Sheffield Urbanism Lectures Series 2020 profiles the work from Professor AbdouMaliq Simone, Senior Professorial Fellow in the Urban Institute. The series is constituted by three lectures. 1. Without Capture How has the urban as the “proper” context for a self-reflecting, continuously self-improving human been based on fundamental misconceptions of both the human and of life? This lecture argues that the ambivalent generativity of blackness is a key resource in rethinking urbanization not just in terms of space and territory, but of the very reshaping of the human
