{"id":249,"date":"2011-09-29T17:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T21:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenlivinghistory.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:13:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:13:19","slug":"2011-open-call-for-entries-on-urban-explorations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2011\/2011-open-call-for-entries-on-urban-explorations\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Open Call for Entries on Urban Explorations"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The notion of urban exploration usually entails this sense of off-limits, abandoned, forgotten and neglected places. However, these places, as\u00a0Josh Clark\u00a0writes, were once \u201ccreated with people in mind; they\u2019re constructed to serve some function that benefits us. But [once] abandoned, these sites cease to have any sort of purpose. By gazing upon these structures as art\u00a0or historical monuments, urban explorers give them a new purpose.\u201d Hence, our call invites you to leave your \u201cnormal\u201d world, venture and wonder through less usual paths. Please share with us your stories of encountering, examining, infiltrating, appropriating the normally unseen or off-limits parts of the urban areas around you. Imagine and\u00a0image\u00a0for us what you encounter and what there was once to be seen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/diversityinplace.org\/2011\/09\/24\/915\/\">2011 Open call for entries on URBAN EXPLORATIONS \u00ab Diversity in Place Film Project Initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/diversityinplace.org\/2011\/09\/24\/915\/\"><img src='http:\/\/greenlivinghistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/screen-shot-2011-09-24-at-3-07-54-pm.png' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2011\/2011-open-call-for-entries-on-urban-explorations\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to 2011 Open Call for Entries on Urban Explorations\"><p>The notion of urban exploration usually entails this sense of off-limits, abandoned, forgotten and neglected places. However, these places, as\u00a0Josh Clark\u00a0writes, were once \u201ccreated with people in mind; they\u2019re constructed to serve some function that benefits us. But [once] abandoned, these sites cease to have any sort of purpose. By gazing upon these structures as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62],"tags":[8,121,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75788,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/75788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}