In recent years, much has made about the opposition between urban
strategies and urban tactics. One is supposedly rooted in technocratic
control of the city by a planning elite, the other is the response of
artists and activists determined to reclaim the right to an environment
generated by, and for, citizens themselves. Rebar has explored this
territory through tactical urban interventions -- both sactioned and
unsanctioned -- but is also interested in going beyond the simple
opposition between strategy and tactic. How can people both inside and
outside positions of power help the city benefit from the possibilities
that urban art, tactical interventions, and other creative actions
produce? Rebar founder and principal Blaine Merker will talk about their
projects and others that are gaining new ground in the ongoing fight
for the right to the city.

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