Global Development Institute Lecture Seriesco-hosted by Manchester Urban Institute

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Julie Mehretu

An Urban Tissue of Endurance: collective operations in the looming darkness

Kara Walker

Kimberly M. Becoat

Compression: neither the powerful or the weak; neither one thing or another, but a withdrawal from distinction.

The generic is a possibility in every imaginable form. It is never in a direct relationship with anything else. It declines both affinity and distinction. As such it cannot affix itself to particular urban forms through direct causality, reciprocity and exchange. Irreducible to any particular instrumentality.

It always shows up in “strange” ways, turns the expected into something recognizable but always “off”, weird.

Jorge Tacla

Kalibata City

Photos: Rika Febriyani

Global Development Institute Lecture Seriesco-hosted by Manchester Urban Institute

#GDILecture@GlobalDevInst@UoMUrban

The Global Development Institute Lecture Series

Wednesday 29 November 5.00-6.30pmTheatre A, Roscoe Building

Collective action, inequality and development

Prof William FergusonGrinnell College