This symposium is a public launch of the seven-month programme of Open Set titled 'Fluid Rhythms'. It aims to explore the potential of rhythm as a lens through which we look at the complex urban fabric — the tunings and frictions between multiple elements of a city. http://openset.nl/symposiums.php
Noam Toran presents a short history of how popular narrative forms—from supernatural fiction to the western, from sci-fi to fantasy—have been used as sites of resistance.