PEOPLE

COORDINATION

DEEPA NAIK   . deepaATthisisnotagateway.net .

Has worked with Art for Change, public works and the Serpentine Gallery, while co-ordinating projects with Irit Rogoff (Goldsmiths) including: De-Regulation (MuHKA 2006, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art 2007); A.C.A.D.E.M.Y: Learning from the Museum (Van Abbemuseum 2006); SUMMIT: non-aligned initiatives in education culture (Multitude e.V. 2007); and Eye Witness (Birkbeck School of Law 2008). She continues to explore a set of questions that have resulted from her interest in post-colonial theory, the intersection of cultural movements and legal systems, critical art practice and alternative pedagogies. In 2007, together with Trenton Oldfield, Deepa Naik formally established This Is Not A Gateway, a not-for-profit organisation that creates platforms for critical investigations into cities.   

TRENTON OLDFIELD   . trentonATthisisnotagateway.net 

Has worked for over a decade in non-governmental organisations specialising in urban renewal, cultural and environmental programmes. He was Coordinator of the Thames Strategy – Kew to Chelsea, Strategic Project Manager at Cityside Regeneration, and a Community Development Worker in North Kensington. Alongside his formal work he has continued to explore questions about cities via personal projects, including installations in the public realm, film, guest editing and guest lecturing, and has been active on the boards of the Westway Development Trust, London Citizens and Subtext. Current projects include research for a book that unearths the socio-political history of fences/railings in London, part of an attempt to find a way beyond the existing conventions around ownership, specifically land ownership in the 21st century. Trenton Oldfield formally established the not-for-profit organisation This Is Not A Gateway with Deepa Naik in 2007.   

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT:

NILS ERHARD is a post-graduate student in Educational Studies and has worked as a youthworker (e.g. with Initiative Grenzen-Los!, Berlin) and as a facilitator for self-organized and participative decision-making and learning (e.g. with Arbeitskreis Uniwatch, Berlin and International Young Nature Friends, Prague). He is interested in issues of self-organized, participatory and emancipative learning as well as – more recently – critical ways to perform learning/teaching/research in university.

MEET YOU AT THE CROSSROADS:

ROSARIO MONTERO is a Chilean photo-based artist whose practice is focused on the representation of identity within the contemporary hyper-mediated scene.  Her visual research in projects such as Ciudad Ideal  deal with the political and social aspects of identity construction and its manifestation in material culture. Currently based in London, while pursuing the MSc Digital Anthropology at UCL. She is founder and editor of the Latin American web-based edition Contrahilo. 

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TINAG has been fortunate in the past to work with the following:

RASHMI MUNIKEMPANNA 

FANNY BRETEAU

IBIAYI BRIGGS

RACHAEL DAVIDSON

BECKY LIPSEY

MAXIMILIAN STECKELMACHER

RAKHEE KEWADA

SIDONIE ROBERTS

TIJANA STEVANOVIC

FIONA WHITTY

Fiona and Ibiayi at UCL Cities Methodologies 2009