is Programme Coordinator at FES _the Friedrich Ebert Stitftung for Social Democracy_ Kenya Office, where he leads the Just City programme, which engages the concept of a social and inclusive just city to facilitate innovative discussions among political decision makers, civil society representatives and others on issues such as affordable housing, fair and clean public transport, and meaningful civic engagement in urban spaces.
FES is the oldest political foundation in Germany with a rich tradition in social democracy dating back to its birth in 1925. The foundation owes its formation and its mission to the political legacy of its namesake Friedrich Ebert, the first democratically elected German President. The work of FES focuses on the core ideas and values of social democracy – freedom, justice and solidarity. FES is a non-profit institution that organises their work autonomously and independently.
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56 min - "Planning for Solidarity in Diversity" with Stijn OosterlynckToday we have with us Stijn Oosterlynck speaking from Belgium. Stijn Oosterlynck is an Associate Professor in Urban Sociology at the University of Antwerp, Sociology department. He is the chair of the Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change (CRESC, formerly OASeS) and the Antwerp Urban Studies Institute. He teaches courses on urban studies, poverty and social inequality. His research is concerned with local social innovation and welfare state restructuring, new forms of solidarity in diversity and urban diversity policies. He is also the academic director of the newly established Hannah Arendt institute. Hannah Arendt advocated active citizenship in which plurality, connection, critical thinking and open dialogue are central. This is not only at the heart of a strong democracy, but it is also an important goal of the work of the institute: to make everyone participate in the debate and in society.
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51 min - "Democracy and human rights in the field of planning" with Efrat Cohen-BarToday we have with us Efrat Cohen Bar, a representative of BIMKOM – Planners for Planning Rights, an Israeli non-profit organization working to strengthen democracy and human rights in the field of planning. Planning in Israel has commonly been used as a tool to oppress Palestinians and strip them of their rights. BIMKOM uses Israeli law to combat this. https://bimkom.org/eng/
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27 min - "Race & Space: Issues of race and class in urban development" with Suraj YengdeToday we have with us Suraj Yengde speaking to us from the United States. Suraj is a Shorenstein Centre inaugural post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Public Policy. He’s the author of Caste Matters. In this explosive book, Suraj, who is a first-generation Dalit scholar educated across continents, challenges deep-seated beliefs about caste and unpacks its many layers.
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28 min - "Housing as a Human Right" with Leilani FarhaToday we have with us Leilani Farha, speaking to us from Canada. Leilani was UN special rapporteur for the right to housing and is now director of SHIFT, a large NGO based in Canada that fights for and promotes the right to dignified housing. Leilani will talk more about the SHIFT, but it is important to highlight their philosophy. In their own words: “THE SHIFT recognizes housing as a human right, not a commodity or an extractive industry. The Shift restores the understanding of housing as home, challenging the ways financial actors undermine the right to housing. Using a human rights framework, The Shift provokes action to end homelessness, unaffordability, and evictions globally”. https://www.make-the-shift.org
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28 min - Roberto Rocco on "Just Governance"
This session addresses the concept of governance and how planners and designers can use the concept to plan better, more inclusive cities. Frequently, in discussions about urban development and urban planning, you’ll hear the word “governance.” You will probably wonder what “governance” is and how it is different from “government.” The “government” is an imprecise shortcut we use to refer to the public sector, or the ensemble of levels and branches of government with all their departments, divisions, authorities, and so on. Countries and cities have governments, but the way they are “governed” includes much more than formal governments. “In empirical terms, governance refers to a shift in public organization since the 1980s. The world of government has changed. Increasingly governments rely on private and voluntary sector actors to manage and deliver services. The State enters contracts with other organizations, for example, to manage prisons and to provide training to the unemployed. The state forms partnerships with other organizations, for example, to build roads and rail lines and to deliver humanitarian aid. Whereas the government had consisted in no small measure of bureaucratic hierarchies, the new governance gives greater scope to markets and networks.” Bevir (2012)
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43 min - Trivik Verma on "Just Data"The primary purpose of this session is to teach future data scientists to look beyond the technical power of artificial intelligence and recognise the possibilities and limitations of data and the spatial inequalities that galvanise as a result of data-driven technology and policy. This session will engage students at the intersection of data science, urbanisation, and effective communication. By interrogating the sociotechnical nature of urban problems, students should then be able to approach solutions to these problems in ways that prioritise social equity and justice. In the last decade, technological advancements have led us to embed large-scale networked systems, sensors, and computers into the built environment. Urban data has emerged as an excellent stream of constant, real-time, and accurate information about all urban activities. The big data revolution, coupled with the capacity of infrastructure to be “smart” has enticed cities and urban managers worldwide to participate in machine learning-based decision-making for improving the course of humanity. But city planning has largely been instituted around loosely coupled organisations within municipal and regional governments, project developers, companies and investors, transport, water, and energy operators. While some communities have enjoyed the benefits of policies based on the use of big data, machine learning and AI, many have also suffered disproportionately by being pushed to the physical and technological periphery of rapid development in cities. As data scientists, and especially as engineering and policy analysts, it is our responsibility to interrogate the quality of data, the design of intelligent systems and their impact on communities.
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46 min - Carissa Champlin and Jose Canizares on "Just Resilience"In this lecture, José and Carissa introduce socio-technical resilience, conceptualising urban resilience from a critical perspective. There are many conceptions of resilience, but the speakers draw on the concept as used in ecology, as resilience is a characteristic of complex systems. Resilience has become a very influential concept in urban adaptation to climate change, but there are problems with the concept, especially in relation to alignment to sustainability and justice (distributive, procedural and intergenerational).
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About Duty of Care Podcast
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In 2019, The European Union launched its “European Green Deal”, aiming to make Europe carbon neutral by 2050. We all know the transition to a carbon neutral economy is urgent, but will it be…
fair? Past transitions have always produced winners and losers, with the losing groups often facing unemployment and poverty, with dire consequences for social cohesion and social justice. In the case of climate change and the urgent transition to sustainability, not having a transition will make us all losers, but this does not mean we should not try to avoid or minimise the negative impacts of the transition on vulnerable groups. It is all about the fair distribution of the benefits, but also the burdens of our human association.
Therefore, an essential dimension of the European Green Deal is the concept of “just transition”, that is, a transition to a carbon-neutral economy that is fair and inclusive to all, “leaving no one behind”. Sustainable, fair, and inclusive urbanisation plays a key role in this endeavour. With those ideas in mind, we organised a series of online events and courses that address planning and designing cities and communities for the just transition by bringing together expertise from spatial planning, urban sustainability and resilience, resilience engineering, ethics of resilience and multi-actor systems. We want to discuss the values in socio-technical transitions and urbanisation, namely issues connected to distributive, procedural and restorative spatial justice, as well as citizen participation, democracy and sustainability, understood in its three essential dimensions: social, economic, and environmental sustainability. In doing so, we wish to address the interactions between design and values with an emphasis on operationalising spatial justice through inclusive vision making. And by using societal conflicts stemming from the transition as springboards to dialogue.
The idea of this podcast is to discuss and exchange ideas with academics, practitioners, and students of the built environment to plan and design for the just transition, with a robust understanding of the entanglement between spatial justice and sustainability.
The DUTY OF CARE podcast is produced by Roberto Rocco and Hugo Lopez. This podcast is sponsored by the Delft Design for Values Platform, the TU Delft platform discussing values for engineering and design.
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