Monthly Archives: April 2011

Archiving Out-of-Doors

The recently aired BBC programme The Secrets of Scott’s Hut took a wide-ranging look at the now almost legendary attempt by Captain Scott to reach the South Pole in 1911. At its heart was the six-year project to preserve the remote wooden … Continue reading

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Understanding the Creative City Through New Digital Mapping Technologies

Human geographer Dr. Chris Brennan-Horley is visiting Edmonton next week and is giving a presentation at the City-Region Study Centre entitled: Where is creativity in the city? Understanding the creative city through new digital mapping technologies   Chris Brennan-Horley asks us to … Continue reading

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Urban Undercurrents

Friend of Experimental Geography in Practice Adeola Enigbokan, of archivingthecity, will be participating in Urban Undercurrents part of the Urban Festival organized by The New School. If you are in or visiting New York come out on the evening of April 21 (Thursday) … Continue reading

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Becoming Geographer-Artist…

Although unfortunately unable to attend in person, slide-shows documenting 2 creative projects I have instigated and collaboratively created and curated are being shown in a session entitled “Geographer- artists: creative practice as research tool?” at the annual meeting of the … Continue reading

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Terrible Karma’s Insertion into the Glossy World of Western Canada Fashion Week

As I mentioned in an earlier post the collaborative audio-visual work  – Terrible Karma: reverberations of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire – created by Adeola Enigbokan and myself was being shown at Western Canada Fashion week’s official after party Splash! last … Continue reading

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Re-Inscribing the City: Unitary Urbanism and it’s Legacy

Re-inscribing the City is a panel discussion happening April 9th 2011, in New York. My friend (and fellow collaborator) Adeola Enigbokan of http://www.archivingthecity.com will be on the panel and although I can’t make it I would recommend it to critical … Continue reading

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Terrible Karma at Splash!

It’s Western Canadian Fashion Week and tonight Terrible Karma: reverberations of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire is being installed at Splash! – the official after party of Western Canada Fashion Week Spring 2011 & Silent Auction Fundraiser. Splash! is taking place at … Continue reading

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