Home: An Impossible Pursuit?
Anna Viola Sborgi
Anna Viola Sborgi's introduction to the second round explores intersectionality and social mobility as it relates to home.
Media, Precarity, and the Home: An Introduction
Anna Viola Sborgi
Anna Viola Sborgi introduces the roundtable with some reflections on the meanings of housing precarity in urban centers and the recent proliferation of images of housing inequality in popular culture.
From Water to Home: Permeability as Social Inclusion (and Exclusion) in Contemporary London
Anna Viola Sborgi
Anna Viola Sborgi considers how recent documentary films reconfigure porosity as permeability, and reflects on questions of social inclusion in the city under lockdown.
Porous Gateways: The London Docklands on Film and as Archive
Anna Viola Sborgi
Anna Viola Sborgi explores the varied history of London's Docklands as a vector of threats to the empire, the loci of gentrification, and a space where the past opens into the present
Textures of Visibility: The City/Essay/Film Symposium
Anna Viola Sborgi
Anna Sborgi discusses the recent University College London symposium on the essay film and the urban, concentrating on the form's potential to depict socially marginal positions as well as capital's embedding in the city.
An Update on Grenfell
Anna Viola Sborgi
In this conclusion to her two-part look at the Grenfell crisis, Anna Viola Sborgi examines the aftermath of a crisis and the ways in which activists have and have not been successful in ensuring continued focus on the underlying issues.
The Day Social Housing Hit Mainstream Media
Anna Viola Sborgi
In the first of a two-part look at the Grenfell Tower crisis, Anna Sborgi examines the complicated relationship between the media and social housing in contemporary London.