“Re-imagining Kampala” British Academy Feature

By Caroline Knowles British Academy Cities & Infrastructure Programme Director Namirembe Rd, Location of the pilot Non-Motorised Transport route in Kampala. Photo: Howard Cambridge Caroline talks about the transport situation in Kampala and how the lack of infrastructure and its chaotic operation hampers daily life - from commuting, access, delivery etc. and how this also...

3D zebra crossing receives warm reaction in Kampala

Researchers are exploring the use of 3D zebra crossing in Kampala as the latest safety measure to protect pedestrians on city roads. The researchers believe that the 3D crossings can help motorists’ vision and help slow down cars when they reach pedestrian crossing points. On Sunday December 2, motorists and pedestrians that used Bombo road;...

i-CMiiST evaluation retreat talks impacts and challenges

“They [pupils] will not forget,” said teacher Damallie Kibirige from Buganda road primary school in Uganda. “The i-CMiiST project [was crucial] to aid the memory for children to keep themselves safe on the road”. This was one of the highlights of the schools’ view of i-CMiiST’s engagement with their children at a recent project evaluation...

Ring Road Photographic Expo Brings out the ‘Reality of the Streets’

Between the 26th October and the 2nd of November the Ring Road i-CMiiST team held two ‘Expo’s’ where they displayed the merger between the previous held participatory mapping exercise and the street photography exercises. The objective of the expos was to get citizens' views and derive proposals from both vehicle drivers (Expo at Yaya Centre Shopping...

Nairobi Placemaking 2018

Placemaking (#3) is taking place in Nairobi 30th October - 3 November Placemaking is the process by which users of a public open space come together with other interested parties to turn the space into a clean, safe, useful and memorable place for their use. A public open space refers to any freely accessible space...

‘This zebra crossing will alert motorists to give way to our children’

From a distance, the section of Bombo road above Bat Valley primary school in Kampala looks bright with new black and white stripes. Before September 30, 2018, the road was plain and the vehicles flew over without minding who is crossing. The white and black stripes are a new zebra crossing at Bat Valley primary...

What Namirembe road looks like through lens of a wearable camera

Using wearable camera as one of the creative methods, the Kampala i-CMiiST team  walked along Namirembe road to capture what it looks like now. Why Namirembe road? This is an area due for transformation by the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) to include a pedestrian walkway and cycling lane. The city authority also intends to...

On Namirembe road with a wearable camera

On August 14, 2018, Kampala i-CMiiST creative experts got a rare opportunity to train in a new creative methodology that they could use on either of the research sites in Kampala. i-CMiiST is an acronym for Implementing Creative Methodological Innovations for Inclusive Sustainable Transport, a project supported by the British Academy’s Cities & Infrastructure programme,...

Deciphering “Inclusive” Views through Participatory Mapping

African cities exhibit visible differentiations in terms of their social, economic and demographic composition.  These differentiations have given rise to the common use of the term ‘Inclusivity’ in planning, community and policy discussions where it is often used to solidify (or 'seem' to solidify) agendas of rights for vulnerable groups in the society. In the development arena, the pretext...