What does gentrification look like and how we are involved? As cultural producers, we need to understand the space we take up and begin to have conversations about how our neighbourhood is changing. We should be speaking up against these economic developments that are normalized as part of the landscape. Firstly, we are on stolen land, and everything that we create should be in question, and secondly we need to be cautious of the space we take up and whose voices are being heard. It is possible to create cities based on social justice, compassion, inclusion and diversity.
In this show we speak to poet Samantha Thornhill and scholar Matthew Durington about the complex relationships gentrification contributes to.