by Sara Bissen [ x ] Istanbul feels like metal, but tastes like tear gas. In the city itself, I find it safe to say there’s more gas in the air today than there was during the 2013 Gezi protests. We may not see the manifestation in its most obvious form, but we can rest […] read more
University of Kent, Canterbury (UK), 27-28 June 2013 Artscapes 2013 is a two-day interdisciplinary conference aims to provide a forum for academic, policy and practitioner engagement with the relationships between the public and urban art. Artscapes seeks to critically examine the relationship between art and urban places, questioning in what ways urban art can engage […] read more
RULES The International Society of Biourbanism, in cooperation with “Progetto Artena” and “Immaginari Urbani”, promotes the international photo contest “Sguardi su Artena” (“Glimpses of Artena”). TEMA The photo contest aims to promote Artena, by using pictures to tell its extraordinary historical centre, the landscapes, the “contrade”, the characters and the people, the festivals and the […] read more
Naples, Italy, September 1st – 7th, 2012 An ISB delegation, consisting of Angelica Fortuzzi, Angela Maria Pezzilli, and Stefano Serafini, participated in the work of the sixth UN Habitat World Urban Forum (http://www.unhabitat.org/downloads/docs/ProgrammeWUF6.pdf), in Naples, from the 1st to the 7th of September 2012. We met colleagues from all over the world, and discussed […] read more
“Two books I read in the past month overlap with each other in useful ways. The first, Commonwealth by Toni Negri and Michael Hardt, is the third volume of their epic theoretical work that began with Empire and continued through Multitudes. While I’m not a camp follower per se, I did get a lot out of these efforts and was glad to read Commonwealth as the conclusion. It made some parts of their argument clearer, but left some important areas unresolved and even self-contradictory. I suppose that’s to be expected with such an ambitious effort to unravel this moment in history, the rise of new paradigms of both capitalist self-perpetuation and (potentially) revolutionary subversion.
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