Beth will reflect on her initial motivations and subsequent reflections from a 10-year programme of work (2010-2020) to learn-through-doing about the strengths and limitations of co-production in realising more just cities. In the process, Beth will ask whether co-production is a good concept, whose interests it serves and how to marry co-production with critique from the positions of privilege we occupy in the university. The lecture will argue that co-production is one response to the need for new epistemologies of the urban, but needs to be positioned within a wider field of urban epistemics if it is to be more than a fleeting participatory fad.
The lecture will be chaired by Professor Vanesa Castán Broto and will be followed by a drinks reception for those attending in person.
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(2022) Beth Perry, 2022, Methodological Innovations, Sage.
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(2022) with Catherine Durose and Liz Richardson, Futures.
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(2022) Beth Perry with Warren Smit, Regional Studies
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(2021) with Victoria Habermehl, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
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(2018) with Tim May, Routledge.
The º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ Urbanism Lecture Series
‘Why should urbanists care about co-production?’ is the first in the 2022 º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ Urbanism Lecture series, an initiative of the Urban Institute to stimulate dialogue, discussion and understanding of processes of urbanization and urban life. It is intended as a space to reimagine both the conceptualizations and narratives of urban studies. The 2022 lecture series, ‘Co-production and the Future of Urban Epistemics’, will build from the UI’s theme on ‘Co-producing Urbanisms’, with lectures from Professor Beth Perry (University of º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½), Professor (University of British Colombia) and responses from Professor (Polytechnic University of Turin), Dr Linda Westman (University of º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½) and Aïcha Diallo (University of º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½).
Co-production and the Future of Urban Epistemics comprises two lectures and one agenda-setting workshop. You can sign up for the other events in the series here .