Humane Urbanisms Project
HUP is building on our prior collaborative work and publication to produce this multimedia website. Available in languages of participating movements, we co-create knowledge among activists positioned within academia and among marginalized communities to understand how urban movements catalyze a collective imagination of alternative futures—what we see as the most recent front of anticolonial struggle.
We refer to this platform as “Citizens’ Commons” (Salo et al., 2023) – a space of sharing that contains digital stories coproduced, curated and narrated by locally situated and grounded movements within a trans-local network of activists to understand how urban movements open possible futures through practices of care and reciprocity, nurturing hope and activating imagination of alternatives.
In this virtual space of common learning, exchange and organizing, we co-produce popular education material for activists and community members who are building alternative futures to the contemporary dominant bully urbanism (see Miraftab 2023). Digital stories of movements available in their own voices and language of viewers’ choice seek to foster transnational solidarities for humane urbanism where life, not profit, is at the center of policy decisions.
We launch this website with the experiences of marginalized communities in South Africa, Brazil, Spain, and the United States, but will include new voices and stories of movements that build humane urbanism in other global locations and through distinct practices of care. Through social justice pedagogies, transnational perspectives and redistributive methodologies, this project and its representative website offers a multimedia multilingual platform whereby movements coproduce their stories and share knowledge about how they find hope and how this helps them organize.
If you are interested in lending your story and voice to this website, please contact us.
