MUST WE BURN CROYDON?

the art of (sub)urban existence CROYDON REMIXED after the modernist ruins: an experiment in re-imagining urban everyday (multi)culture through the archival digital mash-up of South London's outercity as spectre of the future-yet-to-come @burncroydon [email protected]

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(via Pared Back / Suburban Infinite by Kashif Sharma-Patel)

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Turf is Croydon’s homegrown art space

Founded in 2013 by Croydon locals, Turf Projects is Croydon’s homegrown artist space and the first entirely artist-run contemporary art space in the borough. Based in Croydon’s Whitgift Shopping Centre, we; 🌱 Put on free exhibitions, showcasing local & national artists. 🌱 Run free creative workshops, open to all, including skills workshops for artists, Family Art Fun Days & workshops with local schools. 🌱 Provide affordable artist studios. 🌱 Host two collectives of local artists; MOSS (a collective of local learning disabled artists) and Art Press (a collective of Croydon artists aged 13-18). 🌱 Host a community project space which is free to use by Croydon locals. 🌱 Run a support & residency programme for Croydon School of Art & BRIT school students, family workshops, projects with local schools & more. 🌱 Support artists with paid opportunities via exhibitions, workshops and commissions, with a principle that artists should be fairly paid for their work and time. Since 2013 Turf has supported the work of over 500 artists! Turf is a registered charity (#1160527), and currently exists across two meanwhile-use retail units. A second site at Keeley Road, ‘Little Turf’, is our original home which now houses production space for artists & makers. You can hire that for commercial productions, too! For more info or to get involved, please email us at [email protected]

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Lo! A Croydon Digest

From February to June 2013 The Architecture Foundation's education programme investigated Croydon. The group studied England’s Alphaville and i...

http://viscom.croydon.ac.uk/?/course-projects/Lo!-A-Croydon-Digest/

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Owen Haterley - On Croydon

Owen Haterley  “This place has suffered from over a century of non-planning, and the result is chaos – dereliction next to new build, dramatically crammed and then almost criminally low-density. It’s full of surprises for the walker, but it’s a disastrous way to run a city, as the horrendous traffic, or the decidedly fractious tenor of public interaction, makes very clear. But what does it say about South-East, suburban England, the area that lords it over the rest of the country? This place is, in theory, a major centre of our most powerful, most wealthy, most leafy area. You’d never guess, though, as it feels like another Britain entirely - a poor but multiracial, intriguing but miserable place which could really do with social planning and social housing, rather than more speculation...” http://urbantrawl.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Croydon

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We take a retrospective look back at Croydon’s biggest ever art launch and exhibition. The Living Free Art Collective held their debut exhibition from the 6th of October to the 1st of November, with the launch party on the 7th of October. See more at: http://www.hark1karan.com/retrospective-croydons-biggest-ever-art-launch-living-free-art-collective/#sthash.VP9LFu6g.dpuf

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croydon-skyline.org/tde_cms/database/userfiles/file/projectionevents.pdf

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Paolo Scianna: Kingston University

Paolo Scianna's new public institute for Croydon explores what the city might learn from archetypal forms and spaces.

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No Sleep Till Croydon: The Roots of Dubstep

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So... fucking Croydon

Les Back

http://web.archive.org/web/20060417083446/http://www.skylineprojections.co.uk/lesText.htm

Les Back recalls a quotation from David Bowie, ‘I think it’s the most derogatory thing I can say about somebody or something: ‘God, it’s so fucking Croydon!’”.

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The Safer Croydon Partnership has teamed up with charity Lives not Knives to produce a short video on what young people think of Croydon.

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'The Town that Love Built'

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Croydon's street population - The Croydon Citizen

Robert Ward goes datablogging again, this time crunching the numbers on our borough’s homeless people Those of us of a certain age will remember Ralph McTell, best known for his song ‘Streets of London’. Still performing although now in his seventies, McTell, real name Ralph May, was brought up in Croydon. I remember an interview some years ago in which it was claimed the ... Read More »

At around one in three, Croydon has the highest proportion of black street sleepers in London.

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‘It all comes together in Croydon’

In a piece entitled So… fucking Croydon Les Back recalls a quotation from David Bowie, ‘I think it’s the most derogatory thing I can say about somebody or something: ‘God, it&#821…

New Urban Multicultures: Conviviality and Racism Conference

Goldsmiths, University of London – Tuesday 17th May, 2016 – #numulticultures