Using storytelling as a method for investigating social practices, The Community Hacking project identified the principle of ‘writing back’ to a subject as a form of hacking. A series of workshops in Edinburgh encouraged community members to ‘write’ their memories of the area on to photographs that were… Continue Reading →
Peter Matthews argues that poverty and affluence are two sides of the same coin. One would not exist without the other – and both can be found concentrated in areas of extremes. In this article he identifies how, when trying to… Continue Reading →
Tahl Kaminer shines a light underneath the rhetoric of consultation and the limits of citizens’ participation. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Edinburgh City Council launched an ambitious series of consultations with locals as a prequel to the development of an… Continue Reading →
Dominic Hinde’s research at The University of Edinburgh examines the environmental rhetoric of Scandinavian regions. Hinde writes and speaks about different aspects of the Scandinavian countries and their relationship with Britain, but particularly the environment, politics and popular culture. Follow him on Twitter @DominicMHinde On… Continue Reading →
We asked Dr Ljubica Spaskovska, Associate Research Fellow in History at the University of Exeter to describe the response of Skopje citizens to the contemporary reconstruction of the city. Spaskovska is an Associate Research Fellow on the Leverhulme Trust funded project ‘1989 after… Continue Reading →
Can the European Constitution be rewritten using poetry? This is the question asked by a literary group in Belgium called the Brussels Poetry Collective – coordinated by David Van Reybrouck and Peter Vermeersch. They wanted to see whether they could come up with an alternative version…. Continue Reading →
This article originally appeared on howupsetting.com on November 4th 2014 -follow the author at @how_upsetting. “In areas like Shoreditch and its peers around the globe, the cosmetic renewal of a portion of the crumbling urban core coincides with continued – or intensified… Continue Reading →
By Richard J Williams First published August 2014 at Richard J William’s Blog Peter Hall, who died last week aged 82 was a planner, but also one of the most lucid writers about cities in any language. I routinely give… Continue Reading →
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