Events Nov 9-11 - Just Space(s), Los Angeles

Oct. 31, 2007

Type: discussion

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> Friday, November 9, 12:00-1:30pm @ LACE
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> Parking Public: A Walking Tour of Utopianism and Parking in Hollywood
> with Ryan Griffis and Claude Willey
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> Saturday, November 10, 2:00-4:00pm @ LACE
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> Symposia Session #3: Economic Justice and the Right to the City
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> Participants: Ben Beach, Steve Rasmussen Cancian, Robert Garcia, Gilda
> Haas, John Malpede, Mark Purcell
>
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> Sunday, November 11, 2:00-4:00pm @ Echo Park
>
> In the Spirit of Dedication and the Right to Roam: A Sunday picnic and
> public meditation on Access to Land
>
> Sarah Lewison and Erin McGonigle invite you to join us at Echo Park
> Lake near the statue of the Lady-of-the-Lake on Sunday, November 11
> for a picnic and reading on land that is dedicated to the public.
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> Friday, November 9, 12:00-1:30pm @ LACE
>
> Parking Public: A Walking Tour of Utopianism and Parking in Hollywood
>
> Parking Public is an investigation into the realities of utopian
> thought as materialized in the seemingly mundane and pragmatic spaces
> of parking lots. Parking lots, one of the most visible, yet
> overlooked, artifacts of American mobility reveal the concrete space
> required to store the utopian ideals of automobility. Parking Public
> is a mapping of these literally concrete spaces in an attempt to
> locate the interests they serve.
>
> This tour of parking and utopias in and around historic Hollywood will
> be guided by Ryan Griffis of the Temporary Travel Office and Southern
> California artist/scholar Claude Willey. Parking lots will serve as
> the backdrop for discussions about the past, present and future of
> mobility, urban planning and spatial politics.
>
> All are welcome to join us on this free 1.5 hour tour that begins at
> LACE at 12 noon.
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> Saturday, November 10, 2:00-4:00pm
>
> Symposia Session #3: Economic Justice and the Right to the City
>
> Participants: Ben Beach (Legal Aid Foundation LA), Steve Rasmussen
> Cancian (Living Room Project), Robert Garcia (The City Project), Gilda
> Haas (Strategic Actions for A Just Economy), John Malpede (LA Poverty
> Department), Mark Purcell (University of Washington)
>
> These sessions bring together artists, activists, and scholars whose
> work addresses overlapping issues. Each of the panelists brings a
> unique set of experiences and ways of working to bare on the broader
> goals of these sessions: to explore how spatial (in)justices is
> produced (and reproduced), how these injustices are made visible to
> diverse publics, and how (and where) the production and reproduction
> just spaces and societies begins.
>
> http://info.equaljusticeworks.org/fellowships/profiles/
> fellowprofile.asp?fguid=7220079677
> http://www.designerbuildermagazine.com/designerbuilder_sidewalk.html
> http://www.cityprojectca.org/about/bio-rgarcia.html
> http://www.spa.ucla.edu/dept.cfm?d=up&s=faculty&f=faculty1.cfm&id=342
> http://lapovertydept.org/index.php?
> option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=26
> http://faculty.washington.edu/mpurcell/
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> Sunday, November 11, 2:00