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Los Angeles: The Invention of Public Weather

Los Angeles: The Invention of Public Weather

The essay Los Angeles: the invention of public weather, written by the poet and essayist Bilal Khbeiz for e-flux, seeks, in a kind of urban […]

Bilal Khbeiz

2008
LSE Cities

LSE Cities

LSE Cities is an international centre that is part of The London School of Economics and Political Science and is dedicated to investigating the complexities […]

2010
Ordinary Streets: an ethnography from local to global

Ordinary Streets: an ethnography from local to global

Ordinary Streets was an ethnographic and visual exploration of street spaces, economies, and cultures carried out between 2011 and 2013. The research involved issues of […]

LSE Cities at the London School of Economics and Political Science

2011
Leeds Voices Project

Leeds Voices Project

The Leeds Voices project, developed by the University of Leeds, applies two different areas of academic research – superdiversity and multimodality – at Kirkgate Market, […]

University of Leeds

2016
Urban Aesthetics [Especial Vol.]

Urban Aesthetics [Especial Vol.]

In 2020, Contemporary Aesthetics Journal launched a special volume dedicated to urban aesthetics, bringing together different strands of philosophical interest in the city and its […]

2020
Ambiences Journal

Ambiences Journal

Ambiances – International Journal of Sensory Environment, Architecture and Urban Space – promotes annual thematic dossiers since 2015 related to the areas of sensitive environment, […]

2020
e-flux

e-flux

e-flux is a publishing and archiving platform, artistic project, curatorial platform, and a company that was founded in 1998. This platform presents a selection of […]
ArtForum

ArtForum

Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art, whose creation dates back to the 1960s. On the website dedicated to the magazine, it […]
Pintor ou designer popular: a etnografia de um ofício através do acervo de Edson Meirelles

Pintor ou designer popular: a etnografia de um ofício através do acervo de Edson Meirelles

In the article “Pintor ou designer popular: a etnografia de um ofício através da coleção de Edson Meirelles”, written by Suiá Omin, an ethnography is […]

Suiá Omin

Amazônica | Revista de Antropologia

2019
Book review | From a faucet to a history and sociology of the city

Book review | From a faucet to a history and sociology of the city

In De uma torneira a uma história e uma sociologia da cidade (From a faucet to a history and sociology of the city), researcher Jussara […]

Jussara Freire

2009
GAU – Galeria de Arte Urbana

GAU – Galeria de Arte Urbana

GAU – Galeria de Arte Urbana (Urban Art Gallery) – is a platform created by the Lisbon City Council that develops a strategy dedicated to […]

2008
Media Art Exhibitions – 27 cities

Media Art Exhibitions – 27 cities

Media Art Exhibitions – 27 cities (2007-2015) is a video compilation of media art exhibitions, by João Martinho Moura, a Passeio’s member, covering 27 cities: […]

João Martinho Moura

2016
Urban artivism and migrations. Disrupting spatial and political segregation of migrants in European cities

Urban artivism and migrations. Disrupting spatial and political segregation of migrants in European cities

In the political context of the European “refugee crisis”, what role does art, and in particular artivism, play in disrupting spatial and political segregation of […]

Sarah Mekdjian

2018
Experiencing research-creation in urban studies. Lessons from an inquiry on the making of public space

Experiencing research-creation in urban studies. Lessons from an inquiry on the making of public space

This paper written by Elsa Vivant and published in Cities Journal examines collaboration between artists and social scientists in urban studies. “The author was a […]

Elsa Vivant

2018
Istanbul: The city as an urban palimpsest

Istanbul: The city as an urban palimpsest

The paper Istanbul: The city as an urban palimpsest written by H. Turgut and published in Cities Journal aims to discuss about how the metropolitan […]

Hülya Turgut

2021
Two versions of heterotopia: The role of art practices in participative urban renewal processes

Two versions of heterotopia: The role of art practices in participative urban renewal processes

The purpose of the paper Two versions of heterotopia: The role of art practices in participative urban renewal processes is to take part in the […]

Pier L. Sacco, Sendy Ghirard, Maria Tartari & Marianna Trimarchi

2019
Art as a new urban norm

Art as a new urban norm

In a context of increased urban competition, art and culture are often used by cities world-wide as tools to improve their image and make urban […]

2018
Cidades, cultura e globalização

Cidades, cultura e globalização

In Cidades, cultura e globalização, a book organized by the sociologist Carlos Fortuna, is presented a gaze at the indispensable inter-discursive intersection on the urban […]

Carlos Fortuna

1997
The sounds of Braga

The sounds of Braga

The Virtual Museum of Lusophony launched the exhibition “The sounds of Braga: the instruments, popular art and the rhythms of a Portuguese city of medieval […]

Museu Virtual da Lusofonia

CECS

2021
Urban (digital) play and right to the city: a critical perspective

Urban (digital) play and right to the city: a critical perspective

In the paper Urban (digital) play and right to the city: a critical perspective, the researcher Eunice Castro Seixas discusses the “concept of the right […]

Eunice Castro Seixas

2021
Braga, snapshots in virtual reality

Braga, snapshots in virtual reality

In Braga, snapshots in virtual reality, João Martinho Moura, an artist and Passeio’s member, presents parts of works commissioned by University of Minho (2016), Forum […]

João Martinho Moura

2018
Urban ethnography, an interdisciplinary field of knowledge?

Urban ethnography, an interdisciplinary field of knowledge?

In the paper Urban Ethnography, an interdisciplinary field of knowledge?, the anthropologist Rita Cachado contextualizes urban ethnography as a method and a scientific approach, used […]

Rita Cachado

Revista Diálogos Possíveis

2020
Simmel, aesthetics and the city

Simmel, aesthetics and the city

The book Simmel, aesthetics and the city, organized by the sociologist and professor at the University of Coimbra, Carlos Fortuna, features three essays by Georg […]

Carlos Fortuna

2010
Out There

Out There

In 2020, João Martinho Moura, Passeio’s member, was selected as an artist by the MindSpaces program, a STARTS European Commission initiative aiming to create new […]

João Martinho Moura

2020
Through the Looking Glass: images and discourses of gender in women magazine’s ads – a visual social semiotic approach

Through the Looking Glass: images and discourses of gender in women magazine’s ads – a visual social semiotic approach

In Through the Looking Glass: images and discourses of gender in women magazine’s ads – a visual social semiotic approach, Silvana Mota-Ribeiro performs an analysis […]

Silvana Mota-Ribeiro

2011
Não lugares: introdução a uma antropologia da sobremodernidade

Não lugares: introdução a uma antropologia da sobremodernidade

In Não lugares: introdução a uma antropologia da sobremodernidade, written by Marc Augé, the concept of non-places is introduced to explain transitory places that do […]

Marc Augé

2012
Flows and paths in visual culture

Flows and paths in visual culture

“Over recent years, image-making practices (e.g. photographing, filming, editing and drawing) have undergone multiple transformations – driven by the expanding dialogue between digital visual technologies, […]

Moisés de Lemos Martins & Zara Pinto-Coelho

Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais

2017
Urban Studies, a podcast about cities

Urban Studies, a podcast about cities

The Urban Studies podcast, made by @nvslab, features weekly episodes that seek to analyse cities and urban life. Some of the topics discussed during the […]

@nvslab

2019
La phrase urbaine

La phrase urbaine

The book La phrase urbaine (2013), written by the French poet, Jean-Christophe Bailly, is a collection of texts – in a mix between theoretical, literary […]

Jean-Christophe Bailly

2013
Arte(s) urbana(s)

Arte(s) urbana(s)

The book Arte(s) Urbana(s), written by Ricardo Campos, an anthropologist, and by the art historian, Sílvia Câmara, seeks to understand the artistic movement that has […]

Ricardo Campos & Sílvia Câmara

2020
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