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different contact details. If you have sent me something for this in the
last few days, I have lost access to my old email address: please
re-send to this new one!
Utopia and the City: imagining futures through a co-production of
thought and practice
Sponsored by HPGRG
Dr Matthew Collins (University of Sheffield), Dr Jessica Dubow
(University of Sheffield), Dr Richard Steadman-Jones (University of
Sheffield)
How can we break down barriers between academia and the wider civic
sphere, in order to forge a collaborative series of utopian visions and
hopes for the future? This session has two sections: a series of papers
that reflect upon the thought and practice of co-production; and a
roundtable discussion between academics and artists that will explore
issues of co-production between them, and how such an approach might
help to invigorate the urban civic realm. The session will have a
strongly urban focus, including contemporary and historical content.
Papers are sought from anyone engaged in – or reflecting on – the
process of co-producing knowledge with communities, artists, activists
or any other civic actors in cities.
Papers should speak to one or more of the following themes:
· The theory and concepts underlying co-production
· The practice of co-production of knowledge in cities (for example,
with the aim of reimagining urban life or bringing to light its injustices)
· The effects of co-producing knowledge on the co-producers’ ways of
thinking about civic society and utopia
· The potentials of co-producing arts, art-related knowledge and arts
practices for urban societies
· The co-production of knowledge about urban materialities and
architectural forms with those who live through/within them
· What a co-produced utopian city would look like and how it would work
· The importance of hope, and its co-production, in times of austerity
and inequality
The roundtable will involve participants from the project ‘Imagine:
connecting communities through research”, including artists and
academics from its Sheffield-based strands
(http://www.imaginecommunity.org.uk/project3), as well as an external
discussant. Roundtable participants will be invited to reflect on their
experiences and conceptualisations of co-production, and their visions
of minor or major utopian urbanisms. The debate will speak back to the
papers from the first session as well as looking forward to future
questions.
Please send a 250-word abstract and your contact details to
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Dr Matthew Collins
Department of Geography
University of Sheffield
Winter St
Sheffield
S10 2TN
07841 115804
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