Transformations

Elizabeth M. Grierson is professor of art and philosophy at RMIT University, Australia, and editor of the academic journal ACCESS: Critical Perspectives on Communications, Cultural & Policy Studies. She is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the United Kingdom and an adjunct professor at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. She is also an Australian Legal Practitioner, Barrister, and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.

• Section IMapped City Reading the Mapped City William Cartwright Carto-City Revisited: Unmapping urbaness Maggie McCormick Sensing Sydney: An experiment in public art of the smart eco-city Jodi Newcombe Section IIContested City Travels and Tapestries: Possibilities for creative exchange in Melbourne and Phnom PenhClare McCracken and Roger Nelson Art as EnterpriseGrace McQuilten Recipe for Homefullness Keely Macarow Interrogating Space: The 'Urban Laboratory'Fiona Hillary and Geoff Hogg Section IIIPedagogical City Writing transparadiso: Across and beside Jane Rendell Raising Alterity: Working towards a just city Elizabeth M. Grierson Fragments, Lyotard and Earthquakes: A mosaic of memory and broken piecesKirsten Locke and Sarah Yates Section IVTemporal City Feature 13: Suburban 'Terrain Vague'Anthony McInneny Beyond the Tarmac: Temporality and the roadside art of Melbourne Ashley Perry Walking the Post-Quake City: (Re)making the place in Ōtautahi ChristchurchBarbara Garrie Section VCreative City Listening to the City Kristen Sharp Applying the Creative City: Curating art in urban spacesTammy Wong Hulbert The Poetic City: Old songs left beneath the archesNicholas Lyon Gresson

'This wide-ranging collection of essays is the fruit of a symposium held at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, in 2014. Artists, media professionals, and specialists in public policy, law, business, science, cartography, geography, and many other fields convened to ask: How can we understand the contemporary city “through an aesthetic lens—and what possibilities exist for transformative action?” Topics range from art projects intended to revitalize city neighborhoods to artistic interventions in the justice system to artists as recorders and archivists of urban realities.'