A5049836219- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Immune responses and vaccinations
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
- Global Urban Networks and Dynamics
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Fashion and Cultural Textiles
- Crafts, Textile, and Design
TU Dortmund University
2021-2024
Against the ‘normative concept of networked city’, urban studies and infrastructure research have seen a shift towards investigations beyond network that engage with post-networked city, heterogeneous infrastructures, other situations ‘on, off, below beyond’ grid, especially in southern cities. Expanding on debates around urbanisms their socio-technical we explore ubiquitous yet rarely discussed element contemporary infrastructures: storage. In Nairobi, city shaped by infrastructural...
At first glance, there is hardly anything more boring and mundane in the urban landscape of Nairobi than plastic jerry can, or mtungi Swahili (pl.: mitungi). An inconspicuous thing that constantly used, re-used, re-purposed but remains somewhat invisible its ubiquity. Its most common important function however to contain, store, hold water. Yet, given Nairobi's erratic heterogeneous waterscape, mitungi do not just water for vendors households. Rather, they entire city together. Based on a...
The Covid-19 pandemic and the initial focus on handwashing measures have again highlighted importance of water access as an essential service in protecting human health. Yet, especially southern cities, uneven geographies – often mediated by fragmented unequal infrastructure systems may hamper fight against infectious diseases. spread SARS-CoV-2 presented a dilemma for providers well residents water-deprived urban areas they had to adhere new hygiene standards requirements, despite...
Worldwide, an estimated 60 billion kilos of textiles and footwear is burned or landfilled every year. Although African countries – including powerhouses such as Kenya Nigeria contribute very little to global textile waste, their consumption on the rise. And with increased comes urgency for concepts designs that utilize resources beyond linear lines singular lives. Africa Collect Textiles was founded in Nairobi, 2013, where it has successfully implemented a model collecting processing used...