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Vol.5 no.2, Jul-Dec 2022: Emotions and the City

“ are far more than subjective experiences, private anecdotes or personal memories. In fact, they are always expressions of power relations, social hierarchies and thus "

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Emotions and the City Guest Editorial Nina Margies - The Urban Transcripts Journal Emotions play a role in the way we see, inhabit and build cities. Whenever we avoid walking through dark parks at night, design uncomfortable benches to scare homeless people away, cheer or suffer collectively at the city’s football stadium or when we get desperate about the impossibility to move ...

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Housing for a Fairer and Greener World
Closing 30 June 2022

How can we reclaim housing as the fundamental act of dwelling in a fairer and greener world? An act of fair redistribution and regeneration of humanity’s and our planet’s resources.

The Urban Transcripts Journal is calling for submissions that critically review housing models, policies, projects and processes, and radically reimagine how we dwell in our cities.

Housing for a Fairer and Greener World Call for Submissions Closing 30 June 2022 - The Urban Transcripts Journal There is no denying the fundamental role of housing as a guarantor of human development. Yet, we are nowhere near guaranteeing humanity’s fundamental housing need. While in the Global North housing is becoming increasingly unaffordable, commodified and financialised to such an extent where in citi...

The Pain of Others is an intervention that consists of photos, collages, posters, and banners which at first sight resemble memorial sites spontaneously arising in public space following accidents, terrorist attacks, disasters, or other tragic events. Sasha Kurmaz uses this form deliberately in order to reflect the problems he is addressing in the most accurate and expressive way. Such spontaneous objects are always anonymous and do not have a specific author or ‘artistic value’.
“The Pain of Others”, by Sasha Kurmaz
Image: The Pain of Others, 2017. Source: Author
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The Pain of Others Sasha Kurmaz - The Urban Transcripts Journal The Pain of Others is an intervention that consists of photos, collages, posters, and banners which at first sight resemble memorial sites spontane...

"We speak. Whether with our voices, our hands or through technologies, speaking is inseparable from being human. When do our words become political? Politics can be in what we say, but it can also be in the places and ways in which we speak. If the same words are delivered from a pulpit or over a kitchen sink, they don’t carry the same meaning. Cities have speech too – they translate what we say via their own language, each having a unique syntax made up of its particular configurations of spaces, cultures, infrastructures, and technologies.

So, what kinds of spaces make our words political? Who has access to them? And how do those excluded from those spaces find ways to amplify their voices? [...]!"

From “Infrastructures for Voice”, by Fani Kostourou and John Bingham-Hall
Image: Stencil on a marble in Monastiraki, Athens, reading “λεσβίες, τρανς, ιέρειες του αίσχους, είμαστε υπερήφανα η ντροπή του έθνους”, translating in “lesbians, trans, priestesses of disgrace, we proudly are the shame of nation”. March 2020. Source: Angeliki Tzortzakaki
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Infrastructures for Voice Fani Kostourou and John Bingham-Hall - The Urban Transcripts Journal We speak. Whether with our voices, our hands or through technologies, speaking is inseparable from being human. When do our words become political? Politics can be in what we say, but it can also be in the places and ways in which we speak. If the same words are delivered from a pulpit or over a kit...