Promoting open discourse about the politics of urban informality, we welcome contributions to this atlas by researchers, artists or activists about the architectures and socio-political workings of informal markets across the globe.
If you wish to add your textual or visual material to this online collection of case studies, please contact the research team.
In response to the challenges of global research, an essential part of Other Markets pertains to exchange with researchers, practitioners, NGOs, policy-makers and other stakeholders involved in informal economies locally, so that the research can be grounded on this distributed knowledge. Thus, the project will employ roundtable meetings as a participatory apparatus for studying spatial practices and networked ecologies on site.
These trans-disciplinary workshop meetings will be operationalised in a twofold manner: First, as dynamic platforms to bring together different actors and knowledges to generate and assess specific research material on site. Second, as membranes of critical reflection to direct and adapt the orientation of the research.
Over the course of three years (2011-2013) onsite roundtable meetings are scheduled to take place in three different world regions:
1) Americas:
INFORMAL MARKET WORLDS I
University of California San Diego, 16-17 February 2012
co-organised with Teddy Cruz, Center for Urban Ecology, UCSD
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2) Southeast Asia:
INFORMAL MARKET WORLDS II
University of Hong Kong, Shanghai Study Centre, 8-9 November 2012
co-organised with Pascal Berger, Shanghai Study Centre, HKU
and MAP Office, Hong Kong
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3) The Mediterranean: details to be announced
Visual Culture Unit
Institute of Art and Design
Vienna University of Technology
and is funded by the
Austrian Science Fund - FWF
In association with the
Department of Visual Cultures
Goldsmiths, University of London
the Center for Urban Ecology
University of California San Diego
and the Shanghai Study Centre
University of Hong Kong
