Name: Memory Work Exhibition
Start: 2024-07-05T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-08-15T17:00:00+01:00
Location: UCL Urban Room

Memory Work Exhibition

UCL Urban Room

This showcase connects research by members of the Urban Lab Steering Committee, exploring themes of Memory

This showcase connects research by members of the <a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab" title="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">UCL Urban Laboratory</a> Steering Committee. It positions creative outputs as entry-points for understanding complex evidence in urban investigations. The presentations span across disciplines and geographies. The range of materials reveal a multidisciplinary approach to Memory in urban research, Urban Lab’s biennial research theme for 2022-24. Contributions have come from scholars in the Urban Lab network across UCL, including the fields of urbanism, architecture, geography, political science, planning, critical heritage studies, history and anthropology. Upcoming events:<ul><li>5th July, 18:00-20:00: exhibition opening with refreshments and talk by the curators</li><li>18th July, 18:30-20:30: Stadklang - Unconscious Music: Listening to the Background Sound of Motown with<a href="https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-communication/people/rachael-finney" title="https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-communication/people/rachael-finney" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Rachael Finney </a>and <a href="https://www.gold.ac.uk/visual-cultures/staff/moreno-louis/" title="https://www.gold.ac.uk/visual-cultures/staff/moreno-louis/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Louis Moreno</a> Stadtklang is UCL Urban Laboratory's music night and weekend evening get-together exploring urban sound, hosted in collaboration with Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.</li></ul><ul><li>2nd August, 15:00-17:00: 'Living archives': a trans-local conversation Join us for an engaging disccusion with the collaborators of three projects questioning and engaging with Living archives from Colombia, Mexico and UK. In the context of the Memory Work exhibition, we will be discussing issues of the and framing/conceptualisation of the projects, the methodological strategies for learning together and the mechanisms of activation and creation enabled in the engagement processes with community and academic partners. Initiated by exhibitor Catalina Ortiz, this is a bilingual, hybrid event, taking place across different time zones (BST: 10am-12, CMDX: 9am). A zoom link will be provided for those attending online closer to the date.</li></ul>Featured Projects:<ul><li><a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/development/research-projects/2024/may/living-archives-archivo-vivo-weaving-gendered-histories-territorial" title="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/development/research-projects/2024/may/living-archives-archivo-vivo-weaving-gendered-histories-territorial" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Living Archives [Archivo Vivo]</a>: weaving gendered (hi)stories of territorial reclamation</li></ul>Contributors: Catalina Ortiz, Natalia Villamizar Duarte, Luz Mila Hernandez, Maria Juliana Yepes.<ul><li><a href="https://imaginingfutures.world/projects/animating-cycles-for-living-and-archiving-the-foodways-of-a-maya-community-in-yucatan/" title="https://imaginingfutures.world/projects/animating-cycles-for-living-and-archiving-the-foodways-of-a-maya-community-in-yucatan/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Living and archiving Sotuta</a></li></ul>Contributors: Olin Moctezuma-Burns, Daniela Marian Mussali Meza, Cristian Miguel Torres Gutierrez<ul><li><a href="https://archivo.bio" title="https://archivo.bio" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Archivo Biocultural Vivo</a>/ Biocultural Living Archives.</li></ul>Contributors: Cocina Colaboratorio, Emilio Hernández Martínez, Daniela SclavoThis event is in association with DPU. <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yzMY8qRNB933ItJcd28cP4POiGJjoWyZFfp4nQcz0Ic/edit?usp=sharing" title="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yzMY8qRNB933ItJcd28cP4POiGJjoWyZFfp4nQcz0Ic/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Click here</a> for the full event programe.Plan your visitThe exhibition runs from 5th July 2024 - 16th August 2024.Visit Monday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm, no need to book.Tickets are required for specific events Kara BlackmoreDr Kara Blackmore is a curator and researcher who works at the intersections of arts, heritage, and social repair. Her practice is informed by long-term collaborations in areas affected by conflict and migration. Kara is the Curator of the UCL Urban Room where she supports experiential teaching, leads exhibition-based research, and fosters community dialogue.She is also the Principal Investigator of the AHRC funded Art Allies project at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa. For this research, Kara works with colleagues in South Sudan and Colombia to investigate how artists and allied activists stay safe in regions impacted by prolonged violence. Clare MelhuishClare Melhuish is Professorial Research Fellow in Anthropology of Built Environments, and was Director of UCL Urban Laboratory from 2018 – 2024, leading its transition to departmental status in the Faculty of the Built Environment in 2021. She researches processes and socio-cultural impacts of large-scale urban-regional development, with a particular focus on the role of heritage as an instrument of development in the context of the climate crisis. Clare has led on a number of cross-disciplinary urban heritage research programmes and activities within Urban Lab, focusing on postcolonial and decolonial urban contexts, and as co-lead of the Curating the City research cluster in the UCL Centre for Critical Heritage. She is co-editor of Co-Curating the City: universities and urban heritage past and future (eds Melhuish, Benesch, Martins-Holmberg and Sully, UCL Press 2022), and author of ‘Heritage in Urban Development: Materialising Claims to Urban Space in Doha and Kingston’, in Critical Approaches to Heritage for Development (eds Cross and Giblin, Routledge 2023). About UCL Urban Laboratory Established in 2005, Urban Lab investigates, proposes and disseminates critical solutions to a wide range of social, physical and technological urban and built environment issues, with a focus on the grand challenges of our time.We draw on a wide range of urban expertise and research methodologies, based on exchange and collaboration between researchers from across the institution, including The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, and UCL's faculties of Social and Historical Sciences, Engineering, and Arts and Humanities.Urban Lab delivers the <a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab/study/postgraduate/masc-global-urbanism" title="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab/study/postgraduate/masc-global-urbanism" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Global Urbanism MASc</a> programme, a transdisciplinary postgraduate degree that cuts radically across arts, humanities, social sciences and technology studies.We actively promote participatory approaches to urban research, working in partnership with a range of different non-academic, business, and community-based organisations. About the UCL Urban RoomLocated at One Pool Street, the public-facing UCL Urban Room hosts events, exhibitions, workshops and engagement with local stakeholders, professional audiences, and the wider public. Exploring the impact of industry, globalisation, regeneration and gentrification on the six Olympic Park boroughs and their people, UCL Urban Room is a partnership between UCL Urban Laboratory, The Bartlett, School for the Creative and Cultural Industries and UCL Library Services: Special Collections.<a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab/about/ucl-east/ucl-urban-room" title="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab/about/ucl-east/ucl-urban-room" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab/about/ucl-east/ucl-urban-room</a> more information email <a href="" title="" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">urbanroom@ucl.ac.uk</a>

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