The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) partners with the Public Culture CityLab (African Centre for Cities, UCT) on Thinking the City, from 12-15 March 2013.

This series of talks and discussions seeks to strengthen thinking and practice at the intersection of culture and public space, particularly in Cape Town. These sessions will take place at the Infecting the City Festival Centre (6 Spin Street) from 10:30 – 12:00 daily, from 12-15 March 2013, and are presented as part of the Africa Centre’s annual Infecting the City Public Art Festival.

Themes:
12 March - Public space, festivalisation and contested cultural expression
13 March - Design and the creative city: the creative city for whom?
14 March - Managing access: spatial challenges and the regulation of culture
15 March - What makes art ‘public’?: publicness, participation and critical practice