Archive for December, 2009

Schumpeter/Leadbeater/Cultural Policy

Posted on December 13, 2009 by john

091130 final presentation

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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 [...]

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‘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 [...]

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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  
 
 
 

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