Signs of the City
Conference: Goethe Institute London, 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PH, Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:00:00 BSTYoung People's Photographic Imaginary of the European Metropolis.
This conference offers participants a cross disciplinary perspective on participatory arts practice in education, with a particular focus on young people’s urban culture. It is based on the experiences of the European Commission funded Signs of the City project (citipix.net), a multi-media participatory arts project between Berlin, London, Sofia and Barcelona. The event will bring together students, educationalists, artists, practitioners and academics working in the area of cultural education, media and pedagogy, visual arts, urban studies, languages and European studies. It is co-organized by the Centre of Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths College (University of London), the Goethe Institute London, and youth art organizations Watermans (London) and urban dialogues (Berlin).
The conference is free but you are required to register in advance by Thursday 2 October 2008.
Exhibitions:
The Conference coincides with two exhibitions of the photographs produced by the young people who have participated in the project. One takes place at Watermans, 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS. The other takes place at Ibérica Food and Culture, 195 Great Portland Street, W1W 5PS London.
Acknowledgements:
The conference has received generous support from the Delegation to the United Kingdom of the Government of Catalonia and the Institute Ramon Llull, as well as by Ibérica Food and Culture. It has also been supported by the Catalan Institute for the Cultural Industries (ICIC) in London, and the Spanish Embassy London.
Signs of the City was initiated by Berlin-based youth art organization urban dialogues. It has been carried out with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union, the Capital Cultural Fund Berlin, the Institute of Culture of the City of Barcelona, the British Council Berlin, the Spanish Embassy in Berlin, and SONY. It works in collaboration with the Goethe-Institutes in Sofia, Barcelona and London.
