Stockholm artists, architects, political scientists and filmmakers have organized a "storytelling" project called "Informal Cities: The Stockholm Urban Think Tank," September 6-8, 2008. The exhibition and symposium focuses on the fastest expanding city structures in the world: areas with no city planning or communal infrastructure. "The formal city might have something to learn from the slum, where people have started to organize themselves both in local networks and internationally," say the 16 organizers, postgraduate students at Stockholm's Royal University College of Fine Arts. They have spent three years studying urbanization, informal living and socioeconomic structures with inhabitants of Rio, Sao Paulo, Durban, Johannesburg, Mumbai, Manila, Nairobi, Lilongwe and Blantyre. The exhibition includes films, sound, drawings, models and other documentation from the sites. Twenty guests from communities whose voices are rarely heard will talk about their work and lives. [LINK]