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• New book by DPU’s Prof. Camillo Boano published The book, published in Italian, is titled ‘Progetto Minore. Alla ricerca della minorità nel progetto urbanistico ed architettonico’, which translates into English as ‘Minor Design. Searching for minority in the urban and architectural project’
• New research project with DPU’s Catalina Ortiz as Co-investigator awarded GCRF funding
  The 6-month project ‘Activating abandoned heritage: The Medina of Tunis’ potentials and pathways’ was awarded funding after GCRF: UCL Internal Small Grants Call (AY 2020-21) announced the grant holders last week.
• DPU PhD candidate successfully defends thesis on development, Interculturalidad and power
  Congratulations to Bruno Chichizola who has recently defended his doctoral thesis titled ‘Development, Interculturalidad and power: Translating an NGO-led development intervention in the Peruvian Andes’
• Launch of book on mapping by University of London Press with contributions from DPU staff
  The book ‘Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping’ features contributions from DPU’s Giovanna Astolfo, Ricardo Marten and Camillo Boano
• Reports from AT2030: Community led solutions launched
  The AT2030 research project, led by Julian Walker, has launched two new reports on behalf of the Global Disability Hub, to provide evidence on the role of informal markets in the access to assistive technologies in Sierra Leone and Indonesia
• Video output launched from DPU co-led research project ‘AT2030: Community led solutions’
  The video, ‘Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on disabled people’s daily lives’ was produced by AT2030 Sub-Programme 9 partner Kota Kita in two Indonesian cities alongside the DPU
• DPU PhD candidate successfully defends thesis on the canalisation of planning law in Santiago
  Congratulations to DPU PhD candidate Vicente Burgos Salas who has successfully defended his thesis that reading the co-constitutive relation between law and space in cities such as Santiago can help to uncover the potential for legal instruments to

Publications

• DPU Working Paper – No. 205
  Technological change and precarity: how technology is changing the UK’s low skill labour market and a search for policy responses By Steffan Willis
• In the KNOW #4
  Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality
• The Urban Politics of Human Rights Practice
  By Christopher Yap and Paula Fernandez-Wulff
• Habitat International Coalition: Networked practices, knowledges and pedagogies for translocal housing activism
  Adriana Allen, Camila Cociña, Julia Wesely
• Engendering disaster risk management and resilience-building: The significance of the everyday in evaluations of the exceptional
  By Jordana Ramalho
• The Politics of Cartographic Calculation and Coordination: State Mapping of Human Settlements in Lima
  By Rita Lambert

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