Early in September IUD are presenting a paper at Neoliberalism and Everyday Life, the annual conference organised by Nicola Clewer for CAPPE, the University of Brighton. Keynote speaker for 2014 is Imogen Tyler, author of Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection & Resistance in Neoliberal Britain. Our paper is entitled All materials of value have been removed: everyday cleansing in the neoliberal housing environment.
Urban semiotics and the social semiotics of space
Roland Barthes – Semiology and the Urban
Seeing Cities Change: Local Culture and Class by Jerome Krase
A public talk about her research at Orford Ness by Caitlin DeSilvey, organised by Invisible College at the Lighthouse, Glasgow on 8.9.2012. DeSilvey is a geographer whose research explores the cultural significance of material change, using visual imagery and story-telling…
“For more than four decades I have devoted myself to photographing and documenting the poorest and most segregated communities in urban America. I feel that a people’s past, including their accomplishments, aspirations and failures, are reflected less in the faces of those who live in these neighborhoods than in the material, built environment in which they move and modify over time. Photography for me is a tool for continuously asking questions, for understanding the spirit of a place, and, as I have discovered over time, for loving and appreciating cities”.
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