22-24 OCTOBER 2010, LONDON

HANBURY HALL, 22 HANBURY STREET, E1 6QR

The festival will include over 80 events, organised by:

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ADAM MATSCHULAT AGUIAR is an audio engineer, electroacoustic music composer, sound designer and a live art practitioner. He studied Drama and Theatre in Brazil, professionalising in Commedia dell'arte. In London, whilst studying and working on various different types of media projects, he is currently working with Green Shoes Arts as their Music Workshop Leader - doing community projects, mainly working with youth groups (NEET) and children with learning disabilities. FILM SCREENING Creative Capitals: London / Helsinki Moving Images

AGNIESZKA MLICKA is currently doing her PhD research in art and architecture at the University of Westminster, School of Architecture and the Built Environment. She studied Fine Art at the University of Oxford (2006) and received her MA in Painting at the University of the Arts London (2007).  Her practice as an artist is a combination of painting and drawing, inspired by architecture, the city and urban planning. Agnieszka adopts the architect’s visual language to show the city as a system of architectural structures, linguistics and cartography. The result is simultaneously a critique of urban planning - a system which controls society - and a fascination with the belief in perfection of the architectural practice. SOAPBOX Urban Complexity in Two Dimensions: Painting as Rhetorical Tool for Urban Planning

AGNIESZKA WRZESNIAK SOAPBOX Silent Places

ALVARO URBANO is based in Brazil, has a fine arts and architectural education background, and has exhibited in New York, Madrid, Los Angeles and Berlin. Alvaro was awarded Madrid's Best Young Designer in 2006. He has collaborated with Tomas Saraceno for the Calder Foundation and is currently a member of the Institut fur Raumexperimente, run by Olafur Eliasson. SOAPBOX PROJECT-SKY: Metropolitan Activism

ANDREA GIBBONS spent many years in L.A., first as a paralegal working with Central American refugees and then as an organiser, popular educator, and researcher with SAJE. Broadly speaking she fought for justice in all forms with a focus on housing and development, and also helped to create the Figueroa Corridor Community Land Trust. She is now a writer and editor, and a PhD student at the London School of Economics. DISCUSSION What Inspires Urban Change?

ANDRES TORCA is an education office in the MACRO (Museum for Contemporary Art in Rome). His art practice provokes interferences in the daily routine of pedestrians, in order to induce them to rethink and criticise the spaces where they pass, and at the same time, think about the attitudes and authority which sustains our society. His new video work is based on the writings of Nietzsche, exactly where he predicted the coming of "the Superman". He proposed a spiritual recycling of societies patterns, from an ironical point of view. FILM Il Superuomo 

ANDREW STARR WORKSHOP Hanbury Hall: 21st Century Community Centre

ANISA JOHNNY organises events at Christ Church Spitalfields she is interested in the different groups of people that have lived and worked in the vicinity of the church and how the redevelopment of the area has changed their interaction. Having completed a BA in Economics and Social History she is currently studying for a PG Dip in Innovation Design and researching and writing a book on the themes of collaborative communities, morality and individual purpose. DISCUSSION Community: What Is It Good For? 

ANNA RICCIARDI is living and working in London. She completed her BA Sculpture degree at Camberwell College of Arts, London, and her MA Contemporary Art Theory degree at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has participated in and organised several exhibitions including "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" at the Islington Arts Factory, London, "Last Post/Ending Feminist Futures", Scotland, and "Cruelty", George Tavern, London. SOAPBOX Contamination

ANU PENNANEN is an artist based in Berlin, Germany. She is interested in the public space and its possibilities to evoke shared narratives which momentarily escape the given conditions of spatial organization, urban architecture and modernization. FILM Cultural Capitals: London-Berlin-Helsinki Moving Images

ANNA ZNAENOK  is a journalist and artist based in Moscow. EXHIBITION City Litter’s New Life

 ARTURO ORTIZ STRUCK  studied architecture at Universidad Iberoamericana(UIA), and receive a masters in urban research at the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM). He is member of the National System for Art Creators, FONCA. In a collaborative participation with Tatiana Bilbao, Derek Dellekamp and Michel Rojkind, he founded the urban research center MXDF in 2003. In the last years he has being participating in different urban plans in the Federal District, and in different States in Mexico. He has been a professor in the architecture department at UIA since 1998. DISCUSSION Your Best Investment

ASHLEY WONG is an artist, cultural producer and researcher based in London, UK. She has a BFA in Digital Image/Sound and the Fine Arts from Concordia University in Montreal, and an MA in Culture Industry from Goldsmiths', University of London. She is former project manager of Videotage - Media Art Institution in Hong Kong where she lived and worked for 2 years. She is founder of independent arts platform LOUDSPKR and international research collective DOXA, and has produced numerous artistic and curatorial projects internationally and has presented work in Taipei, Hong Kong, London, Paris, Madrid, New York and Gothenburg. She is currently works with Sound and Music – UK's landmark organisation for new music and sound. FILM NønSpace: The elusive haze of space/place of Hong Kong

BEATTY HALLAS is an artist interested in public affirmation and how people look after each other.Based in London and working all over, with a background in communication design and research. Beatty studied sculpture at Brighton and Wimbledon and recently showed at Whitstable Biennale. SOAPBOX Where can I live? An A-Z of contemporary habitation

BENJAMIN MASON is a current student of the MRes in Information Environments at the London College of Communication. His key areas of focus are the relationships between individuals and the digital environment, along with the influences, impacts and responses to different modes of incorporation, connection and conditioning of new media. He has worked for the University of Westminster, as part of the Twoler project, to design and develop student orientated web applications that promote the use and inclusion of web 2.0 in the student environment. SOAPBOX Environmental White Space: A Sociological Exploration of the Uses and Functions of Public Space in Business Environments

BLOK – Local Base for Culture Refreshment is continuously engaging in production, presentation and mediation of artistic projects that actively and critically not only reflect, but also radically penetrate public space, as well as critically examine the modes of its creation. In its nine years of existence it has produced and instigated numerous artistic and activist projects and has spurred the public debate about the issues related to the transformation of the public space as well as provided with artistic proposals for the ways the public space should be constantly negotiated and re-examined. Some of BLOK’s projects are: Micropolitics, a series of lectures on urban practices, UrbanFestival, and Operation: City. Currently, BLOK is participating in the international project The Art of Urban Intervention. DISCUSSION Crisis of Urban Planning in a Post-Socialist Context: Riverbanks of Sava and the Upper Town in Zagreb

BOB COLENUTT DISCUSSION Urban Renaissance: For Whom?

BOJAN MUCKO is a student of Philosophy, Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Zagreb. His work deals with cultural anthropological theories of identity and anthropology of space and he is interested in methodological cross sections of humanistic disciplines and contemporary arts. DISCUSSION Zagreb’s Winter Stores Voices

BORJA CONDE is a musician and video-artist based in Barcelona, interested in city sound recording and experimental marketing techniques. He has collaborated with different advertising agencies in New York and Mexico City as creative and copywriter, and worked for MACBA, the Barcelona Museum for Contemporary Art. SOAPBOX PROJECT-SKY: Metropolitan Activism

BUDD 09/10 is a multidisciplinary and multicultural team of the MSc Building & Urban Design in Development (2009/2010) in the Development Planning Unit of University College London. Composed of architects, geographers, engineers, and planners, the team seeks to develop a holistic process of design for development of cities that combines an examination and analysis of economic, social, cultural and spatial elements in the production of urban form. The group undertook fieldwork and research in May about the influences, processes and outcomes of urban transformation in Istanbul. DISCUSSION Istanbul: City of Islands

CATALINA NICULESCU lives and works in London. Her work has been shown at galleries and institutions throughout Europe and beyond. Recent selected solo and group exhibitions: Rectangular forms and other shapes, GAD, Marseille, France (solo); Grosse Posterausstellung, Niklas Schechinger Fine Art, Hamburg, Germany; Territories, Shanhe Museum, Hangzhou, China; Game People Play, Homeprojects, Milan, Italy; Autoitalia, London; and Festival of Architecture, Hyde Park, London. DISCUSSION The workplace in the Financial districts  

CELINE KUKLOWSKY was born and bred in Los Angeles, and has worked for the community organisation SAJE as well as the online journal Truthdig. She is currently pursuing an MSc at the London School of Economics and working on a research project studying French cities at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion. DISCUSSION What Inspires Urban Change?

CHARLIE KOOLHAAS has contributed extensively to magazines, books and exhibitions with her writing, visual art and photography. Her current work focuses on capturing the moments where cultures are bridged and it is revealed how globalisation manifests at a human scale.  Her work focuses on Cities - using the surfaces of the urban environment, its architecture, and the voices of the people who populate them to tell graphic stories by bringing together a series of moments and then comparing and contrasting  them, so that these many fragments bounce off each other, refer to each other and begin to talk.  Charlie’s work aims to give a true representation of cities as global centers of cross-cultural inhabitation and exchange, places for collaboration across fields and specialisms, beliefs and cultures. EXHIBITION True Cities: London, Guangzhou, Dubai & Lagos

CHARLOTTE GINSBORG is a London based artist working in film and video. She graduated with an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College in 2002. Since then her 16mm films and videos have been screened and exhibited nationally and internationally including the Serpentine Gallery, ICA, and Camden Arts Centre, London, the Walker Institute, Minneapolis, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Her film Over The Bones was nominated for the Tiger Shorts Competition at the Rotterdam Film Festival 2010. DISCUSSION The workplace in the Financial districts

CHELSEA KNIGHT is a New York based artist working in video and performance. Knight recently completed residencies at the Whitney Independent Study Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was a 2007 Fulbright Fellow in Italy. She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from Oberlin College. Knight has had recent solo shows at the University of Syracuse and Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago, and has shown her work at the 10th Annual Istanbul Biennial, the St. Louis Art Museum, the Centre Pompidou, and Art in General, New York. Her work will be included in the upcoming 2010 Bucharest Young Artist's Biennial. FILM The End Of All Resistance

CHRIS JACK has been living in London since early 2008, running his own East London based music events and playing regular DJ sets around the capital, making short films and music videos with exciting young directors, and working with a variety of musicians to record and engineer their music. He also works in the 'open-source' science/arts scene, utilising cutting edge audio and electronics platforms such as Pure Data and Arduino to create unique, multi-media pieces. FILM SCREENING Creative Capitals: London / Helsinki Moving Images

CHRISTINA HAZELL is an artist who lives and works in London. Her mutlimedia practice addresses the relationship mankind has with the natural world. She is interested in the way nature is restrained and controlled in urban spaces and the precarious impact culture has on the environment. She has a Masters in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art. FILM Cohabitation

CLARE BURNETT is an artist practising in London. Her work involves making subtle interventions and artworks which draw attention to how we see and filter the physical and aspects of urban life. She uses a variety of 2D and 3D materials and approaches depending on the environment in which a work is to be placed and has a particular interest in making works which are as simple in idea or manifestation as possible. Over the last four years she has been working on artist, architect and education projects relating to White City. SOAPBOX The lost legacies and lagoons of the first London Olumpiad 

CHRISTIAN VON WISSEL is an architect (Technological University of Berlin) and founding member of Citámbulos, an interdisciplinary urban research collective based in Mexico City and working on the city’s everyday life and urban phenomena. Co-author and curator of the Citámbulos publications (Oceano; Jovis; INAH) and exhibitions in Berlin, Linz and Mexico City. Currently, he is working on periphery and perception in the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico as part of his PhD in Visual Sociology at the Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths, London. DISCUSSION Your Best Investment

CRISTINA INCLAN is a PhD student in Urban Planning at the London School of Economics. Her research is concerned on the cultural and social patterns resulting from the phenomenon GEO, or what she calls ‘Casas-GEO movement’. She conducted an ethnographic  study in a particular housing complex in the city of Cuernavaca, in order to discover how people live and experience these their living space on a daily basis, how they see and adapt the architecture to meet their needs  and wishes, and how the get organised.  Overall she is interested in an emerging cultural category in contemporary Mexico expressed through the dwellers o  Casas GEO and through the built environment.  DISCUSSION Your Best Investment

CRITICAL PRACTICE is a cluster of artists, researchers, academics and others, supported by Chelsea College of Art & Design, London. They aim to support critical practice within art, the field of culture and organisation. They explore new models for creative practice, and look to engage those models in appropriate public forums, both nationally and internationally; they participate in exhibitions and the institutions of exhibition, seminar and conferences, film, concert and other event programmes. They work with archives and collections, publication, broadcast and other distributive media and funders; while actively seeking to collaborate. DISCUSSION Money / Space / Art 

DANIEL FERNANDEZ PASCUAL is based in Berlin and Shanghai and holds a Master of Architecture from Madrid University, Master of Science of Urban Design from Berlin University, and Master of Architecture from Shanghai Tongji University. He recently collaborated with SMAQ, whose work was exhibited at Rotterdam Biennale 2009. Daniel is a city explore specialising in urban issues and editor of Deconcrete, a blog on Everyday Urbanism. SOAPBOX PROJECT-SKY: Metropolitan Activism

DANIELLE HEWITT studied fine art at Goldsmiths and is currently carrying out an MA in Architectural History at the Bartlett, UCL. Her practice engages with myth, memory, and fantasy to examine the multiple agencies that contribute to meaning-making in architecture and cities. Her current research examines the role of weeds and debris in sites of heritage-led urban regeneration. LECTURE PERFORMANCE LecturByLaw

DAVID BOULOGNE is a French photographer based in London since 1998. His works document realities and questions generally the way we perceive and anticipate photography. David studied and graduated from La Sorbonne and L’Ecole de L’Image in Paris before moving to UK and becoming freelance. David has been involved with the fringe art scene in London with T1+2 gallery since 2001. His latest show was at the International Derby Photo festival in 2009 with Inadequates. Magnum agency, David Lynch, Wim Wenders, William Eggleston were amongst the artists. EXHIBITION Confessions from the City

DAVID ROSENBERG leads historical walks of the East End and Islington. He works part-time as a teacher in an inner-city primary school in Islington. In recent years he has created the Islington local2global project bringing together local history, geography and global citizenship issues. This is being accessed by 9-10 year olds in several Islington schools. He also works as a freelance writer and editor, and has contributed several articles on history and current affairs for Channel 4 and other websites. He has been active in the Jewish Socialists’ Group since 1976 and is on the editorial committee of Jewish Socialist magazine. He is currently completing a book on Jewish responses to Mosley’s Movement in Britain in the 1930s, which will be published in 2011 by Five Leaves Publications. WALK Anti-Fascist Footprint

DAVID WHEELER has been a freelance filmmaker for various periods over the last 25 years. His initial focus was directing film drama before moving onto corporate and educational films, some of which were produced in collaboration with the British Council for broadcast in India and Africa. He has also produced music videos, film sequences for use in theatre productions, and documentary and activist films. He co-directed a short drama film for Channel 5 TV entitled Windows of the Soul and directed the Bristol Premiere theatre production of The Pichfork Disney by Phillip Ridley. After a period teaching media he is currently producing promotional films along with his own documentary work. FILM J18: Stop The City

DEMETRIS TALIOTIS is a transdisciplinary artist, a conjectural theorist and an impromptu restaurateur. He is currently the Director and Head Curator of APOTHEKE, while also being consumed by academic research into the cultural discourses of silence. EXHIBITION & DISCUSSION Public Works, Nicosia 2010: London Reflections

DISCULPEN LAS MOLESTIAS is a collective created in 2007. Its name, from the Spanish, means 'apologies for the inconvenience', which is the typical statement the Council and other major institutions use for apologising when they produce alterations in public spaces. We are a collective of three women from Barcelona, each with an artistic background, who share an engagement with socio-political issues from our contemporary context. By means of tactic interventions, our work aims to create situations through which we can point out the invisible conflicts of urban life and the capitalist system. Disculpen las Molestias have participated in several exhibitions, workshops and seminars, including Going Public '06 (Modena) and the International Guerrilla Video Festival (Dublin). DISCUSSION Creativity, Resistance, and the City

DOLAN CUMMINGS  heads up the Manifesto Club’s work for free speech and against the regulation of public space. He has a particular commitment to the idea of a free and vital public sphere, going back to 1993, when at the age of 18 he organised a demonstration against a nightclub curfew in Glasgow. Recently, he has written a Manifesto Club Thinkpiece against the smoking ban, A civilised approach to smoking policies; a proposal to abolish intrusive licensing laws; and a statement against the ban on drinking on London transport; and he coordinates the Manifesto Club campaign for free speech. He also manages the Manifesto Club website and Members' Room. He is an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Ideas in London, and edits its online review Culture Wars. He is also the editor of Debating Humanism, a collection of essays exploring different conceptions of humanist politics. DISCUSSION The Art of Common Space: The Bye Laws Project

ECOLABS aims to nurture whole systems of thinking, foster ecological literacy, and create an alternative cultural vision that will drive transformational change to meet the goals of a fully sustainable society. We are a not for profit network of designers and visual artists who create materials, projects and programs that support ecological literacy. SOAPBOX Steady States

EILEEN WOODS is a Senior Partner and Artistic Director for Haring Woods Studio. Originally from New York City, with a background in music, theatre, film and festivals, Eileen pursued her theatre production career in Dublin for 6 years before moving to London where she has lived for 30 years and worked in partnership with husband Michael Woods for the past 23 years as a director of commercial creative companies. As a cultural entrepreneur, she has originated interdisciplinary arts led initiatives and events, commissioned international artists across all disciplines and produced a range of experimental and large scale projects exploring arts and the environment.  Recently she was the Artistic Director of the 5 year London based Gunpowder Park project which included the ongoing Art of Common Space programme. Currently Eileen is developing 2 international projects in collaboration with the United Nations positioning arts and artists as the catalysts for social change. DISCUSSION The Art of Common Space: The Bye Laws Project 

EMMA BURLAND is a recent Fine Art graduate from Middlesex University. EXHIBITION April 1^st 2009

ESTHER JOHNSON takes a poetic approach to documentary and narrative through film, video, audio and photography. Recurring themes include personal histories, heritage, tradition, architectural vernacular and precarious futures. Her work has been exhibited internationally including Tate Modern; Tate Britain; BFI; ICA; NASA and the BBC. She has written for several arts publications, is an independent film/video curator, and is Senior Lecturer in Film and Media at Sheffield Hallam University. FILM  Elevation 

EVA WEBER FILM City of Cranes

EVANTHIA TSELIKA is a researcher, visual producer and educator. She is currently undertaking doctorial research on social engagement and the arts-development in the divided centre of Nicosia, at Birkbeck, University of London. She has worked, exhibited and collaborated with various galleries and museums in London, El Salvador, Cyprus, Greece and Brazil. EXHIBITION & DISCUSSION Public Works, Nicosia 2010: London Reflections 

FADI SHAYYA is an urban planner, writer and social advocate living and working in Beirut, Lebanon. Trained in urban studies and architecture, he is founder and coordinator of the research platform DISCURSIVE FORMATIONS (DF), an intiative grounded in acknowledging the need for practice-driven research and critical discourses on spatial cultures in the contemporary city. Fadi has worked with the United Nations on development, MDGs, and urban governance in Lebanon, Kuwait, and Jordan, and has consulted for the America University of Beirut and NGOs on spatial studies and infographics. PROJECT LAUNCH At the Edge of the City: Reinhabiting Public Space Toward the Recovery of Beirut's Horsh Al-Sanawbar  

FIONA DAVIES works as an urban design researcher at CABE in London. She studied architecture at Cambridge and an MSc in Urbanisation and Development at The London School of Economics.  Before joining CABE, she worked as an urban designer for Croydon Council, and several leading architectural practices. Fiona has an interest in international development and has worked in Malawi on a Wellcome Trust funded hospital project, and carried out first hand research into post war reconstruction in Sierra Leone, which was the subject of her MSc dissertation at LSE.  Fiona also has experience of the corporate world working for an international management consultancy, a global investment bank, and a UK based property company. DISCUSSION An anthropology of the financial district

FIONA WHITTY was bron in Ireland in 1984. Fiona is a visual artist and her practice is multi-disciplinary, socially interactive and engaging. She is interested in creating sustainable models for future arts practice. Fiona is recipient of the LAUNCH Emerging Artist's award 2006. Her solo exhibition, entitled "Waiting Room" 2007 led to her residency "Art for Socially Responsible Transformation" in Biella, Italy. Selected group exhibitions include Antwerp, Bangkok, Milan, Lagos, Nigeria, Jamaica and in her native Ireland. Fiona holds a BFA from D.I.T. Ireland Fine Art, 2006, and in 2009 she graduated with a distinction from the prestigious MA program at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. Fiona is currently based in London working on documentaries and is Arts Project Manager for Community Focus's Residency for Deaf and Disabled Artists. She is a steering committee member of This Is Not A Gateway. FILM Soon Come

FLORENCE MULVEY SOAPBOX Symbolism in The City

FRANCIS FARMER is a practicing artist that is concerned with the experience of everyday life lived in the ruins of late capitalism. SOAPBOX CASHCONVERTORS 4 

FRAN COTTELL is practising artist, based in London. She curated ‘Concrete Dreams: Art, Architecture and Social Space’ with Liz Harrison for apt/open house and is currently working on projects with the Concrete Geometries Research Cluster at the Architectural Association, London. Against a broader interest in addressing/levelling hierarchies and roles, Fran’s research addresses the question: how to show the ephemeral, live experiences that make up the everyday within the art institution? DISCUSSION The Clearing

FUGITIVE IMAGES Artist collective founded in 2009 by Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Lasse Johansson  and Tristan Fennell. It was set up to explore the subtle and haunting traces of memory and desire that weave together identities and communities. Fugitive Images hold participatory workshops in audio/visual recording and writing. BOOK LAUNCH Estate    

GABRIEL MASCARO is based in Recife, Brazil. He graduated in Social Comunication from the Federal University of Pernambuco and is a member of the independent producation company Símio Filmes. Gabriel is co-director of the documentary films “The Beatle KFZ-1348” (2008) and “High-rise” (2009). High-Rise has screened at more than 40 international film festivals, provoking a great amount of debate around the mindset of the Brazilian elite and the model of urban arquitecture that is currently dominant in Brazil. His most recent productions are the short-film “The Adventures of Paulo Bruscky” (2010) and the creative documentary feature film “Defiant Brasilia” (2010) which premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival in February 2010. Gabriel also gives video workshops to Indigenous communities in North and Northeast Brasil as part of his work as a collaborator of the NGO “Video in the Villages”.  At only 26 years of age and with support from the Hubert Bals Fund (Rotterdam), Gabriel is currently developing his third feature length film entitled “Bull Down!”. Set amidst the arid landscape of rural Northeast of Brasil this will be Gabriel's first fiction.  FILM Um Lugar Ao Sol (High Rise) 

GARY PHILLIPS writes tales of mayhem and menace. In other pursuits he has been a union rep, run a nonprofit begun as a response to the '92 L.A. riots, taught incarcerated youths, was a community organiser in South Central Los Angeles where he was born and raised, toiled as a printer, worked for one of those shadowy 527s, and delivered dog cages. DISCUSSION What Inspires Urban Change?

GEORGE GINGELL is a qualified Part 1 architect and has studied at both the Architectural Association and London Metropolitan University. His work often explores new cartographical techniques and explores ideas around flux and stasis within the urban core of London and other cities. Recently based at Freeland Rees Roberts architects in Cambridge he worked within the historic core and on a major gateway development mediating between the fast flowing major roads and the small fine grain of the historic centre. EXHIBITION & WALK Entering the Panopticon: a study of the Ring of Steel

GERARD NESTLER graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, in 1992 and has been exhibiting internationally since then. From 1994 to 1997 he did 'fieldwork' as a broker and trader. From 1997 onwards he has been engaging in artistic research. In 2003 he received an Austrian State Scholarship for Visual Art. In 2007 he published Yx, a reader/catalogue introducing finance and economy as fields of artistic research. He is currently a practice-based PhD candidate at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths College, London. DISCUSSION The workplace in the Financial Districts

GIAN LUCA AMADEI trained in Interior Design and studied Architecture History and Theory at the Barlett. Since 2007 he has been the Product Editor for Blueprint Magazine. He is currently researching urban burial grounds for his PhD in architecture at the University of Kent. SOAPBOX Urban Burial GroundsL Planning for London in the 21st Century

GILDA HAAS is an organiser and educator who has been helping grassroots organisations build economic development from the ground up for the past thirty years. Gilda teaches community economic development in UCLA's Urban Planning Department where she also established the Community Scholars Program. She recently left her position as foudning Director of Strategic Actions for a Just Economy to create Dr. Pop, a popular education website that explores the relationships between economics, urban planning and democracy. DISCUSSION What Inspires Urban Change?

GILLIAN MCIVER studied history and philosophy before starting out as a documentary film maker. Moving from Canada to London, she began to work with experimental and site specific film. FILM Cultural Capitals: London-Berlin-Helsinki Moving Images & DISCUSSION Art, Finance and Collective Action

HARING WOODS STUDIO are artists, designers, entrepreneurs, political and cultural consultants working collectively to respond to social, economic and environmental challenges through arts and culture. Recent projects : the 5 year Gunpowder Park project of experimental arts and environment programming including The Art of Common Space and Bright Sparks R&D programme., the 6 year Green Heart Partnership initiative, the Jaywick Martello Tower arts programme. Current projects are Place on Earth, Safe Planet, The Art of Common Space Part 2, and Interdependence Day Movement. DISCUSSION The Art of Common Space: the Bye laws project

HASSAN MAHAMADALLIE has written and lectured widely on race in contemporary Britain and Black history. Trained in theatre, he has made a living as an actor, director, writer, arts-in-education worker, anti-racist activist and journalist. Recent articles include "Muslim working class struggles in Britain" and a contribution to a collection of writings "Tell It Like It Is: How Our Schools Fail Black Children". His biography of radical artist William Morris, Crossing the River of Fire: The Socialism of William Morris was published in 2008. Hassan presently works at Arts Council England where he has been responsible for developoing a project on the relationship between artistic practice and the Islamic faith. DISCUSSION William Morris: Street revolutionary and Urban Visionary

HELEN COUCHMAN completed her BA in Fine Art at Sir John Cass College, London in 1996 and an MA in Critical Fine Art Practice at Central Saint Martins School of Art in 1998. Helen has exhibited widely, both in the UK and internationally; solo exhibitions include "Linebuilding" at the London College of Communication (2005) and "Streetscape" at Peckham Women's Centre, London (1997). Helen has had residencies at Cyprus College of Art and Vermont Studio Center, USA, and in 2006 accepted an invitation to work in China, a trip which culminated in a solo show, "Gift", at the Dashanzi International Art Festival (DIAF) in Beijing. Helen followed this up with the publication "WORKERS 工人" in June 2008. EXHIBITION Cloud Series: Yellow Lining

HENRIETTA WILLIAMS's photography considers border lands, how an edge is defined and what happens along that edge. She completed an MA in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism in December 2008 from the London College of Communication. Her project ‘On the Threshold’ considered how planning initiatives along interfaces in Belfast were creating a hinterland whereby business parks, supermarkets and car parks were being used as a new form of separation between Nationalist/Repubican and Unionist/Loyalist communities. This has been widely exhibited in Belfast and London and has become a part of the Troubles Archive.  Since November 2009 she have been working primarily on architectural and landscape commissions, stills and films whilst continuing to exhibit, most recently at the Whitstable Satellite Biennale in June 2010. EXHIBITION & WALK Entering the Panopticon: a study of the Ring of Steel

HYEMIN PARK has been a member of the urbanism research artist group flyingCity and the urbanism research online magazine flyingNet in Korea. flyingCity pays utmost attention to how to deconstruct and reconstruct the structure of Seoul, the city full of spectacles. Consisting of three to five core members with the participation of internet communities, flyinCity documents urban-related source materials, stages performances and holds meetings and workshops involving the community under the theme of urban development and restoration. SOAPBOX Open Poetry Competition 2011: Magnetic Poetry

IGNACIO ACOSTA born in Valparaiso, Chile Ignacio lives and works in London. He has studied architecture and completed BA (Hons) in graphic design in Santiago, Chile and MA photography at the University of Brighton. As an artist he is interested in the symbolic language that lies behind the image. His work responds to the influence of place upon our sense of identity. Ignacio works with the abstraction of the contemporary metropolis as a stable model in an endless process of transformation, expansion and homogenization. His work addresses issues concerned with local versus global identities, images which examine both notions of aesthetics and form as well as commenting on political and social perspectives. EXHIBITION Mapping The Zone: Reflections on Global Capital

ISLAND PROJECTS is a roving curatorial project that has been initiating exhibitions and performance events since July 2009. Run by Marco Cali, Pippa Koszerek and Mary Yacoob, we are interested in the urban environment as a source and site of artistic practice. Our fifth project, "Beyond the Dustheaps" at the Dickens Museum, runs from the 24th September to 11th December 2010. Seventeen artists and writers have been invited to make new works inspired by the Dickens life and home. SALON Games Of Money And Death

JANI RUSCICA  is an artist working with film, video, photography and other media. He is based in Helsinki and was educated at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London and at the Academy of Fine Art in Helsinki. FILM Cultural Capitals: London-Berlin-Helsinki Moving Images

JASON WAITE is the founder of the International Guerrilla Video Festival and an independent curator currently based in London. Jason will be in conversation with Sergio Cruz. FILM Outside

JAMES GEURTS's drawing practice uses traditional materials, as well as light, sound, long-exposure photography and video projection. These processes combine in an exploration of the interdependency of human senses/psychology and the built environment/nature, in works that challenge our perception and use of resources and spaces. DISCUSSION The Clearing

JENNIFER GABRYS is programme leader for the MA in Design & Environment at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research and practice focus on environmental design; technonatures and citizen science; material culture and waste; emerging modes of practice. Projects within this area include a forthcoming book Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics, which investigates the material geographies of electronic waste. She has previously practiced landscape architecture in Los Angeles and Minneapolis, and has undertaken research on cities, media and urban computing in Montreal. WALK Moss-eye View: An Urban Ecological Tour of Bryophytes in the City of London

JESSICA TOALE is a sustainability and investment strategist at dtz. Working in the city of london she has embarked upon a series of research projects looking at the effects of sustainability on the built environment to support her work with investors and businesses. Jessica studied urbanisation and development at the London School of Economics and moved into property to get practical first hand experience of the built environment and its relationship to global business and communities. She is now undertaking an increasing amount of work relating to the generation of renewable energy. DISCUSSION Effects of climate change on global cities & businesses: Re-imagining what a successful city of the future looks like

JESSICA SPALIS is a young actress and dancer with a prolific showreel of performances to her credit. Since graduating from the renowned LIPA academy, she has made UK television appearances, performed in large-scale stage shows in London's West-End and worked on various arts projects and music videos. FILM SCREENING Creative Capitals: London / Helsinki Moving Images

JHON ARIAS graduated in Fine Arts from the Colombia Nacional University in 2009. He is interested in working the different possibilities of art as a mode of communication. Photography, video, and performance are used to investigate issues of identity, memory and creative pedagogy. EXHIBITION: Portraits from Corabastos

JOANNA ERBEL is a sociologist and photographer. She is writing her Ph.D. on the role of non-human actors in the transformation of post-socialist spaces at the University of Warsaw. Her main field of interest is urban space and social movements and art in public spaces. Erbel is interested on the role of non-human actors (small architecture, art projects in public spaces, technologies, animals etc.) as mediators between different social groups. DISCUSSION Utopian Thinking, Critical Knowledge & Urban Space 

JOHN NEWLING'S  work, presented across Europe, the Far East and the USA, include involve diverse teams of people, smaller public art projects, gallery exhibitions, museum installations and live events. Publications featuring his work include Sculpture in 20th – Century Britain, and Installation art in the new millennium: The empire of the senses. In 2005 a double volume monograph of his research essays from 1994 to 2005 was published. He lives in Nottingham where he is currently Professor of Installation Sculpture at The Nottingham Trent University. DISCUSSION The Clearing

JONATHAN ROKEM is an urban planner and PhD Candidate at the Department of Politics & Government at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. His research interests focus on spatial and social critical analysis of cities. Jonathan also works as an urban planning and European projects consultant with NGOs and the Private and Public sectors. He holds Bachelors degree in Philosophy and Geography from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Masters degree in Urban Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science. DISCUSSION The Emergence of a New Urban Typology? Re-visiting the “Divided Cities Discourse”

JOSE ESPARAZA is based in New York. He is an independent architect and urban researcher and a collaborator with diverse international magazines, such as Domus, and New York institutions like Storefront for Art and Architecture and the New Museum. José's work with Joseph Grima and Jeffrey Johnson has been exhibited at Shenzhen Biennale 2009 and he has organised exhibitions in Beijing and Mexico City. SOAPBOX PROJECT-SKY: Metropolitan Activism

JOSEFIN RASMUSON is a Swedish artist who has recently graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. Her main interests are focused on the socio-political sphere; how people behave, how meaning is constructed and deconstructed in regards to space, situation and other input. EXHIBITION Waiting/Space

JUAN DELGADO is an interdisciplinary artist specialising in photography, installation and video, exploring issues issues of gender, migration and trauam. In collaboration with London Metropolitan University he produced the multimedia installation "Flêches sans corps" (2003) which explored the trauma experienced by so-called 'illegal' immigrants in their journey to cross the straits to Spain. In 2009, he worked as visiting artist at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá to develop "The Flickering Darkness" which looked at issues of socail inequality through the metaphor of food. AUDIO VISUAL INSTALLATION The Flickering Darkness

JUDITH RYSER, architect-urbanist (EPF-L/ SIA, MSc UCL) and journalist (CIoJ), has worked on urban affairs for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, the European Union, Greater London Council, government agencies in France, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany and UK, universities (UCL, AA, LSBU), contributed to international conferences and wrote numerous articles. She curated seminars, wrote and edited books, inter alia, for the Goethe-Institut (Urban Transformation, London – Berlin; The Future of European Capitals, Knowledge Based Development, London - Berlin – Paris); Isocarp (Four Decades of Knowledge Creation and Sharing, International Manual of Planning Practice), the British Council (Open Cities), and continuously for the Fundacion Metropoli, Madrid (e.g. Making Spaces for the Creative Economy, Mayors’ Summit 2004, Building the Southern European Diagonal, Ecosystems of Innovation, Landscape Intelligence). ARMCHAIR SESSION 1968 to Now: Can We Ever Progress? 

JULIE BACON is an artist, writer, editor and curator, based in Quebec City/London. Her performances, installations, publications and events explore how physical structures and material values translate dream and conceptual spaces; how symbolic consciousness takes shape in the world through the enactment of economic and political models and cultural forms. DISCUSSION The Clearing

JULIAN DOBSON ARMCHAIR SESSION Regeneration: Have we really learned anything? 

KRZYSZTOF NAWRATEK is an architect and urbanist. He is Lecturer at the School of Architecture, Design and Environment, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth (UK). Nawratek’s research can be found in the books "Political Ideologies in Space; Demystifications Exercises"(Kraków 2005) and "City as a political idea"(Kraków 2008), which focus on the social and political structures of architecture, urbanism and the city. Krzysztof Nawratek is currently working on a projects focused on the city as a machine of positive oppression and social 'dynamic segregation'. DISCUSSION Utopian Thinking, Critical Knowledge & Urban Space 

LAHARY PITMAN is a fine art & documentary photographer who has produced three extensive bodies of work from the south of France, New York city and the Mid-Hudson valley. He is a multiple category winner in The Delaware Art Museum's Gordon Parks Arts Competition, winning the jury prize for 'Best In Show' for Rhythm and Pain. In addition to being selected as the 2007-2008 Artist-In-Residence for photography at New York’s Henry Street Settlement, Abron’s Art Center; Lahary is the recipient of awards for his series “The Shifting Boundaries of Lower Manhattan” from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Andy Warhol Foundation. EXHIBITION & DISCUSSION Shifting Boundaries of Lower Manhattan

LARA NAVARRO has a degree in Audiovisual Communications from Universidade da Cidade, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She worked for 13 years on the Brazilian film industry. In 2002 she received a scholarship from IBERMEDIA FUND for Continuous Education in Audiovisual Industry and moved to Spain to obtain a Masters Degree in Documentary Film Making at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In 2005, she went to India to shoot the 30' documentary Women who travel alone (26’);  in 2006 she filmed The Beat of Africa in Gabon. She edited a short version of this film, entitled a Gabao Hip-Hop that has been nominated as Best Short Film in 5 international festivals. In 2009, she started to develop her next documentary project Ayahuasca From the Amazon to the Urban Jungle to be shot in Spain and Brazil. In the same year she founded MOVE CULTURA URBANA. FILM The Beat of Africa 

LEVENT KERIMOL works at Design for London on masterplans, public space projects, and planning strategies. He studied architecture at Cambridge and the Architectural Association, and has worked in practices in London and the Netherlands, most notably OMA. Whilst at the Architectural Association, his research thesis studied systems of organisation and proposed new platforms for representative design negotiation. He has also presented a paper at an international conference in Istanbul; exhibited interactive installations in Shoreditch, Zurich, and Trondheim; and been involved in community projects as part of an ongoing interest in ‘designing the design process’. DISCUSSION An anthropology of the financial district

LIA GHILARDI is the founder and director of Noema Research and Planning, a UK-based organisation working internationally to deliver place mapping and strategic cultural planning projects. Internationally recognised as a leader in the field of urban and cultural development, Lia has worked for more than twenty years with civic leaders, urban networks and arts organisations to provide integrated solutions to the challenges of place making. Recently she joined the Mayor of London's new special advisory group on culture and development. WORKSHOP Hanbury Hall: 21st Century Community Centre

LOOPHOLE BERLIN typifies the “new Berlin” of artistic activity that has grown up since 1989. Located in a former brothel, Loophole is a collective and an event space, offering an programme that reflects the diverse range of artistic practice in the city. Founded by Julian Ronnefeldt of  Luna Nera, the Berlin programme features work by Ronnefeldt, Adrian Shephard (Satantango Dance, and more) and Enzo Perin. FILM Cultural Capitals: London/Helsinki Moving Images

LUNA NERA was formed as  a collective in 1997, coming together to exploit the opportunity to use a derelict Victorian theatre as a studio. This led to an ongoing practice of site exploration and site-responsive practice, creating a number of high profile live art events combining different art forms.  Luna Nera's practice has led to the creation of a number of startlingly inventive video documents, as well as short films and video art works made in, and about, or inspired by, the various places Luna Nera has worked. FILM Cultural Capitals: London-Berlin-Helsinki Moving Images

MANUEL APPERT is an Associate Professor at Lyon University in France. He lectures in Urban Studies and has spent the last 10 years researching issues in London - including transport and mobility, particularly the relationships between urban form and transport accessibility. More recently he has been focussing on the London skyline as a conflicting space. He is considering skylines as images and representations reflecting past and present urban cultures, economic cycles, political systems and heritage policies. PROJECTION & DISCUSSION CBD of the world : Standardisation, Differentiation and Instrumentatio

MARA-DARIA COJOCARU was born in Hamburg but grew up in Munich, where she completed degrees in political science, theatre science and law. She is currently completing her PhD in political science alongside her work as the chair of political theory and philosophy. She is heaviy influenced by her hobbies which include voice and sound recording and directing theatre plays. SOAPBOX We need to talk: re-narrating utopia

MARC ISAACS has made creative documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4. His films have won Grierson, Royal Television Society and BAFTA awards as well as international film festival prizes. In 20088 March received an honorary doctorate from the University of East London for his documentary work. He is a guest tutor at the London Film School, the National Film and Television School and Royal Holloway University. FILM Men of The City

MAREN HARNACK is a fully qualified architect and urban planner currently finishing her PhD about the gentrification of council housing in London. She has studied in Stuttgart, Delft and London and is one of the principal founders of urbanorbit, an architectural practice specialising in urban design and research. She has published in a number of European architectural magazines. EXHIBITION & DISCUSSION Why does British housing come from Mars?

MARC ARRIGO is a director and photographer specialising in documentaries and music videos. As well as sometimes working as part of large production film crews, such as on commercial advertisements, or 'behind-the-scenes' music tour videos, he has also instigated, and been at the heart of, a number
of smaller scale creative projects, working closely with other young professionals to make more artistically driven pieces. FILM SCREENING Creative Capitals: London / Helsinki Moving Images

MARIANNA LIOSI lives and works between Ravenna (Italy) and London as an independent curator. She graduated in Visual Arts at IUAV, in Venice. Since 2006 she has collaborated with Italian and international contemporary art institutions. In 2008 Marianne was production assistant for Manifesta7, and supported by DE.MO./Movin'Up programme, she curated the film programme as part of the show Do you remember Olive Morris? at Gasworks, London. Her research is around the observation of public and urban space and focuss on the interaction that people establish with it. DISCUSSION The workplace in the Financial districts

MARISA GONZALEZ lives and works in Madrid and London. She graduated in Music in Bilbao, and Fine Art’s School in Madrid, Master Fine Arts School Art Institute of Chicago, BFA at  the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC. Her work focuses on cities, its architecture and transformations. Her new project explores the 'invasion' of  the Financial and Commercial District in Hong Kong every Sunday by over150.000 Filipino women. EXHIBITION & DISCUSSION (Female) Space Invaders

MARK JACKSON, BA, MA, PhD(Alta), Lecturer in Postcolonial Geographies, University of Bristol. Research interests: the intersectinos between philosophy and social theory, post-colonialism, urban studies, social history, political ecology, and visual studies. DISCUSSION Cabin-et

MARTIN KOHLER has studied landcape design in Hannover and Adelaide, He has worked on a number of landscape projects and is one of the founders of HAFENSAFARI in Hamburg. He has recently published a photography project based study of public spaces in Hamburg. EXHIBITION & DISCUSSION Why does British housing come from Mars?

MARTIN REID is a project manager at CIDA, the Cultural Industries Development Agency. He trained to be a Chartered Surveyor, studying Urban Land Economics and Urban Estate Management. He gives a deliberately provocative  perspective on what lies at the core of the surveyor’s approach to commercial property development, explains how land prices are the function of a combination of a number of simple economic variables, and perhaps gives an insight into why if, architects are from Mars, their commercial RICS qualified clients are from Venus. DISCUSSION Buildings are merely machines for making land work harder: An economists view on urban development

MARTINE DROZDZ is a geographer and PhD candidate at Lyon University in France. She has been researching the recent changes in the uses of the fringes of the City of London from an economic, social and cultural perspective. Regarding the recent dynamics of expansion of the City on its fringes, the conflicting aspect of this process can be seized. From the gentrification of a post-industrial space to the growth of the ancillary activities in the margins of the CBD, how can we make sense of an area where traditional boundaries between the City and the East End are blurred. PROJECTION & DISCUSSION CBD of the world : Standardisation, Differentiation and Instrumentation

MICHAEL EDWARDS Senior lecturer in Economics & Planning at the Bartlett School of Planning. His research interests include 
urban land and property markets and development processes in Europe, social and economic impacts, labour market analysis, economic estimation, evaluation and decision processes. He is the author of numerous books and is currently researching government-sponsored urban regeneration activities in King's Cross, London. DISCUSSION Urban Renaissance: For Whom?

MICHAEL ITKOFF is a Founding Editor of Daylight Magazine, a print and online publication. Daylight has become one of the premier showcases for contemporary photography, by collaborating with established and emerging artists, scholars and journalists. Itkoff has been a reviewer for New York Photo Festival, En Foco, Critical Mass, ASMP and Santa Fe Center for Photography. He has been a recipient of the Howard Chapnick Grant for the Advancement of Photojournalism (2006), a Creative Artists Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Arts Council (2007), a Puffin Foundation Grant (2008) and recently published his monograph, Street Portraits, Charta Editions 2009. EXHIBITION Street Portraits 

MICHAEL WOODS is a Senior Partner and Executive Director of Haring Woods Studio, a London based international creative and producing team of artists, designers, entrepreneurs, political and cultural consultants working collectively to respond to social, economic and environmental challenges through arts and culture. He is a cultural entrepreneur and applies his experience in creative and strategic planning from the commercial creative industries, to deliver new models of long term public / private sector partnerships for the public realm. Michael is currently developing a new international campaign with the United Nations, progressing the role of arts and social enterprise across UN, NGO and private sector partners. DISCUSSION The Art of Common Space: The Bye Laws Project

MIRANDA IOSSIFIDIS is a current student of MSc Contemporary Urbanism at the London School of Economics and Political Science, looking at the construction of young people in public space as anti-social, in south east London. She is an almost lifelong Londoner, but has lived in Rotterdam, Paris and Caracas, working as a designer with architects and urbanists. SOAP BOX Resisting the giveness of place and community: young people and anti-social behaviour in Lewisham's public spaces. The importance of examining narratives and dominant imaginative geographies.

MR FRISBEE the "Genre Spanner" is hard man to pigeon hole, juggling careers in music & art has lead to some amazing opportunities wether playing on sound tracks for Luc Besson, making films in New York or producing art work for galleries and magazines around the world he blurs the lines of distinction believing that "Experience is everything" . His first solo exhibition "360 Degree B-Boy" will debut 2011 mixing the elements in previously unseen ways , whilst the rest of 2010 includes live performances & DJ sets at festivals and venues around the UK, production and remix work plus exhibitions and shows a plenty. LAUNCH: Visuals & music cozmic funk, breaks, turntablism & 'general good shit'

NAMASTIC ART COLLECTIVE Founded in Helsinki in 2006, Namastic Collective is based on a loose network of contacts and collaborations between artists and other professionals of art and related fields. In an era when people are manipulated by fear and tempted to narrow their thinking, Namastic group believes that art can offer different perspectives and encourage critical thought.  In the field of media art this is especially true, partly due to the mobility of works. FILM Cultural Capitals: London-Berlin-Helsinki Moving Images

NEAL PURVIS: An independent tenant and leaseholder advisor for 12 years on Haggerson & Kingsland Estate. LAUNCH Estate 

NICK BLOMSTRAND recently graduated from the Bartlett School of Architecture (University College London) where he received the undergraduate dissertation prize for his work in history and theory.  His fascination with skyscrapers was the original impetus which led him to pursue the study of architecture and, having visited cities around the world where tall buildings are commonplace, the changing attitude towards office towers in London has been his personal interest for a number of years. DISCUSSION All of this has happened before…

NICOLAS SAURET is a filmmaker and producer based in Paris. He has worked 6 years in Laos and Hong Kong where he pursued an MFA in Creative Media at City University. Since his return in France two years ago, he has co-founded Inflammable Productions, a production company that focusses on new forms of narratives for documentaries, and a dynamic collective of authors, filmmakers and photographers. He also works as project manager with the Institute for Research and Innovation of the Pompidou Center. His work has been featured in a number of exhibitions and festivals including Cinéma du Réel, Vidéoformes, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Tokyo Video Festival, Hong Kong Asian Film Festival and Urban Nomad Film Festival. FILM NønSpace: The elusive haze of space/place of Hong Kong 

OLIVIER RUELLET is an artist, writer, researcher, urban wanderer, based between Paris and London. The output of his creative work spans across several media, including drawing, video, installation, performance, and is situated at the intersection of a range of subjects: mapping, memory, journeys, places, and the imaginary spaces of the city. He regularly writes about psychogeography and the urban condition and he is the initiator and coordinator of the Translocated project. SOAPBOX Translocated

ORSALIA DIMITRIOU is a PhD candidate in the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths University of London. Her thesis topic is the 'Spatial Expression of Political Models in Public Spaces'. Her research focusses on the political attributes of the public space, urban forms as definitions of citizenship,  the role of design as a tool of political intervention. Orsalia has undertaken an Masters in Art, Architecture and Ephemeral Space at the Univercidad Politecnica de Cataluña UPC, Barcelona 2003 and a Dipl.Arch.Eng in Architecture Engineering, National Technical University of Athens NTUA, Athens 2000. DISCUSSION Squatted Squares of Downtown Athens: Anarchy, Democracy and Other Ways of Political Participation

PARTHA BANERJEE is a Consultant Adolescent Psychiatrist running a specialist Adolescent service from Guy's Hospital. Having trained both within the UK and New Zealand, and worked as a Consultant for the U.N in war affected regions, his current interest lies in formulating ideas around murder, intimacy and cities. DISCUSSION Malice in Wonderland

PAUL DOBRASZCZYK is an art historian, focusing on visual culture in nineteenth-century Britain. He has published widely on such diverse topics as the London sewers, urban transport, advertising, industrial architecture, maps, the design of census forms, and industrial ruins. His first book is Into the Belly of the Beast: Exploring London’s Victorian Sewers (Reading: Spire Books, 2009). DISCUSSION Into the Belly of the Beast: Exploring London’s Sewers

PERNILLE MARIE BARNHEIM is an urban sociologist currently undertaking three months of field-work investigating urban design, sociality and connectivity in privately developed social housing areas, as well as social housing co-operatives in Mexico City. The work is conducted as part of her MA dissertation project at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths University. After finishing her degree September 2010, she will move to Mexico City to continue her work. DISCUSSION Your Best Investment

PETER CLEARY has a BA Honors degree in Fine art Printmaking (2009) from Limerick school of Art and Design in Ireland. He has exhibited in Ireland, Germany and Sweden. Peter will be starting the Professional Artist Development in August 2010 until June 2011 at The Royal University of Fine Arts in Stockholm. He has been working on a photographic series that investigates the effect of Capital in relation to architecture. The Photographs are taken in Limerick city where unfinished building scars the landscapes and Cork city were the once busy docklands lay stagnant. PROJECTION The Urban Landscape

PHIL GUSACK received his AA Diploma in 1974 and has worked in California, New York, London, the West Indies and Poland since then. He returned to London in 2004 won an international design competition for the new Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital in Johannesbug. He is publishing a collection of aticles amd essays under the title 'Paradoxical Frogs’: a wide-angle view  of the architecture of public health and the health of public architecture. DISCUSSION Stoned in Jerusalem 

PRIYA GOSWAMI is an independent photographer and filmmaker. A graduate of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Priya has worked as a program producer for NATIONAL television news channel, ‘Zee business’. She has recently written and directed a short film ‘:-bcg’. PROJECTION In the Lanes of Old Delhi 

RACHEL S JONES is a photographer currently working on her PhD in Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work combines both still and moving images in an exploration of the perception of urban temporality. After graduating from Central Saint Martins College of Art, her work was chosen for the Future Map 2004 exhibition showcasing University of the Arts London’s emerging new talent. Since 2004 Rachel has exhibited her work in New York, Glasgow, London and Washington, DC, including participating in the ColorField Remix festival in conjunction with the Kreeger Museum (Washington, DC). Rachel received her MA in Photography and Urban Cultures from Goldsmiths in 2007 and also holds a BA in Sociology from Columbia University which she received in 1998. SOAPBOX The Disappearing Landscape

RAYCHO STANEV lives and works in Sofia. He is a visual artist and designer whose work includes various art installations, illustrations, audio and video projects presented in Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Italy, Norway and Germany. Raycho’s installations are reflecting past and present, personal memories, heritage (communist) policies and urban cultures. DISCUSSION The Great Excursion 

REGINA PARRA is an artist from Brazil. She has a Masters in Visual Arts in Faculdade Santa Marcelina and has graduated from FAAP, in Sao Paulo. She has also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, in Paris, and the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro. In 2009 she had a solo show “Rumour” at Galeria Leme and at Paço das Artes [Temporada de Projetos] a solo show entitled “Mise en scéne”.  She has also shown in the 37th Salão de Santo André, Ribeirão Preto’s Museum of Art and the group shows “Nouvelle Vague”, curated by Jacopo Visconti and “Alcova”, curated by Marcelo Campos, both at Galeria Laura Marsiaj, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. EXHIBITION Rumour

ROBERTO EKHOLM is living and working in London. Graduated in BA Fine Art, from Goldsmiths College, Univeristy of London, and from BA Dance from Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, London. He has participated in many shows, including "Mosquito Man & Other Stories", at Galleri Skylten, London, "LGBT - Stonewall 40 Years On", at Clifford Chance, London, "Golden Rain", organised by Michael Petry, "On The Edge", Stavanger, Norway, and recently completed a residency in NFK-Malongen, Stockholm, Sweden. FILM Contamination

ROBERTO SANCHEZ-CAMUS is an applied live art practitioner. His work focuses on participation, community, urbanism, and politics through a variety of time-based media. He is co-founder of Lotos Collective, directing and devising work in the UK and abroad. Recent projects include Triangulated City, Beirut, Lebanon (2009) and Mapping Divergenece, Rag Factory, London (2008), Youth Visions, Ghana (2008) and Napoli Scorticata, Naples, Italy (2007). Roberto received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and an MA from Central St. Martins in London, and is currently engaged in a practice-led research PhD at Brunel University. SOAPBOX Translocated

ROBIN BALE is an artist and writer who lives and works in London. He is concerned with making poetic but acute responses to the city. Gentrification and its effects of collective amnesia and homogenisation is of particular interest. WALK Last Call

RUTH-MARIE TUNKARA a resident of 14 years on Haggerson & Kingsland Estate. LAUNCH Estate

SANTIAGO PRADA FARAIS has, as a multi-instrumentalist, collaborated on many different records in his native Mexico, the USA and UK. He is a founding member of the Mexican band Lado B, and is currently working on an original music project, a hybrid of traditional Mexican and modern electronic sounds. He made his way to London in 2008, since then collaborating on the sound production for various media and music projects, while working as a live sound engineer for festivals and venues. FILM SCREENING Creative Capitals: London / Helsinki Moving Images

SACHIYO NISHIMURA completed her BA in Fine Arts at Universidad Católica de Chile in 2001, and later in 2002 she attended professional courses on photography at Grisart and IDEP, both schools in Barcelona, Spain. In 2007 she moved to London to complete her MA in Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.  She has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Chile, including the  Contemporary Art Museum of Santiago, Galería AFA and Galería A.M.S., the National Museum of Art Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2008, as part of the group show “Signes d’existence”. In  the UK, her work was selected and exhibited on Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2008 (Liverpool Biennial and London), she was invited to have a solo show at the Howard Gardens Gallery (UWIC, Cardiff) and won the first prize at the DLA Piper Art Award 2009 (London). EXHIBITION Urban Spaces: Landscapes and Fictions

SANDRA HALL has been making participatory arts projects in the region since 1992. As director of Friction Arts she has worked with all kinds of communities from offenders to allotment gardners, from the US to Australia. Sandra is an acknowledged expert in the field of participatory arts and regularly delivers projects and seminars internationally, including regular appearances at Arnhem’s Popkunst and IETM. Sandra first trained with Geese Theatre Company to confront offending behaviour using drama techniques and has taught on a range of courses for artists working in social contexts. Sandra is also a founder member of West Midlands Creative Alliance and also designs and mentors on a number of the independant training company’s programmes. DISCUSSION The Great Excursion

SANNA MAARIT KUTTINEN is an artist and filmmaker from Finland. She studied fine art and film in London, Canada and Finland. Her work often explores themes of identity, character, space and environment. FILM Cultural Capitals: London-Berlin-Helsinki Moving Images

SARA HIDALGO is based between London and Mexico City. She holds a Master of Arts in Cultural and Creative Industries from King's College London and is currently collaborating in the Exhibitions Department at the British Museum. Her research interests include cultural history and the relationship of art practises to wider cultural, social, political and theoretical issues. BOOKLET Women Business Suites: A Contemporary History

SARI PALOSSARI  is a Helsinki-based visual artist working with sculpture, installation and video. FILM Cultural Capitals: London-Berlin-Helsinki Moving Images

SERGIO CRUZ lives and works in England as an artist/filmmaker. He initially studied Sound and Image at Fine Art universities in Portugal and Holland. He has since then collaborated as a sound designer and filmed various dance and performance pieces. With the objective of combining his interest in cinema, performance and fine arts, Cruz undertook two master degrees in London, the first in Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins and the second in "Dance for the Screen" at the London Contemporary Dance School. His art practice has become since then solely devoted to film/video with performance arts as a medium to articulate gesture. FILM Outside

SHARONE LIFSCHITZ is a London based artist working with one-to-one conversations, workshops and food among other tools of exchange to explore larger political social issues and their shape within the urban and the intimate, often overlooked occurrences of the everyday. In 2007 she completed a major Kinst am Bau commission for the city of Munich and in 2010 won second place in the Adi foundation prize in conjuction with the Israel Museum. Sharone studied architecture at the Architectural Association, London, and The Cooper Union, New York, and in 2002 completed her MA in Fine Art from Central St. Martins, London. DISCUSSION The Joint Account Workshop

SIMO ROUHIAINEN  works as an artist with computers and video. He lives in Helsinki, Finland. FILM Cultural Capitals: London-Berlin-Helsinki Moving Images

SIMON PENNEC is a photographer, researcher and editor currently based in Rotterdam. His photographic practice focuses on concepts of immaterial geography in contemporary urbanism. He is currently involved in the curating programme of OMA’s (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) installation at the 2010 architecture Venice biennale. He previously worked on a research project for the 2009 International Rotterdam Architecture Biennale. Simon is also guest contributor of the Visual Cultures and Architecture magazine ‘Volume’. Simon graduated from Goldsmiths College with an MA in Photography and Urban Cultures and holds a BA in European Studies. SOAPBOX The Disappearing Landscape

SINEAD McCANN is an artist and researcher based in Dublin. She is currently a PhD researcher in the department of Sculpture at the National College of Art and Design, having studied sculpture at the Dublin Institute of Technology and NCAD at undergraduate and postgraduate level respectively. Sinead has been actively working in the Community Links Programme in Dublin Institute of Technology for the past five years, for which she recently received a Participation Award. Presently she works with the Access Services, Mature Student Access Course, and co-ordinates and tutors on their Portfolio Preparation Course. Her practice investigates urban living in regenerative urban areas in Dublin and often presents the voices of marginal cultures. PERFORMANCE Absent From The State

SIRAJ IZHAR is an artist, activist and writer.  His recent work creates different forms of conceptual ecosystems, cultural or social which intertwine with the theatre of lived realities in different contexts and cities. DISCUSSION Parliment Square and Democracy Village Encampment 

SPATIAL FIX is a London based reading group of researchers and activists who meet regularly to discuss books and essays that explore the  political economic aspects of space and society. READING GROUP: The Right to the City

SOPHIE HOYLE graduated with a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art, Central Saint Martins 2010, and has a background in Human Geography (BA, UCL 2009). Her work is concerned with the urban environment, physical and social. She is interested in how we experience, think about and represent cities, and how people perceive and describe the spaces in which they live. As part of her undergraduate degree research was undertaken into alternative forms of ‘mapping’, including photography and the visual arts as a means of conveying geographical information. SOAPBOX Dubai Downtown

SOPHIE READ studied fine art at Camberwell College of Art and is currently carrying out an MA in Architectural History at the Bartlett, UCL. Her work crosses drawing and creative/critical writing to explore issues of locating and dislocating through the archive. Her MA dissertation interrogates the subject of 'the architectural lecture'. LECTURE PERFORMANCE LecturByLaw

SOPHIE RISNER  is a freelance artist, curator and writer, living and working in London. She is a recent graduate of the MFA in Curating at Goldsmiths College, London. Since graduating Sophie has furthered her written practice and actively continues the research she undertook whilst on her Masters. The crux of her MFA thesis being a research project into Bureaucracy. WORKSHOP The Bureaucracy Project
 

SOPHIO MEDOIDZE lives and works in London and Tbilisi. She holds BA Hon’s in film studies and MFA in Photography from University of the Arts, London. She works in different media including video, photography, sound, text and performance. In her work Sophio draws on her experience of displacement and on the realities of life in the Soviet Georgia of her childhood. Language-its many intricacies and diversions- is an important part of her practice. Recent exhibitions include Arnolfini art centre, MRA projects space London, Galleria Galzenica, Zagreb, VINEspace Gallery, 22nd Festival Les Instants Vidéo and Whitechapel Gallery (upcoming). EXHIBITION & PERFORMANCE Laboratory For the Future

STEFAN SYROWATKA studied photography at the Bauhaus University in Germany as well as Gray's School of Art in Scotland. He has worked at the presitigious photo agency Magnum and his work has been shown in several group and solo exhibitions in Germany, France, Scotland and Ireland, where he is currently based. EXHIBITION Northern Grace

STEFANO HARNEY is Chair in Strategy, Culture, and Organization and Director of Global Learning at the University of London, Queen Mary. He is the author of State Work: Public Administration and Mass Intellectuality. ARMCHAIR SESSION The Business End of the Business School

STEPHEN MARTIN is a journalist, critic and teacher. He has published work in the Irish press and The Big Issue, and his writing is included in artist Brian Whelan's anthology The Myth of Return. In Autumn 2009, with photographer Louise Jefferson, he mounted the exhibition Gates and Barriers at the Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, where he currently runs the film studies group. Stephen will be presenting a film directed by David McWilliams. FILM, DISCUSSION & MUSIC The Pope's Children 

SUDHANSHU MALHOTRA is an independant photojournatist, who started his career with the India Today Group. He has received the National Foundation Grant for his project on industrial pollution; which was exhibited across the country. He is currently a freelance photographer for national and international dalies and publications such as Financial Times, Indian Express, Hindustan Times Mint, Outlook. He is also the recepient of Unicef Clean India Photography Award and was selected to participate in Angkor photo festival in Combodia. PROJECTION In the Lanes of Old Delhi

SUE WALSH, Dip HE, BA (hons), PGC (Partnerships), MIED. Relationship Manager for the Centre for Sustainable Communities. A practitioner in economic development, regeneration and public policy specialising in partnership working and with a particular interest in resilient local economies. Sue has professional experience in the private sector, social enterprises, national, local and regional government.  WORKSHOP Hanbury Hall: 21st Century Community Centre

SUSAN PARHAM is an urban designer, town planner and political economist with a PhD from the LSE Cities Programme, recently appointed as the Head of Urbanism at the University of Hertfordshire's Centre for Sustainable Communities. Susan focuses on planning, design and urbanism, with a particular expertise in sustainable cities and climate change; her book on food centred urban space, "Designing the Food Quarter", is due out in 2011. Susan is the past chair and a current board member of the Council for European Urbanism, a Trustee for the charity Living Streets, and an Academician for the Academy of Urbanism. WORKSHOP Hanbury Hall: 21st Century Community Centre

THE DOGFOOD IDEA is a campaigning art tank that brings creative people together to generate change and explore new ways of living. It is about encouraging London's thousands of artists out of their studios and into the public sphere. It is about reclaiming our urban environment and making London the great creative city of the future. The Dogfood Idea explores contemporary city issues in an intuitive and spontaneous manner, through blogs, organised happenings in London and other cities, and a lecture series called Talking Dogfood. SOAPBOX Artist initiative for city workers (working title)

THE GEOPOLYPHONIES COLLECTIVE is a platform for theory and practice based research exploring the links between geography and visual culture through participatory fieldwork. Set up in 2009 by a group of contemporary art and cultural studies researchers from Goldsmiths College, the Geopolyphonies Collective produces pubilcations, events and talks as well as a diverse range of ongoing collaborative visual art projects. We regard our work as an ongoing process that opens up new entries in the way we perceive urban environments; in the way we inhabit them, produce them and are being produced in them. DISCUSSION Tales of transactions: an exploration of parallel economies

THE WARDS CORNER COMMUNITY COALITION is campaign to save the Seven Sisters Indoor Market and the surrounding shops and houses. It has been working since 2007 to implement a community led plan and to stop a development which plans to demolish the Edwardian buildings and build chain stores and private luxury flats. PROJECT LAUNCH, DIY URBANISM & WALK Who's City Is It Anyway?

TIJANA STEVANOVIC graduated architecture in 2008 at the University of Belgrade. She holds a FCO/OSI Chevening Scholarship  2009/2010 for studying an MA in Identity, Culture and Power at the University College London. Her thesis questions the idea of the opposition to milosevic’s regime in serbia during the 1990s, reflected through a collective spatial practices in new belgrade. DISCUSSION New Belgrade after 2000 - Right to the Alternative Development of the Collective Space

TIM STRAHLENDORF is a recent graduate of human geography at University College London.  His undergraduate dissertation was on the biopolitics of heteronormativity and resistance in (german grammar) schools. Fields of interest include (identity) politics, globalisation, neoliberalism, risk and fear, development, sustainability, anti-terrorism, sexuality/gender, consumerism. Other leisurely interests: travel, aviation, philosophy, languages, reading, cooking, jogging, cycling, gardening, music. Tim plans to begin an interdisciplinary, applied philosophy-oriented masters in 2011. DISCUSSION On assemblage theory, airport security, mimicry and “home-bred terrorism”

TOM MOWER is a graphic designer, and (along with his collaborator Simon Elvins) designs Manifesto Club reports and publications. He proposed and ran the now-notorious Manifesto Club clubnight, the Great British Citizenship Quiz; and he coordinated the Attention Please photo-project and wrote the Attention Please photo essay. He is one part of three (sometimes five) that make up the collective art practice of St Pierre and Miquelon. DISCUSSION The Art of Common Space: The Bye Laws Project

TOM WOLSELEY is an artist and director of Architrope, an organisation formed to explore ‘Transitional Spaces’, based in Cabin-et, a converted shipping container in an urban park in Hackney, London. His work uses installation and collaboration to explore our desire for identification in the physical landscape around us. He has studied fine art at Prarhan, Melbourne, BA at Wimbledon School of Art, London, completing an MA in fine art at Chelsea in 2004 and has exhibited internationally since 1995. Since 2008 his work has been based around Cabin-et, an ongoing installation of projects, currently Atlas (22nd - 28th Oct).  DISCUSSION Cabin-et

TONI LEDENTSA is an independent curator and producer currently based in Helsinki. He has worked at galleries and museums of contemporary art in Helsinki (Kiasma) and Barcelona (MACBA)and  is currently pursuing a MA in Curating at Aalto University in Helsinki. He is a founding member of Namastic Art Collective, and a firm believer in the transformative power of art. FILM Cultural Capitals: London-Berlin-Helsinki Moving Images

URBAN MEDIA SOCIETY [UMS] is a formed loosely by groups of designers, architects, urban designer, artists, curator, media, filmmaker, journalist, social activist, researcher and academia who work and interest in the change of urban environment and society. Based in Bangkok, the objective is to build up a social network and provides a social platform to discuss and criticize the urban issues related to various disciplines. We also focus on global contemporary issues and cultural studies such as urban economics, urban poor, minority group, ethnic group and feminism. FILM & BOOK LAUNCH Urban Paradise

VICTORIA LANE is an archivist at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London, following posts at the Henry Moore Institute and Tate. She interviews for the National Life Stories Artists' Lives Project. Her writings employ contemporary critical theory to create innovate views of archiving traditions, foregrounding the work of mercurial individuals, in vernacular culture as well as arts practice. DISCUSSION The Clearing

WERTHER GERMONDARI  graduated in Art & Performance at the Bologna University and at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. Interested in innovative experimental dynamics that are neo-conceptual and situational, characterized by a taste for the ironic and surreal, Germondari has experimented for 25 years through many different media (from painting to installations, photography to film, videos to performance). FILM Panca Popolare Italiana

WILLIAM WILES is a writer and journalist. He is senior editor of Icon magazine. DISCUSSION The City Faked: CityCenter, Las Vegas and Neoliberal Urbanism 

 
WINSTAN WHITTER Filmmaker who was born in Ghana, raised and currently living in London. Winstan started out by making skateboard films in the early nineties. This grew into a more serious past time and he has directed a number of films, including Rollin’ Through The Decades a documentary about the history of UK Skateboarding, Save Our Heritage and The Four Aces Club about the legendary music venue in East London. FILM Herbal Spirit

YOUNGSOOK CHOI is a researcher and artist/curator. Her works are based in London and Seoul. She is particularly interested in the relationship between space, gender, sexuality and state surveillance that prescribes and controls our embodiment in everyday urban spaces. Choi's arts practice includes four year's curatorship at the Space and Gender Festival and the Sexuality Museum for Youth in Seoul. Her recent work, CCTVNUTS, tries to transform the authoritarian stance of CCTV cameras into the plaful subject in various ways. The first CCTVNUTS project was exhibited in the FIT Gallery, Berlin (2008). The second version of the project was installed in one of the newly built subway stations in Seoul as part of the exhibition Mother City Seoul (2008). SOAPBOX CCTVNUTS_2: Love Is Threat

ZAFER TOPALOGLU was born in 1978 in Sakarya, holds a bachelor in Film-TV from Istanbul Bilgi University. He lives in Rotterdam and studies Lens Based Digital Media at Piet Zwart Institute. His video works, mostly focusing on the pain of others, have been accepted to and screened at various international festivals and exhibitions. He is currently thinking hard to create an artistic practice based on the approach of gesamtkunstwerk in his future video works. FILM Aisha In Wonderland

ZEIGAM AZIZOV is an artist and cultural theorist born in Azerbaijan and based in London. His films, installations and text-based projects explore subjectivities, and art as a representation of intellectual structures, focusing on issues of migration, and the politics of language and place. DISCUSSION The Clearing