Performative Urbanism - embodied forms of memory work, imagining regenerative futures?

Description

In recent art and performance practices we have seen an interest in embodied forms engaging with places, their cultural heritage and their socio-environmental history. Taking the point of departure in the practice of Performative Urbanism Lab (DK) mappings of urban urban natures in Copenhagen, the presentation will ask to what extent the embodied forms of knowledge creation and memory work can mobilize communities and foster inclusive ecological consciousness. Bringing in diverse examples from performative walks undertaken by artist-activists in urban natures, we ask what ecologies and memories emerge in the encounters between participants and the diverse, found scenographies? The presentation will argue that such embodied forms of mapping and creating knowledge together around urban pasts can shape transformative spaces for future imaginings working with complex and entangled ideas of time-spaces. Finally, I will discuss to what extent such embodied forms of knowledge creation can inform alternate forms of urban futures contesting the hegemonies in much urban development and planning today.

Period	6 Jun 2025
Event title	Embodying and Enacting Repressed Urban Ecologies
Event type	Lecture
Location	Nice, FranceShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International