London
Of Drones and Angels: GAIKA’s Sonic Images of Urban Resistance
“Nothing can stop us, no Theresa, no Boris”. This is how Brixton-born artist GAIKA addressed a small crowd while performing last November at Corsica Studios, an independent music venue in Elephant and Castle, a popular area with migrants and students …
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The Day Social Housing Hit Mainstream Media
On June 14, 2017, a violent fire rapidly engulfed a 24-storey tower-block in West London. Grenfell Tower became the most tragic social housing disaster in Britain to date. Grenfell surged as a symbol of the wider social inequality in the …
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Conference Report: Cities in Crisis
Cities and their inhabitants can be displaced and impacted by a number of competing catastrophes. From global financial and socio-economic crises to moral and urban forms of ‘decay’ (overpopulation, gentrification, pollution), the contemporary metropolis certainly poses, and indeed faces, an …
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