ASCA CITIES PROJECT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interdisciplinary symposium on the High Line that critically interrogates the park’s relation to public space, creative practice, neoliberal urban renewal, urban political ecology, and policy-led gentrification. The event … Read more...

June 12-13 2014, Paris This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars from across the humanities and social sciences to explore the many ways in which garbage - in its diverse forms and articulations - is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across different creative and cultural practices.

May 9-10, 2013, Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University, in collaboration with the Amsterdam Center for Globalization Studies.Bringing together perspectives from across the humanities and social sciences, this international workshop will explore how recent practices of visual culture interrupt and dislodge the narratives of mobility, speed, and growth which have overwhelmingly determined our understanding of global cities.

October 19, 2012, University of Amsterdam. A workshop on creative practices that slow down processes of globalisation.