IAS Summit Opening: Setting the Scene on Inequality

Part of a week of activities for the IAS Research Summit - Rethinking Urban Inequalities.

This opening session lays out our collective provocation for the week: that computational approaches now sit at the centre of how urban inequality is studied and governed, often without interrogating who builds these tools, what they render visible, and who they serve. Following a collective framing exercise on what brings each participant to this work, five global fellows set the scene across two sessions, examining how deprivation indices and frameworks emerge from an economic reasoning that treats inequality as a deficiency to be optimised rather than a structural and political condition. These sessions establish the conceptual space for the rest of the summit.

Featuring IAS Visiting Fellows:

Dr Juliana Gonçalves, TU Delft
Rico Henri Herzog, HafenCity University Hamburg
Dr Caitlin Robinson, University of Bristol
Associate Professor Esra Suel, University of Zurich
Dr Anastassia Vybornova, IT University of Copenhagen

Arrivals from 9am for a 9.15am start. For those joining in-person, lunch will be served after this session from 12.15pm.