just space(s) symposium Economic Justice and the Right to the City
just space(s)
September 26-November 18, 2007
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
Organized by Ava Bromberg & Nicholas Brown
Symposia . . .
Saturday, November 10 / Session#3 / Economic Justice and the Right to the City / 2:00-4:00pm
Participants: John Malpede, Mark Purcell, Ben Beach, Gilda Haas, Robert Garcia, Steve Rasmussen Cancian
Framed by a concept of Just Space(s) the show is an attempt to unravel how injustice is inbred in space and where activist and artistic practices can intersect in the social production of just spaces instead. Taking its cue from a special volume of Critical Planning (UCLA Journal of Urban Planning, volume 14, summer 2007) the exhibition “aims not merely to show what is unjust about our world, but to inspire visitors to consider what the active production of just space(s) might look like. Most importantly, it asks a crucial question: How do we move from injustice to justice exactly where we stand – in our neighborhoods and our institutions, at the level of the body, the home, the street corner, the city, the region, the network, the supranational trade agreement and every space within, between, and beyond?”
