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SUMMARY:Exhibition: Alternative City Hall, Exeter
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DESCRIPTION:2nd- 6th June, Old St Leonard’s Hall, Exeter
Urban development is usually driven by public and private stakeholders with
their own agendas, constraints and priorities. Do they mirror the interests
and needs of the people who live, work, act and play in a place? Who
decides what public space is for and how it should be designed and
experienced? Do we all feel that our voices are heard and the city is ours
to inhabit and shape?
Between 2-4 June, the mobile “Alternative City Hall” installation will
be roaming the streets of Exeter.
Run by pan-European artist collective Re:claim, it is structured around
four departments:
The Department for Investigating City Errors by Alicja Nowicz [PL]
assumes that a mistake is never a neutral fact. A mistake is a diagnosis -
and every diagnosis presupposes a norm. The question is therefore not
simply: What is wrong here? The real question is: According to whom?
Compared to what imaginary? Who gets to define correctness? The activities
carried out within this office encourage participants to express feelings
and contradictions that do not fit within technocratic frameworks.
The Department for Dreams of the City's Future by Agnieszka Wolodzko [PL]
helps residents unleash their unconscious dreams and collective
imagination, often suppressed and blocked by a purely utilitarian and
functional understanding of space. The Department seeks answers to
questions such as: What opportunities does open public space offer? What is
the relationship between the body and space? Where is the limit of
individual freedom in public space? What scope is there for residents to
express their creativity in urban spaces? 
The Department for Vital Statistics by Citizen Architects [UK]
allows residents to register new arrivals and exits from to the city: the
beings, places, objects and ideas that have entered or have been lost to
the city. Residents can also register amalgamations, unions, mergers or
cahoots. The department’s on-site celebrant helps immortalise the
registrations through photographs. 
Department for Ongoing Frictions and Conversations by Sigrids Stue - Art
Platform [DK]
recognises that conversations about the past, present and future of our
cities are never ending and that simple truths rarely exist. Residents are
invited to assist with maintenance works to the Re:claim collective’s
manifesto for the just city by editing it in line with their own opinions.
They can also contribute to the library of placards to express strongly
held views, or take a placard from the collection for a march around the
city.
Office architecture design: Carl Fraser / Countermapping [UK].
On Friday 5 June at 11:00-13:00 artists’ workshop “Re:claim and Guests.
Public Space as a Challenge” will be held at Old St Leonard’s Hall,
Roberts Rd, EX2 4HD. This event will be filled with presentations of
various projects from the area of engaged art, and engaged design.
Then on Saturday 6 June, the Alternative City Hall pops up at Old St
Leonard’s Hall for a highly unofficial forum for opinions, debates, and
delightful chaos. Expect the Alternative Mayor’s Address, reports of the
departments’ findings and a chance to make your own report to the
Alternative City Hall. 
Reserve a FREE spot here: 
ART: Alternative City Hall - Exeter Tickets, Saturday 6 June  •  6 PM - 9
PM | Eventbrite
Exhibition Webpage: 
OSLH - Alternative City Hall Exeter
Who is behind the Alternative City Hall? 
Re:claim is a long-term international network of artists, architects and
interdisciplinary organisations with shared perspective on urban justice.
Our aim is to challenge the norms implicitly written in the urban fabric
that excludes segments of the population and control the way we navigate,
experience and use public spaces. We work to reclaim our right to the city
through different forms of resistance, such as local interventions in the
city environment, protests or playful acts of re-appropriation. The network
is a platform for collaboration, research, production and distribution of
knowledge. 
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