A Sense of Place: Repairing, Maintaining and Reimagining Social Housing on Film

Caterina Sartori

no. 5, Roundtables, vol. 6December 14, 2021<December 14, 2021

A Sense of Place: Repairing, Maintaining and Reimagining Social Housing on Film

by Caterina Sartori

Challenging views of social housing as dysfunctional and dystopian, Caterina Sartori examines films that reimagine everyday social space through practices of care, repair and maintenance.

no. 4, Q & A, vol. 6September 16, 2021<September 16, 2021

The Mediapolis Q&A: Mara Ferreri’s The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism and Ella Harris’s Rebranding Precarity

by Mara Ferreri

Mara Ferreri and Ella Harris discuss their books The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism: Normalising Precarity in Austerity London and Rebranding Precarity: Pop-Up Culture as the Seductive New Normal.

Dossiers, Mediapolis on Coronavirus, no. 3, vol. 6June 14, 2021<June 14, 2021

Aesthetics of Vacancy in Lockdown London

by Christoph Lindner

Christoph Lindner introduces a six-part dossier on Lockdown Aesthetics and Gentrification. In this opening post, he argues that gentrification has accelerated in London under the cover of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aesthetics of vacancy.

no. 2, Student Voices, vol. 5June 30, 2020<July 6, 2020

Sherlock Holmes and Tourism in London

by Michael Naim

Michael Naim discusses the phenomenon of Sherlock Holmes tourism in London. Naim argues that Sherlock tours stem from earlier forms of literary tourism, but the series’ multi-generational and multi-media expansions have created a more immersive form of media tourism.

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5March 25, 2020<March 26, 2020

From Water to Home: Permeability as Social Inclusion (and Exclusion) in Contemporary London

by 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.

Mediapolis Now, no. 3, vol. 4October 22, 2019<April 12, 2021

MEDIAPOLIS LIVE: London – Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies Symposium

by Brendan Kredell

Charlotte Brunsdon, Pamela Wojcik, Malini Guha, and Kulraj Phullar discuss liminal spaces of inclusion/exclusion and South Asian film at the London: Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies Symposium

Footnote, no. 3, vol. 2September 30, 2017<March 24, 2018

An Update on Grenfell

by 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.

Commentary, no. 3, vol. 2September 30, 2017<October 2, 2017

Of Drones and Angels: GAIKA’s Sonic Images of Urban Resistance

by Alessio Kolioulis

Alessio Kolioulis examines the work of GAIKA – music, videos, and films – and explores the critiques of surveillance and state control running throughout.

Commentary, no. 3, vol. 2September 27, 2017<September 29, 2017

The Day Social Housing Hit Mainstream Media

by 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.

Counterparts, no. 1, vol. 2January 17, 2017<January 17, 2017

Conference Report: Cities in Crisis

by Christopher Holliday

Christopher Holliday reports on the recent Cities in Crisis symposium held at King's College London.