DISCURSIVE FORMATIONS

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DISCURSIVE FORMATIONS has participated in the 2010 TINAG festival and presented a critical reading of public space in Beirut, based on the At the Edge of the City.

If you are a critical urbanist, practitioner or researcher, and you believe in political engagement and alternative discourse, join fellow critical urbanists at the 2011 TINAG festival platform.

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THIS IS NOT A GATEWAY (TINAG) FESTIVAL 2011
23 – 25 SEPTEMBER 2011, UCL SLADE RESEARCH CENTRE, LONDON, WC1
OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS (DEADLINE: 05 MAY 2011)

THIS IS NOT A GATEWAY FESTIVAL is independent, critical, rigorous and productive – an open platform; an arena for criticality as well as proposition. As a result of the continuing actuate social, economic, democratic, environmental and spatial crisis’s and revolutions, the topics below will be the focus for 2011 Festival:

- The Corporation Financial Districts | The City
- Urban Industry and its Post-Critical Condition
- Who Dares Wins Urbanism
- Design, Design, Design
- The Legalities of Space
- Language Frames Thought
- Revolutionary Space

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You are invited! Submissions are sought from a lived knowledge/experience perspective, as well as from the widest range of disciplines.

Previous formats have included exhibitions, roundtable discussions, soapboxes, film screenings, walks, presentations, book and project launches. Participants have come from the fields of urban regeneration, economics, government, visual art, psychiatry, archaeology, activism, medicine, journalism, literature, religion, technology, architecture, planning, environmental protection, law, property, theory, housing, film, psychology, finance, philosophy, engineering, human rights & social justice.

There is no fee to propose a project for the festival, however work must be critical and propositional. Online application form can be found on: www.thisisnotagateway.net.

The festival is coordinated by Deepa Naik & Trenton Oldfield.