I am very excited to attend one more in series of critical urban festivals - TINAG 2010.
Therefore, I will re-post here some of the scheduled talks, film screenings, armchair sessions, discussions, exhibitions, that will all take place 21st - 24th October, in an amazing community building - Hanbury Hall, 22 Hanbury Street, Brick Lane.
This year's theme is The Corporation, and it brings the different forms of interrogating the Financial Districts around the world, This blog is created as a support and source for the further research on the topic, with the intention to build up a sustainable archive over the time.
This Is Not A Gateway festival has been organized, coordinated and created by Deepa Naik and Trenton Oldfield, three years ago. Read more about the idea behind the "Glastonbury of urbanism" in the interview by Tim Abrahams for Blueprint magazine.
I propose you to hear the proposal, or rather an absence of the proposal of what to do in the time of crisis. crisis of capitalism, or capitalism as a crisis. It is made by Levent Kerimol and Fiona Davies and I invite you to read it in full here. And a short excerpt:
"Financial districts are not falling apart or becoming redundant. The financial crisis does not demonstrate a failure of capitalism. Recession is a normal part of capitalism. Capitalism is crisis."
Come share your ideas!
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