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

2025-01-10

Save the dates!
They are not confirmed with the faculty, but almost certain.

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

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

Current Issue

Vol 10 No 3 (2024): Ubiquity

As for the Butterfly Effect, our actions resonate widely and far. A singular affordance or a city-wide tag, premeditated or not, conforms to our collective reality. But more specifically, is there something that occurs in Lisbon (and other places) that we can designate as a useful non-conformity with the norm? Taking this idea to the extreme, do our societal organizations serve as mere masks for the true anarchy of everyday life? In times of localized conflicts with global impact, from the nearly irrelevant comfort to life-threatening confrontations, what is the role of our material actions? In the realms of ideas or self-proposed solutions, what can we learn from our micro-actions? If there is indeed a common global phenomenon that emerges from mark-making as a life-standing condition, how can we interpret these marks for the sake of life? Can we generalize?

Published: 2024-11-18

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