Corporate Afrofuturism: Development Strategies for African Smart Cities

Heyward-Rotimi, Kola

Dossiers, no. 1, vol. 8March 30, 2023<March 30, 2023

Corporate Afrofuturism: Development Strategies for African Smart Cities

Kola Heyward-Rotimi

Kola Heyward-Rotimi investigates the speculative aesthetics of “corporate Afrofuturism” as a mode of neoliberal world-building. For smart city projects such as Nigeria’s Eko Atlantic, international architecture firms render digital projections of the continent’s urban future.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 7November 22, 2022<November 22, 2022

Keep it Blurry: Imagining Martim Moniz

Andrea Pavoni

More than any other place, Martim Moniz square embodies the conflicted nature of Lisbon’s urban imaginaries. Andrea Pavoni reflects on the struggles over its use and argues for the importance of a “blurry” vision of the city.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 7June 27, 2022<June 27, 2022

“A change from murder and mayhem”: UK City of Culture on Television

Kat Pearson

Kat Pearson considers the role of television in Coventry's year as UK City of Culture, from BBC programming to local events that enabled residents to engage with the city's history through the TV archives.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 7June 21, 2022<June 21, 2022

Familiar Spectacles: Nightclub Space in TV Berlin

Kim Wilkins

Kim Wilkins examines spectacular yet familiar scenes of Berlin nightclubs in serial television, arguing that they draw on the city's history of hedonism to promote its present-day image as a nightlife capital.

no. 4, Q & A, vol. 6September 16, 2021<March 31, 2023

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

Mara Ferreri and Ella Harris

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.