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cities@manchester Animated Urbanism competition winners

30 Oct 2014

This recent competition offered University researchers the opportunity to turn their finds into short animations

Still from Deljana Iossifova's winning animation

The recent Animated Urbanism competition, ordganised by cities@manchester, offered University researchers, keen to disseminate their work to wider audiences, the opportunity to turn their findings into a short animation made by Toasted Productions.

A number of a high quality entries were received from various academic disciplines and the winners were announced this week:

  • Federico Cugurullo (Geography): Unveiling the Eco-city phenomenon: is this the (urban) future?
  • Stephen Hincks (Planning and Environmental Management): Uneven geographies of austerity urbanism
  • Deljana Iossifova (Architecture): Shanghai: sanitation, differentiation and inequality
  • Chris Shannahan (Religions and Theology): Urban social exclusion and graffiti spiritualities
  • Erik Swyngedouw (Geography) and Japhy Wilson (Economics): The post-political city and the insurgent polis

You can view all of these, along with the rest of the Animated Urbanism series, online at:

The competition adds to a growing portfolio of multimedia research outputs launched by cities@manchester. Laura Partridge, Coordinator of cities@manchester, said of the competition “we are always seeking to disseminate research in innovative ways and visual communication in particular offers so much potential in terms of broadening engagement and impact. We've run similar activities in the past using social media and photography - this is the first time we’ve applied animation to a competition, but given its success it probably won’t be the last!”.

Dr Deljana Iossifova, Lecturer in Urban Studies in the School of Environment, Education & Development, said on hearing that she was one of the winners: “I entered the Animated Urbanism competition because it seemed like an excellent opportunity to make research fun and accessible to everyone. The clip makes it easy to introduce my work in a light and engaging way to a range of audiences. I look forward to more of this in the future!”.

Forthcoming event

Continuing on a similar theme, cities@manchester is currently working on a forthcoming event with Brooks World Poverty Institute. Picture a poverty free city will be held on the urban-themed day of Policy Week (Thursday, 6 November) and will present a series of short talks alongside live illustration, for further details see:

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