The seminar will take place on Thursday 17th October 2024 16:30 - 18:00 BST in Darwin Lecture Theatre - B40, Darwin Building, Gower Street London WC1E 6BT.
“Co-production” is increasingly recognised as central in pathways to more just urban futures, with the aim of enabling prosperity to be enjoyed by the many and not the few, through doing ‘with, not to’, as the mantra goes. Yet all too often the politics and structural inequalities that hamper this aspiration remain hidden. In this seminar Beth will reflect on current debates on the strengths and limitations of ‘co-production’, asking: why should urbanists care about co-production? Do the challenges outweigh the benefits? And how can we reposition co-production as an epistemic praxis to realise more just cities?