On receiving the award, Dr Garbin said \u201cI am delighted to receive this funding. This new award will enhance the policy and public engagement impact of the already-funded \u2018Pneuma-city\u2019 project<\/a> (2019-2023) on the informal economies and ecologies of waste tyres in urban Africa.<\/p>\n \u201cThe money will enable our international team to continue to explore waste governance, environmental sustainability and the urban cultures of recycling\/upcycling in African contexts, using the Nigerian cities of Lagos and Ibadan as case studies.\u201d<\/p>\n Pneuma-City is a partnership between the universities of Kent, York, Toronto (Canada), Lagos (Nigeria) and combines Urban Anthropology, Sustainability Science, Material Engineering, Urban Planning and the Sociology of Work. It also involves Lagos-based award-winning visual artist and photographer Andrew Esiebo<\/a> who has been documenting the urban aesthetics of road ecologies and informal tyre-related work in the Nigerian capital.<\/p>\n The project bring<\/span>s<\/span> together<\/span> key stakeholders<\/span> such as the social enterprise YAAH (Young Artists Art Hub) and the <\/span>Waste Museum in Ibadan, Lagos-based artists and international curator In\u00eas Valle who is leading the key public engagement activities of the project. Public engagement is central to the project and will be achieved through a combination of workshops (on recycling\/upcycling and waste governance) and art-in-the-street activities reaching different constituencies in Lagos and Ibadan, showcasing the audio-visual outputs of the project to local communities and the wider public in Nigeria and elsewhere (through our web-based resources).<\/p>\n For more information please visit the project website: https:\/\/pneuma-city.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"Recycled](\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/files\/2023\/01\/Tyres-waste-image-30-Jan.jpg\")
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