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Colin McLaughlin-Alcock presents, Public Art, Urban Space, and Political Imagination in Contemporary Amman, Jordan

The PUBLIC SPACE RESEARCH GROUP welcomes Colin McLaughlin-Alcock presenting, Public Art, Urban Space, and Political Imagination in Contemporary Amman, Jordan   In the notoriously alienating, majority refugee city of Amman, Jordan, the arts have long served as a point of refuge. Through artistic institutions, artists built forms of welcoming community that they could not find in the wider city. These […]

WUF11 :: OLDER PERSONS ROUNDTABLE, June 28th

WORLD URBAN FORUM 11 OLDER PERSONS R O U N D T A B L E TUESDAY, 28 JUNE  13:30 – 15:30 (GMT+2, Warsaw time) To attend please register for WUF11 by June 25 - www.wuf11   https://wuf.unhabitat.org. WUF 11 Older Persons Roundtable_FLYER 6 20_3      

Dr. Patricia Aelbrecht presents, Public Space Observatory: Campaigning for better designed, used, and managed public spaces

The PUBLIC SPACE RESEARCH GROUP welcomes, Patricia Aelbrecht presenting, Public Space Observatory: Campaigning for better designed, used, and managed public spaces.   In 2019, a group of academics came together to establish Public Space Observatory Research Centre (PSO) in Cardiff University a knowledge exchange platform in public space research, practice and policy. The PSO’s mission is to bring together local, national and […]

Chantal Gailloux presents The Post-Political Violence of Racial Property Regimes: Maintaining Gardens’ Land Insecurity through Abstract Codes in East Harlem, NYC

The PUBLIC SPACE RESEARCH GROUP welcomes, Chantal Gailloux presenting, The Post-Political Violence of Racial Property Regimes: Maintaining Gardens’ Land Insecurity through Abstract Codes in East Harlem, NYC.   Six community gardens on City-owned land in East Harlem have been evicted and relocated for a private mixed-income and mixed-use development under Mayor de Blasio’s citywide affordable housing plan, Housing New York. […]

The UCLA Public Space group presents, Fostering Intergenerational Public Spaces in Disinvested Neighborhoods.

The PUBLIC SPACE RESEARCH GROUP welcomes, the UCLA Department of Urban Planning Public Space group featuring Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris with Chris Giamarino, Claire Nelischer, Andres Ramirez, and Gus Wendel presenting, Fostering Intergenerational Public Spaces in Disinvested Neighborhoods.   We discuss the potential for intergenerational public spaces in one disinvested Los Angeles neighborhood. Through observations, focus groups, interviews, thick mapping, and participatory […]

PSRG Network Meeting

The Public Space Research Group serves as a networking hub connecting academics, practitioners, and students of public space from around the world. In addition to our monthly online seminars, we organized a special meeting to bring together partners, active in our network, to create a space for us all to share current research projects and exchange ideas around the study […]

*CANCELLED** Clare Rishbeth presents, Refugee inclusion in urban greenspace: strategies for inclusive practice

The PUBLIC SPACE RESEARCH GROUP welcomes, Clare Rishbeth presenting, Refugee inclusion in urban greenspace: strategies for inclusive practice   This presentation examines how asylum seekers and refugees experience urban greenspaces. Whilst often overlooked in a focus on support services and integration, I argue that critically exploring the importance of urban greenspaces has wider implications for understanding how asylum seekers and […]

The Future of Public Space in NYC

The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Join us, in person or virtually, on April 26th at 6:30 pm when we will hear from both Commissioners of Parks and Recreation for New York State (Erik Kulleseid) and New York City (Susan Donoghue) and the issues that they are facing.  This is an event for Setha Low's new book, Why Public Space Matters, and highlights ethnographic research-based responses […]

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AIA NY Book Talk – Why Public Space Matters to New York

AIA NY: Join us for a discussion to mark the occasion of Setha Low's new publication, Why Public Space Matters (Oxford University Press, 2022), in conversation with Ya-Ting Liu, Matthew Clarke, and Quilian Riano. This program presents powerful, recent findings about the importance of public space in the creation of a more just city. The discussion will focus on the contributions of […]

Disability and Public Space by Pedro Jaramillo, Visiting Research Scholar

The Graduate Center - CUNY, room 9207 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

  Disability and Public Space—in person and via Facebook on Tuesday, December 5th by Professor Jaramillo. This event can be attended in person at The Graduate Center - CUNY, room 9207 or via Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/CLACLSGC7 Info and booking: DISABILITY AND PUBLIC SPACE. A way to understand the social production of space – CLACLS (cuny.edu)

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