Public Space Panel: Saturday, October 8, 2pm.
(Parsons New School for Design, 65 W 11th Street, 5th Floor, Wollman Hall).
Moderated by Miodrag Mitrasinovic with panelists Tania Duvergne, Sarah Reisman, Leon Reid IV, and Nick Riggle.
It has been said that cities and urban spaces have been increasingly commodified, and that access to public space and public resources has been limited to an increasingly limited socio-economic group. Public-private partnerships and other forms of alternative governance have proven to be incapable of increasing participation, enabling more robust access, and after all enabling democracy on the ground. This panel ask if artists working in the city —and thus art as urban practice— have the capacity to ask critical questions, create ruptures in the status quo, ignite resilient forms of activism, and enable innovative forms of civic and social participation?
