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Workshop Programme
iAVU presents a series of photography, film, and sound workshops
Urban Landscape Photography
Introductory Filmmaking for Ethnographers
Street Portraiture
Sound Recording for Interviews
Photography & Intuition
Urban Montage: Photographing the Everyday City
Developing Participatory Methods with Photography: Research, Design and Practice
Booking information and further details can be found on the Workshops page
International Urban Photography Summer School
19-31 August, 2013
Designed for photographers, artists and urbanists whose work address notions of urban space and culture, the international Summer School provides a highly intensive two-week practical and theoretical training in key aspects of urban visual practice. The course aims to offer participants a wide range of relevant skills resulting in the production of a photography portfolio drawn from London’s urban environments, combined with a collective final exhibition.
Now in its fifth year, the programme has been developed in collaboration with Urban Encounters (Tate Britain), the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR), Photofusion and the International Association of Visual Urbanists (iAVU). The course is taught by experienced tutors from Goldsmith’s top-ranked Sociology Department and the international MA in Photography and Urban Cultures. The programme draws on the advanced theoretical, research and practical image-making specialisms of key practitioners in the field.
Deadline for applying: June 10
For more information: http://www.gold.ac.uk/cucr/summer-school/
19-31 August, 2013
Designed for photographers, artists and urbanists whose work address notions of urban space and culture, the international Summer School provides a highly intensive two-week practical and theoretical training in key aspects of urban visual practice. The course aims to offer participants a wide range of relevant skills resulting in the production of a photography portfolio drawn from London’s urban environments, combined with a collective final exhibition.
Now in its fifth year, the programme has been developed in collaboration with Urban Encounters (Tate Britain), the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR), Photofusion and the International Association of Visual Urbanists (iAVU). The course is taught by experienced tutors from Goldsmith’s top-ranked Sociology Department and the international MA in Photography and Urban Cultures. The programme draws on the advanced theoretical, research and practical image-making specialisms of key practitioners in the field.
Deadline for applying: June 10
For more information: http://www.gold.ac.uk/cucr/summer-school/
Photograph by Pablo Mollenhauer
Visual Urbanism: Perspectives on Contemporary Research
8 October 2012
British Library Conference Centre
At this first annual conference of the iAVU, scholars from across the humanities and social sciences came together to create a groundbreaking platform from which to discuss contemporary concerns within visual urbanism and to explore the future of this diverse field. An emphasis was placed on innovative research methodologies, focusing on the impact of the visual within current urban scholarly research relating to the arts, humanities and social sciences.