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Urban Creativity, Lisbon Conference: 3, 4 and 5 of July 2025

2025-01-10

Save the dates!

It will be a hybrid event, but as always, we warmly welcome everyone who can join us locally in a smaller auditorium and take part in our "low-budget" local program. More information will be shared through this newsletter.

The generic theme for the 2025 Urban Creativity initiative is "Territory".
Ideological, physical, disciplinary territories. Private and public territory. Territory of the arts, territory of the sciences. Borders as conventions, abstractions, personal or collective. Defining boundaries, overcoming boundaries, dilution of boundaries. Political territory, communal, liberal, democratic. Territorial absence, materialism, material nihilism.

Graffiti territory: when ends historical graffiti and it starts "modern" graffiti? Were are the limits of the "urban" territory? What can be defined as "the territory of the user"? Art and Place isn't it in the same territory of Public Art?

As you know, Urban Creativity is represented by several publications.
Submissions are welcome trough the following links:
GSA - Graffiti and Street Art Journal 
UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity Journal

Deadline for conference abstracts: April 5

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Current Issue

Vol 6 No 1 (2024): Re-Inventing the Urban – The Role of Creativity, Performativity, and Arts-Based Research Approaches to Research the Multifaceted Nature of Urban Spaces

In the long and ongoing process of planetary urbanization, urbanity has appeared as a ubiquitous topic in disciplines ranging from sociology, urban studies, and economics, to literature, design, and contemporary art. As the chosen environment for most of today’s cultural, economic, and academic elites, urban space constitutes an ever-present backdrop for unfolding posthumanity. How to live together in todays’ cities, how to confront challenges together, and how to think about urbanization as a global phenomenon, have become pressing and ongoing questions that stir the curiosity of researchers, artists, politicians, and contemporary urbanites alike. In the face of multiple crises, we are confronted with the cascading effects of climate change, intercontinental migration as well as political and economic uncertainty. Meanwhile, urban centers with their cultural capital, innovative potential, and economic power appear as ideal places to look for inspiration, change, or maybe even revolution. As an approach that takes the ubiquity of the urban into account, the concept of planetary urbanization tries to describe urban existence as interwoven in international networks of production, consumption, and sociocultural interaction that span the entire globe. Hence, the urban is understood as an all-encompassing concept, which holds the potential to change the world and how we experience it. 

Published: 2024-12-21

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