YOU ARE INVITED

WHEN: 20-24 September or 25-28 October 2011

WHERE: Slade Research Centre Galleries | UCL | central London 

1^st PROPOSAL DEADLINE: 05 March 2012  

NOTIFICATIONS: 31 March 2012

FORMS: Online applications available in January 2012.

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This Is Not A Gateway, an independent organisation that  brings together critically engaged emerging urbanists, is seeking submissions for its 4th festival (21-23 September 2012, London). Proposals are welcome from anybody whose point of reference is ‘the city’. There is no fee to propose a project for the festival.

Festival proposals must be critical and agitational; they must offer new propositions about cities. The festival offers a platform to discuss the politics and urgent questions at stake in cities.

The festival is entirely participant lead. Previous festivals have included discussions, soapboxes, workshops, book & project launches, guided walks & tours, exhibitions and film screenings. Participants have come from the fields of urban regeneration, economics, government, visual art, psychiatry, archaeology, activism, medicine, journalism, literature, religion, technology, architecture, planning, environmental protection, law, property, theory, housing, film, psychology, finance, philosophy, engineering, human rights & social justice. Furthermore participants have included residents, newly arrived immigrants, youth-workers and local politicians. Read about the 2010 Festival here 

The knowledge generated at the festival is built upon and widely circulated in the annual book Critical Cities; Ideas, Knowledge and Agitation from Emerging Urbanists (Myrdle Court Press, London).

This Is Not A Gateway’s role is that of a facilitator. It provides the infrastructure to enable participants to hold their own activities. Support includes securing venues, equipment, publicity, audiences and installation assistance. This Is Not A Gateway is not a funder.

The festival is coordinated by Deepa Naik & Trenton Oldfield.