From within Canada: Identity and Public Policy
By Cultural Shifts and Benjamin Christensen — April 1st, 2008
The third panel of the Institute of Political Economy annual conference.
Posts Tagged ‘urbanization’
Reading Global Genders: Mapping gender-based struggles in the global geographies of local marginality
By Michael Lithgow — April 1st, 2008
The over-valorization of the global spatial has created renewed interest in recovering the role of the ‘local’ in the creation, maintenance and expansion of global flows and networks. Global place(s) are the urban territories where global networks ‘touchdown’ and organize material capabilities. This reorganization of …
work in freefall: a deconstructive landscape painting by Holly Friesen
By Jim Larwill — March 12th, 2008
Landscape is real-estate. Paintings of the “natural” world are travelogue posters evoking a time and place that no longer exists.
Airsick: An Industrial Devolution
By Lucas Oleniuk — January 21st, 2008
Twenty days. Twenty thousand still images. A single message. A photographer’s take on the issue of climate change, in a video created entirely by using still images.
Graffiti/Anti-Graffiti as Art
By Eliot Che — December 11th, 2007
There is a great documentary called The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal, which takes a look at the art created out of anti-graffiti campaigns and graffiti removal actions (like buffing). The Web Urbanist looks at the documentary and some of the net culture …
Turn off the neo!!!!
By mejuan — December 10th, 2007
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gud2Yu4bCw[/youtube]
