Category: Urban & Periurban Spaces
Stories and ideas from urban and peri-urban spaces where commons are produced, nurtured and contested.
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Strange Natures: The pale glade
In this mythical tale by Callum Aitken, a storyteller undergoes a transformative experience.
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Strange Natures: BRICKS
A short experimental film by Ceri Nicholls about the strangeness of human-centred worlds, isolation and nature.
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Strange Natures: The haunted floodplains of San Felipe
A series of artworks by Jorge Losoya visualise how a community is haunted by past and future floods.
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Strange Natures: Podcast – Folk horror and English commons
Andy Thatcher discusses how he uses film to appreciate English commons, and the uses of folk horror, the ‘weird’ and the ‘eerie’ in exploring contested histories.
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Strange Natures: Podcast – Forgotten places and the field of memory
A podcast episode with researcher Cansu Sönmez about the impacts of large infrastructure projects and how people respond to them.
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More than a pub: the story of The Bevy
How a pub in Brighton became a centre of social life, learning and mutual support for a community.
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Photo story: Views of Mpox in Nigeria
Based on research in Nigeria, this story explores how mpox is felt and understood by different people – including those with symptoms, the wider community and healthcare workers.
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Comic: Mpox in Nigeria – lessons from diverse experiences
Comic that explores the varied experience of mpox in Nigeria, with suggested lessons for healthcare elsewhere in the world.
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Mapping community gardens in the UK
The organisation Sustain provides a map of community gardens around the UK, and organises a weekend of action where gardens invite people in to take part.
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Video: JT Roane on ‘Dark Agoras’ in Philadelphia
Full video of JT Roane’s talk about Black urban placemaking in twentieth-century Philadelphia.