Urban Practices

Thanks to Dr Andrew Harris for inviting Isaac Marrero and myself to lead a session as part of the Urban Practices module on the Msc Urban Studies at UCL . We’ll be introducing the book we are co-editing ‘The Art of Dissent: Intervening in the Olympic Dream’ (April 2012) exploring its motivation, arguments and aims and some of the content in the core sections ‘ Interventions’, ‘Excavations’ and ‘Exposures.’ The module explores and experiments with multiple ways in which urban issues, problems and experiences are identified and addressed in practice and this year the focus is on urban mega events specifically the London 2012 Olympics. The line up for all the sessions looks fascinating and includes Craig Hatcher, Oliver Goodall and Anna Minton (all contributors to the forthcoming book!)