Developing a Sense of Place : The Role of the Arts in Regenerating Communities

How do cultural planners and policymakers work through the arts to create communities? What do artists need to build a sense of place in their community? To discuss these issues, Developing a Sense of Place brings together new models and case studies, each drawn from a specific geographical or socio...

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Other Authors: Weedon, Alexis, Ashley, Tamara
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : University College London Press 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Notes on contributors
  • Foreword by Hedley Roberts
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Sensing place, a moment to reflect
  • Section 1: Case studies of place-making
  • 1. Eastern Angles: A sense of place on stage
  • 2. Lesson drawing and community engagement: The experience of Take A Part in Plymouth
  • 3. Raising the Barr
  • 4. Interview with E17 Art Trail directors Laura Kerry and Morag McGuire
  • Section 2: Models and methods for developing place-making through the arts
  • 5. A model for university-town partnership in the arts: TestBeds
  • 6. The Beam archive, Wakefield
  • 7. This Is Not My House: Notes on film-making, photography and my father
  • 8. Notions of place in relation to freelance arts careers: A study into the work of independent dancers
  • Section 3: Multidisciplinary approaches to place and contested identities
  • 9. Performing places: Carnival, culture and the performance of contested national identities
  • 10. A sense of place: From experience to language, from the Polish traveller through a Spanish saint to an adaptation of a Zimbabwean play
  • 11. The EU migrant: Britain's sense of place in English newspaper journalism
  • 12. Rethinking the photographic studio as a politicised space
  • 13. Creative routine and dichotomies of space
  • 14. Doing things differently: Contested identity across Manchester's arts culture quarters
  • 15. First, second and third: Exploring Soja's Thirdspace theory in relation to everyday arts and culture for young people
  • 16. A sense of play: (Re)animating place through recreational distance running
  • 17. Shiftless Shuffle from Luton: An interview with Perry Louis
  • Afterword by Tamara Ashley and Alexis Weedon
  • Index