This second volume of the series Advances in Art & Urban Futures brings together contributions from artists, sociologists, architects and cultural theorists in addressing the recoveries and reclamations being made within urban and rural landscapes as a result of the fallout of redevelopment in the twenty-first century.
Recoveries and Reclamations addresses pertinent issues facing all those interested in a multi-disciplinary approach to developing critical interventions in public space.
The book includes the examination of the work of Doris Salcedo to the unseen spaces in Birmingham; the implications of gender in the creation of The Wapping Project in East London; the self-representation of asylum seekers from Bosnia-Herzegovina; the issue of the ’imagined’ community in relation to the Irish in Britain; the significance of assemblage in the work of Mierle Laderman Ukeles and the global importance of local actions in collaborations between ecologists and artists.
Table of Contents
Series Introduction
Malcolm Miles
Foreword
Jane Rendall
General Introduction
Judith Rugg and Daniel Hinchcliffe
Contributors
Section 1 – Issues of Regeneration and Cultural Change
Regenerating Public Life? A Sensory Analysis of Regenerated
Public Places in El Raval, Barcelona
Monica Degen
Utopia from Dystopia:
The Womens Playhouse Trust and the Wapping Project
Judith Rugg
New Urban Spaces:
Regenerating a Design Ethos
Paul Teedon
Section 2 – Artists’ Reclamations/Ecological Spatial Actions
Art, Science and Ecological Enquiry:
The Case of American Nineteenth-Century Landscape
Painting
Kirk Savage
Three Rivers – Second Nature
The River Dialogues
Tim Collins
Seeing Through Place
Local Approaches to Global Problems
Malcolm Miles
Skinningrove: A photo Essay
Malcolm Miles
Section 3 – The Unseen Public Space
Collective Assemblages, Embodiment and Enuciations
Helen Stratford
From Birmingham to Bogota:
Tracing the Metaphor of Submerged Space Through the
Architecture of 1960’s Birmingham and the Artistic
Practice of Doris Salcedo
Jane Calow
Section 4 – Identities and Communities
Differences, Boundaries, Community:
The Irish in Britain
Mary J Hickman
Renewing Methodologies for Socio-Cultural Research
Global Refugees, Ethno-mimesis and the Transformative
Role of Art
Maggie O’Neil and Bea Tobolewska