Festival of Ideas: Whose Streets? Mapping Places, Mapping Protests

This event will focus on the ways in which the People of Brighton and Hove have responded to threats from the far right in the past and imagine the ways in which communities can come together to oppose the Far Right in the future. Given the rising tide of populism in the UK, Europe and America the need to understand these dynamics has seldom been more pressing. 

Over the festival period we will crowd source the protest memories of those responding to protest/violence from the far right in the summer of 2024. Maps of Brighton and Hove will be made by activists and protesters in a daytime workshop. Memories and images pulled in through social media will then be laid over the maps creating a powerful visualisation of the city’s resistance. During the evening event the maps will be displayed, and speakers will reflect on the ways in which Brighton and Hove came together in response to the threat of  far-right violence.  

After the event the audience will be invited to add further protest memories to the maps extending our understanding of how anti–fascist protest has occupied public space over time in Brighton and Hove.