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This second volume investigates the multi-disciplinary terrain of space and culture, extending the boundaries of urbanism and addressing issues of public space. It demonstrates that critical understanding of cultural interventions in public space is now relevant to a range of disciplines. Contributions include works on: the examination of "authentic" public space in Barcelona; the relationship 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; and the significance of assemblage in the work of Mierle Laderman Ukeles and the global importance of local actions in collaborations between ecologists and artists.
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Advances in Art & Urban Futures Volume 2 Recoveries and Reclamations Edited by Judith Rugg Daniel Hinchcliffe Advances in Art & Urban Futures Volume 2 Recoveries and Reclamations intellect TM BRISTOL, ENGLAND PORTLAND, OR, USA Edited by Judith Rugg and Daniel Hinchcliffe First Published in Hardback 2002 by Intellect Books, PO Box 862, Bristol, BS99 1DE, UK First Published in USA in 2002 by Intellect Books, ISBS, 5824 Hassalo St, Portland, Oregon 97213-3644, USA Copyright ©2002 Intellect Ltd All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission. Consulting Editor: Masoud Yazdoni Book and Cover Design: Joshua Beadon – Toucan Copy Editor: Holly Spradling Set in Joanna A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Electronic ISBN 1-84150-828-4 / ISBN 1-84150-055-0 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Cromwell Press,Wiltshire Contents Series Introduction Malcolm Miles 5 Foreword Jane Rendell 7 General Introduction Judith Rugg and Daniel Hinchcliffe 11 Contributors 15 Section One – Issues of Regeneration and Cultural Change Regenerating Public Life? A Sensory Analysis of Regenerated Public Places in El Raval, Barcelona Monica Degen 19 Utopia from Dystopia: TheWomens PlayhouseTrust and theWapping Project Judith Rugg 37 New Urban Spaces: Regenerating a Design Ethos Paul Teedon 49 Section Two – Artists’ Reclamations/Ecological Spatial Actions Art, Science and Ecological Enquiry: 61 The Case of American Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting Kirk Savage Three Rivers – Second Nature The River Dialogues Tim Collins 67 Seeing Through Place Local Approaches to Global Problems Malcolm Miles 77 Skinningrove: A photo Essay Malcolm Miles 91 Section Three – The Unseen Public Space Collective Assemblages, Embodiment and Enuciations Helen Stratford 107 From Birmingham to Bogota: Tracing the Metaphor of Submerged SpaceThrough the Architecture of 1960’s Birmingham and the Artistic Practice of Doris Salcedo Jane Calow 119 Section Four – Identities and Communities Differences, Boundaries, Community: The Irish in Britain Mary J Hickman 131 Renewing Methodologies for Socio-Cultural Research Global Refugees, Ethno-mimesis and theTransformative Role of Art Maggie O’Neil and Bea Tobolewska 141 Series Introduction This is the second annual volume in the series Advances in Art & Urban Futures.The series is a vehicle through which to disseminate research and seminar papers from events through the past year at the University