GCRF: Gridding Equitable Urban Futures in Areas of Transition (GREAT) in Cali, Colombia and Havana, Cuba

Project: Research

Description

GREAT soght to understand the ways in which being on- and off-grid provide an opportunity to rethink the relationship between people and urban infrastructure in areas of transition in the context of informal settlements in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Layperson's description

The GREAT project brought together four academic institutions, namely, Lancaster University (lead) and UCL in the UK, the Universidad del Valle in Colombia and the Technological University of Havana in Cuba to understand and help remove the barriers that communities from informal settlements face to shape a better future.

Short title	GREAT
Status	Finished
Effective start/end date	1/04/20 → 30/06/24
Links	https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/great/

Funding

ESRC: £731,530.99
ESRC: £44,824.91

Buscher, Monika (Co-Investigator)
Lopez-Galviz, Carlos (Principal Investigator)

Project relations

The Great Story (Cali, Colombia)
Project: Research

Activities

International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) (External organisation)
Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
Violence, health and everyday (non)life: Gaza and beyond
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
To grid or not to grid?
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
International Sustainability Transitions Conference
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Waste Not: Climate emergency and voices of informality from Cali, Colombia and Havana, Cuba
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Impacts

GREAT - Learning from informality and fostering equitable urban futures
Impact: Societal Impacts

Research outputs

Routledge Handbook of Social Futures
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
Consuming Disaster Data: is IT ethical?
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
The GREAT Story (Cali, Colombia): Gridding Equitable Urban Futures in Areas of Transition (GREAT)
Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputs › Digital or Visual Products
Sweet surrender?: Changing autonomobile structures of feeling
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

Research