VACANT GROUND RESEARCH TRACK
The vacant ground research track encompasses offline and online studies of two urban areas deemed unproductive. These sites exist on the margin of economic, social and cultural circuits of urban life, where capitalistic fictions can be studied negatively. What can be found where real estate projects and ecological management momentarily fail? Because of their ephemeral nature, these spaces create challenges in documentation and access. As such, they also require flexible ways of approaching archiving and narrative making to preserve the traces of the communities that shape them (weeds, squatters and passersby, construction workers etc). The studies in this track approach the inevitable change and disappearance of these sites with different gathering techniques, temporal span and personal perspectives.