This is an occasional series of photo-essays formed by participants on the IVSA Conference Walks held in July. This first photo-essay is on the theme of signs and symbols. Many thanks for contributions from : Orsolya Bajusz: so201ob@gold.ac.uk Jordanna Matlon : jcmatlon@gmail.com Holly Gilbert : hollymgilbert@gmail.com Paolo Cardullo : p.cardullo@gold.ac.uk Colin Adams
CUCR will be attending the final seminar in the Rethinking Centres and Peripheries seminar series on 15th November at Global Urban Research Unit, University of Newcastle, on Cities, Resilience and Regeneration. The final seminar will explore connections between the resilience and ‘regeneration’ of contemporary cities, especially in the north-east of England. Key themes to be … More Urban futures and the austerity politics of regeneration by Rob Imrie
‘My Granddad’s Car’ is a multimedia art exhibition combining photography and video created by British-born artists Sayed Hasan and Karl Ohiri. Each artist has travelled back to the place from where their families migrated – Pakistan and Nigeria – to bring their grandfathers’ cars to the UK, and park them side-by-side; a project they devised … More My Granddad’s Car by Caroline Knowles
One year on from last year’s London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, CUCR caught up with photographer Gesche Würfel. Now based in New York, Gesche returned to London recently to continue her photography project Go for Gold! which is a long term study of the Olympic Park. CUCR: Go for Gold! is now in … More Go For Gold! By Gesche Würfel
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