Claudia Seldin
Biographic Data
| ID | 250554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudia Seldin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudia |
| FAMILY NAME | Seldin |
| SIGNATURE | SELDIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technische Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4542-0450 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Artists and urban artwashing in 2020s Berlin
In recent years, real estate companies in Berlin (Germany) have often sponsored short-term art events at the sites of their future developments, prior to or during their construction. This phenomenon, herein referred to as urban artwashing, is used in their PR campaigns to help revert their vilified image as a driver of the local housing crisis while also revamping the image of the land to instigate pioneer gentrification. Because this type of ar…
Temporary Artwashing at the Construction Site
Since the 1980s and 1990s, art has played a pivotal role in urban planning, especially when instrumentalized within large‐scale urban renewal operations. This instrumentalization has been broadly linked to public policy schemes and public–private partnerships, often involving the implementation of spectacular cultural centers positioned as flagships for revamping entire urban brands. While large‐scale arts‐led urban planning still endures, today …
(In)Subordinate Planning
The city of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) has various socially and historically marginalized areas, such as peripheral neighborhoods and favelas, which lack traditional leisure and cultural spaces. These areas are often seen as subaltern, neglected by the state, and not sufficiently contemplated in public policies. Consequently, local inhabitants frequently have to come up with improvised solutions, using their own resources to design and build sociocu…
Contested and Contesting
‘Contestation’ is a term often used to describe various kinds of conflict in 21st-Century urban areas. Yet Urban planning literaturelacks a cultural approach to such resistance — an oversight that this paper seeks to redress. We argue that the concept of‘contested territories of culture’ plays a key role in the informal construction of urban areas, highlighting them as heterogeneousdrivers of ‘contestation’ and the fight for rights in Latin Ameri…
Peripheral creativity
The article focuses on temporary and improvised cultural spaces in marginalized neighbourhoods of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They are presented here as alternatives to current urban and cultural policies, often based on international ‘best practices’ models with exclusionary and segregating consequences. It begins with a brief overview into North American and Western European cultural planning policies. It then analyses the instability of cultural p…
The Voices of Berlin
The city of Berlin is often advertised as one of the most prominent creative cities today. In the past two decades, its marketing agencies have constructed a carefully crafted urban image designed to attract the young, mobile and creative workers that move the contemporary economy. To do that, they rely on cultural temporary uses that enable selected urban spaces to have the desired 'cool' and authentic ambiance that distinguishes this city from …
From the precarious to the hybrid
Práticas culturais como insurgências urbanas
Este artigo aborda o tema da “insurgência” através da análise de práticas culturais que emergem como resistências aos crescentes processos de “culturalização” do espaço urbano. Partindo do princípio de que a criação e a venda de imagens de cidade dominam o campo do Planejamento Urbano contemporâneo, propomos investigar alguns casos que atuem contra essa tendência, com foco no recorte espacial de Berlim. Apresentamos um breve histórico das insurgê…
Peripheral creativity
The article focuses on temporary and improvised cultural spaces in marginalized neighbourhoods of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They are presented here as alternatives to current urban and cultural policies, often based on international ‘best practices’ models with exclusionary and segregating consequences. It begins with a brief overview into North American and Western European cultural planning policies. It then analyses the instability of cultural p…
Práticas culturais como insurgências urbanas
Este artigo aborda o tema da “insurgência” através da análise de práticas culturais que emergem como resistências aos crescentes processos de “culturalização” do espaço urbano. Partindo do princípio de que a criação e a venda de imagens de cidade dominam o campo do Planejamento Urbano contemporâneo, propomos investigar alguns casos que atuem contra essa tendência, com foco no recorte espacial de Berlim. Apresentamos um breve histórico das insurgê…
From the precarious to the hybrid
Peripheral creativity
The article focuses on temporary and improvised cultural spaces in marginalized neighbourhoods of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They are presented here as alternatives to current urban and cultural policies, often based on international ‘best practices’ models with exclusionary and segregating consequences. It begins with a brief overview into North American and Western European cultural planning policies. It then analyses the instability of cultural p…
The Voices of Berlin
The city of Berlin is often advertised as one of the most prominent creative cities today. In the past two decades, its marketing agencies have constructed a carefully crafted urban image designed to attract the young, mobile and creative workers that move the contemporary economy. To do that, they rely on cultural temporary uses that enable selected urban spaces to have the desired 'cool' and authentic ambiance that distinguishes this city from …
Contested and Contesting
‘Contestation’ is a term often used to describe various kinds of conflict in 21st-Century urban areas. Yet Urban planning literaturelacks a cultural approach to such resistance — an oversight that this paper seeks to redress. We argue that the concept of‘contested territories of culture’ plays a key role in the informal construction of urban areas, highlighting them as heterogeneousdrivers of ‘contestation’ and the fight for rights in Latin Ameri…
(In)Subordinate Planning
The city of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) has various socially and historically marginalized areas, such as peripheral neighborhoods and favelas, which lack traditional leisure and cultural spaces. These areas are often seen as subaltern, neglected by the state, and not sufficiently contemplated in public policies. Consequently, local inhabitants frequently have to come up with improvised solutions, using their own resources to design and build sociocu…
Temporary Artwashing at the Construction Site
Since the 1980s and 1990s, art has played a pivotal role in urban planning, especially when instrumentalized within large‐scale urban renewal operations. This instrumentalization has been broadly linked to public policy schemes and public–private partnerships, often involving the implementation of spectacular cultural centers positioned as flagships for revamping entire urban brands. While large‐scale arts‐led urban planning still endures, today …
Artists and urban artwashing in 2020s Berlin
In recent years, real estate companies in Berlin (Germany) have often sponsored short-term art events at the sites of their future developments, prior to or during their construction. This phenomenon, herein referred to as urban artwashing, is used in their PR campaigns to help revert their vilified image as a driver of the local housing crisis while also revamping the image of the land to instigate pioneer gentrification. Because this type of ar…
Cultural Industries and Urban Development (6 works) · Public Spaces through Art (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Architecture (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 works) · Civil engineering (2 works) · Creativity (2 works)