The public place is perhaps the most important of democratic society. Urban Creativity describes subcultures' use of it.
Urban Creativity consists of a collection of texts that describe interventions in the city's order – interventions that aim to temporarily or permanently change the city's meaning, function or accessibility.
The essays are the result of an interdisciplinary research collaboration that was initiated in 2018 at the Pufendorf Institute at Lund University around the theme of Urban Creativity.
The texts are thus characterized by a diversity both in terms of scientific context and content and deal with various aspects of interventions in the city on their own initiative in and outside of Sweden: graffiti and street art, the Occupy movement and the Free-party movement.
The authors come from different backgrounds, the texts are rooted in sociology, economics, law, art history and urban studies and deal with physical and metaphysical as well as material and symbolic aspects of the use of the city.
From the content:
• Openness and porosity: a socio-spatial analysis of Umbrella
Square in Hong Kong
• Vandals in motion: the "where" of graffiti in the streets.
• Prolonged graffiti articulation in late 1980s and 1990s Lithuania.
• Free parties, sexuality, creativity and drugs: dancing within the
urban world
•From writing the streets to Instagram: a history of subculture
graffiti as media
Urban Creativity is the first book in Dokument Press' academic series, and it is designed by Sebastian Wadsted.
