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SUMMARY:An urban politics of subversive creativity: Architecture\, objects
  and the urban terrain - Oli Mould\, Royal Holloway
DTSTART:20151112T130000Z
DTEND:20151112T140000Z
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CONTACT:Dr. P MR Howell
DESCRIPTION:The role of creativity within geographical inquiry to date has
  enriched scholarly analysis. The ‘creative turn’ has articulated how 
 geographers can adopt creative practices to further explore and articulate
  the subjectivities of the geographical imagination. Yet\, creativity as a
  characteristic\, if utilized more radically and ontologically\, can offer
  far more theoretical and political utility\, particularly within the urba
 nization discourses. Moreover\, creativity can be theorized less as an act
  which creates innovations to existing (often hegemonic) structures of the
  neoliberal city\, but more as an emancipating politics of rupture\, subve
 rsion and reappropriation. This paper intertwines theoretical threads from
  critical social theory and the metaphysics of objects to argue that creat
 ivity is a fundamental political characteristic in that it creates new sub
 jectivities and urban spatial politics that are as yet unrealized. Using e
 xamples from some of London's activist and architectural groups\, I explor
 e the politics of using the fabric of the city more subversively.
LOCATION:Room 101\, Hardy Building\, Department of Geography
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