Join the Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge neighborhood convening in South Philadelphia on Friday, November 13, 2015. The event will be hosted at on the 2nd floor of The Mill (2115 8th St.) and gather stakeholders and community members, local and international activists, planners, curators, artists, and politicians, to explore questions of cooperation, civic engagement, and gentrification.
The convening will begin with an in-depth presentation of CohStra’s research report, followed by round tables with local and international practitioners, combining their expertise to facilitate new imaginings of solutions to enduring problems.
Registration for the neighborhood convening costs $15. (We’re not sure why it costs…)
Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge Neighborhood Convening
By City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
Date:
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13 2015
9:00 AM — 5:30 PM
Location:
The Mill
2115 8th St., 2nd floor
Philadelphia, PA 19148
About Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge:
Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge is a community-based experimental urban platform that uses play, games and performance to reveal, share and celebrate local knowledge produced in South Philadelphia, an area known for its rich cultural and ethnic diversity. A project by Cohabitation Strategies (CohStra), Playgrounds seeks the restructuring of urban spaces by promoting new social relations across cultural and economic divides, with the objective of generating just and sustainable forms of collective inhabiting to confront the pressures of accelerated urban development.
From May through September 2015, Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge occupied the lot at 632 Jackson Street, creating a temporary hub space where the demands of daily life are interrupted through play to inspire new spatial imaginaries and political subjectivities. Here CohStra collaborated with a variety of neighborhood partners in a participatory pilot project that activates playful ways of critically thinking of land occupation, gentrification, environmental restoration and housing through participatory design, while inspiring cross-cultural communication by generating knowledge exchange through performance, construction and dialogue.