The Right to the (New) City: Art, the New Towns and the Commons

The Right to the (New) City: Art, the New Towns and the Commons, MK Gallery

• LocationSouth East
• Type
• Salary
• Artformcombined arts, interdisciplinary arts, visual arts, Urban Development
• ContactClaire Louise Staunton clstaunton@mkgallery.org

Description

This symposium, organised by MK Gallery in partnership with the Open University gathers artists, curators, academics and community arts organisations together to discuss the unique heritage and present conditions of new towns, how they work with their communities to produce the common and their response to a call for the right to the (new) city. ‘The right to the city’ calls for a collective redress of an uneven distribution of power through the production of a commons. It explores the right to create the city as a collective work of art (Lefebvre). 

The Right to the (new) City will reflect on the role and responsibility of the visual arts and designers in redressing such imbalances, artistic strategies of ‘commoning’ and some of the inherent theoretical concerns. Confirmed speakers include curator Maria Lind (Tensta Konsthall), Stavros Stavrides (author of Common Space), artists Bik Van der Pol, sociologist Sophie Watson (Open University), artist/researcher Darren Umney, Roger Kitchen (Living Archive), geographer Gillian Rose (Open University), researcher and filmmaker Ed Webb-Ingall, artist Stuart Whipps and many more.

The symposium will be held at the Buszy Building, the former bus station opposite the Milton Keynes central station, restricted for community use but currently vacant. It is a listed building owned by the Milton Keynes Development Partnership and we hope that the symposium and workshops will directly contribute to the decision making for its future use. Organised by Inheritance Projects with MK Gallery, Open University and with support from Alec Steadman (Arts Catalyst).  With support from the Arts Council for England Grants for the Arts, MK Community Foundation, Milton Keynes Development Partnership.

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The Right to the (New) City: Art, the New Towns and the Commons