Image: Florian Wehde (2018)
In this session of the 2024–2025 ASCA Cities seminar on ‘Playable Cities’, Paul O’Connor (University of Exeter) will give a guest lecture on “Play through the Grey Prism: Addressing Chromatic Leisure in Cities“ followed by an open discussion. The session takes place on Friday 25 April 2025, 3.00-6pm in room 0.16 (E-lab), Turfdraagsterpad 9, Amsterdam. For more information and registration, please contact Linda Kopitz (l.kopitz@uva.nl).
Readings
Giamarino, Christopher. 2025. “City of Courts: Excavating the Future in West Los Angeles.” Leisure Studies, February, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2025.2455595.
Karas, Abigail. 2025. “‘Grey Is All That Is Depressing and Dull’: The Chromatic Landscapes of Rooftop Exploration in St Petersburg and the ‘Grey Spaces’ of Leisure in the Capitalocene.” Leisure Studies, March, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2025.2481572.
Wiling, Indigo et al. “The Leisure of Grey Spaces, Urban Play and the Chromatic Turn”. Leisure Studies [Forthcoming, Draft Paper]
The readings can also be accessed via this link.
Co-organized by Carolyn Birdsall, Linda Kopitz and Alex Gekker.