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Looking out over a city from Chicago

Jim Duignan I grew up in Chicago, in the moments of mural movements and collective community…

TransActions #1 A tale of two cities…

Fiona Whelan & Glenn Loughran Transaction: a communicative action or activity involving two parties1 or things that…

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Public Art: Given a Chance, Can It Work for You?

Amy M. Mooney, Ph.D.  |  Amy M. Mooney is an Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture…

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The Care-Less State of Ireland: Why we need to challenge the Charity model of Social Justice

Kathleen Lynch  |  Kathleen Lynch is Professor of Equality Studies at the School of Social Justice,…

Art, Activism, Vulnerability and Noble Calls

Liz Burns  |  Liz Burns is Arts Programme Manager, Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin. www.firestation.ie  …

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Pulp Feminism: Radical Social Histories in Hand Papermaking

Melissa Potter  |  Melissa Potter is an artist and Associate Professor and Director of the Book…

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Glenn Loughran  |  Glenn Loughran is an Artist and educator working in the National College of…

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Reading difficult text in difficult times: A Conceptual Art Move for A Conceptual Art Time

Jorge Lucero  |  Jorge Lucero is an artist and Assistant Professor of Art Education at the University…

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Dublin: Design and Decline

Alan Mee  |  Alan Mee is an architect working in urbanism, architecture, research and education at University College…

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An Interview with Sarah Ross of Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project 
with Heath Schultz

Sarah Ross & Heath Schultz  |  Sarah Ross is an artist and teaches at the School of the…

Cultural Cowardice: Contemporary arts policy and practices in Ireland and their failure to engage citizens and neighbourhoods in the process of community arts and socially engaged arts practices.

Niall O’ Baoill  |  Niall O Baoill is a fifty five year old friend of learning…

Step High, Stoop Low: Yeats and Larkin in Chicago

Paul Durica  |  Paul Durica is a writer and Programs Coordinator for the Arts Club of Chicago.…

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Using Community Arts to Defeat Austerity

John Bissett  |  John Bissett is a community worker and activist. To whom it may concern,…

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The Politics of Listening

Fiona Whelan |  Fiona Whelan is an artist and Joint Coordinator of the MA Socially Engaged Art (Further,…

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Critical Practice Questions

MA Socially Engaged Art (Further, Adult & Community Education) class 2013–15: Adele Kidd, Anne Marie Gerardi,…

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Hope and Fear for Collaboration

Anne Marie Gerardi  |  Anne Marie Gerardi is a visual artist and student on the MA…

An Irrational Equation

Jackqualyn Gray  |  Jackqualyn Gray is an artist and student on the MA Socially Engaged Art…

Socially Engaged Art and Pedagogical Practice: Parameters, Practices and Policies in the Formation of Teachers, Artists and Educators

Gary Granville & Nuala Hunt  |  Nuala Hunt is Head of Continuing Education and Joint Coordinator…

George Higgs’ The Lost and Found Sound Assembly (2013) www.georgehiggs.com

Social Practice and Public Art: A survey of socially engaged art in Dublin City Council’s Public Art Programme

Gráinne Finn  |  Gráinne Finn is an independent curator and programme manager with the Irish Landscape…

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The Act Itself is not Enough

Louise White  |  Louise White is a Dublin based theatre-maker and student on the MA Socially Engaged Art…

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The Monto Cycle, 4 Projects and 5 years of Working On Site in North Inner City Dublin

Owen Boss  |  Owen Boss is a visual artist, co founder and co-artistic director of ANU.  anuproductions.word-press.com…

Jane Addams and the Tradition of Community Arts Practice in Chicago

Richard Siegesmund  |  Richard Siegesmund is a Professor of Art and Design Education in the School of Art at…

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Build a Free Culture Space in Chicago

Stockyard Institute  |  Jim Duignan is an artist and Program Director of the Visual Art Education…

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Jacinda Julio The birth of Chicago’s ½ Pints Poetics (HPP) dates back to the mid 90’s,…

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What should revolutionary artists do now?

Susy Bielak | Susy Bielak is an artist and the Associate Director of Engagement and Curator of…

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Ad for Socially Engaged practitioners

Jane Butler  |  Jane Butler is an artist and student on the MA Socially Engaged Art (Further, Adult…

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Lucky Pierre’s Final Meals Project

Michael Thomas  |  Michael Thomas is the co-founder of Lucky Pierre, a collaborative group working in writing,…

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Jacinda In his nonfiction “history of a fiction,” Jeff Chang ends his prelude stating ” there…

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Create Collaborative Art and the City

Ailbhe Murphy  |  Ailbhe Murphy is an artist and Director of Create, the National Development Agency for Collaborative Arts…

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Milton’s Lens

Chris Maguire  |  Chris Maguire is a Dublin based artist and community activist and teaches on…

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Direct Provision Centers as Manifestations of Resistance

Vukašin Nedeljkovic  | Vukašin Nedeljkovic is a PhD candidate at Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice at…

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CITIES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: LESSONS FROM THE LAISSEZ-FAIRE METROPOLIS

Jennifer Gray  |  Jennifer L. Gray is an Art and Architectural Historian at Columbia University and…

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Hilesh Patel and Scott Sikkema Authors’ note:  because there are two authors, we refer to ourselves…

96 Acres and Project NIA: Building an anti-incarceration infrastructure

Bert Stabler  |  Bert Stabler is a Renaissance man occupying the prairie. www.bertstabler.com   I spent…

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