Fairville Study Day: Addressing Enviromental Inequalities Through Co-production

Name: Fairville Study Day: Addressing Enviromental Inequalities Through Co-production
Start: 2026-04-26T14:00:00+03:00
Location: Institut français d’archéologie orientale - Ifao

Schedule

Sun, 26 Apr, 2026 at 02:00 pm

UTC+03:00

Location

Institut français d’archéologie orientale - Ifao | Cairo, QH

Date: 26 April 2026
Time: 2 -6 pm
Place: IFAO
Fairville Study Day
Addressing through co-production
In the Horizon Europe Fairville Europe Programme
With the support of the Saison Méditerranée Université Paris 8
Programme:
2-3 pm - Panel 1 Waste, Inequality, and the Politics of Participation
· Co-producing Waste Solutions in Mansheyat Dahshur: Addressing Environmental Inequalities through Participatory Action
Speakers: Ahmed Zaazaa (10 Tooba, NSCE) & Paloma Anger (NSCE)
· From Margins to Impact: Strengthening Informal Waste Collectors in Manshiet Dahshour
Speakers: Romani Badir (NSCE, Collectors Association) & Kawkab Tawfik (NSCE, CEDEJ, IFAO)
Discussant : Soraya Boudia (Cnrs)
3- 4 pm - Panel 2 Beyond Participation: Youth Co-Production, Media, and the Limits of Agency in Waste Governance in Manshiyat Dahshour
· Youth Co-Production and Participatory Media for Environmental and Civic Awareness in Manshiyat Dahshour
Speakers: Kawkab Tawfik (NSCE, CEDEJ, IFAO), Alaa Ahmed (NSCE)
· Rethinking waste and co-production in Dahshour
Speaker: Nabil Elhady (NSCE, Cairo University)
Discussant : Youssef El Chazli (University Paris 8)
Closing round table Yasmine Hussein (HCSR), Florian Bonnefoi (CEDEJ) and all panelists
6 pm - Tea Break
7 pm - ASWAT Seminar-Concert
Kawkab Tawfik, The Music Instruments Collection of the Ethnographic Museum of Cairo, between imperial knowledge production and emerging national identity
Concert: Taqasim for Egyptian flutes
For registrations: [email protected]
Address: Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO), 37, al-Cheikh Ali Youssef Street, Mounira, Cairo, Egypt
About Fairville
Fairville Facing Inequalities and democratic challenges through Co-production in Cities
Fairville is an international collaborative research project funded by Horizon Europe (2023–2026). The project examines entrenched urban inequalities and their implications for democracy in large cities, focusing on low-income neighborhoods increasingly disconnected from representative institutions.
In Fairville, co-production refers to bottom-up collaborative processes engaging four key partners: civil society organisations and residents, researchers, third-party facilitators or advocacy groups, and local authorities. These initiatives, often rooted in citizen mobilizations, address urgent issues in three areas: environmental sustainability, risk management, and access to adequate housing, while also promoting respect for citizens’ fundamental rights amid democratic decline.
The project employs participatory action research and knowledge co-production as strategies of spatial justice. Research is conducted through eight Fairville Labs in Europe and Africa — Athens, Berlin, Brussels, Cairo, Călărași, Dakar, London, and Marseille — where citizen-led initiatives are supported and analyzed to assess co-production’s potential to reduce inequalities and democratic gaps.