University of Arts Helsinki | RUUKKU Call for Contributions
RUUKKU – Studies in Artistic Research invites new contributions for Issue: Dreaming the city for real – spaces of polyphony, dissonance and coexistence.
City is a space for many intersecting and conflicting interests, practices, and orders. It is not just a pre-established order but an open and changing environment that channels its inhabitants’ freedoms, needs, actions, and desires. City is a terrain of events, comings and imagination, in which temporal and spatial layering is always present. City is time, space and power within which site-specific inequalities are created, as well as possibilities for emancipation and democracy are opened. Although urban space is shaped by conventional frameworks and norms, there is room for diversity, difference, controversy, strangeness, change and surprises.
It is important to take into account the intersecting diversities in the city in order to enable a more polyphonic urban space. This RUUKKU issue invites artist-researchers to consider the relationships between dominant and alternative orders of the city as well as the expectations, practices and utopias that have potential and real impact in the city space at different scales.
The issue is edited by Maiju Loukola with Henna-Riikka Halonen, Aino Hirvola, Jaakko Ruuska, Tanja Tiekso and Paul Tiensuu. The issue is part of the City as Space of Rules and Dreaming research project, which combines artistic research, urban research, philosophical aesthetics and legal theory.
Further information on the submission can be found here: http://ruukku-journal.fi/en/issues/city/call