Julie Ren investigates the motivations and practices of making art spaces in Beijing and Berlin to engage with comparative urbanism as a framework for doing research, beyond its significance as a critical intervention.
Across vastly different contexts, where universal theories of modernity or development seem increasingly misplaced, she innovatively explores the ways that art spaces employ creative capital to sustain themselves in a competitive urban landscape.
She shows how these art spaces are embedded within a politics of aspiration and demonstrates that aspiration is an important lens through which to understand the nature of, and possibilities for, urban change.
Daftar Isi
Elsewheres
Operationalizing Comparative Urbanism
Envisioning Art Spaces
Making Do
Expressions
The Capacity to Aspire
Tentang Penulis
Julie Ren is a Research Assistant in the Geography Department at Humboldt University of Berlin and a Visiting Fellow in Human Geography at the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.