Arts internships as exploitation?

Posted on March 16, 2010 by nicole

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2010/feb/23/arts-unpaid-interns-exploitation

Art Garden on East Hastings: a refuge for the imagination

Posted on February 23, 2010 by verena

Art confounds so many of the problematics that come with the politics of power and poverty. Take the Hastings Folk Garden, for example. You can’t find it through the Cultural Olympiad. There are no Tourism BC pamphlets that tell you how to get there. You find it by walking around in Canada’s poorest neighbourhood, the [...]

Visual inspiration

Posted on January 21, 2010 by bryony

Frankfurt School BBCi Player ‘In Our Time’

Posted on January 17, 2010 by john

Frankfurt School
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pr54s/In_Our_Time_The_Frankfurt_School/

New internet piracy law comes into effect in France

Posted on January 4, 2010 by john

New internet piracy law comes into effect in France
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8436745.stm

Schumpeter/Leadbeater/Cultural Policy

Posted on December 13, 2009 by john

091130 final presentation

No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City

Posted on December 10, 2009 by josie

No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City
As the Creative City model for urban regeneration founders on the rocks of the recession, and the New Labour public art commissioning frenzy it triggered recedes, Anthony Iles and Josephine Berry Slater take stock of an era of highly instrumentalised public art making. Focusing on artists [...]

‘if I retire to the country to have children, please kill me’

Posted on December 8, 2009 by bryony

Pam Hogg, renegade fashion designer, is Angela McRobbie’s prime example of non-conformity in fashion, how to grow up and not, as a recent article and interview on her work in Vice put it ‘design for Debenhams’
Are you pleased you didn’t end up designing a range for Debenhams?
It seems more and more likely that designing for [...]

Female Toilets in Mumbai

Posted on December 6, 2009 by john

 

Here is the film I mentioned a month or so … bit tough in places … about female toilets in Mumbai  
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nicI52FXVtg&feature=related
 
Part 1 of documentary on gender, public space and urban development in Mumbai, India. Directed by Paromita Vohra  
 
 
 

Blocbuster sporting spectacle as a catalyst of urban change?

Posted on November 20, 2009 by csilla

10 principles for creating and ordering a blockbuster sporting spectacle:

impacts on the city itself
The sport event in question should increase general awareness of the hosting city nationally and internationally. The event should be used to try to develop and promote particular disadvantaged locations and places, instead of promoting established popular tourist destinations.
Therefore, the [...]