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Sustainable Art Communities: now also in print

  We are pleased to announce that Issue 5 of the Open Arts Journal has recently been developed for publication as a book. The Caribbean, with its transnational diaspora stretching to all the shores of the Atlantic and beyond, is one … Continue reading

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Sustainable Art Communities: Creativity and Policy in the Transnational Caribbean We are delighted to announce the publication of Issue 5 of the Open Arts Journal, on the theme ‘Sustainable Art Communities: Creativity and Policy in the Transnational Caribbean’. This brings together academics, artists, … Continue reading

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Materiality and Mobility: Political Geographies of Caribbean Art

Focusing on urban sites including Bridgetown, Barbados; Paramaribo, Suriname; and Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Leon Wainwright contributed to the Spring 2016 Architecture and History, Theory and Criticism Lecture Series (HTC Forum), in the Department of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), … Continue reading

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Caribbean Urban Aesthetics research networking event, May 21st and 22nd 2013

On 21st and 22nd May the Department of Art History and Department of Geography (Leon Wainwright and Clare Melhuish) hosted the international meeting ‘Caribbean Urban Aesthetics’, at The Open University’s Walton Hall campus in Milton Keynes. This was a  preliminary workshop … Continue reading

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This project will bring together a research grouping of academics in history of art and architecture, geography, social anthropology, and postcolonial literature, from several EU countries, to work on a set of focused, comparative studies on urban place, aesthetics and … Continue reading

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