Faces of the City is a seminar series run jointly by CUBES, the South African Chair for Spatial Analysis and City Planning (SC&CP), the Gauteng City Region (GCRO) and the School of Architecture and Planning. The series is scheduled 16h00-17h30 on Tuesdays during term time. The seminars are offered online, with some seminars blended to allow for face-to-face interaction.
The seminars of the last quarter of 2025 are themed around the engaged research and pedagogy of the Kelvin-Alexandra-Frankenwald City Studio in CUBES and the School of Architecture and Planning.
Please join the seminars in person 16:00-17:30 in the PG Seminar Room, John Moffat basement, or online by clicking on this link.
Quarter 4 Seminar series
16 September 2025
Introducing the City Studio through critical lenses: Spatial injustice, precarity, favelisation and disciplining the periphery
Speakers: Marie Huchzermeyer and the City Studio core team
Discussants: Dr Evance Mwathunga (University of Malawi); Prof Noor Nieftagodien (Wits)
23 September 2025
Spatial counter-representations: harnessing photogrammetry, local voice and photography
Speakers: Leon Krige (UJ), Dr Motshwaedi Sepeng (UWC), Izak Potgieter (UJ), Dr Jhono Bennett (UCL)
Discussants: Prof Sarah Williams (MIT), Dr Sechaba Maape (Wits)
30 September 2025
Everyday Life: Governance of Urban Safety; Practices of Care; Enterprises and Infrastructure
Speakers: Dr Paulo Moreira (Wits), Siphelele Ngobese (SACN), Prof Marie Huchzermeyer (Wits), Dr Christina Culwick Fatti (UWC)
Discussants: Dr Mercy Brown-Luthango (UCT); Prof Hannah Dawson (UJ)
07 October 2025
Spatial Relations: The reproduction of the apartheid city and its contestations
Speakers: Paul Devenish (Wits) and Quentin Rihoux (Uni Lausanne)
Discussants: Prof Pushpa Arabindoo (UCL); Dr Christopher Gevers (Wits)
14 October 2025
Engaged Pedagogies: Transcending the University's Enclosure by Learning in Solidarity
Speakers: Dr Paulo Moreira (Wits), Dr Sarita Pillay (Wits), Ethan Fredricks (Wits), Jabu Makhubu (Wits), Nqobile Malaza (Afrikan
Earthlings Projects)
Discussants: Dr Bernadette Johnson (Wits), Juan Cristaldo (UNA, Paraguay), Prof Claire Benit-Gbaou (Aix Marseille/Wits) (tbc)
21 October 2025
Spatial Imaginaries: Lived Alternatives, Reimagined Housing Futures vs Planned Projects
Speakers: Nomonde Gwebu (Wits), Marie Huchzermeyer (Wits), Quentin Rihoux (Uni Lausanne),
Discussants: Prof Irene Molina (Uppsala); Msizi Khuhlane (CoJ)
28 October 2025
City Forum: Exhibiting, sharing, debating (In person event in the industrial shed near the former Wits Science Park,
accessed from North Way, driveway into Frankenwald closest to Marlboro Drive)
Speakers and exhibitors: City Studio team including postgraduate students, collaborating with colleagues from UCL and the
UWC Governing the Just Urban Transition project research team from UWC.
For synopses, bios, updates and more information for this series, ‘’please visit’ Wits News and Events website here.
Abstract based on original source.
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