June 2nd to 5th 2011 in Hamburg “The urban is defined as the place where people walk around, find themselves standing before and inside piles of objects, experience the intertwining of the threads of their activities until they become unrecognizable, entangle situations in such a way that they engender unexpected situations.” (Henri Lefèbvre: La révolution urbaine)… Continue reading Congress: “Right to the City”
Category: Cities
Meeting about ECoC Cities and Culture of Sustainability
On the 16th of May 2011, in Berlin, Germany, a meeting will take place, bringing European scholars and professionals together to brainstorm and discuss culture, sustainability and the attributes, requirements and traits of the so called ECoC Cities (European Capitals of Culture).
Living as Form – Public Talks in New York City
The public talks aim at furthering the discussions surrounding socially engaged practices. They are free and open to the public. All talks will be held from 6:30–8:00pm in the Rose Auditorium at 41 Cooper Square, New York City. The first talk “Considering Useful Art” will take place on May 18th 2011 with Claire Bishop, who is an Associate Professor… Continue reading Living as Form – Public Talks in New York City
Rethinking the Creative City
An article on the role of complexity, networks and interactions in the urban creative economy In this article, Dr. Roberta Comunian argues that complexity theory and its associated principles can provide a new understanding of the connection between the urban space and the systems of local cultural production and consumption. Drawing on interviews with creative… Continue reading Rethinking the Creative City
CSPA Supports Announces Round ONE Recipient
Reposted from sustainablepractice.org The CSPA congratulates the first recipient of a CSPA Supports MicroGrant: Matthias Neumann and the Public Office for Architecture. Public Office for Architecture (POA) is a collaborative project situated at MoKS, Center for Arts and Social Practice in Mooste, Estonia. POA is an artistic practice conceived as a a nomadic architecture office. … Continue reading CSPA Supports Announces Round ONE Recipient
GRID + Flow : Philadelphia and Beyond
Mapping and Reimagining Urban Ecologies through the Arts and Humanities An Interdisciplinary Symposium hosted by Temple University, April 7-8, 2011 Kiva Auditorium, Main Campus, Philadelphia (USA) Keynote Speaker: Timothy Morton, author of The Ecological Thought (2010), Ecology without Nature (2007).
Culture and Sustainable Communities
NEW PUBLICATION: Special Double Issue of Culture and Local Governance on “Culture and Sustainable Communities” http://oa.uottawa.ca/journals/clg-cgl Vol. 3, No. 1-2 Guest editors: Nancy Duxbury, Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal; M. Sharon Jeannotte, Centre on Governance, University of Ottawa, Canada The wide-spread shift to a sustainability paradigm for city planning makes this… Continue reading Culture and Sustainable Communities
The Sustainable City and the Arts
Update: the deadline for the abstracts submission for the ESA (European Sociological Association) Conference in Geneva has been extended until March 8th 2011. Call for Papers for the Research Stream which will take place in the forthcoming conference of the European Sociological Association from 7. to 10. of Sept. 2011 in Geneva.
Extended workshop report now released on Sustainable Creative Cities: the role of the arts in globalised urban contexts
an extended report from the workshop organized at the ASEF CCS4 Conference (ASEM8 Summit) The extended report (59 pages) is now available: click here for download (PDF file). This longer report contains detailed discussions from the workshop exchanges, as well as several ‘good practice’ cases and further reflections elaborated by workshop participants in the couple… Continue reading Extended workshop report now released on Sustainable Creative Cities: the role of the arts in globalised urban contexts
Vol. 3 in the Cultura21 eBooks Series on Culture and Sustainability
The Cultura21 eBooks Series on Culture and Sustainability presents findings from inter- and trans-disciplinary perspectives in research and practice. The eBooks are published openly online by Cultura21 Institut e.V. in order to support broad dissemination and to stimulate further debates in civil society and further action-research in the field. The city today is increasingly conceptualized… Continue reading Vol. 3 in the Cultura21 eBooks Series on Culture and Sustainability
