not only the earth we share
Who Makes The City
The Production of Daily Life
Project Information
The City
In Sailortown, grass-roots activism and regeneration takes place alongside the expansion of the harbour estate and large scale, top-down urban planning and development. not only the earth we share is rooted in questions around rights to the city and by, for, and to whom the city acts; and explores the impact of decades of urban planning and development on people, place, and ways of life.
Who Makes the City is part of the not only the earth we share public programme, which is released throughout the run of the exhibition. It is an itinerant resource consisting of short commissioned videos inviting thinkers, activists, and practitioners of the urban condition to explore a central theme of the exhibition: who makes the city?
not only the earth we share platforms the first iteration of this project with videos introducing the work of leading academics, writers and thinkers Samuel Stein, Brenna Bhandar and Daniel Renwick, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, and Anna Minton and Henrietta Williams. These speakers will discuss their work, research and thinking on city governance and property development; the relationships between property law and colonialism; rights to the city; solidarity, security and freedom; and environmental justice.
Samuel Stein
Samuel Stein is a policy analyst and a writer living and working in New York City. His work focuses on the politics of urban planning, with an emphasis on housing, labour, real estate, and gentrification in New York City. In 2019, Verso published his first book, Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State. He is a member of the steering committee for the Planners Network, the organization of progressive planning.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. His theoretical work draws liberally from the Black radical tradition, contemporary social science, and histories of activism and activist thinkers. His public philosophy, including articles exploring intersections of climate justice and colonialism, has appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Republic, The Nation, Foreign Affairs, The Philosopher, Aeon, and Boston Review. His book Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) is forthcoming from Haymarket.
Anna Minton
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Henrietta Williams
Anna Minton is a writer and journalist and author of Big Capital: Who is London for? (Penguin 2017) and Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the 21st Century City (Penguin 2009/12). She is a regular contributor to the Guardian and Reader in Architecture at the University of East London where she is Programme Leader of the MRes Architecture: Reading the Neoliberal City.
Henrietta Williams is an artist and urban researcher. Her practice explores urbanist theories; particularly considering ideas around fortress urbanism, security, and surveillance. She is a Lecturer (teaching) at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, and tutors across a number of programs with a particular focus on critical film making methodologies.
Agustina Martire, Mal O’Hara, & Mark Hackett
In conversation at the Black Box, Belfast, July 03 2022.
Agustina, Mal, and Mark speak on the specific conditions of urban planning in Belfast Northern Ireland through their research and histories with Sailortown, following a screening of ‘not only the earth we share’ by Sol Archer in the Docs Ireland Film Festival.
Agustina Martire is an urbanist and architect from Argentina, and senior lecturer in Architecture at Queen's University Belfast specialised in the study of everyday streets, their fabric, histories and experiences.
Mal O’Hara is a Northern Irish politician who has been the Leader of the Green Party Northern Ireland since August 2022, and was Deputy Leader of the Green Party from 2019 to 2022. Mals parents were both born, raised, and employed in Sailortown before its destruction, and have been key figures in the decades long struggle to bring housing back into the area, and to protect the Sailortown community identity. Mal O'Hara has been a prominent campaigner for clean air, rent controls and climate action.
Mark Hackett is an architect and urban critic, who has been active in community organisation for progressive development in Belfast throughout his career, Marks architectural projects can be seen at https://hackettarchitects.com/
This process involved the documentation of oral histories, with a particular focus on historical conditions of labour in the Docks, seafaring, and the now long-gone mills and factories to which Sailortown provided generations of workers.