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48 Research collaboration Urban and rural transformation Urban and rural transformation is one of the greatest challenges for developing countries. By 2050, two thirds of humanity will be living in cities with more than 90% of the urban growth occurring in developing countries. This migration to urban areas leads to equally rapid rural transformation. This section portrays three activities related to these challenges: Pro-poor urban futures in developing countries, sustainable urban development in Asian megacities, and urban and rural transformation in Ethiopia.
Urban Laboratory – Addis Ababa Actor networks in sustainable urban and rural transformation The Urban Laboratory – Addis Ababa is as multifaceted as the assemblage of people that has contributed to its genesis. As many endeavors, it all began with a dinner. Franz Oswald, our colleague and guest, had just returned from Ethiopia and recalled with excitement what he had seen and experienced. He talked of places and people, not unlike Marco Polo’s narration in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, that set to coalesce into a montage of fragmentary images: the roof of Africa, the “new flower” of Addis, the Queen of Sheba, Emperor Menelik II, and so forth. But he also addressed the conditions that frame current developments in Ethiopia: widespread poverty, the AIDS epidemic, insufficient sanitation, contested elections, migration from rural to urban regions, and the increased role of China in Africa. Little did we know that this would be just the beginning of myriad expeditions, not only into foreign terrains but also into the very culture that we call our own. Alternative project for affordable mass housing and urban agriculture in Addis Ababa, combining pre-fabrication and self-built construction (Sarah Graham 2009/2010) Oswald, arguing for understanding the city as a collection of intertwined networks, became the first actor in a complex net of participants who temporarily joined forces to form ad hoc groups linked by a common project. With this, the Urban Laboratory – Addis Ababa was founded to address questions pertaining to Ethiopia’s current urban and rural transformation – a laboratory to combine expertise from a range of fields, via research and integrated design processes, in order to promote strategies for achieving sustainable settlements. What began as a partnership linking faculty and students from Addis Ababa University and the <strong>ETH</strong> Zurich soon evolved into a network of collaborators that included city officials, professionals, and local stakeholders, for any potential change could only be initiated from within. Here, urban design as a discipline became the central platform in processes of mediation. The design propositions that emerged from the research – whether pertaining to infrastructure planning, to slum up-grading, or the formation of new towns in rural territories – offered a base for dialogue, a type of round-table for debates where ideas could be bartered and conflicts possibly resolved. A recent exhibition of the work in Addis Ababa combined with a series of workshops took on the role of a participatory forum, with urban design as an agent tracing connections between controversies, unraveling disagreements, and setting potential courses of action for Ethiopia’s urban and rural transformation – urban design as a form of communicative action. Marc Angélil and Dirk Hebel Marc Angélil is Professor of Architecture and Design in the Network City and Landscape (NSL) of the Department of Architecture of the <strong>ETH</strong> Zurich. Dirk Hebel is Director of the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development at Addis Ababa University. Their book Cities of Change Addis Ababa: Transformation Strategies for Urban Territories in the 21 st Century has been published by Birkhäuser Verlag in 2009. 49 Research collaboration Urban and rural transformation
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