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“As cities in the global South urbanise at rapid rates and cities in the North face their own challenges, it is timely to think and experiment with new ways of thinking and acting in the cultural heritage and urban development sphere” says Mistra Urban Futures’ Beth Perry, Laura Ager and Rike Sitas in an article recently published by the International Journal of Herita

Read more about New paper on festivals as integrative sites for sustainable urban development published by the International Journal of Heritage Studies

“Those outside the confines of research communities and who are frequently marginalised from public consideration need to be more involved:” says Mistra Urban Futures’ Tim May, in an article recently published by the

Read more about New paper on the University as a Site of Knowledge Production published by the Institute of Advanced Study

Mistra Urban Futures have produced its latest international newsletter. It provides information on activities from all the local interaction platforms, including a summary of the recent annual conference in Cape Town and the latest highlights from Sheffield-Manchester. Read it here.

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‘Comparative Co-production’ was the theme of the 2018 Mistra Urban Futures conference in Cape Town earlier this month, which was attended by members of the Urban Institute’s Realising Just Cities team.

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The Realising Just Cities programme is supporting peer learning visits to Cape Town and Barcelona for public sector strategists and community practitioners from Greater Manchester, to expand their knowledge of co-productive practices and participatory democracy in other urban settings.

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“To assess whether research is relevant to society, ask the stakeholders” says Mistra Urban Futures’ Sheffield-Manchester Platform leader, Beth Perry with colleagues

Read more about New comment piece on coproduction published in Nature

New project announced from British Academy Sustainable Development Programme.

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Snapshot from the digital map locating examples of social and solidarity-related economic activity in and around Greater Manchester.

The following feature article about the Jam and Justice Action Research Collective's work mapping the social solidarity economy in Greater Manchester was originally published in The Meteor (themeteor.org) on 25 August 2018:

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There are many critiques of existing forms of urban governance as not fit for purpose. However, there is just as much contestation over what alternatives might look like. Coproduction is proposed as a response to address complex wicked issues. Achieving coproduction is a highly complex and daunting task. Bottom up approaches to the initiation of coproduced governance are seen as fruitful, including exemplification of utopian alternatives though local practices.

Read more about Coproducing Urban Governance Special Edition Published

This workshop is jointly organised by the Sheffield Methods Institute and the Urban Institute

Read more about Post-doctoral early career workshop - Methodological Issues and Emotional Labour in Co-Produced Research