January 2020 almost marked the mid-point of the UrbanHIT project. Time for us to look back at the past activities, milestones and outcomes. What did we achieve? What are the learning effects for the next two years to come? These and other questions were addressed together with the whole consortium as well as our practitioner…

After months of intensive field work, data analysis and drafting of results, our post-doctoral researchers Dr. Daniel Msangi (Ardhi University) and Dr. Eléusio Viegas Filipe (Eduardo Mondlane University) arrived in the beginning of November 2019 to spend a period for intensive writing at Utrecht University. During their three weeks long exchange, the project organized a…

The research consortium organized the first meeting of our Advisory Board, chaired by Prof. Monstadt and co-chaired by Dr. Otsuki. The meeting took place at Utrecht University. With the help of internationally renowned experts in the field of urban infrastructures in the global South, we were able to: reflect on results from the first 1.5…

Our PhD candidate, Mathias Koepke, will present his research on six diverse settlements in Dar es Salaam and their different urban electricity constellations at his first large international conference in London. He will participate in the session named “Mapping the new spatialities of electricity infrastructure in the energy transition“, taking place on August 29, 2019.

In July 2019, the whole research consortium organized two further meetings of the Communities of Practice (CoP) in Maputo and Dar es Salaam, marking the third overall in each city. Researchers presented their initial findings on the diversity of urban electricity constellations (Mathias Koepke) and in-depth observations of two low-income settlements (Dr. Msangi) in Dar…

During a one day meeting on July 9th 2018, the entire research consortium met for the first time to kick-off the project. The meeting served to detail the project activities, individual research agendas, refine milestones as part in the frame of the project impact pathway discuss deliverables of the project and dissemination strategies plan for…

Mathias Koepke and Dr. Shaun Smith  traveled to Kampala, Uganda in the period of November 12-15, 2018 to participate in a workshop that was co-organized by Prof. Monstadt. Hosted by the Situated Urban Political Ecology collective and Urban Action Lab at Makerere University, the workshop discussed the dynamic configurations of people and technology that constitute…

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