Right to the City: Art and the Production of Space

Name: Right to the City: Art and the Production of Space
Start: 2026-03-12T18:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-12T20:30:00+00:00
Location: 13 Perth Road, DD1 4HT Dundee, United Kingdom

Schedule

Thu Mar 12 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

13 Perth Road, DD1 4HT Dundee, United Kingdom | Dundee, SC

Round Table conversation
Speakers: Tiffany Kaewen Dang, Charles Mudede, and Bahar Noorizadeh
Chaired by: Angela Dimitrakaki
Bringing together artists, researchers and writers involved in projects of spatial justice, this roundtable examines how capital remains the primary force in shaping urban space today and asks if art can be a catalyst for social resistance. As a point of departure, the discussion will situate such questions in relation to the intellectual and civic legacies of the Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith and urban planner Patrick Geddes, seeking to reflect on and problematise their influence as a framework for rethinking contemporary urban life and its challenges.
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Co-curated with Bahar Noorizadeh, part of Weird Economies x Scotland programmed alongside Noorizadeh's exhibition at Cooper Gallery, The Debtor's Portal.
Tickets
Event is free, open to all.
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Speakers' Biographies
Tiffany Kaewen Dang is a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the University of Edinburgh. Her research lies at the intersection of landscape studies, posthumanism, urban theory, settler colonialism, and decoloniality. Broadly speaking, her research is focused on the settler colonial geographies of Canada (and the Americas, to a certain extent). Her current research explores how other-than-human landscape systems and infrastructural systems can interact in generative ways. Tiffany holds a PhD in geography from the University of Cambridge, an MLA from Harvard University, and a BA from the University of Toronto.
Angela Dimitrakaki is a writer and Prof of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Edinburgh. Working across Marxism and feminism, in 2025 she published Feminism. Art. Capitalism. (Pluto Press), partly an investigation into capital's complex intellectual hegemony, and Depression Era: A Collective Lens in the Age of Crisis (co-edited with A. Strecker, K8), which documents a Southern European photography collective's interventions in the public sphere. She was recently awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to explore how the idea of 'family' has informed histories of art and photography since the postwar years.
Charles Tonderai Mudede is a Zimbabwean-born American cultural critic, filmmaker, college lecturer, and writer. He is the Senior Staff Writer of the Stranger, a lecturer at Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University, and has collaborated with the director Robinson Devor on three films, two of which Police Beat and Zoo, premiered at Sundance, and one of which, Zoo, screened at Cannes, and the most recent of which, Suburban Fury, premiered at New York Film Festival. (Police Beat is now part of MOMA’s permanent collection.) Mudede, whose essays regularly appear in e-Flux and Tank Magazine, is also the director of Thin Skin (2023).
Bahar Noorizadeh’s work looks at the relationship between art and capitalism, and their entangled moral, social and organisational technologies. In her practice as an artist, theorist and filmmaker, she examines the conflictual and contradictory notions of imagination and speculation as they collapse into one another. Her research investigates the histories and the futures of economics, from cybernetic socialism to neoliberal finance, and activist strategies against the financialization of life and the living space, asking what redistributive historical justice might look like for the present.
Noorizadeh is the founder and organiser of Weird Economies, a multi-authored platform dedicated to radical economic imaginaries. Her work has appeared at the Guggenheim Museum NYC (2024), Taipei Biennial (2023), Venice Architecture Biennial (2021), Transmediale Festival (2020, 2022), Tate Modern Artists’ Cinema Program (2018), and Geneva Biennale of Moving Images (2018) among others. She is the co-editor of the e-flux special issue on Iran (May 2024) and has contributed essays to e-flux Architecture, Journal of Visual Culture, and Sternberg Press, and anthologies by Duke University Press and MIT Press. Noorizadeh completed a PhD in Art at Goldsmiths, University of London and is currently teaching in MA Geo-Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven.
Access
Cooper Gallery is located to the right side of the DJCAD buildings on Perth Road. The entrance is via double doors which face onto a car park.
The gallery is on two floors. First floor has ramped access and disabled toilet.
Second floor is accessible via lift and for wheelchair access via a stairclimber. The exhibition and performance is on both the first and second floor of the gallery.
Please email in advance if you require lift or stairclimber access.
First floor is also accessible via 24 steps. Two flights of 12 steps with handrails are separated by a landing.
Exhibition videos are subtitled and captioned in English. Seating is provided and/or additional seating available, please ask an invigilator.
For all enquiries please email: [email protected]
Toilets
The ground floor has a wheelchair accessible toilet. The toilet is gender neutral.
Interpretation
Large print versions of the exhibition information handout are available, please ask our Guides. If you require alternative formats for material in exhibitions please email or ask our Guides.
Image Credit
Bahar Noorizadeh, The Red City of the Planet of Capitalism, 2021 (Still)
Courtesy of the artist

Funding support
The exhibition is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland and with the kind support of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Centenary Trust. The Otolith Collective is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.