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Intermedial Interventions in the City

(2024) In Urban Matters
Abstract
This special issue of the journal Urban Matters on “Intermedial Interventions in the City” explores the complexity of urban media life by adressing such questions as: how do intermedial processes shape, conceptualise, and otherwise intervene in the city? How do different kinds of media combinations produce and contest urban space? How are intermedial performances integrated into the social and political life of the city? And what role might the right to media have in discussions of the right to the city?

The contributions focus on a range of different urban spaces, materials, and surfaces for intermedial interventions, from Chennai’s compound walls, to the black and white chess-board patterns painted on pavements, to the... (More)
This special issue of the journal Urban Matters on “Intermedial Interventions in the City” explores the complexity of urban media life by adressing such questions as: how do intermedial processes shape, conceptualise, and otherwise intervene in the city? How do different kinds of media combinations produce and contest urban space? How are intermedial performances integrated into the social and political life of the city? And what role might the right to media have in discussions of the right to the city?

The contributions focus on a range of different urban spaces, materials, and surfaces for intermedial interventions, from Chennai’s compound walls, to the black and white chess-board patterns painted on pavements, to the lampposts and electricity boxes favoured by street poets, to the abandoned brutalist buildings appreciated by traceurs. (Less)
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  editor       = {{Mousavi, Nafiseh and Dodds, Philip}},
  issn         = {{2004-206X}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{Malmö Institute for urban research (IUR), Malmö University}},
  series       = {{Urban Matters}},
  title        = {{Intermedial Interventions in the City}},
  url          = {{https://urbanmattersjournal.com/issue/intermedial-interventions/}},
  year         = {{2024}},
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