The Decelerated City: Slow Practice and Creative Urbanism

Talk by Professor Christoph Lindner (Professor of Media Studies and Director of the ASCA Cities Project, University of Amsterdam) examining the relationship between globalization and cities focusing on slowness as a condition in contemporary urban life.

Global cities have been studied predominantly in terms of speed and movement, acceleration and circulation. This talk will examine the relationship between globalization and cities in terms that run counter to such emphases, focusing instead on slowness as a condition in contemporary urban life. In particular, the discussion will analyze street photography and urban renewal initiatives in the city of Amsterdam in order to understand the role of "slow art" in neoliberal urbanization and city profiling.

Christoph Lindner is Professor of Media Studies and Director of the ASCA Cities Project at the University of Amsterdam. He is also a research affiliate at the University of London Institute in Paris and founding Director of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis. His most recent book is the forthcoming volume Paris-Amsterdam Underground: Essays on Cultural Resistance, Subversion, and Diversion (2013).

Date: 1830, 26 Nov 2012

Venue: Room 517, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL Wates House, 22 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0QB