Ecología Política de la Urbanización

In December of last year, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange launched the world’s first water futures market, allowing investors to bet on the future...

10 April, 2022

Public Services and Inequalities in Medellín

The women’s political movement “Estamos Listas” (We are Ready!) organized a series of talks to critically discuss the role of Public Enterprises of...

03 May, 2021

Water Financialization

In December of last year, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange launched the world’s first water futures market, allowing investors to bet on the future...

03 May, 2021

¡O Comemos o Pagamos! – Either We Eat or We Pay

While the international community discusses the importance of securing the human right to water during the Seventh Inter-American Dialogue on Water Resource Management...

03 May, 2021

Traveling Waste // Reiseabfälle

CUW curates a series of short documentaries to trace the invisible travel of waste and creates a menu in cooperation with Foodsharing. Inspired...

03 May, 2021

Assembling the Medellín Model of Prepaid Water Meters

CUW is invited to be part of the workshop “Transformations in Environment and Society” to discuss how utility companies are actively involved in...

03 May, 2021

Die Nachwachsende Stadt – Climate Adaption

Architects and planners are increasingly confronted with new challenges: Fossil energy resources as well as non-renewable materials are on the decline, the effects...

03 May, 2021

Extending Infrastructures, Formalizing the Informal: Access to Public Water in Cities of the South

CUW’s founder Marcela López is invited to take part of the Summer School “Mapping Visaginas: Re tooling Knowledge Infrastructures in a ‘Post-Nuclear’ Town”...

03 May, 2021

Corporatization and Water Inequalities

Under the framework of “Die Amerikas: Forschungskolloquium zu den Amerikas aus kulturwissenschaftlicher Sicht”, CUW is invited to discuss how access to urban water...

03 May, 2021

Paisajes Hídricos Urbanos en Disputa

This book launch presents “Paisajes Hídricos Urbanos en Disputa: Agua, Poder y Fragmentación Urbana en Medellín, Colombia” edited by Marcela López....

03 May, 2021

Tracing Urban Flows

CUW together with the students select a series of short documentaries that explore the relationship between cities, social inequalities and politics. The documentaries...

03 May, 2021

Landscapes of Energy

Urban studies usually place a strong analytical focus on cities. Although cities are important sites to investigate how infrastructures sustain the material flows...

03 May, 2021

Contested Urban Waterscapes in Medellín

Marcela López was selected as a research fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich (2017-2018) to work in a...

03 May, 2021

Contested Waters // Umkämpftes Wasser

CUW curates a series of short documentaries follow the flows of water through different uneven waterscapes in Colombia, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan and Kenya. They...

03 May, 2021

Medellín – Human Right on Water

Part of the exhibition “Planetary Urbanism: The Transformative Power of Cities”...

03 May, 2021

From Continuos Flow to Prepaid Drops

Part of the “Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2017”...

03 May, 2021

Waterscapes: Forms, Meanings and Transformations

CUW creates and curates an exhibition around the concept of “Waterscapes”. This concept is discussed together activists, academics, NGO members, staff of the...

03 May, 2021

Landscapes of water

How do water resources come and leave our cities? CUW is invited to discuss with the students how water is mobilized from different...

30 April, 2021