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FESTIVAL
24-26 OCTOBER 2008
THIS IS NOT A GATEWAY
Participate in a free three-day festival investigating
cities ‘from the ground up’. Discussions, films, work-
shops and exhibitions all by emerging urbanists
A very warm welcome to the in-
augural This Is Not A Gateway Festival.
plinary participants ii) the development
of an online library and archive of work
This is the first festival of its kind. produced by emerging urbanists iii) an
Over three days people from across annual festival iv) publications, which
Europe who are compelled by urban includes the festival book. The festival
questions will participate in over forty book will document all that happens
activities. The festival is organised in at the festival and will then inform the
the best DIY style by emerging prac- 2009 focus for TINAG.
tioners from the many disciplines that
shape our cities. 2008 is the European The inaugural festival has been pro-
Year of Inter-Cultural Dialogue and we duced entirely by volunteer hours and
would like to take this opportunity to with a micro-budget. There has been
make a special welcome to visitors, no curatorial narrative or over-arching
colleagues, and friends from across theme applied, which means the pro-
Europe that have found their way to gramme may not make immediate
Café Oto in Dalston, east London. sense. A festivalgoer has the oppor-
tunity to approach the three day event
We formally established This Is Not A as an investigator and participant,
Gateway in late 2007 with the aim of getting involved in the workshops,
addressing the urgent and identified contributing to the discussions, writ-
needs confronting current and future ing essays for the festival book, host-
cities – namely the need to generate ing billets from across Europe and
and elevate knowledge about cities thinking about what they might want
from ‘the ground up’, from emerging to do in the next festival.
practitioners and those often outside
of ‘urban circuits’. It was clear that Deepa Naik and Trenton Oldfield
an inter-disciplinary approach was
needed - one that encouraged and www.thisisnotagateway.net
supported complexity. It was also im- coordinators@thisisnotagateway.net
portant to create financially as well as
culturally accessible arenas. Our vol-
untary not-for-profit organisation does
this via four main areas of production:
i) bi-monthly salons that unpick com-
plex urban questions with multi-disci-
workshops LES BRAVES GARCONS D’AFRIQUE,
LE MOUVEMENT DES INDIGÈNES
DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE, R.STYLE AND
MURALI SHANMUGAVELAN
Emerging Opportunities For Inclusive
Development Through New Media
and challenges of art practice entering
other arenas - regeneration, politics,
heritage and education. Speakers
JOANNA ZAWIEJA
Imagine A House exhibitions PAMELA LAROCCA IN
COLLABORATION
Garbagescapes: Garbage In, Gold Out
CATHY WARD
Wagon Train
MUSTAFA TRAORE include Anna Collin (Curator, Gasworks) A story of Victorian domesticity played Images from Ward’s mobile food-wagon
LOUIS MORENO Citizenship, Race And Diversity: Exclusion from the information society and Kelly Foster (Black Cultural out at 195 Mare Street, East London, SDNA Groups of designers, architects and archive, spanning a decade of documenting
Creative Destruction: The Architecture London & Paris, Part 1+2 is increasingly seen as exclusion from Archives). where fallen women are trained in the Cinetaxis artists from 7 European cities explore food habits in urban settings.
Of Financial Crisis social, economic and political activi- art of homemaking and working class under used sites in their cities. An
Saturday: Despite the distance be- ties. Inclusive public spaces (online and Saturday 25/ Cafe Oto 11:00-12:30 men are taught political consciousness. Site-specific installations with multiple exhibition of their research materials Friday 24- Sunday 26 Gillett Square
Workshop for urban researchers, devel- tween Paris and London being only offline) are prerequisites for overall well- The film explores questions of assimi- projections, inspired by research into and propositions for a ‘transgressive
oping new perspectives on how financial 135 minutes, the approach by their being of citizens. Via case studies, this www.lopezdelatorre.org lation in modern London. moths and phototaxis. design approach’ that could realise http://wagontrain.org
crises relate to the production and governments to citizenship, race and session will look at how new media can http://rememberolivemorris.word- their potential. Rotterdam - Andrea
representation of architecture and cities. diversity are polars apart. Four or- include communities and why today’s press.com Saturday 25 + Sunday 26/ Space 1 Thursday 23 ONLY/ St. Michael’s Church, Abita, Mario Casciu, Francesca Rango
Speakers include Peter Hall (UCL), ganisations from the Parisian suburbs social development should be seen from 13:30-14:30 Ashwin Street 19:00-24:00 / Paris - Berger & Berger, Building & GROUP SHOW
Dariusz Wojicik (University of Oxford), present their experiences of con- information order. Building (Cyrille Berger, P. Laurent Circles of Latitude
Maria Kaika (University of Manchester), temporary Paris and specifically the INDY JOHAR www.joannazawieja.com www.sdna.tv Berger, Thomas Raynaud) / Rome
Max Nathan (UCL, Center For Cities), Autumn of 2005. Friday 24/ Cafe Oto 10:00 – 12:30 Delusional Architecture - Milan Maquarch Group / Barcelona - Photographs that explore what dis-
Andew Harris (UCL), Lawrence Webb CG International/ London-Kaud Design placement and cultural belonging
(Kings College, London). Sunday: This event builds on Satur- www.panos.org.uk The presentation will highlight the latest WINSTAN WHITTER LAURA BRAUN means for contemporary identity politics
day’s presentations. The policies of ‘delusional condition’ within urbanism, Save Our Heritage Dalston Polaroids Friday 24- Sunday 26 and the current climate of global uncertainty.
Registration required: London and Paris are contrasted. Our specifically within the architectural field The Print House 11:00 – 18:00
louis@figaropravda.net visitors have asked that people come Microfinance and The City and its promoters. The session will call A documentary that chronicles the A series of images produced over the Friday 24- Saturday 25
Friday 24/ UCL, Wates House 09:30-17:30 to this session with ideas and knowl- for architecture to wake from its waste battle to save the Four Aces Club – course of the summer in 2006 in Dalston. Four Corners Gallery 13:00-18:00
edge to share that could assist with Microfinance and Microcredit is re- and address this unique moment of one of London’s most influential music The traces of daily life, observed and ANIA DABROWSKA
their work in Paris. shaping social and economic fabrics crisis and opportunity. Speakers include: venues, situated in Dalston. recorded through a Polaroid camera, You And I In Flux; I Used To Skate On www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk
INUA ELLAMS & CHARLOTTE BAILEY of cities across the world. Learn about Jonathan Smales (Beyond Green), Kevin Followed by Q &A with the Director and speak of Braun’s solitary encounters with Frozen Lakes
Knightwatch Saturday 25/ Cafe Oto 13:00-14:30 the impacts from a leader. Campbell (Urban Initiatives), Joost Be- a DIY URBANISM Workshop: Legalities an area of East London.
Writing and performance workshop for
young people between 14-18 years
Sunday 26/ Cafe Oto 13:00-14:30
www.bga-asso.org
Friday 24/ Cafe Oto 13:00-14:00
underman (Demos), and Sunad Prasad
(RIBA).
Of Organising
Saturday 25/ Space 1 15:00-17:00
Friday 24- Sunday 26 /Cafe Oto 09:30-17:30
Photographs that explore transnational
identity. Portraits of migrants in locations
around London symbolic of their be-
reading
old. Exploring gun violence in the city http://indigenes-republique.org www.fairfinance.org.uk Sunday 26/ Cafe Oto 15:00-17:00 www.laurabraun.net longing; and landscapes that relate to
through personal story telling. www.rstyle.fr www.thefouracesclub.com the stories of the portrait subjects as THE MOBILE INSTITUTE
www.research00.net well as narrating a non-linear personal The Park Bench Reader: A London
Registration required: phaze05@gmail.com SARAH BUTLER GESCHE WUERFEL, TRISTAN FEN- history. History
Friday 24/ The Print House 10:00-12:30
Saturday 25/ The Vortex 11:00-16:30
ALEX HAW
Surveilling Surveillance
Writing The City: Regeneration And
Literature films RUTH HÖFLICH, MARIA BENJAMIN
Ways Of Living: A Film Screening Epic
In Chapters
NELL, DAVID KENDALL
A Line Is There To Be Broken Friday 24- Sunday 26
‘Underground Bunker’ 11:00 – 18:00
The literary capital? The capital of
literature? Has any city been written
www.thechangecollective.com A discussion between experts from a How might literature and community arts Photographs that scrutinise struggles about more than London? Bring a
www.phaze05.com range of fields probing issues around intersect with architecture, urban design, Screenings and discussion of films between transformations of ‘place’ and www.aniadabrowska.co.uk book from any discipline; psychology,
surveillance, accompanied by local planning and development? Roundtable SARAH EVANS related to travel, migration, tourism, ‘space’, examining shifting governmental art, engineering, history. Find a bench
CCTV mapping. Launch of CAM- discussion on the role creative writers Bucharest; A Portrait location and the wider concept of policies on social policy, economic initiatives and read to your neighbour the pages
TINAG SEMINAR / DIY URBANISM SCAPE (COMMA) an online gaming and creative writing can play in the pro- the journey. This edition will look at and development, and humankind’s NATALIA SKOBEEVA, CRAIG where London life is revealed.
INFLUENCING THE CITY: The Art Of platform for user generated 3D CCTV cess of regeneration and urban change. A series of static shots of Bucharest, the uses and metaphors of the urban relationship to a changing climate. The EDWARDS, NICK SMITH
Making Space mapping of the UK. Speakers include Panel includes: Melanie Abrahams which run alongside each other while landscape. images are studies of disruptions in Para-Real Followed by a performance at the Vortex
Peter Fry (Director CCTV User Group), (Director National Association of Litera- young, professional Bucharestians talk ‘everyday life’ and the landscape. on Sunday 26.
There has been a proliferation in recent Nic Groombridge (St Mary’s College), ture Development), Sophie Hope (Writer about their feelings and experiences Saturday 25/ Guestroom 19:00-23:00 An exhibition of photographs that
years of cultural and creative ‘hubs’ Paul Mackie (Compliance Director and Researcher), Subhadassi (Poet), Inua of the city, it’s recent history and their Friday 24- Sunday 26/ Cafe Oto 09:30-17:30 explore the relationship between the Saturday 25/ Gillett Square 15:00
throughout Europe. Until recently such Camera Watch), Mark Simpkins (Art- Ellams (Spoken Word Artist). memories of the Communist regime. www.guest-room.net rural and the urban; migration; and Sunday 26/ The Vortex 11:00 – 12:30
spaces were provided by governments. ist) and Manu Luksch (Artist). www.geschewuerfel.com public memorials.
New models are now establishing them- Friday 24/ Cafe Oto 14:00-15:30 Saturday 25 + Sunday 26/ Space 1 www.tristanfennell.com http://parkbenchreader.blogspot.com
selves in cities. Young urbanists present Sunday 26/ The Vortex 13:30-14:30 ISOLA ART CENTRE www.david-kendall.co.uk Friday 24- Sunday 26
their different experiences and new 11:00 (mapping)/ 14:00 (symposium) www.urbanwords.org.uk Isola Nostra The Print House 11:00 – 18:00
models for creating and running inde-
pendent urban cultural & work spaces. www.atmosstudio.com
URBAN MUTATIONS
OMAIR BARKATULLA
Do Buy!
A documentary about the self-organised
collective Isola Art Centre in Milan,
DAVID SAN MILLÁN DEL RÍO
Passerby
www.skobeeva.net
www.craigmedwards.co.uk
walk
Sunday 26/ Café Oto 10:30 – 12:00 Planning Big And Planning Small charting their battle to save a unique www.nrtsmith.com
INFLUENCING THE CITY: Establishing
Your Own practice
discussions Presentation and discussion on the
problematics of planning for develop-
A documentary about Dubai the ‘magnet
city’, focusing on the experiences of
migrant workers. An analysis of the
neighbourhood under threat by devel-
opers.
Black and white photographs produced
over the last 6 years on the streets of
London. Taken with a concealed toy DIANA ALI
THE ORPHANED LAND TRUST
Guerrilla Garden Walk
ments in settlements in Ghana and ‘dream’ of Dubai, revealing the gap Followed by Q &A with Mara Ferreri, camera, the collection of portraits show Defamiliarisation An Open House for Guerrilla Gardens
Want to extend your role and capacity India. Specifically, looking at human between myth and reality. Isola Art Centre member passerby’s lost in their thoughts and images – visiting sites and meeting hosts who
in shaping cities? Top tips on starting HILARY POWELL settlement issues faced in middle and that reveal the city to be a place of ran- A slide show of photographs from have created new habitats, increasing
up your own organisation or company Salon De Refuses Olympique low income countries. Urban Mutations Saturday 25 + Sunday 26/ Space 1 Sunday 26/ Space 1 15:00-17:00 dom encounters and contemplation. different cities in the world. The images the biodiversity in London.
from fellow practioners – that work in believe that these will solicit a worthwhile 13:30-14:30 were made in response to words
different urban based professions. Exploring creative responses to the response and ideas from a London- www.isolartcenter.org Friday 24- Sunday 26 /Cafe Oto proposed by 26 international artists. Discussion of guerrilla gardening – a
changing London 2012 Olympic site based audience. http://uk.youtube.com/user/omairways 09:30-17:30 political act related to land rights,
Sunday 26/ Cafe Oto 11:00-12:30 and surrounding regeneration zone. Friday 24- Sunday 26/ Metropolitan Friday 24- Sunday 26 when a community reclaims land from
This manifestation of what began as Friday 24/ The Angel 19:30-21:30 DAN EDELSTYN, KRISTINA Workshop windows The Print House 11:00 – 18:00 perceived neglect or misuse and assigns
INFLUENCING THE CITY: The A-Z Of the SPACE initiated ‘Olympic Artist MATTHEW GANDY MIECHINSKI, NATALIA VARTAPETOVA a new purpose to it.
Getting Your Ideas Published Forum’ focuses on photographic work Liquid City Optimistic Immigrants www.davidsanmillan.com
coupled with interventionist strategies ANA LAURA LOPEZ DE LA TORRE VICTORIA BEAN
Published literature remains the corner- and eventful practices. AND LIZ OBI A documentary that explores the complex- An evening of films, music and dis- One Year On Friday 24/ Cafe Oto (meeting point)
stone of cultural power and influence. A Closer Look: Do You Remember Olive ity of water politics in Mumbai. A collabora- cussion that explores the complexity KAROLIN SCHNOOR 18:00
Beyond the web, how do you take your * Accompanied by cake made from Morris? tion between academics and filmmakers in and joys of migration and then settlement Drawings Images taken in New York one year
idea or raw research from a concept the fruits of the Olympic fringe lands London and Mumbai, combining interviews in new cities. Special focus on films after 11 September 2001, of drink www.orphanedlandtrust.org
and get it published and circulating? provided by Pudding Mill River. An investigation into the extraordinary with activists, engineers, local residents by emerging eastern European film- A series of illustrations on the strangeness bottles hidden in brown paper bags www.guerrillagardening.org
Young publishers present their own life of Olive Morris. Morris, who died at and other voices to paint a unique picture makers. of people in cities. and left at doorsteps.
experiences and provide helpful insight Saturday 25/ Cafe Oto 15:00 - 17:00 27, was a Black Panther and founding of this vibrant and fast changing city.
into the publishing industry. member of influential organisations that Sunday 26/ Guestroom 17:00 – 23:00 Friday 24-Sunday 26/ Cafe Oto 09:30-17:30 Friday 24- Sunday 26 Ashwin Street
http://hilaryspowell.googlepages.com continue to shape inner city London. Saturday 25 + Sunday 26/ Space 1
Friday 24/ Cafe Oto 16:00-17:00 http://puddingmillriver.blogspot.com The discussion explores the opportunities 13:30-14:30 www.optimisticproductions.co.uk www.karolinschnoor.com www.victoriabean.co.uk
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venues
1 The Vortex not illustrated:
3 Bradbury Street, Dalston N16 8JN
9 The Angel
2 Gillett Square Bermondsey Wall East, Rotherhithe,
Bradbury Street, Dalston N16 8JN SE16
TUBE: Bermondsey
3 Guestroom
108 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston E8 2EB 10 UCL, Wates House
22 Gordon Street, WC1
4 Underground Bunker TUBE: Euston Square
Abbott Street, Dalston E8 3DP
11 Four Corners Gallery
4 5 Cafe Oto 121 Roman Road, Bethnal Green E2
18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston E8 3DL 0QN
TUBE: Bethnal Green
6 Space 1
Abbott Street, Dalston E8 3DP 12 Metropolitan Workshop
* * 6 7 The Print House
14-16 Cowcross Street London EC1M 6DG
TUBE: Farringdon
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7 18 Ashwin Street, Dalston E8 3DL
8 Ashwin Street
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* RAIL: Dalston Kingsland
* * BUS: 30,38, 56, 67, 76, 149, 236, 242,
243, 277
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16:00-17:00 // discussion 15:00-17:00 // workshop + cake THE MOBILE INSTITUTE
TINAG SEMINAR/ DIY URBANISM HILARY POWELL The Park Bench Reader: A London History
Influencing The City: The A-Z Of Get- Salon De Refuses Olympique The Vortex
thursday ting Your Ideas Published Cafe Oto
Cafe Oto 13:00- 14:30 // discussion
15:00 // readings BRAVES GARCONS D’AFRIQUE, PINK
18:00 // walk THE MOBILE INSTITUTE ET BROWN, LE MOUVEMENT DES
19:00 // launch party THE ORPHANED LAND TRUST The Park Bench Reader: A London INDIGÈNES DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE AND
EXHIBITION OPENINGS, SDNA Guerrilla Garden Walk History MUSTAFA TRAORE
PROJECTIONS + OPEN MUSIC Cafe Oto (meeting point) Gillett Square Citizenship, Race And Diversity:
ARCHIVE London & Paris/ Part 2
Cafe Oto, Print House, Bunker + 19:30-21:30 // discussion 15:00-17:00 // film + Q&A Cafe Oto
Ashwin Street URBAN MUTATIONS WINSTAN WHITTER
Planning Big And Planning Small Save Our Heritage; followed by Q&A 13:30-14:30 // film
book at : www.cafeoto.co.uk The Angel with the Director and a DIY URBANISM SARAH EVANS: Bucharest; A Portrait
www.thisisnotagateway.net/festival-info Workshop: Legalities Of Organising OMAIR BARKATULLA: Do Buy!
Space 1 MATTHEW GANDY: Liquid City
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JOANNA ZAWIEJA: Imagine A House
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19:00-23:00 // screenings and Space 1
discussions
saturday RUTH HÖFLICH, MARIA BENJAMIN 14:00-17:00 // symposium
friday Ways Of Living: A Film Screening Epic Surveilling Surveillance
In Chapters The Vortex
Guestroom
11:00-12:30 // discussion 15:00 – 17:00 // discussion
09:30-17:30 // workshop ANA LAURA LOPEZ DE LA TORRE, INDY JOHAR
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LOUIS MORENO LIZ OBI Delusional Architecture
Creative Destruction: The Architecture A Closer Look: Do You Remember Cafe Oto
Of Financial Crisis Olive Morris?
UCL, Wates House Cafe Oto sunday 15:00-17:00 // film + Q&A
ISOLA ART CENTRE
10:00-12:30 // workshop 11:00-16:30 // workshop Isola Nostra: followed by Q&A with
INUA ELLAMS, CHARLOTTE BAILEY INUA ELLAMS, CHARLOTTE BAILEY Mara Ferreri, Isola Art Centre Member
Knightwatch Knightwatch 10:30 – 12:30 // discussion Space 1
The Print House The Vortex TINAG SEMINAR/ DIY URBANISM
INFLUENCING THE CITY: The Art 17:00-23:00 // film+talks
10:00-12:30 // discussion 13:00- 14:30 // discussion Of Making Space DAN EDELSTYN, KRISTINA MIECHINSKI,
MURALI SHANMUGAVELAN BRAVES GARCONS D’AFRIQUE, PINK Cafe Oto NATALIA VARTAPETOVA
Emerging Opportunities For Inclusive ET BROWN, LE MOUVEMENT DES Optimistic Immigrants
Development Through New Media INDIGÈNES DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE AND 11:00-12:30 // discussion Guestroom
Cafe Oto MUSTAFA TRAORE: TINAG SEMINAR/ DIY URBANISM
Citizenship, Race And Diversity: Lon- INFLUENCING THE CITY:
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13:00-14:00 // discussion don & Paris/ Part 1 Establishing Your Own Practice
Microfinance and The City Cafe Oto Cafe Oto
Cafe Oto
13:30-14:30 // film 11:00 // workshop monday
14:00-15:30 // discussion SARAH EVANS: Bucharest; A Portrait ALEX HAW
SARAH BUTLER OMAIR BARKATULLA: Do Buy! Surveilling Surveillance
Writing The City: Regeneration And MATTHEW GANDY: Liquid City The Vortex 11:00 // planning
Literature JOANNA ZAWIEJA: Imagine A House TINAG FESTIVAL BOOK
Cafe Oto Space 1 11:00-12:30 // performance Cafe Oto
exhibitions
thursday night only friday-sunday Metropolitan Workshop windows Gillett Square
St.Michaels Church Cafe Oto 09:30- 17:30 DAVID SAN MILIAN DEL RIO CATHY WARD
SDNA: Cinetaxis Projections Passerby Wagon Train
LAURA BRAUN
Dalston Polaroids The Print House 11:00- 18:00 Underground Bunker (Abbott Street)
11:00- 18:00
GESCHE WUERFEL, TRISTAN FEN- PAMELA LAROCCA IN COLLABORATION
NELL AND DAVID KENDALL Garbagescapes: Garbage In, Gold Out ANIA DABROWSKA
A Line Is There To Be Broken You And I In Flux; I Used To Skate On
DIANA ALI Frozen Lakes
DAVID SAN MILIAN DEL RIO Defamiliarisation
Passerby Four Corners Gallery
NATALIA SKOBEEVA, CRAIG
KAROLIN SCHNOOR EDWARDS AND NICK SMITH GROUP SHOW
Drawings Para-Real Circles Of Latitude
Ashwin Street
VICTORIA BEAN
One Year On
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