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Engaged Urban Pedagogy
Participatory Practices in Planning and Place-Making
A practical handbook for teaching about the built environment.
Engaged Urban Pedagogy presents a participatory approach to teaching about the built environment by exploring twelve examples of real-world engagement in urban planning involving people within, and beyond, the university. Starting with curriculum review, course content is analyzed in light of urban pasts, race, queer identity, lived experiences, and the concerns of urban professionals. Case studies then shift to focus on techniques for participatory critical pedagogy, including expanding the classroom with links to live place-making processes, connections made through digital co-design exercises, and student-led podcasting assignments. Finally, the book turns to activities beyond formal university teaching, such as those where school-age children learn about their own participation in urban processes together alongside university students and researchers. Drawing on foundational works of critical pedagogy, the contributors present a distinctly urban praxis that will help those in universities respond to the built environment challenges of today.
Engaged Urban Pedagogy presents a participatory approach to teaching about the built environment by exploring twelve examples of real-world engagement in urban planning involving people within, and beyond, the university. Starting with curriculum review, course content is analyzed in light of urban pasts, race, queer identity, lived experiences, and the concerns of urban professionals. Case studies then shift to focus on techniques for participatory critical pedagogy, including expanding the classroom with links to live place-making processes, connections made through digital co-design exercises, and student-led podcasting assignments. Finally, the book turns to activities beyond formal university teaching, such as those where school-age children learn about their own participation in urban processes together alongside university students and researchers. Drawing on foundational works of critical pedagogy, the contributors present a distinctly urban praxis that will help those in universities respond to the built environment challenges of today.
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Foreword by Hedley Roberts
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Sensing place, a moment to reflect
Tamara Ashley and Alexis Weedon
Section 1: Case studies of place-making
1. Eastern Angles: A sense of place on stage
Ivan Cutting
2. Lesson drawing and community engagement: The experience of Take A Part in Plymouth
Kim Wide and Rory Shand
3. Raising the Barr
Sanna Wicks
4. Interview with E17 Art Trail directors Laura Kerry and Morag McGuire
Alexis Weedon
Section 2: Models and methods for developing place-making through the arts
5. A model for university–town partnership in the arts: TestBeds
Emma-Rose Payne and Alexis Weedon
6. The Beam archive, Wakefield
Kerry Harker
7. This Is Not My House: Notes on film-making, photography and my father
David Jackson
8. Notions of place in relation to freelance arts careers: A study into the work of independent dancers
Rachel Farrer and Imogen Aujla
Section 3: Multidisciplinary approaches to place and contested identities
9. Performing places: Carnival, culture and the performance of contested national identities
Jonathan Croose
10. A sense of place: From experience to language, from the Polish traveller through a Spanish saint to an adaptation of a Zimbabwean play
Agnieszka Piotrowska
11. The EU migrant: Britain’s sense of place in English newspaper journalism
Paul Rowinski
12. Rethinking the photographic studio as a politicised space
Caroline Molloy
13. Creative routine and dichotomies of space
Philip Mile
14. Doing things differently: Contested identity across Manchester’s arts culture quarters
Peter Atkinson
15. First, second and third: Exploring Soja’s Thirdspace theory in relation to everyday arts and culture for young people
Steph Meskell-Brocken
16. A sense of play: (Re)animating place through recreational distance running
Kieran Holland
17. Shiftless Shuffle from Luton: An interview with Perry Louis
Jane Carr
Afterword by Tamara Ashley and Alexis Weedon
Index
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Foreword by Hedley Roberts
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Sensing place, a moment to reflect
Tamara Ashley and Alexis Weedon
Section 1: Case studies of place-making
1. Eastern Angles: A sense of place on stage
Ivan Cutting
2. Lesson drawing and community engagement: The experience of Take A Part in Plymouth
Kim Wide and Rory Shand
3. Raising the Barr
Sanna Wicks
4. Interview with E17 Art Trail directors Laura Kerry and Morag McGuire
Alexis Weedon
Section 2: Models and methods for developing place-making through the arts
5. A model for university–town partnership in the arts: TestBeds
Emma-Rose Payne and Alexis Weedon
6. The Beam archive, Wakefield
Kerry Harker
7. This Is Not My House: Notes on film-making, photography and my father
David Jackson
8. Notions of place in relation to freelance arts careers: A study into the work of independent dancers
Rachel Farrer and Imogen Aujla
Section 3: Multidisciplinary approaches to place and contested identities
9. Performing places: Carnival, culture and the performance of contested national identities
Jonathan Croose
10. A sense of place: From experience to language, from the Polish traveller through a Spanish saint to an adaptation of a Zimbabwean play
Agnieszka Piotrowska
11. The EU migrant: Britain’s sense of place in English newspaper journalism
Paul Rowinski
12. Rethinking the photographic studio as a politicised space
Caroline Molloy
13. Creative routine and dichotomies of space
Philip Mile
14. Doing things differently: Contested identity across Manchester’s arts culture quarters
Peter Atkinson
15. First, second and third: Exploring Soja’s Thirdspace theory in relation to everyday arts and culture for young people
Steph Meskell-Brocken
16. A sense of play: (Re)animating place through recreational distance running
Kieran Holland
17. Shiftless Shuffle from Luton: An interview with Perry Louis
Jane Carr
Afterword by Tamara Ashley and Alexis Weedon
Index