On #WorldPoetryDay , we're delighted to announce our latest And Towns project--

| Poetry, Policy and Place |

This project seeks to activate the resistant purposelessness of poetry for policymaking and place-based research.

Read our introduction here:
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For Cinema Year Zero, I went to Warsaw--

Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
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Thanks to the And Towns team Kenneth Gibb and everyone who came along today and engaged with Pride in Place. The Brief can be found ⬇️ and the animation and poem can be found here: andtowns.co.uk/how-proud

✍️What does it mean to say that literature and literary studies have purpose?

Read about the extremely exciting new project from the team behind And Towns (@nicky_marsh Joseph Owen) ⤵️

University of Southampton English at Soton Public Policy|Southampton (PPS) School of Humanities at University of Southampton

The photogénie editorial board is proud to present our 20th issue, A Mobile Medium? Feat. 6 essays on movement as understood in and through cinema, authored by Arta Gabriel Linhares Falcão Dora Leu roberta Santa Nibedita & Sabahat Ali Wani.
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Interesting read by Joseph Owen on whether TV dramas should influence policy: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial… #MrBatesvsThePostOffice

Get your ticket for Thursday's series launch from And Towns!

On International Women's Day, our brilliant colleagues Em Baker, Toby Litt and Kevin Brazil gave a series of public talks in Mayflower Studios.

Each interrogated the role of gender, relationships and collaboration in art, literature and life...

This is such a brilliant piece as ever by Joseph Owen really enjoyed putting it together for the issue

At the Five Flavours Asian film festival in Warsaw each film I (Joseph Owen ) see feels profoundly attentive to the relationship between embodied movement and physical space. Each shades the connections between bodies and buildings.
From CYZ #16: VISCERA
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Read our new Feeling Towns policy brief!

~ 'Pride in place' beyond the metrics ~

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2/2. 🏘️We are discussing the brief and its implications for housing policy in a webinar on Thursday 14th March with the And Towns team and CaCHE Kenneth Gibb.

Sign up ⬇️

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1/2. 🌞With Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities we have published the first of our Arts and Humanities Research Council Place Programme Policy Briefs about the significance of understanding 'pride in place' in shaping & evaluating Levelling Up policy.

Read/download here:

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Blaise First up, Joseph Owen (@joseph_owen_) recounts his experiences at a film festival in Warsaw, in which a new city provides room for thought about how man-made infrastructures impinge on the individual; between building and body.
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👀 💭 📣 How we can go beyond metrics when considering Pride in Place? Join the brilliant And Towns team in conversation with Kenneth Gibb CaCHE in the 1st event from Arts and Humanities Research Council Place Programme Policy Brief series

14 March:12:30-1:30

Sign up: ⬇️

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Our new think-piece on lived experience and decision-making for Local Government Association (LGA) is also here!

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Read the think piece from Neighbouring Data team Nicky Marsh Daniel Ashton Joseph Owen: 'Lived experience and decision-making: an applied approach to using, connecting and representing qualitative evidence'

And Towns Public Policy|Southampton (PPS) Winchester School of Art
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The TV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office made a huge splash, even influencing the judicial process.

In a new blog, Joseph Owen questions whether fictionalized narratives should be influencing policy and democracy

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Joseph Owen #MrBatesVsThePostOffice

AHRC Place Programme Policy Brief Series: Pride in Place Beyond the Metrics 🏘️

A policy webinar with new insights from And Towns and Kenneth Gibb about the significance of understanding pride in shaping and evaluating housing policy

14th March, 12.30pm

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'monks appearing from behind walls, assassins backflipping over ledges, spies tip-tapping across porches, and intended victims standing alone, prey to others, idling in passages and along walkways.' [Joseph Owen, just today!]
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