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Photo by Sergy Kukota, 06 May 2012
MEET YOU AT THE CROSSROADS: WEEKLY PUBLIC IMAGE
Meet You At The Crossroads is a library of public images of resistance, rebellion, revolt and rebuilding occurring in cities right across the globe, often on the streets; in the public realm. There are attempts throughout the globe to quickly dismantle equality and social justice policies/ideas. Resistance and refusal is everywhere. Moreover people are working to move beyond the status quo and build something anew; a year of the possible. Sign up for your weekly image here.
PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY OF CRITICAL CITIES VOLUME 3!
Leave behind status-quo thinking about contemporary cities and leap into the knowledge, actions and ideas of sharp critical urbanists from across the globe. Critical Cities Volume 3 offers provocative and transformative perspectives from multiple urban contexts including São Paulo, Zagreb, Hong Kong, London, Bogota, and Nicosia. Pre-orders receive a complimentary copy of 'Highrise'!
CONGRATULATIONS CAFE OTO! REMEMBERING WHEN...
In October 2008 Cafe Oto hosted the first TINAG Festival in their wonderful space. It was Hamish and Keiko's first year running the cafe and, four years on, we are delighted to see Cafe Oto named "Britain's coolest venue". 2008 Festival Participants.
OPEN CALL: 4th THIS IS NOT A GATEWAY FESTIVAL
More themes, yet more focused, the 4th Festival sets out to meet head-on a number of key urban questions and provides a platform for debate, provocation and production. Every year the programme is the result of an OPEN CALL. We hope you will contribute!1st Deadline: 01 May 2012
This Is Not A Gateway Festival 2010
"Welcoming, friendly and inclusive but still critically rigorous"
With the 2012 Festival preparations underway, it seems a good time to reflect upon the last festival. See what festival-goers said and contributors have said here.
On the day the British Council launched its competition to become an 'explorer', it also happened to be the 50th anniversary of anti-colonial theorist and fighter Frantz Fanon’s death. Strange coincidence no doubt, however, one that sharpened our interest. The opportunity to compete to become a British Council 'explorer' appeared retro-grade and problematic to us.
We sought council from a multiplicity of colleagues, associates and friends - we are sharing these conversations, as on Monday the 12th of March 2012, the British Council’s winners were announced. The names of the 'explorers' were revealed without any information as to how or why the jury selected them over the other 90+ companies, organisations and individuals that entered. Was it a lottery draw? Are the ideas driving these selected explorations irrelevant? Without any information, there seems no choice but to try and start a debate.
In Memory Of Athiraman Kannan, Jeddah, May 2011, Trenton Oldfield
WERKER 3 - DOMESTIC WORKER PHOTOGRAPHER NETWORK
Werker 3 is "a collective and political representation of domestic space open for constant improvement and study". Click here for an important archive about and/or by domestic workers. Look out for Trenton's project In Memory Of Athiraman Kannan documenting a ‘pop out city’' - an attempt at permanency, comfort and retreat in an always vulnerable and precarious life as a migrant worker. Unlike the families they worked for, whose life exists almost entirely behind walls, their lives exist on the street, forging new notions ‘the public’ in city largely concerned with ‘privacy’.
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