Publication documenting the outcomes of Tales of Care and Repair – a year long project in collaboration with Toxics Links, India and Gambiologia, Brazil that gathered stories of everyday repair.
The New World Salon is an emerging feral alliance with architects Thom Charli and Irina Bogdan. Adhering to pandemic rules and regulations, we worked in the margins, conjuring up new cleansing and meeting rituals, we began to re-imagine what “gathering” may mean in a post-COVID city. Supporting our endeavours, we invited guest, tarot card reader, artist and life coach, Andreea Hriscu to join us.
Conversation with artist and designer, Kasia Molga on collaborative practices and sensing cities.
Conversation with lawyer Alina Wernick on data, surveillance and rights in smart cities.
Conversation with artist and founder of Institute of Human Obsolescence, Manuel Beltrán on the possibilities of data production labour rights.
For the closing edition of Urban Knights 2019, in memory of the 30th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall and our friend, mentor and collaborator Rotraut Pape (1956-2019), we will be screening Pape’s work, The Wall – The Vertical Horizon. Followed by a discussion of Pape’s work, with her collaborator, Ninon Liotet, writer Fiona Shipwright, film programmer and curator Vanina Saracino. The event will be co-hosted with Screen City Biennial, Director, Daniela Arriado.
Conversation with artist, writer and academic Pip Thornton on language, art and algorithmic reproduction.
Conversation with manager, analyst and programmer Seb Bacon at Oxford Universities, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine on the use of NHS data, with a specific focus on drug prescribing.
Conversation with journalist and activist, Wael Eskander, who works as an analyst on Exposing the Invisible a programme of work by Berlin-based Tactical Technology Collective, which tells the story of how released data has become a tool for investigative journalism.
Conversation with Bristol City Council, City Innovation Team Lead, Freya Lockwood, who discusses Bristol’s, One City Approach and the role that data plays in creating inclusive cities.
Conversation with artist and founding member of disnovation, Nicolas Mairgret on degrowth, climate and data.
What choices do tech companies make when building their products? What ethical practices and governance structures should we considering if we are to build equitable data societies? Technology and society scholar at the London School of Economics and Director of the JUST AI Project at the Ada Lovelace Institution, Alison Powell, joins Urban Hosts founder & Professor of City Futures, Teresa Dillon to discuss such issues.
The slime mould Physarum polycephalum optimises its shape in a geometrically constrained space. We explore this property in order to reconsider how we could develop more inclusive, interspecies approaches to urban planning and infrastructure. Working with slime mould we look towards developing, new and urgent forms of dynamic interspecies urban planning.
How can art open up new forms of hospitality and commoning in the city? Dillon’s URBAN HUT taps into this question of living art shaping civic reality in the city.
Returning to Urban Hosts in May 2019, percussionist Tatu Rönkkö will be our resident guest. Working on his project “City by Night” which will take place in five cities (Helsinki, Porto, Tokyo, Buenos Aires and Berlin) across 2018-2020, Rönkkö will pound the pavement gathering nocturnal recordings and found materials for a series of live, new performance pieces.
“Conversation Matter” is a deck of cards aimed at supporting dialogue between individuals about how we live in cities and develop shared resources. Supported by We the Curious, Bristol and as part of their new ‘Open City Lab’ Initiative, we hosted a design sprint with students from UWE’s undergrad graphic design course. Creating over the course of the evening the cards, which will be available to play at the upcoming, Festival of the Future City in Bristol.
For the closing edition of Urban Knights, 2016, pianist, composer, teacher and founder of the concert series Modellbahn, Kelly James Wyse plays four new works for the piano. Inspired by distinct locations around Berlin (U-Bahn 1 line; Rummelsburger Bucht, Berghain and the bells of the Berlinerdom), the source material for each piece was derived from field recordings taken on each site.
In July 2016 the French collective, Disnovation will be our Urban Knight guest residents. Working on upcoming projects, including Deep Browsing and Museum of Failures, the group will also be taking part in the School of Machines, programme “The Neural Aesthetic”.
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As part of Alona Rodeh’s presentation at Urban Knights, the artist, presents her publication Safe and Sound, which examines various expressions of personal and state manifested safety regulations. On the night, the publication will be available via The Green Box.
As part of her presentation at Urban Knight, we invited artist, chef and researcher, Fiona Hallinan to cook and share recipes (teas, soup and desert) that nourish and support an awareness to how we can attend and care for each other, while hosting events.
Feral Trade is a grocery business and public experiment, trading goods over social networks. Hijacking our personal, travel routes trader and merchant Kate Rich re-uses such pathways to create closer links between producers and consumers. Join Kate and learn about processes behind Feral Trading and how you can become part of the network.
Short paper that sketches out how contemporary sound art practices, can act as a form of critical sound exploration by exposing devices electromagnetic spectrum. Aiding in turn more informed, inclusive public conversations and debate about ‘smart cities’ technical underlay.
A graduate of macrobiotics at Seishoku Kyokai Cooking School in Japan, Mami Yamasaki has over ten years experience as a chef and caterer. Combining traditional Japanese and world kitchens with quality ingredients, time and care, Mami’s delicious food will served as part of our opening event, in our new Berlin space – 34A.
Finnish drummer and percussionist Tatu Rönkkö plays the opening concert in the kitchen of our new Berlin base – 34a. Without any pre-planning or additional tools, Rönkkö, turns everyday kitchen spaces and utensils into musical sources as what catches his eyes and ears become part of the performance.
Bring your laptop and learn how to command and administer GNU/Linux based systems, use Open-source web software to create your own communication systems and communal infrastructures, with critical engineer Danja Vasiliev. Options for decentralised and self-managed systems such as OwnCloud, OpenVPN, JaroMail, UnCloud, Unhosted and more will be shared and discussed.
Unpleasant Design refers to how cities can be designed to exclude or ‘silently’ modify our behavior and interactions. Join architect, designer and artist Selena Savic & Nikola Korac for this 1-day workshop and learn about the techniques behind ‘unpleasant design’.
Three-day workshop with artist and designer, Sebastian Muellauer in collaboration with Recyclism Hacklab. Reevaluating our relation towards the seas, participants built a floating buoy with electronics (motors, drivers, sensors) that sensed and interacted with the ocean. The buoy’s maiden voyage, Dublin City Harbour.