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The Social City: Patterns of Istanbul & Stockholm workshops

A dialogue & workshop format for reflecting and acting on urban landscapes through art & design Devoted to explore the dynamics of visual culture and the social fabric of everyday, Sweden based Rebecca Ahlstedt, artist, curator & Designer MFA and Erica Jacobson, Illustrator & Graphic Designer MFA offers a format to artistically and critically work on contemporary issues in cities, with artist colleagues & students in international contexts. Throughout history, the city and its visual culture and skyline have been used for communicating, sharing, arguing and negotiating ideas about us as individuals and as a collective. This also impacts how we design our daily life - public spaces, environments, objects, food, fashion etc. Visual culture both mirrors the ideals and prevailing norms of the times and can be used to rethink practices and ideals within a society, which is the starting point for the artistic platform The Social City.  1. step  Patterns of...