Exhibitions:

Laura Braun, Dalston Polaroids

A series of images produced over the course of the summer in 2006 in Dalston. The traces of daily life, observed and recorded through a Polaroid camera speak of Braun's solitary encounters with an area of East London.

David San Millian Del Rio, Passerby

Black and white photographs produced over the last 6 years on the streets of London. Taken with a concealed toy camera, the collection of portraits show passerby's lost in their thoughts and images that reveal the city to be a place of random encounters and contemplation.

Gesche Wuerfel, Tristan Fennel, David Kendall, A Line Is There To Be Broken

Photographs that scrutinise struggles between transformations of 'place' and 'space', examining shifting social policies, economic initiatives and development, and humankind's relationship to a changing climate. The images are studies of disruptions in 'everyday life' and the landscape.

Discussions:

10-12:30pm Murali Shanmugavelan, Emerging Opportunities For Inclusive Development Through New Media

Exclusion from the information society is increasingly seen as exclusion from social, economic and political activities. Inclusive public spaces (online and offline) are prerequisites for overall wellbeing of citizens. Via case studies, this session will look at how new media can include communities and why today’s social development should be seen from information order.

1-2pm Fiasal Rahman, Microfinance and The City

Microfinance and microcredit is reshaping social and economic fabrics of cities across the world. Learn more about the impacts from a leader.

2-3:30pm Sarah Butler, Writing The City: Regeneration And Literature

How might literature and community arts intersect with architecture, urban design, planning & development? Roundtable discussion on the role creative writers and creative writing can play in the process of regeneration and urban chance. Panel includes: Melanie Abrahams (Director, National Association of Literature Development), Sophie Hope (Writer and Researcher), Subhadassi (Poet), Inua Ellams (Spoken Word Artist).

4-5pm TINAG SEMINAR / DIY URBANISM, Influencing The City: The A to Z Of Getting Your Ideas Published

Published literature remains the cornerstone of cultural power and influence. Beyond the web, how do you take your idea of raw research from a concept and get it published and circulating? Young publishers present their own experiences and provide helpful insight into the publishing industry.

walk:

6pm meeting point / The Orphaned Land Trust, Guerrilla Garden Walk

An open house for guerrilla gardens - visiting sites and meeting hosts who have created new habitats, increasing the biodiversity in London. Discussion of guerrilla gardening - a political act related to land rights, when a community reclaims land from perceived neglect or misuse and assigns a new purpose to it.