4 days, 7 interventions, 54 presentations
from 22 countries
Austria, Norway, USA, Australia, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, UK, Sweden, Algeria, Canada, China, Japan, Croatia, India, Ireland, Russia, Brasil, Colombia and Equador.
Evidently better could be done (if with more resources) but the overall sense was incredibly positive also due to the passion of all the participants and staff. Here goes a more qualitative "report".
from 22 countries
Austria, Norway, USA, Australia, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, UK, Sweden, Algeria, Canada, China, Japan, Croatia, India, Ireland, Russia, Brasil, Colombia and Equador.
Evidently better could be done (if with more resources) but the overall sense was incredibly positive also due to the passion of all the participants and staff. Here goes a more qualitative "report".
The Conference in a nutshell
The dialogue started on July 7 with the remote panel "Creating Urban Imaginaries for Social Change and Critique". Interesting proposals from very different approaches between activism "Parasite" activities, digital VR creative high level approaches and sensitive interior architecture.
Christine Koblitz in Lisbon, from Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria, revealed the deep secrets of the Takeover exhibit. Incredible to understand the adopted solutions for how conventional museological spaces address the integration of street art and graffiti languages.
Laima Nomeikaite in Lisbon, from Norway shared a very well structured and long time work regarding the approach of Street art as evental heritage.
Concluding the first part of the morning, Carolyn Loeb, remotely from Michigan State University, Haslett, MI, USA, made a Book presentation: The City as Subject: Public Art and Urban Discourse in Berlin. Remembering us of how fragile our memories can be.
The second part of the morning had a remote panel about Creative cities, Chaired by Mattia Boscaino. With an impressive set of presentations from University Rotterdam, University of Birmingham and including the already "veteran" of Urban Creativity conferences: Cameron McAuliffe from Western Sydney University.
The afternoon started with our already long time partners of Nuart with hybrid presentations chaired by Susan Hansen with Lachlan MacDowall from Maelbourn, Adrian Burnham and Aida Wilde from UK.
One of the most surprisingly refreshing approaches came with Architecture and its Science Fictions remote panel chaired by Rahesh R Ram, from University of Greenwich, with keynote presentation of Nic Clear: Dean of School of Arts & Humanities, University of Huddersfield, followed by Dariana Nistor, and Marko Jobst selected students case studies.
The day ended with a sequence of presentations from Elena of Totemo (street art and NTF experts) remotely presenting from Tokyo, Japan. Enrico Bonadio & Siri-Helen Egeland, City, University of London, UK., and Mathieu Tremblin from Strasbourg University and lecturer at ENSAS (Strasbourg National School Of Architecture) with a local very solid and matured presentation of it's nearly finished research work !
The dialogue started on July 7 with the remote panel "Creating Urban Imaginaries for Social Change and Critique". Interesting proposals from very different approaches between activism "Parasite" activities, digital VR creative high level approaches and sensitive interior architecture.
Christine Koblitz in Lisbon, from Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria, revealed the deep secrets of the Takeover exhibit. Incredible to understand the adopted solutions for how conventional museological spaces address the integration of street art and graffiti languages.
Laima Nomeikaite in Lisbon, from Norway shared a very well structured and long time work regarding the approach of Street art as evental heritage.
Concluding the first part of the morning, Carolyn Loeb, remotely from Michigan State University, Haslett, MI, USA, made a Book presentation: The City as Subject: Public Art and Urban Discourse in Berlin. Remembering us of how fragile our memories can be.
The second part of the morning had a remote panel about Creative cities, Chaired by Mattia Boscaino. With an impressive set of presentations from University Rotterdam, University of Birmingham and including the already "veteran" of Urban Creativity conferences: Cameron McAuliffe from Western Sydney University.
The afternoon started with our already long time partners of Nuart with hybrid presentations chaired by Susan Hansen with Lachlan MacDowall from Maelbourn, Adrian Burnham and Aida Wilde from UK.
One of the most surprisingly refreshing approaches came with Architecture and its Science Fictions remote panel chaired by Rahesh R Ram, from University of Greenwich, with keynote presentation of Nic Clear: Dean of School of Arts & Humanities, University of Huddersfield, followed by Dariana Nistor, and Marko Jobst selected students case studies.
The day ended with a sequence of presentations from Elena of Totemo (street art and NTF experts) remotely presenting from Tokyo, Japan. Enrico Bonadio & Siri-Helen Egeland, City, University of London, UK., and Mathieu Tremblin from Strasbourg University and lecturer at ENSAS (Strasbourg National School Of Architecture) with a local very solid and matured presentation of it's nearly finished research work !
The second day (8 of July) started with magistral (as usual) Ulrich Blanché (Heidelberg University) profound research remote sharing about Pignon-Ernest.
Locally Malcolm Jacobson, from Stockholm University, handled anomalies in cultural meanings of graffiti through online humor, very interesting and revealing topic.
Also locally Tom Ward, from University of Cambridge, gave us a refreshing (new generation) approach to the difficulties for determining the character of the line that divides (or unites) street art and graffiti from the Legal Geography perspective.
Another high moment (personally) was the remote participation of World Intelectual Property Organization, sharing the concerns about approaching street art and graffiti areas frontally from an Economic Approach perspective, by the voice of Alessio Muscarnera, Alexander Cuntz and Matthias Sahli (WIPO and University of Neuchâtel).
Concluding the second morning locally Lambert Vincent (and Gérini Christian remotly), université Côte d'Azur, France shared urban explorations and the tensions from illegal to legal. Also locally Vittorio Parisi, from Villa Arson School of Visual Arts, Nice, France shared with us an elegant presentation about The Aesthetic Dimension of Ruins in Italian Street Art.
After the lunch we had an of beat presentation (remotely from China) focused on the Instagrammable Museums and Self-Expression of Social Media Images.
Silvia Scardapane, and Monica Mongelli (locally) representants of Inward - National Observatory on Urban Creativity, Naples, Italy shared the consistent work of Analysis and perspectives of an urban creativity program for the social.
Also Marina Štambuk, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Croatia presented locally how Urban art as a bridge between placelessness and the place: Experimental study on effects of urban art forms in different public space contexts, a very professional presentation from a not common approach.
On the end of the 2nd day we had a sensitive approach remotely shared by Sofia Varino, from University of Potsdam, about her work on Shorelines as Liminal Spaces.
Zahar Hela from Université de l'Ontario français (UOF), Toronto, Canada, gave us a very stable insight about Arabic calligraffiti as a liminal practice.
And Susan Hansen, from Middlesex University London, England shared locally the difficulties of matching Street Art and UN Sustainable Development goals, amazing work full of challenges.
The last day of conference (9 of July) started slowly, because the night before was the collective dinner and Lisbon nightlife social moment.
It started with Tuba Doğu, Izmir University of Economics, from Turkey remote presentation titled "Opening a Room in the Urban".
The morning sequence of keynotes was constituted by Anton Polsky, a local presentation coming from Moscow, Russia, about Street Art During the Russian Invasion to Ukraine.
Followed by the remote presentation of Javier Abarca, Spain, in the continuity of his reflections about how to look at Graffiti as folk art.
Remotely Andrea Lorenzo Baldini, Alliance University, India, made a string statement about Graffiti Writers as Fools. Followed (also remotely) by Ye (Sherry) Liu, Wilson Yeung Chun Wai - RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia) - Jiangsu province, China.
The end of the morning we had the final local panel, Indague with : Isabel Carrasco, Marist College, Madrid, Spain with a very interesting approach to popular graffiti in Torrenueva (Ciudad Real, Spain).
Also locally María Fernanda López Jaramillo, from Universidad de las Artes Emergencias Curatoriales, Guayaquil Ecuador, with the intimate and strong experience of Urban creativity inside museums. Curating as a liminal practice.
The closing part of the conference had Diana Shepherd, from Ireland with a very experimental approach on performative actions and zoom. Crismary Ospina Gallego, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Manizales, Colombia with Do regulations for street art in Spain lead street musicians to commit illegal practices? And closing local presentation about Graffiti and Street Art in Lisbon from Ana Gariso, Portugal. We still had time to receive the presentation of NSN997 that participated on MOS Lisbon warmup event.
Check here the videos:
https://www.facebook.com/urbancreativity.org/videos
It started with Tuba Doğu, Izmir University of Economics, from Turkey remote presentation titled "Opening a Room in the Urban".
The morning sequence of keynotes was constituted by Anton Polsky, a local presentation coming from Moscow, Russia, about Street Art During the Russian Invasion to Ukraine.
Followed by the remote presentation of Javier Abarca, Spain, in the continuity of his reflections about how to look at Graffiti as folk art.
Remotely Andrea Lorenzo Baldini, Alliance University, India, made a string statement about Graffiti Writers as Fools. Followed (also remotely) by Ye (Sherry) Liu, Wilson Yeung Chun Wai - RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia) - Jiangsu province, China.
The end of the morning we had the final local panel, Indague with : Isabel Carrasco, Marist College, Madrid, Spain with a very interesting approach to popular graffiti in Torrenueva (Ciudad Real, Spain).
Also locally María Fernanda López Jaramillo, from Universidad de las Artes Emergencias Curatoriales, Guayaquil Ecuador, with the intimate and strong experience of Urban creativity inside museums. Curating as a liminal practice.
The closing part of the conference had Diana Shepherd, from Ireland with a very experimental approach on performative actions and zoom. Crismary Ospina Gallego, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Manizales, Colombia with Do regulations for street art in Spain lead street musicians to commit illegal practices? And closing local presentation about Graffiti and Street Art in Lisbon from Ana Gariso, Portugal. We still had time to receive the presentation of NSN997 that participated on MOS Lisbon warmup event.
Check here the videos:
https://www.facebook.com/urbancreativity.org/videos
Meeting of Styles Lisbon Warm up
Again evidently better could be done (with more resources) but the overall sense was positive also due to the passion of all the participants and staff. Here goes the photo "report":
