Urban Creativity Seminar

Description

How graffiti approached, conquered and abandoned Vilnius: historical and spatial development of unsanctioned inscriptions in the capital city of Lithuania.

Open seminar with Veronika Urbonaite-Barkauskiene, Guest PhD Candidate at the Department of Sociology, Lund University.

On the basis of interviews with first and the second wave graffiti writers from Vilnius, Veronika Urbonaite-Barkauskiene discusses in this seminar the local interpretations of an orthodox graffiti tradition, including the spatial approach and the stylistic conventions. She further addresses the later development of graffiti in 2000-2010, which led to the saturation phase, when unsanctioned inscriptions covered a significant part of central Vilnius. Further, it is discussed how the prevalence of graffiti on the urban landscape induced a strong anti-graffiti campaign in social and traditional media which gradually led to the criminal prosecution of writers, and consequently – radical change in the city's graffiti map over the last decade.

This is the first Urban Creativity Seminar of the spring term of 2020.

Period	2020 Mar 4
Event type	Seminar
Location	Lund, SwedenShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International