Massive Knit has organised a knitting gathering to remember Jane Jacobs. If you’re in NYC, you can go to Washington Square Park on Tuesday May 23rd to help knit the park together.
Wanna learn more about the spaces, cultures and politics of craft? Check out:
Jean Burgess‘ dissertation research on vernacular creativity
Betsy Greer’s MA Thesis, […]
Migratory Practices Symposium: exchanges between anthropology, art, craft and designManchester Metropolitan University, 5-6 September 2006
Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2006
This symposium aims to bring together artists, makers and academics engaged in ethnographic study and cultural investigation.
Extending the debateA dialogue between contemporary art and anthropology has emerged over the last ten years. Has craft and design […]
M60 ring mapped during this weekend’s Mapchester event
“Mapchester is an experiment in ‘citizen cartography’ that we hope will make a significant contribution to wider efforts in so-called ‘open-source’ mapping. This an emerging and rapidly growing cartographic activity, driven in part by technology (cheap GPS equipment and online collaboration tools, like OpenStreetMap.org), but also by a […]
Thanks to Jason, who drew my attention to a new opportunity, he emailed, ‘Here is an interesting project tied to virtual space and the redefinition of the university space. Of particular interest might be the prospectus set out for the ‘Unaversity’. As a fledgling initiative (connected to the e-journal Culture Machine [and this is […]
FutureSonic 2006 || Urban PlayManchester, UK20-23 July
“Imagine a world where the city is a digital canvas, the street a gallery, performances happening in a thousand moving places at once. There are art forms out there, struggling into the light, and a new kind of festival.
This is where people take over the city and […]