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Visitors entering Kayutangan heritage kampung. Credit: Nimas Maninggar
2nd January 2026

Selective inclusion in the Indonesian smart city Project: whose inclusion counts?

Illustration from ‘Threads and Seeds,’ zine prepared for the Reparative Urban Futures community forum, by Anna Carlson, shared with permission. Copyright - no reprint allowed.
22nd December 2025

Reparative urban futures: reconfiguring infrastructures and institutions towards liberation

Chennai Clean air campaign
16th December 2025

Ordinary ecologies of repair: youth, urbanity, and environmental change in South Asia

Encroachments on green spaces in some parts of Aboabo (Picture taken by Keron Achiaa in May 2025)
8th December 2025

Extending the dialogue of informality, e-waste, and nature-based solutions

YOTM team seminar in Pretoria
1st December 2025

Cartographies of care: mapping women’s everyday journeys and stories across downtown Pretoria

Photo from the film
24th November 2025

Democracy on the ground

Group Picture
17th November 2025

Utopian thinking: conceptualising a social housing policy with low-income communities in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Picture
10th November 2025

Feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces under authoritarian neoliberalism

Bangkok Creative District exhibition, January 2019
3rd November 2025

Politics of city learning in Southeast Asia: tensions, translations, and the work of policy mobility

FLyer with USF and the text "Welcome to a new cohort of USF International Fellows"
27th October 2025

Welcome to a new cohort of USF International Fellows!

26th October 2025

The Future Starts Now! Community-led, Collaborative and Innovative Experiments in World Cities

Blog poster: Original photo by Basil Farraj (location: Colombia); Design by Mai Al-Battat (attached)
20th October 2025

Geographies of Carcerality and the City: From Palestine to Latin America

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