Signs of the City:
Young People’s Photographic Imaginary of the European Metropolis
Saturday 4 October 2008
Goethe Institute London
50 Princes Gate
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2PH
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This event offers participants a cross disciplinary perspective on participatory arts practice in education, with a particular focus on young people’s urban culture. It is based on the experiences of Signs of the City (citipix.net), a multi-media participatory arts project between Berlin, London, Sofia and Barcelona. The event will bring together students, educationalists, artists, practitioners and academics working in the area of cultural education, media and pedagogy, visual arts, urban studies, languages and European studies.
PROGRAMME
9:45Registration
10:15Welcome
KARL PFEIFFER(Goethe Institute London)
UTA STAIGER (urban dialogues)
10:30Keynote
MICHAEL KEITH (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
11:00Coffee
11:30Panel1: Young people, cities and citizenship
Chair: Uta Staiger (urban dialogues)
BEN GIDLEY(Goldsmiths College, University of London)
GRAHAM JEFFERY(University of the West of Scotland)
MÓNICA SEGURA MÁRQUEZ (artist, Berlin)
13:00 Lunch
14:00Panel 2: Visualising contemporary urbanism
Chair: Rudolf Netzelmann (Zukunftsbau/urban dialogues, Berlin)
GILLIAN ROSE(The Open University, London)
FIONA FIEBER (SPACE, London)
ALISON ROOKE (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
15:30Coffee
16:00Panel 3: Participative arts practice
Chair: Britt Hatzius (artist; Goldsmiths College, University of London)
AIDA SÁNCHEZ (University of Barcelona)
DOUGLAS NICOLSON (artist, SPACE, London)
MELISSA BLISS (artist, FreqOut, London)
17:30End of the Conference
EXHIBITIONS
The Conference coincides with two exhibitions of the photographs produced by the young people who have participated in the project. One takes place at Watermans, 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS, the other at Ibérica Food and Culture, 195 Great Portland Street, W1W 5PS London.
The event has been co-organized by the Centre of Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths College (University of London), the youth art organizations Watermans (London) and urban dialogues (Berlin) and the Goethe-Institute London.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The conference has received generous support from the Delegation to the United Kingdom of the Government of Catalonia and the Institute Ramon Llull, as well as by Ibérica Food and Culture. It has also been supported by the Catalan Institute for the Cultural Industries (ICIC) in London, and the Spanish Embassy London.
Signs of the City was initiated by Berlin-based youth art organization urban dialogues. It has been carried out with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union, the Capital Cultural Fund Berlin, the Institute of Culture of the City of Barcelona, the British Council Berlin, the Spanish Embassy in Berlin, and SONY. It works in collaboration with the Goethe-Institutes in Sofia, Barcelona and London.