Where to build the walls that protect us; a practice research project exploring new collaborative models for imagining future cities through socially-engaged live art work.
- Submitting institution
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University of Exeter
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 22
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- T - Other
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- Location
- Exeter and Leeds
- Brief description of type
- Socially-engaged live art work, supported by contextual dissemination evidence.
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Research Process
Drawing on Hodge's two decades of site and walking-based practice, and taking its momentum from major floods in Exeter (first iteration, commissioned by Kaleider, and supported by Arts Council England, 2014) and Leeds (a second iteration, commissioned by Compass Festival, 2016), this Practice Research project explores new, collaborative models for imagining future cities. It takes the form of socially-engaged live art in the public realm. The core output is framed as a 'charrette': an intensive, collaborative enquiry that seeks to solve a complex design issue. The work draws on relational, spatially-oriented methods, exploring four future-facing themes essential to urban development ('terrain and climate', 'buildings and the life between them', 'industry and commerce', and 'mobility and communications').
Research Insights
Rooted in socially-engaged live art, the work:
• developed new methods and tactics for framing and holding space for dialogues about urban development;
• disrupted hierarchies usually common within the urban planning process by bringing the expert out from behind their desk or lectern;
• facilitated the co-creation of spatial knowledge and future visions through the design of innovative, sited exchanges and iterative 3D model-building on the city’s streets between expert-citizen and the holders of expert, city-based knowledge (Met Office climate scientists, architects, politicians, entrepreneurs, etc.).
Dissemination
In addition to the public encounters that comprised the core output, insights from the two Practice Research iterations were shared through:
• artist's pages published by Routledge in the journal Performance Research (2018);
• seven papers and presentations (four invited), written for academic and non-academic contexts (2014-2019);
• associated, commissioned interventions into the Theatre and Performance Research Association 2019 conference (2019);
• a 'sited conversation' between Fiona Wilkie and Hodge, captured during the making process, and published by Routledge in the book Moving Sites (2015).
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- Non-English
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