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| Author | Catenaccio P., Khonsari T. | |
| Title | The construction of a civic neighbourhood as/through cultural production a discourse analytical approach to participatory art and temporary architecture | |
| Reference | Catenaccio P., Khonsari T.; The construction of a civic neighbourhood as/through cultural production a discourse analytical approach to participatory art and temporary architecture ;Languages Cultures Mediation vol:4 issue: 2.0 page:13 |
Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85064183465&doi=10.7358%2flcm-2017-002-cate&partnerID=40&md5=0ec517129aa1d9ce3c8d121793aa6f93 |
| Abstract | This essay investigates the construction of a neighborhood in East London, both in its discursive and its socio-cultural and material dimensions. The analysis combines methodologies from the fields of critical discourse analysis, participatory art, temporary architecture and urban commons to offer a “thick description” of professional, political and discursive practices involved in the definition and creation of a civic neighbourhood. The analysis focuses on civic neighbourhood project in East London called InterAct while the pivotal point of the project was the building of a piece of temporary architecture, the planning and ongoing construction of a civic neighbourhood involved a much more far-reaching production of material and symbolic artifacts which jointly represent a form of position taking within a site of social, cultural and symbolic struggle (Bourdieu 1993, 30). The study provides a critical description of the InterAct project, illustrating its purpose, goals and rationale and critically examines some of the publicly available discursive artifacts which revolve around it. The research approach programmatically seeks to combine insights from multiple methodological research traditions in order to investigate a complex socio-cultural phenomenon with considerable possible political ramifications. © 2017 LED Edizioni Universitarie. All Rights Reserved. |
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| It is a charitable organisation set up to help improve the high street, and its vision is for a thriving local economy that gives the opportunity and space for communities to flourish. . | Economic viability is therefore portrayed as a condition for community development; but community development is, at the same time, presented as a catalyst for economic growth (community development initiatives ... help revitalize the high street). . | The digital platforms here analysed have enabled access to a wide civil society required in the construction of community led neighbourhood planning. . | This essay aims to contribute to the debate by examining the way in which local personal and community identities are fostered through the orchestration of discursively mediated initiatives that cut across different domains in the service of forms of empowerment which occupy the interstitial space between institutional constraints and forms of self-discovery and group/ place identification, with a special focus on the role of art as a catalyst for change. . | Multiple interconnections across networked materials enable the construction of personalised reading paths which converge to create a unified whole centered on local (radical) identity tempered with socially (but not openly politically) engaged current initiatives, all of them geared towards encouraging greater civic participation within a spatially anchored yet conceptually open local community. . | In an effort to increase outreach, the research project has created a series of online platforms to aid communication and project presence. . | Identity building based on multiple, flexible membership categories is key to developing a neighbourhood which has both internal cohesion and a potential for change, adaptation and - above all - accommodation of diversity. . |
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