OGLM 3035 - Basic services in Unplanned Settlements

The workshop tackles the issues of providing water, sanitation, electricity and waste management in slums and urban informal settlements. It adopts a sociotechnical perspective to encompass altogether political and professional stakes. Considering traditional centralized infrastructures are irrelevant in the Global South, the goal is to foresee the operational challenges students / young professionals may face in work practices.

Session 1 is an introduction to the fundamentals of water, sanitation, solid waste and energy services, with interactive quiz and examples from the Global South (water in Lima). Professional role playing is the core of sessions 2 & 3, based on actual projects (electrification in Delhi and sanitation design in Pointe-Noire). Students will endorse various stakeholder positions to identify socio-urban challenges and design pragmatic solutions to plan and provide services.

3 * 4h sessions

No grading (pass/fail), based on participation in class and oral presentation in group during workshops

None (only participation in class)