Moving Marketplaces closing webinar recording is now available

On 20 May 2022 the MMP research team held their second webinar, which was focused on sharing the research outcomes of the project.

The findings were presented through two collective interviews, the launching of the Marketplaces: Movements, Representations and Practices book by its editors, Ceren Sezer and Rianne van Melik, and three snap insights in different formats. In the first one, Maria Lindmäe shared some of her insights of how market traders’ pitching can add affect and creativity to marketplaces that are increasingly submitted to restrictive regulations and dominant norms of ‘civic’ behavior. In the second session of snap insights Joanna Menet and Emil van Eck showed the timelapse videos that they had conducted in a Swiss and a Dutch marketplace, accompanying the videos with their thoughts on how the mobility and rhythmicity of traders shapes the production of markets as public space. In the final round of short insights, Gunvor Jónsson introduced the British team’s collaboration with Walthahamstow market’s photographers with whom a photo exhibition will be held at the end of June 2022. 

At the end of the webinar we also discussed the possible future(s) of marketplaces, taking into account aspects such as the demographic changes, Covid-19 crisis and online sales which are all posing challenges to traders’ livelihoods.

If you missed our live session, you can see the full recording on Youtube.