1st OPEN CALL: 11 JANUARY 2010
1st DEADLINE: 15 MARCH 2010
This Is Not A Gateway is seeking submissions
for its 3rd annual festival (22-24 October
2010, London). Proposals are welcome from
anybody whose point of reference is ?the city?.
The festival is entirely participant lead.
Previous festivals have included discussions,
soapboxes, workshops, book & project launches,
guided walks & tours, exhibitions and film
screenings. Participants have come from the
fields of urban regeneration, economics,
government, visual art, psychiatry,
archaeology, activism, medicine, journalism,
literature, religion, technology,
architecture, planning, environmental
protection, law, property, theory, housing,
film, psychology, finance, philosophy,
engineering, human rights & social justice.
Furthermore participants have included
resident groups, newly arrived immigrants,
youth-workers and local politicians.
Alongside the general open call, submissions
are sought from across the globe that
specifically interrogate and contribute to a
better understanding (and re-use/
re-understanding) of ?Central Business
Districts/The Corporation/Downtowns?. There is
no fee to propose a project for the festival.
?This year, we hope, by focusing in on the
spatiality of ?The Corporation? or areas more
commonly recognised as ?Central Business
Districts? and dissecting them via a wide
range of disciplines ? participants will
provide a critical and timely insight into
some of the most pertinent, contradictory,
intriguing and under-studied spaces in cities
across the globe. It is an exciting
opportunity to contribute not only to an
emerging inter-disciplinary body of knowledge
but also add to the urgent research underway
seeking to understand the current crisis of capitalism?.
In 2009 over 1200 festival-goers took part in
60+ activities, organised by 160 individuals
from across Europe. 68 % of these events were
organised and lead by women. In 2008 43% of
the projects were organised and lead by ethnic
minorities. The knowledge generated at the
festival is built upon and widely circulated
in the annual book Critical Cities: Ideas,
Knowledge and Agitation from Emerging Urbanists (Myrdle Court Press, London).
This Is Not A Gateway?s role is that of a
facilitator. It provides the infrastructure to
enable participants to hold their own
activities. Support includes securing venues,
equipment, publicity, audiences and installation assistance.
General information on This Is Not A Gateway:
www.thisisnotagateway.net
Further information on the 2010 Open Call:
www.thisisnotagateway.squarespace.com/2010-call-application
Information on Critical Cities; Ideas,
Knowledge & Agitation from Emerging Urbanists
www.thisisnotagateway.squarespace.com/publications-info/
www.myrdlecourtpress.com
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Deepa Naik and Trenton Oldfield
(coordinators /at/ thisisnotagateway.net)
www.thisisnotagateway.net
+44 (0)20 7247 0166
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