Keyword 'gentrification'

DPPI01: Davis Square Tiles

Posted by DIM on April 6, 2009

The first of our Distributed & Participatory Public Investigations, this project will collect the personal histories of the people who created the Davis Square T stop tiles.

“Community” in Question: Conversations and readings on art, activism, and community vis-à-vis the Green Line Expansion

Posted by DIM on April 5, 2009

Directors of the Think Tank that has yet to be named present a workshop for a conference on art and activism at Tufts University in April 2009.

Dissecting the Sector

Posted by DINP on September 16, 2007

If there is a direct correlation between the well-being of a city and the amount of public art made available to its citizenry, then how it is that Philadelphia, who boasts to have more public art than any other city in the nation, is also leading the nation in murder?

PHPM06 “A Picnic with the Natives”

Posted by DIUMa on August 28, 2007

“A Picnic with the Natives,” the sixth publicly held private meeting (PHPM06), continues to scrutinize the cartography of talent, by locating its meeting on an actual site where the “lure of talent” is implemented for the hoped and assumed economic benefit of the community.

22 Readings on Artists & Gentrification: Think Tank Reader Vol. II

Posted by DIM on July 18, 2007

Volume II in the Think Tank reader series compiles several texts which discuss issues of artists, gentrification, the urban environment, and the so-called Creative Class.

PHPM05: Scrutinizing the Cartography of Talent

Posted by DINP on May 25, 2007

Scrutinizing the Cartography of Talent - A discussion about the Creative Class in proximity to a lecture by its founder, Richard Florida is an investigation into the utilization and marketing of the creative city and the artist as economic savior. Can we interrogate “hipsterization strategies,” where artists are active in the (re)development of blighted urban spaces? How do artists participate in or resist this process?

The Coalition of Inquiry into the State of the Future: PUBLIC HEARING

Posted by DINP on March 29, 2007

On Saturday March 10, 2007, the Coalition of Inquiry into the State of the Future held a Public Hearing to gather facts, information and testimony as part of an investigation into the propagation and circulation of the allegedly misrepresentative language that has appeared in the public and journalistic record.

Ask Me About Gentrification

Posted by DIM on November 1, 2006

Participants in an “artists’ studio tour” in Philadelphia were invited to select a button, thus choosing an identity and implicating themselves in the grand narrative of Art in the Service of Gentrification.

PHPM03: How do we decide where “from” is?

Posted by DIM on August 20, 2006

A conversation in public transit, whereby, being both stationary and mobile, we begin to unpack our identity bags.

PHPM01: On the Sidewalk with Lawnchairs Looking Professional

Posted by DIUM on July 11, 2006

The Game: DEPROGRESSION. The Objective: to de-activate the gentrification wave. The General Terrain: The “incongruous rim” of the beautiful monumental city.