poeticizing the urban apparatus: scenes of innovation

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Te city is . . . poeticized by the subject:

the subject has refabricated it for his or

her own use by undoing the constraints

of the urban apparatus and, as a con-

sumer of space, imposes his or her own

law on the external order of the city

- Michel De Certeau

CONTEN

INTRODUCTION

ORGANIZERS

SCHEDULE

ARTS&EVENTS

SPONSORS

SERIES

MAPS&DIRECTION

NOTES

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NTRODUCTION

Te Culture o Cities Centre presents Poeticizing the Urban Apparatus: Scenes o Innovation, an inter-

national conerence at the Starrett-Lehigh building in New York August 13-15, 2013. Tis conerenceis sponsored by the Center or Social Innovation, bringing together artists, activists, academics andcultural innovators.

In the context o the conerence, we understand social innovation to reer to a variety o activities thatseek to change existing practices in order to transorm and strengthen civic society. Despite great inter-est in the question o how the city itsel provides an organizing orm or the transormation o culturalpractices, their reception remains underanalyzed. By studying how scenes enable urban interactionand are generative o social change, this conerence engages new perspectives on cultural practicescentral to social innovation. In this context, innovation is dialectical in relation to time, social in itscreation o a relationship among participants, and decisive in its appeal to new modes o engagementand action.

Dear Colleagues:

I want to take this opportunity to thank and welcome with pleasure allo you to our conerence, Poeticizing the Urban Apparatus: Scenes oInnovation, in New York City August 13-15th, 2013. I am particularlyexcited by the interdisciplinary and international response to this inter-est in challenging urban routines and in renewing the quality o city lie.Te papers offer a diverse collection o strategies or adding value to thediscourse on urban social change.

In this spirit, at the Culture o Cities Center, we have engaged socialinnovation not as sacred, but as an incentive or opening discussion onvarious methods or revitalizing the city. We examine cases o innova-tive practice not only in the corporate world but also in various avant-garde movements in the arts, in technologically driven modificationso relations and in the constant reinvention o ideas and materials. Wequestion how innovation is created as a social and cultural process andexamine the consequences or cities.

I anticipate the conerence to be a prospective orum or sustaining thisdialogue and an important opening or the first Annual Meeting o theInternational Association o the Study o the Culture o Cities. It is im-portant too, that the conerence takes place in a great city, with the dis-tinctive cultural weight o Chelsea, one o its historic communities. Weare especially grateul to Te Centre or Social Innovation, our primarysponsor, or the opportunity to engage in their newly created meetingand work space at the Starrett-Lehigh building.

ALANExecutive DirectorCulture o Cities Cen

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ORGANIZERS

Te Culture o Cities Centre is located in downtown oronto at the Centre or SocialInnovation (CSI Annex) and in the Faculty o Arts at the University o Waterloo. TeCentres primary unction is to engage an international public through book series,journals, research projects and conerences. Our publications, special events, work-shops, and conerences are devoted to new ways o representing, shaping and defin-ing urban culture. Tis conerence is aligned with our Centres mandate to generateinterpretive research and teaching that can serve as a catalyst or activities and eventsthat influence participation in the city. Te Centre is in its thirteenth year o operation,beginning rom the inception o the SSHRC-unded Culture o Cities Project in 1999,to the ounding o the Culture o Cities Centre in 2000, to the collectives branching outin 2005 to study discourses o health in the Grey Zone o Health and Illness project, toour present work on scenes o urban innovation.

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to New York or Poeticizing the Urban Apparatus: Scenes o

Innovation on August 13-15, 2013. Tis conerence addresses the relationship between the urban appa-ratus and scenes o cultural innovation. At first glance the title o this meeting might suggest that sceneso innovation are orms o enchantment that operate against the bureaucratic rationality o the city, ap-pearing as an antidote to the technical, administrative and ormal unctions o the urban apparatus.Other ormulations position scenes o urban innovationart and culture in particularas instrumentalvalues or the city to exploit. Te panels, papers and events o this conerence develop a line o thinkingthat transcends these extremes o enchantment or commodification. Tey begin to carve out an urgentlyneeded space in the recent turn toward art and culture or reimagining cities.

Whether in case studies on gentrification, place-building, art estivals and events, or through explora-tions o the tenuous line between nature and the urban, the presentations here define the debate sur-rounding both mass and marginal phenomena that underlie scenes o innovation. Rather than acceptinnovation at ace value, the proposed papers investigate the human condition and its expression in thesensorium o new media and affect through literature, theatre, artistic works and spatial transorma-tions. Marvin aylors presentation on the downtown New York art scene, or example, brings us to apoint prior to digital media, not by way o nostalgia, but as an occasion to open and reexamine the rela-tionship between aesthetics and politics that persists in any scene o innovation.

Te topics, ranging rom art scenes, to new alimentary movements such as entomophagy, to new useso space and streetscapes and the design o salons and events, reveal scenes o innovation to be narra-tives o conflict and aesthetic configurations o desire that inescapably mark experiences o the city and

its turbulent public lie. Our program is intended as an itinerary through these representations and isdesigned to subvert the anonymous large-scale conerence ormat by creating opportunities or collegialdiscussion, exchange and continued collaboration. Please enjoy the eclectic program and connect withus at the concluding roundtable brunch to animate and enact a robust scene o innovation.

ELKEDirectorCulture o Cities Centre

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Te International Association or the Study o the Culture o Cities is an inter-disciplinary orum or colleagues with intellectual interests in developing innovativeapproaches to interpretive arts, methods, strategies and programs o inquiry to repre-sent qualitative vectors o urban lie. Te Association organizes a structure o collegialencounters through an annual conerence, workshops, and special events, exhibitions,film series, and on-line presentations. As part o its commitment to ostering and de-veloping new research, the Association sponsors two book series devoted to publish-ing experimental and innovative research in qualitative studies o everyday lie and iscommitted to encouraging publishing opportunities or scholars, artists, and practi-tioners o the city.

SCHEDULE

1TuesdayAugust 13th

DAY

1:00-2:00PM

Registration

2:00-2:50PMWelcomeElke Grenzer, Director, Culture o Cities Centre

Eli Malinsky, Executive Director, New York City, Center orSocial Innovation

Plenary AddressAlan Blum, Executive Director, Culture o Cities Centre

3:00-5:00PMPanels 1 & 2

Panel 1: Gentrification

Erin Siodmak(Hunter College, USA) & Josh Scannell(CUNY Graduate Center, USA)Up the Punx? ABC No Rios Oppositional Politics and theGentrification of NYCs Lower East Side

Judith DeSena (St. Johns University, USA)

Expressions of Gentrification

Lusa Veloso(Lisbon University Institute, Portugal)You Should Look Better: Proposals for Renovating UrbanPublic Space

Jerry Krase(Brooklyn College NY, USA)Selling the New Brooklyn (Again)

Panel 2: Art and Culture

Anh-Tu Ngo(Harvard University, USA)Public Art in Vietnam

Francesco Bondanini (University o Granada, Spain)Art, Activism, and Participation on the Borders of Europe

Mariana Botero (Rhode Island School o Design, USA)Re-Writing the City

Han Zhang (York University, Canada)Untranslatability and Innovation in Cross-Cultural Research

5:00-8:00PM

Wine & Cheese CocktailIll Be Your Mirror: Te Downtown New York

Collection at NYU

Presentation byMarvin aylorDirector at Fales Library & Special Collections, NYU

(For more inormation, see page 11.)


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2WednesdayAugust 14th

DAY

9:00-10:45AM

Panels 3 & 4Panel 3: Specific City Scenes

Kieran Bonner (St. Jeromes University, Canada)

Cafs and Coffee Shops: Te Politics of aste and the aste ofPolitics

David Coyles (University o Belast, Northern Ireland)Re-place: Te itanic Rebranding of Architecture and Space inPost-Conflict Belfast

Carolyn Duffey (San Francisco Art Institute, USA)Port-Au-Prince: Space, Place, and the Revolutionary Poeticsof Grand Rue

Emily Roehl (Te University o exas at Austin, USA)Public Art and the City : Walker Art Centers Open Field

Panel 4: Representing Urban Experience

abea Michaelis (HaenCity University Hamburg, Ger-many)Randonne of Possibilities: An Artistic Research Approach onthe Programmatic Space of Possibilities in Wilhelmsburg

Bernd Kniess(HaenCity University Hamburg, Germany)Hotel as a Method? A DIY Low-Budget, High-Quality Com-munity-Run, Luxury-Hotel and University as Marketplacein the Neighbourhood

Bernd Kniess& Ben Pohl (HaenCity University Hamburg,

Germany)Working Worlds Exploring Wilhelmsburg: A PerformativeVideographic Approach

Ben Pohl & Hans Vollmer (HaenCity University Hamburg,

Germany)Being Embedded: A Research Within Spatial and EconomicPractices of Local Embedded Gastronomic Entrepreneurs

10:45-11:00AMBreak

11:00-12:45PM

Panels 5 & 6Panel 5: ranslating Entomophagy

Marianne Shockley (University o Georgia, USA)

Ethical Foods and the Potential for Edible Insects

Dave Gracer (Independent Scholar, USA)Entomophagy Deconstructed: What Were alking AboutWhen We Discuss the Problems with Insect Consumption

Louis Sorkin(American Museum o Natural History,USA)Entomophagy: Another Buffet Line

Panel 6: Design/Event

David Koren (Executive Producer, Figment, USA)

Figment

John Lauermann (Clark University, USA)Urban Events as emporary Urbanism: Planning andDesigning For Events in the City

Mike Blockstein (Public Matters, USA) & Jeremy Liu(Creative Ecology Partners, USA)owards an Ethics and Aesthetics of Place

Helen Yung (Culture o Cities Centre, Canada)Marginalia: Making Visible the Epistemic Journey of Artis-

tic Research

12:45-1:45PMLunchSample the ood trucks downstairs or take a wal k on the

High Line - entrance in ront o building

2WednesdayAugust 14th

DAY

1:45-3:30PM

Panels 7 & 8Panel 7: Aesthetic Works

Jean-Franois Ct (UQAM, Canada)

Pathos-Ethos-Logos: Working at the Margins of the Metropolis

Amparo Lasn(University Complutense o Madrid, Spain)Loud Cell Phones and Videoed Choreographies as Modes ofEngaging the City through Listening

Saeed Hydaralli (York University, Canada)Innovation and Urban Mobility: Are We Tere Yet?

Joyce E. Sanchez (Instituto ecnolgico de Artes, Ecuador)Ethnology of an Urban Pedagogy of Interdisciplinary Art.Promoting a Social Didactic in the City

Panel 8: Publics/Practitioners

Jeremy Liu(Creative Ecology Partners, USA)

De-Industrializing the American Dream, One Social Networkat a ime

Hiroko Kikuchi & Jeremy Liu(Creative Ecology Partners,USA)

Creative Determinants of Health

Stephen Gambescia (Drexel University, USA)Running the Urban Landscape: Reconstructions of Risk

Marjan Verstappen(OCAD University, Canada)Mindfulness echnologies in AC Terapy: Mobile Experience

Lab at OCAD University

3:30-3:45AMBreak

3:45-5:15PM

Panels 9 & 10Panel 9: Collectives/Conflicts

Scott ate(Virginia ech University, USA)

Creative Confinements and Contestations: Te Role of and Culture in Enabling or ranscending Urban Boundies or Divisions

Michael Cumming(Ambitious City, Canada)Innovation in Urban Design Using Distributed Social

Processes

Stefa Lubenova (York University, Canada)Trough or Head-On: orontos Union Station Redevelments

Panel 10: Narrative Spaces

Nate Mickelson (CUNY, USA)

Not with my hands/but with my imagination: City Poetry and Spatial Practice in Lewis MacAdams Te Rive

Antje Budde (University o oronto, Canada)Te Beauty of the Real(ity): How Street Scenes Make(Multi-Media) Performance

Martha Jane Nadell (Brooklyn College, USA)Imagining Brooklyn: Narratives of Space in ContemporFiction

7:30-10:00PM

For more inormation, see page 12.


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3ThursdayAugust 15th

DAY

9:45-11:30AM

Panels 11 & 12Panel 11: Scenes/Teory

David oews (York University, Canada)

Te Power of the Contemporary Scene

Nadia Anderson(Iowa State University, USA)Pop-Up! ime Check: Inverting the Apparatus of Post-DisasterDevelopment

Uta Gelbke(Graz University o echnology, Austria)Zero Points of Resistance

Steve Bailey (York University, Canada)Innovation Between Heresy and ranscription

Panel 12: Specific Cities

Friederike Schroeder(University o Hamburg, Germany)Informality as Strategy: Experimenting with Urban Space in

Guangzhou, China

Katharina Wischmann (University o Hamburg, Germany)&Michelle C atanzaro(University o Western Sydney, Australia)In/Visible Urban Contestations: Visual Explorations in Hamburg

and Sydney

Ajay Gandhi (Max Planck Institute, Germany)Looking Without Seeing: Deliberate Forms of Obscurity in D elhi

Eric Erbacher(University o Mnster, Germany)Tis Marx the Karl: Popular Music as a Catalyst for Social In-

novation in Chemnitz, Germany

11:30-11:45AMBreak

11:45-1:30PM

Panels 13 & 14Panel 13: Te Commons

Payal Arora(Erasmus University, Netherlands)

Bridging Architectures of Innovation: Mapping the Urbanand Digital Commons for a More Integrated Perspective

Francisco Cruces Villalobos (Grupo Cultura Urbana,UNED, Spain)Madrid Cosmopolis: Emerging Urban Practices and the Rise

of a New Common Sense

Bruce Janz(University o Central Florida, USA)Digital Place and Urban Space

Panel 14: (Un)Natural Objects

Kelsey Speakman (York University, Canada)Long Live the Queen: Bee Stories of Love, Loss and Survival

Vladimir Mikadze (McGill University, Canada)Contemporary Cities and Place-Deviation: Te Space-Con-testation Practices of Urban Gardeners

Aidan Dahlin Nolan(New York University, USA)

Community Canoe: Re-membering our Relationship withUrban Wetlands

1:30-3:30PM

BrunchScenes of Innovation Roundtable Discussion

3:45-5:00PMIASCC Meeting

ARTS&EVENTS

AUGUST 13 20135:00-8:00PM

Opening Reception

Ill Be Your Mirror: Te Downtown NewYork Collection at NYU

Presentation byMarvin aylorDirector, Fales Library & Special Collections, NYU

Since 1994, Marvin J. aylor has been documenting New York Citdowntown arts scenes that developed in SoHo and the East VillaPostmodern dance, punk rock, and perormance art are just a ewthe innovations and transgressions that abounded downtown, ging rise to new modes o institutional critique that have lef not oacademia and the art world transormed, but also popular cultuand our daily lives. aylor will present an overview o the colletion, highlighting the trends and themes that concerned artists the early post-conceptual days o the 1970s through the decimatio the scene in the early 1990s by the AIDS crisis.


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At the Future Food Salon, we invite you to experience ood as a scene oinnovation. Food is the ocus o contemporary movements that strivein inventive ways to sensitize us to how it is cultivated and made, andhow it circulates in the city. Our series is designed as a creative disrup-tion to prompt us to reflect on what ood is as an ideal and to changethe processes o consumption and production. Te Salons are aboutseeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting, and pressing this sensoryexploration to impel a collective sixth sense: an intuition or premoni-tion o a better world realized together in the cities where we live.

Aruna Handa, Founder o Alimentary Initiatives, and Elke Grenzer,Director o the Culture o Cities Centre host these Salons to bring to-gether artists and musicians, thinkers and architects, mixologists andtheorists, ood enthusiasts and producers to ponder and taste the u-ture. Te current series invites award-winning ches and cooks likeCookie Martinez to create canaps designed to seduce you to tastecrickets.

Our eatured speaker, Jakub Dzamba, inventor and PhD architecturestudent at McGill University, presents his ideas about integrating in-sect rearing into the very abric o buildings in our cities. He dem-onstrates his cricket arming prototypes, including his latest inven-tion, the counter-top cricket arm. Well also hear rom Pat Crowleyo Chapul Bars and Harman Johar o World Ento, representing twocompanies innovating edible insect products in the ood space. Youare invited to meet artists Han Zhang and Helen Yung and contribute

to their collaborative art piece Like Manna From Heaven. Tere willbe a curated collection o books, journals and archival material on en-tomophagy, and you will have an opportunity to graph your impres-sion o the tastes you sample using a new tablet technology courtesyo Gastrograph.

We will serve cricket canaps and delicacies to taste as well as cock-tails, craf beer and mead wine.

AUGUST 14 20137:30-10:00PM

Future Food Salon Manhattan:Crickets on the ip of Your ongue

Video

in pulseKimMorgan (NSCAD University, Canada)Video

in pulse is a research-driven project as an inquiry into questions around relationship o affective spaces and the body in urban sites using locative motechnologies. Te first stage o our research was development o prototypes

data capture and transmission coordinated to GPS or the video data. Our site is Paris in the ollowing locations:

Arcades / e PassagesBastille MarketGalerie LafayetteLa DfenseLa Gare du NordLe Forum Des Halles Commercial Centre

We approached these locations and situations as arteries o the city to explrespond to and to collect data using the drivian structure o the SituationInternationale to incorporate chance encounters and play. Our interest waplaces, events, or interactions that affect the experience o space, taking intocount the dierent ways individuals ourselves and other people - react to experience people, places and things. Our devices were android smart photo capture video footage and data controllers with sensors for heart beat / pu

As artist-researchers and collaborators, we are based in different regions o Cada, where we are developing distinct technological devices. In Saskatoon, E

Moffat constructed controller-driven low-level operation systems with physensors; in Haliax, Kim Morgan developed apps or an android smart phTe next stage o the project entails integrating the controller and android ahybrid unit as well as capturing data o ootsteps and breath. We will also oon other urban centers.


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Art

/Like Manna From HeavenHan Zhang & Helen YungInstallation

/ Like Manna From Heaven is an art installation created by HanZhang and Helen Yung or the event, Crickets On Te ip o Your ongue, aFuture Food Salon hosted by Alimentary Initiatives and Culture o Cities Centre.

Inspired by the Chinese expression(literally, pie rom the sky, mean-ing ree and delicious ood alling rom heaven), the installation invites view-ers to contemplate gifs rom above, and describe their taste and texture. Natureblesses us with so many ree and delicious ood alternatives. What does mannarom the uture taste like to you?

A collection o ancient Chinese poems in praise o ood was selected and hand-written in Chinese calligraphy on over 100 eet o rice paper. Te paper was thencut by hand to create organic orms reminiscent o baskets, fishing nets, beehives,chrysalises... o envision the uture o ood, sometimes we need to look to ourpast relationship with nature. How do we maintain our gratitude or nature andeliminate exploitation?

SPONSORS

Te Centre or Social Innovationis a co-working space, community and launchpador people who are changing the world, with three locations in oronto and a locationin New York City. We provide our members with the tools they need to accelerate theirsuccess and ampliy their impact. Were building a movement o nonprofits, or-pro-its, entrepreneurs, artists, and activists working across sectors rom arming to financeand everything in between. ogether, were catalyzing new ideas or a better world.

Te Centre or Social Innovation opened its New York City location in May 2013. Ourgoal is to support and catalyze the local social innovation movement.


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Alimentary Initiativesoperates in the ood culture space in both corporate settingsand the public arena. Currently we offer three initiatives aimed to turn problems inthe ood system into opportunities. Te aste Labs address cooking, and are a reshapproach to team-building and employee rewards, inviting guests to contemplate thevery building blocks o flavour. Te Office Markets address distribution creating newchannels or local ood producers to get their products to the our tables, and makingfinding local ood convenient or the consumer. Te Future Food Salons invite gueststo contemplate and taste what we might be eating in the uture. Salons are scenes o

innovation, collaboration and creation. Wresting the topic o the uture o ood awayrom government and industry captains in avour o artists, ches, inventors, philoso-phers and growers, we unleash the imagination to realize the uture o ood in thepresent.

Te Fales Library, comprising nearly 250,000 volumes,close to 10,000 linear eet o archive and manuscript ma-terials, and about 75,000 audiovisual elements, housesthe Fales Collection o rare books and manuscripts inEnglish and American literature, the Downtown Collec-tion, the Food and Cookery Collection, the Riot GrrrlCollection, and the general Special Collections o theNYU Libraries.

We maintain a closed stacks reading room or scholarlyaccess to our book collections, archival and manuscriptcollections, and media holdings. We also host publicevents and e xhibitions, provide bibliographic instructionto class groups, and loan material rom our collectionsor exhibitions and screenings worldwide.

Our mission is to acquire, preserve, and provide accessto a wide range o primary research materials in theiroriginal ormats, including books, manuscripts, media,archives, and other items in support o the educationaland research activities o our various constituencies.

Intellect is an independent academic publisherfields o creative practice and popular culture, pubscholarly books and journals that exempliy our mas publishers o original thinking. We aim to provital space or widening critical debate in new and ing subjects, and in this way we differ rom other pers by campaigning or the author rather than proa book or journal to fill a gap in the market.

We publish in our distinct subject areas: visual arstudies, cultural and media studies, and perormiTese categories host Intellects ever-expanding toenquiry, which include photography, drawing, cucommunity music, gaming and s cenography. Intetles are ofen multidisciplinary, presenting scholarat the cross section o arts, media and creative praIntellect seeks to offer an unbiased platorm oity critical debate; we are committed to representauthors voice authentically, without impositionpersonal ideas or opinions. We place great emphproviding a service to our authors and editors.

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BOOK SERIES

Culture of CitiesSeries editors: Kieran Bonner and Will Straw

Cities have long been a key ocus o innovative work inhe humanities and social sciences. In recent years, the

city has assumed new importance or scholars workingon cultural issues across a wide range o disciplines. So-ciologists, anthropologists, media specialists, and schol-

ars o literature, art, and cinema have come to emphasizehe distinctly urban character o many o their objectso study. Tose who study processes o globalization aredrawn to analyzing cities as the places in which theseprocesses are most deeply elt or where they are mosttrongly resisted. Te Culture o Cities series has its rootsn an international research project o the same name,unded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research

Council o Canada during the period 2000-05. Te seriesncludes books based in the work o that project as well

as other volumes that reflect the projects spirit o inter-disciplinary inquiry.

Culture, Disease, and Well-Being: The

Grey Zone of Health and IllnessSeries editor: Alan Blum

Te series, Culture, Disease, and Well-Being: Te GreyZone o Health and Illness, represents the work o a mul-tidisciplinary project in Medical Humanities unded bythe Canadian Institutes o Health Research (CIHR) and

based in downtown oronto at the Culture o Cities Cen-tre which is supported by the Faculty o Arts, Universityo Waterloo. Te Grey Zone project develops a rame-work or studying health and illness by isolating a rangeo case studies in which the tension between medicinespromise and its particular interpretations and incorpo-rations become visible and dramatic under conditionso modern lie. Te idea o the Grey Zone identifies theways in which indeterminacy, uncertainty, and ambiguityinhabit our interpretations and actions even when theyare most resolute and appear most unassailable.

irculation and the City:ssays on Urban Culture

dited by Alexandra Boutrosand Will Straw

Te Imaginative Structureo the CityAlan Blum

Urban Enigmas: Montreal,oronto, and the Problem o

Comparing CitiesEdited by Johanne Sloan

Te Method o MetaphorStanley Raffel

Spectacular Death:Interdisciplinary Perspec-

tives on Mortality and (Un)representability

Edited by ristanne Connolly

Te Grey Zone o Health andIllness

Alan Blum

Cartographies o Place:Navigating the Urbandited by Michael Darrochand Janine Marchessault

(upcoming)

O Indeterminate BirthEdited by Elke Grenzer and

Jan Plecash(upcoming)

BOOK SERIES

Now Accepting Manuscripts for New Book Series: UrbanitiesSeries editors: Alan Blum, Director, Culture of Cities Centre (oronto), York University, University of Waterloo: blumyorku.ca

Tis new book series continues interdisciplinary research and theorizing inaugurated by the Culture o Cities Cen

in oronto and its projects on the arts, material culture, and everyday lie in cities.

We are now accepting manuscripts that ocus upon investigations o the urbane as a regime o thinking, eeling, action. Urban centrality has always unctioned as a lure or those se eking to be near the seat o action and sensuain any civilization, giving the city the aura o the contemporary, creating the spell o the experience o the mode athe moment, inducing any and all to address what it is to be attuned in any present.

Te coexistence o participation and detachment as a sensual encounter in the midst o change that distinguisurbanity as a means o sel ashioning in any present, invites the systematic reinvention o ideas and conduct in marketplace o influences, including styles and scenes in consumption, ashion, arts and inormation, knowledand technology, and regimes o care or s el and other.

Te social practices o urbanity are observable in the arts and sciences, aesthetically, ethically, and politically, inorganization o public and private settings o everyday lie, in the various projects, enterprises and initiatives thmark the institutional landscape o the contemporary in ways appealing to the authority and code o urbanity to being up-to-date, and in the social scripts, public writings, and collective ormulae that purport to describe present as eventul.

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MAPS&DIRECTION

Centre for Social Innovation, Starrett-Lehigh601 West 26th Street

Suite 325

New York, NY 10001

By Subway

to 23rd and 8th

to 34th and 8th

to 23rd and 7th

and PAH to 23rd and 6th

to 34th and 11th West Side extension is planned or 2013

By Bus & Shuttle

M23 goes cross-town on 23rd and stops at 24th and 11th

M11 goes uptown and stops at 23rd and 10th; downtown on 9th and stops at 23rd and 9th

Starrett-Lehigh Shuttle to Penn-Station, Port Authority

Starrett-Lehigh Shuttle to Grand Central

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