Launch of the MOOC "The collective urban factory: ideas and tools for co-producing African cities"
In African cities, housing, transport, services, urban spaces and productive activities are the result of initiatives, investments and actions carried out by a wide range of institutional, formal and informal, public and private players. Yet these dynamics represent a way of making the city that the public authorities often struggle to follow, or even to (re)understand in the case of informal activities.
Are you convinced that the autonomous or informal processes of the African urban fabric are predominant today and cannot be ignored? Would you like to understand and learn how to encourage a collective urban fabric?
Join us from 25 September 2023!Register now on the Africain Cities Lab platform! This online course explores the potentials and challenges of urban co-production. Using concrete examples rooted in local areas, the MOOC looks at the possible relationships between public and private action, formal and informal, at each stage: decision-making, design and management of the urban environment. Wishing to explore new collaborative approaches to making the city, the course is made up of five modules, which are aimed at all practitioners and technician of the city, eager to open up to new methods and approaches to social and institutional intermediation.
- Module 1 - African cities: a collective production
- Module 2 - Living in your own home
- Module 3 - Living in your neighbourhood: public spaces designed with their users∙e∙s
- Module 4: Co-producing sustainable and inclusive urban services.
- Module 5 : Conclusion and dialogue between the themes
At the end of the MOOC, participants will be able to:
- stimulate interest and enable the conditions for successful city co-production approaches;.
- knowing and analysing the ecosystem of actors in the production of the city, the resources and allié to mobilise at local level;
- know how to position yourself as an intermediary and coordinate an ecosystem of players in the city with different and sometimes conflicting skills and interests.
Financed by the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne -EPFL, the Gret, on Campus AFD and United Cities and Local Governments of Africa - UCLG Africa, this MOOC was designed by the Gret, CGLU Africa, urbaWorld and the Ecole Polytechnique de Dakar.