This symposium, organised by MK Gallery in partnership with the Open University gathers artists, curators, academics and community arts organisations together to discuss the unique heritage and present conditions of new towns, how they work with their communities to produce the common and their response to a call for the right to the (new) city. ‘The right to the city’ calls for a collective redress of an uneven distribution of power through the production of a commons. It is the right to create the city as a collective work of art (Lefebvre).