All Things Urban

We’re very happy to announce Verity-Jane Keefe as our School’s Out! #25 speaker.

Verity-Jane Keefe is an artist whose practice is research-based. She works predominately in the public realm, using film, photography, text, and architectural objects to explore the dynamics that shape the relationships between people and places. She is interested in the role of the artist within urban regeneration and how experiential practice can touch upon and raise ambitions of existing and invisible communities. Verity-Jane has a long-term relationship with Barking and Dagenham, making work for, about and with the borough since 2006 as well as across outer London and internationally.

Verity-Jane Keefe will talk to us on April 29 about her recent project on the Becontree Estate in East London, showing the ever-evolving nature of architecture, reflecting broader currents in society. As always you can expect some tunes, bites, and a lecture. Doors open at 18:00, lecture starts at 19:00.

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Everyone interested in urbanism, art, design, architecture, the city and planning

The Independent School for the City is a playground for all urban thinkers, do-ers and designers – based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It brings together critical and experimental ideas in the field of urban research, design, strategy and activism. Through a range of diverse activities, it offers a platform where urban professionals can meet to informally discuss the challenges facing the modern city.

The school is an initiative of Crimson Historians and Urbanists and ZUS and is rooted in their practices of combining a critical and activist approach to the city with effecting real change through architectural and planning projects. The independent school for the City is founded on a strong belief in an incremental instead of a tabula rasa approach to city planning which blurs the lines between critique and practice on the one hand, and research and policy on the other.