Venue TBA
Will we meet at our urban justice yard party?
We end the summer with an urban justice yard party on 27 August. For everyone interested in working with and alongside others to make cities more just, and to make cities more justly, we offer good company and an opportunity to think together. We imagine an evening of wonderful encounters and conversations stretching late into the summer night—and continuing long after. Speakers include:
- Guy Baeten, Defne Kadioglu: Justice?
- Hoai Anh Tran: The City?
- And many more
Come as you are or bring drinks and something to eat – and a little extra for sharing!
You are also invited to the afterparty on August 28
The day after the yard party, the conversation continues. Together, we will begin imagining two forthcoming gatherings: A Space Called Free (21–22 October, Malmö) [LINK] and Justice Still Not Settled (9–10 December, Stockholm) [LINK].
Together, we will explore what it takes to create and sustain spaces for shared reflection and action. Expect open questions rather than finished answers, new encounters rather than conclusions, and an opportunity to think with others about where our conversations, collaborations, and experiments might go next.
Please register for the urban justice yard party through this form: Urban Justice Yard Party.
Venue details for both days will be shared upon registration.
Urban Justice is a Spatial Practice of Impossible Forms
The yard party and afterparty are part of the project Urban Justice is a Spatial Practice of Impossible Forms, co-hosted by Malmö University’s Institute for Urban Research (IUR) and Public Art Agency Sweden.
Within the project, we explore urban justice both conceptually and practically by sharing experiences of creating and sustaining spaces in which people become active, reflective, and capable of transforming the places they inhabit—and, through this, themselves. Drawing on these exchanges, we will develop an anthology reflecting on the connections between space-making, creativity, and justice.
Articulating justice as an impossible form, we ask: What if justice is not a state to be achieved, but a slow, incomplete, and ongoing process sustained through spaces, relations, and shared practices? What if understanding creativity as concrete labour carried out in specific places allows us to pose new questions about power and explore alternative arrangements? And what if processes of world-making change as labour is contested, reorganised, and redistributed?
You can read more about the project here.
Do you want to know more?
Robert Nilsson Mohammadi: robert.mohammadi@mau.se
Annika Enqvist: annika.enqvist@statenskonstrad.se