URBAN/ACT: PRACTICES / GROUPS / NETWORKS / WORKSPACES / ORGANISATIONS / TOOLS / METHODS / PROJECTS / DATA & TEXTS
A handbook for alternative practice
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ISBN 978-2-9530751-0-6
This publication is the outcome of a series of discussions and collaborations with a number ofgroups from France, Belgium, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Holland, Spain, Croatia, Slovenia and Canada.
URBAN ACT condenses the idea of a certain type of activism, of a way of acting and organising actions.This ACT/ing can take different forms: from radical opposition and criticism to a moreconstructive and propositional acting, embedded in everyday life.
The practices presented here include artist groups, media activists, cultural workers, software designers, architects, students, researchers, neighbourhood organisations, city dwellers. Most of these groups are usually catalogued as local and their position is minimalised as such, but in fact they are highly specific and have the quality of reinventing uses and practices in ways that traditional professional structures cannot afford (due to their generic functioning). Their ways of being local are complex and multilayered, involving participation and local expertise as well as extra-local collaborations. They reinvent contemporary urban practice as tactical, situational and active, based on soft professional and artistic skills and civic informal structures, which can adapt themselves to changing urban situations that are critical, reactive and creative enough to produce real change.
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