Danny Dorling: Slowdown: Whose freedom? Vienna Secession, 30:9:2019.

A public lecture in the series 'Wessen Freiheit' (Whose freedom). A short talk by Danny Dorling on Slowdown and what the future may bring given the spatial dimension of the distribution of property and resources, followed by a debate with Gabu Heindl (the Vienna-based architect and planner) and with the audience. Curated by the Association of Visual Artists at Vienna Secession, Friedrichstraße 12, A-1010 Wien, Austria, 30th September 2019. [they were talking about the future just as world population rose form 7.6 to 7.7 billion]. Title and abstract follow:
Slowdown: Whose freedom?
Is there always deep poverty near to great riches, but not necessarily such widespread poverty in those places where a small group of people are not extremely rich? What role do housing markets and policies play? Why do so many of our maps of human society appear fractal in their nature? And what happens when we start to look for social patterns in time as well as space? In what ways does history repeat? These are just a few of the questions that Danny Dorling raises in this third event of the secession’s series Wessen Freiheit?. In conversation with the Viennese architect and urbanist Gabu Heindl, possible synergies and contradictions of critical geography and approaches to radical democracy are brought into focus.