Month: October 2014

Sustainable London? The Future of a Global City. Edited by Rob Imrie and Loretta Lees

October 27, 2014

   In our newly published book, I and Loretta Lees, with other leading urbanists, explore the rise of sustainable development policies in London, and evaluate their relevance and role in sustaining people and the places and environments that they live in. The book shows how sustainable development discourse has permeated different policy fields in London, … More Sustainable London? The Future of a Global City. Edited by Rob Imrie and Loretta Lees

Habitus – A Collective Dialogue by Kamal Badhey

October 21, 2014

Goldsmiths Sociology students can be seen sitting in New Cross House after a lecture, huddled around classmate Yinae Deowyoo Hwang’s Hasselblad SWC/m. Each of them pass around the camera, fiddling with its mechanics, deeply engrossed in its explanation. Minutes later, topics switch. Someone is talking about their childhood obsession with maps, hyper gentrification in Williamsburg … More Habitus – A Collective Dialogue by Kamal Badhey

Urban Photo Fest – 24-28 October 2014

October 18, 2014

Urban Photo Fest  explores themes relating to the city, in particular, notions of movement and urban change and is run by artists, theorists and researchers and includes a conference, a master-class, workshops, exhibitions and walks. The Festival will take place over 5 days in  venues across London and Brighton.   The festival kicks off with the annual Urban Encounters conference -Movement/Mobilities/Migration, which examines and reflects on the nature … More Urban Photo Fest – 24-28 October 2014

Arts-based Research in Johannesburg: A conversation on time, practice and place

October 11, 2014

Bettina Malcomess, (University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, will be in conversation with Alison Rooke and Christian Von Wissell, (CUCR, Goldsmiths) on Friday 17th October at 4pm in RHB137, Goldsmiths College, London.   Art process and practice offer the potential to can make apparent of the complexity of the everydayness of urban life.  Focusing on South African cities … More Arts-based Research in Johannesburg: A conversation on time, practice and place