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From Collingwood Arts Precinct to community heart | ArtsHub Australia

“With this new arts site in inner Melbourne, Marcus Westbury promises a flexible space that will hold its value.” Tags: dripfeed_critical_urban

Activists occupy Berlin′s famous Volksbühne theater, say they resist city′s gentrification | News | DW | 23.09.2017

“A group of activists occupied Berlin’s Volksbühne auditorium on Friday evening, declaring the building the “property of the people” and adding another twist to months of intrigue surrounding the capital’s venerable theater.” Tags: dripfeed_critical_urban

What Role Do Artists Play in Gentrification?

“In 2015, Los Angeles-born artist London Kaye hung a large, crochet depiction of three children inspired by Wes Anderson’s movie Moonrise Kingdom and the twins from the 1980s thriller The Shining on a building in Bushwick…

Gimme Shelter by Kate Jinx – Right Angle Studio

There are three things I try to find as soon as I arrive in a city for the first time: a reliably divey bar, a nice public park (preferably with kiosk), and a cinema with an…

Sharing Cities: Using Urban Data to Reclaim Public Space as a Commons – Shareable

You may have heard of smart cities that use data to improve urban networks like public transportation systems. In the shadow of this well-marketed story is another narrative around data in the city; a story where the right…

7 artist-in-residence spaces where creatives can live and work for free

For centuries the city has been a source of inspiration for artists. But while its sensory stimulation might fuel the creative soul, its neon highs are sobered by rising rents and lack of affordable studio spaces.…

By people / In cities | Hong Kong | city profile – ASEF culture360.asef.org | culture360.asef.org

This month culture360 contributor David Fernandez travels to Hong Kong. In this article he illustrates the local arts & cultural ecology of the city, focusing mainly on the emerging creative platforms that are aiming to become…

Artists and Activists Propose a “People’s Cultural Plan” for New York City

Inequity in arts and culture is a persistent problem in New York City. The worsening climate of fear, intolerance, and fascism, especially affecting immigrants, all people of color, and LGBTQ individuals, must be countered with more…

Sydney Fringe Festival gets its own space at last

“Sydney’s development boom has mostly been a bust for independent artists. Soaring rents and disappearing ex-industrial and commercial space has made many artists itinerant in their own city.” Tags: dripfeed_critical_urban

What Quebec Can Teach Us About Creating a More Equitable Economy – Shareable

Quebec’s social economy (also translated as “solidarity economy”) extends far beyond the province’s two major cities, and includes manufacturing, agricultural cooperatives, daycare centers, homecare services, affordable housing, social service initiatives, food co-ops, ecotourism, arts programs, public…

$30 million miracle for Sydney Theatre Company stops fireworks stealing the show

The STC renewal forms part of a $68 million government grant to the Walsh Bay Arts Precinct, which will also include substructure engineering works to support the redevelopment. The spend comes on top of the $139 million the…

Sydney’s Addison Hotel opens its doors to homeless youth in Australian first – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Using an empty building to house the homeless … it is a pretty obvious idea but one that has never taken off in Australia. Tags: dripfeed_critical_urban

EXIT 2008–2015: Exhibiting global crisis | Artlink Magazine

Unashamedly corporate in its visual language, EXIT 2008–2015 is an ambitious assemblage of data sets aimed at informing and mobilising an active global citizenry. With core themes of mass human displacement, refugees, loss of native lands…

Australian-first community-controlled solar installation for apartments – Green Villages Sydney

Stucco, a non-profit organisation that provides affordable housing for students, sidestepped the challenge of installing solar panels in individual units in apartment blocks. They established their own solar and storage system and capitalised on the co-op’s unique…

The Gentrification Battles of East L.A.’s Boyle Heights – CityLab

“Artwashing is the use of art and artistic labor to perpetuate and enable gentrification,” says Angel Luna, a resident of the neighborhood and a member of the Boyle Heights Alliance Against Artwashing and Displacement (BHAAAD). Luna’s…

Is America ready for a municipalist movement?

In the era of Trump, we will need to consolidate counter-power via participatory democracy and economic self-management at the local level. Tags: dripfeed_critical_urban

America Needs a Network of Rebel Cities to Stand Up to Trump – In These Times

“I want New Yorkers to know: we have a lot of tools at our disposal; we’re going to use them. And we’re not going to take anything lying down.” On the morning after Donald Trump was…

These bamboo structures are quite amazing – Star2.com

Take a detour to Iskandar Puteri in Johor the next time you are in the neighbourhood; there are 15 huge bamboo installations that are currently taking shape under the skilful hands of artists and architects from Malaysia,…