The document outlines a global development institute lecture series co-hosted by the Manchester Urban Institute featuring presentations from various artists and scholars. Key topics include collective operations in urban settings, the nature of distinctions and generic forms, and the theme of inequality and development. The series took place on November 29, highlighting the relevance of collective action in addressing urban challenges.

1. Global Development Institute Lecture Series
co-hosted by Manchester Urban Institute
#GDILecture
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@UoMUrban

2. Julie Mehretu
An Urban Tissue of Endurance: collective
operations in the looming darkness

3. Kara Walker

10. Kimberly M. Becoat

13. Compression: neither the
powerful or the weak; neither
one thing or another, but a
withdrawal from distinction.
The generic is a possibility in
every imaginable form. It is
never in a direct relationship
with anything else. It declines
both affinity and distinction. As
such it cannot affix itself to
particular urban forms through
direct causality, reciprocity and
exchange. Irreducible to any
particular instrumentality.
It always shows up in “strange”
ways, turns the expected into
something recognizable but
always “off”, weird.

22. Jorge Tacla

40. Kalibata City
Photos: Rika Febriyani

64. Global Development Institute Lecture Series
co-hosted by Manchester Urban Institute
#GDILecture
@GlobalDevInst
@UoMUrban

65. The Global Development Institute
Lecture Series
Wednesday 29 November
5.00-6.30pm
Theatre A, Roscoe Building
Collective action, inequality
and development
Prof William Ferguson
Grinnell College