This Is Not A Gateway: Open Call for Submissions on Critical Urbanism
Fadi Shayya
Good Day Everybody,
Apologies for cross-posting.
Please find below an open call for critical proposals on contemporary urbanism, which I think you or your students might be interested in. This festival is an interesting opportunity for criticality, networking and engaging with multidisciplinary and diverse participants. The first submission deadline to indicate interest and submit preliminary ideas is May 1st.
If you are interested or your think somebody might be, please visit the FAQ Page or contact me or the coordinators on the emails below.
All the Best.
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OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
“There is no other event of this kind, anywhere!”
WHEN: Thursday 29th November - Sunday 2nd December 2012
WHERE: London (Specific venue TBC)
1st SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 01 May 2012
2nd SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30 July 2012
PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED: 01 September 2012
It is free to apply and participate in the festival: ONLINE SUBMISSIONS
This Is Not A Gateway, an independent organisation that brings together critically engaged people, is seeking submissions for its 4th Annual Festival. Proposals are welcome from anybody whose point of reference is ‘the city’. Proposal Form can be found here.
The festival is independent, rigorous and productive - an open platform; an arena for criticality as well as propositions. As a result of the continuing actuate social, economic, democratic, environmental and spatial deficits/crisis’s and revolutions, we are seeking submissions from individuals, groups from across the globe that are addressing the following topics:
2012 FESTIVAL THEMATICS AND QUESTIONS (14 entries)
§ Urbanist* Like Me: Cities, Design and Architecture from a Privileged Few
§ The Urban Industry & Its Post-Critical Condition
§ The Maid's Entrance
§ Who Dares Wins Urbanism
§ The Corporation - Financial Districts
§ Language Frames Space
§ Insurrections, Riots and Revolutions
§ Re-Design
§ Legalities of Space
§ The Devil Reads Agamben - States of Exception in Olympic Cities
§ City Means Inequality
§ Enclosure and The Great Escapes
§ The Future Now
§ Other
Submissions are sought from a lived knowledge/experience perspective, as well as from the widest range of disciplines. Previous formats have included exhibitions, roundtable discussions, soapboxes, films, walks, presentations, book and project launches. Previous festival programmes can be viewed 2010, 2009 and 2008. Photographs from the previous three festivals can be viewed 2010, 2009 and 2008.
This Is Not A Gateway’s role is that of a facilitator. It provides the infrastructure to enable participants to hold their own activities. Support includes securing venues, equipment, publicity, audiences and installation assistance. The knowledge generated at the festival is built upon and widely circulated in Critical Cities: Ideas, Knowledge and Agitation from Emerging Urbanists (Myrdle Court Press, London).
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Fadi Shayya, Urbanist
Thisisnotagateway Working Group
Recognising the Invisible Monument
Festival Coordinators
Deepa Naik & Trenton Oldfield
coordinators[at]thisisnotagateway.net
thisisnotagateway[at]gmail.com
m. +44 (0) 793 255 8515
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