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Dionne Brand

who makes the city




Collaboration with Household CIC and Alissa Kleist

Website, commissioning and discursive platform.

Who Makes The City is a peripatetic talks platform, initiated with Alissa Kleist of Household CIC during the exhibition of not only the earth we share. It is an episodic format, launched in 2022, which features commissioned video talks from international thinkers on urban conditions, followed by in-situ conversations in different cities with local representatives from political, activist, and urbanism backgrounds.

Episode 01 is focussed on Belfast, with speakers including Brenna Bhandar and Daniel Renwick, Anna Minton and Henrietta Williams, Olufemi O Taiwo, and Samuel Stein. At Docs Ireland we held an in-situ conversation featuring, Malachai O’hara (Green Party Northern Ireland Leader), Mark Hackett (architect and housing rights advocate), and Agustina Martire (Professor of Architecture at Queens University, Belfast), on the political and historical conditions of planning in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and their readings of the ongoing struggle for housing justice in Belfast.

website at

https://who-makes-the-city.net