NEWS & EVENTS
URBAN EARTH features in the current edition of SUSOLOGY magazine. A film about the project is following shortly.
If you're going to Glastonbury check out VJ Freedom in the Silent Disco who will be using some of URBAN EARTH in his visuals.
You can now see all of URBAN EARTH: MEXICO CITY as individual images on Flickr.
JOIN IN
COLLABORATE
We will be doing a walks across the British cities of Sheffield, Cardiff and Birmingham in 2009. Berlin may also be on the cards. If you are interested in joining in drop Daniel an email, join the ning or the URBAN EARTH Facebook group. If you are planning to do an URBAN EARTH walk across your own urban area get in touch with people on the growing ning and your walk will be posted on this site.
All URBAN EARTH films are under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike licenses... so for most non-commercial uses you are free download them and do what you like (check here to make sure). For any other uses just get in touch. You will find download links on the main page for each show - like this one for Mumbai.
If you do use or create something from URBAN EARTH please do let us know. We are keen to share what you have done on this site.
ABOUT
URBAN EARTH is is a project to (re)present our urban habitat through a series of walks. At its heart URBAN EARTH is a story of adventure. Not the kind of adventure that is untouchable, but one that we can step into as soon as we step out of our front doors. URBAN EARTH is about exploring the spaces in which we live.
Starting and ending in fields, the rules of the URBAN EARTH are to start and end in green countryside. The route is not decided by places of fickle and biased interest, but up hidden ridges of inequality and through the most densley populated and urban of city space(s).
The URBAN EARTH film is based on a series of photographs (one taken every eight paces of the walk) being played back in sequence to reveal the inner workings of the cities. But the walks go further than the photography. In Mexico City and Guadalajara the walks have become a form of activism and dialogue in which participants have challenged some of the greatest social and environmental faced by the urban areas.
URBAN EARTH is not about listening to the stories of others. It is about making your own adventures, learning from them and taking action for a better world. The photography from URBAN EARTH will be made available to schools and universities for free.
PAST EVENTS
URBAN EARTH has featured at the Ecological Urbanism symposium exhibition at Harvard University GSD (2009), the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers conference (2008) and the Geographical Association conference (2009).
LISTEN
Listen to an edition of Here on Earth all about URBAN EARTH here.
URBAN EARTH is...
Daniel - geographer / educator / activist / adventurer
Kay - kindly providing GIS support from the Urban Age offices
MEXICO CITY: Daniel / Anna / Étienne / Marilin and Jesus / Omar / Nicole
LONDON: Daniel / Menah
MUMBAI: Daniel / Dipti / Gita / Navaneet / Sharada and Babu / Maitrayee / Amrita / Sonali / Susbant / Sainath / Manjeet / Rajesh / Asjish / Pritika / Seema
GUADALAJARA: Anna / Étienne / Marilin / Jesus / Omar / Nicole (plus 100 others to be named later)
BRISTOL: Daniel / Menah / Kay / David / Eve / Mauro / Samia / Matt / Ben / Chris / Aled
NEWCASTLE: Daniel / Kye / Larch / Dick
Call Daniel at URBAN EARTH on +44(0)7920 116 748
