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URBAN CREATIVITY CONFERENCE 2019/CALL FOR PAPERS

The Lund Urban Creativity Conference 2019 is an opportunity to initiate an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas between scholars, artists, activists, planners and others who work within the diverse field of urban creativity. The conference takes place on May 15-18 ,2019 and is hosted by the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies in collaboration with the Division of Art History and Visual Studies at Lund University

 

Urban Creativity conference 2019
Stencil painting by Béatrice Bloomfield

                                                                                          

 

Please note that deadlines for submissons and registration has passed. For further enquiries, please contact: Urban_creativity [at] pi [dot] lu [dot] se

Conference programme (continously updated)

 

Urban creativity is an umbrella term for a range of activities within, or in direct relation to, the city. These activities take place in different urban environments around the globes and strive to, or are perceived to strive to, intervene in how the spatial, temporal, political and material aspects of urban life are communicated, interpreted and acted upon. An important characteristic of situated urban creative practices is that they push legal, moral and cultural boundaries by intervening and exploring alternative ways of using, producing, experiencing and understanding the city.

In thinking about urban creativity, we invite participants to consider a range of issues including, but not limited to:

  1. The publicness of urban public space. An increasing part of what we perceive as urban public space is in fact publicly accessible, but privately owned. This development is potentially problematic as private ownership can put severe limitations on for example the right to free assembly. How can urban creativity highlight the status of urban spaces as governed through either public or private ownership, as vehicles for achieving oppressive or emancipatory ends? How can urban creativity frame the democratic problems entailed by the increased curation and private ownership of seemingly common spaces around the globe?


     
  2. The involvement of public entities in urban creativity initiatives.Over the past decade, municipalities and other public entities have shown rising interest in different types of urban creativity. This is exemplified in the construction of skate parks and the proliferation of so-called street art festivals. How/why do municipalities and other public entities support urban creativity? What kind of relations between public and private actors are facilitated through such support? What happens to the critical potential of urban creativity when it is embraced by municipalities, museums and other public cultural and societal institutions (e.g. as public art and/or cultural heritage)?
    


  3. Urban creativity as a vehicle for and reaction against urban regeneration and gentrification.Urban creativity on a grass-roots level can help further urban regeneration as people take responsibility for their local environment. On the flipside, urban creativity in its more institutionalised guises commonly serves as a vehicle for gentrification.Should - and if so, how may - commercial interests be mitigated so urban creativity can be used as a means for increased inclusion and engagement rather than gentrification and displacement along e.g. racialised and economic lines of demarcation? What creative forms of protest against urban transformations and gentrification can be identified?


     
  4. The relationship between urban creativity, technology, and social media.Expressions of urban creativity are increasingly experienced through social media and other forms of online communication. How does the online context function as an emerging public space that complements physical urban public space? What are the implications for the impact of urban creativity when experienced as part of a constant visual flow on a screen rather than in physical space? How do practitioners and recipients utilise digital technology to experience and engage creatively with the urban environment? How do these contemporary technologies of visualization relate to older formats like VHS videos of skateboarding and xeroxed fanzines of various urban subcultures?
    


  5. The relationship between urban creativity and crisis. With urban development asa driving force of capital accumulation,conceptions of crisis are linked to understandings of urban conditions. As more than half of the world´s population live in cities, urbanization stands out as an important field of study - a laboratory - for understanding contemporary global social, economic, and environmental change. What kind of creative expressions (e.g. film, street art, happenings) address these challenges and how can we better understand the dynamics of these expressions?

More information

For more information, questions, or suggestions please contact us at:

urban_creativity [at] pi [dot] lu [dot] se (urban_creativity[at]pi[dot]lu[dot]se)
Read more about the Urban Creativity Theme at the Pufendorf IAS here