Fall 2020, CairoShort Course
Visual in/Justice
Course details
- Cycle
- Fall 2020, Cairo
- Starts
- Thursday, Oct 1
- Meets
- Thursday, 17:00–19:00
- Length
- 5 sessions
- Format
- Online
- Taught in
- English
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About the course
In today's highly mediatized world, images of the city in popular media neither represent the majority of citizens’ lived experiences nor their perceptions of the future. The misrepresentation of urban conditions in media creates processes of visibility and invisibility of the city among not only the general public but also among urban experts who are implicated in the production of these city images. In turn, this affects and facilitates the marginalization, disablement and further exclusion of vulnerable groups from services and infrastructure. In cities worldwide, vulnerable groups form the majority of the population. In this course we will explore the corresponding visual (mis-)representation of socio-spatial conditions with the help of the notion 'Visual in/Justice'.
Who teaches it
Mennatullah Hendawy is a Research Associate and PhD Candidate in Urban Design at TU Berlin. She serves as Visiting Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space in Erkner, Germany and as affiliated Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Urban Planning and Design in Ain Shams University in Cairo. Mennatullah works on the intersection of urban planning, mediatisation and justice, and is fascinated by the way knowledge, power, and agency man(i)-fest in and co-construct cities and the public sphere
Course flow
October 2020
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- Beauty and the Beast: The Ordinary City versus the Mediatised City—The Case of CairoHendawy, M. & Saeed, A., 2019. Urbanisation, 4(2), pp. 126–134, 2019.
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- Social Justice and the CityHarvey, D., 1973. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Understanding Media: The Extensions of ManMcLuhan, M., 1964. Canada: McGraw-Hill.
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