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

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5March 25, 2020<January 27, 2023

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.

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5March 16, 2020<January 27, 2023

Screens in Public Space: Questions of Aesthetics and Access in a Moment of Social Distancing

Annie Dell'Aria

Annie Dell’Aria discusses screen media’s potential to make both public space and private space—during times of social distancing—more porous.

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5March 11, 2020<January 27, 2023

Activist Media and Distributional Aesthetics in the City

Carrie Rentschler

Carrie Rentschler explores urban porosity via a feminist infrastructural focus on key points of transfer and transit in the city that activists target for change using a range of aesthetic and political strategies

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5March 8, 2020<January 27, 2023

Urban Pores as Media: Questions of Aesthetics and Access

Sabine Haenni

Sabine Haenni's introduction to the second round explores pores as media, biology, and as form.

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5February 27, 2020<January 27, 2023

Feminist Protocols: Auditing Urban Infrastructures and Reporting Gender Violence in the City

Carrie Rentschler

Carrie Rentschler on feminist and anti-racist practices in the porous urban spaces and surfaces of chalking, graffiti, and postering

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5February 27, 2020<October 13, 2021

Apparitions and Wormholes: Moving Image Artworks and Urban Porosity

Annie Dell'Aria

Annie Dell'Aria shows how illuminations and projections move through the fluid, living skin of the built environment, parting the boundaries between public and private space

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5February 25, 2020<January 27, 2023

Liu Jiayin’s spatial politics of reduction

Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf

Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf discusses Liu Jiayin's documentary interiors in connection to Beijing's porous, globalized space

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5February 17, 2020<January 27, 2023

Introduction: The Porous City

Sabine Haenni

Sabine Haenni introduces the new Roundtable with some reflections on the meanings of the porous and the historical origins of the idea of the porous city.