How can a hybrid approach of using archives, exhibitions, art and an active engagement with communities help us to better understand, engage and query the people, and notion, of urban publics? The articles collected here pose a series of questions about the ways in which we define the public, to whom public space belongs, and the experience of making art for the public. They explore the multiple ways that ideas of “the public”, “art”, and “community” intersect in the urban sphere, and take a critical approach to consider the multiple definitions of these terms.

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