Urban Salon

The Urban Salon seminars are informal and open, with relatively short presentations supporting circulated or visual material and plenty of time for discussion. The salon aims to allow the diversity of urban experiences in different contexts to inform thinking about cities.

It hopes that narratives taken for granted in one context will disturb and be disrupted by experiences in other places, or that accounts of the circulations of people and practices will expose commonalities across apparently quite divergent contexts.

All the while, the Urban Salon aims to decentre the dominance of European and North American urban experiences in understanding urbanity, while keeping them in sight, but coming to them through a wider world of cities and urban experience.

The organisers welcome suggestions for future events. Contact details can be found at theurbansalon.com.