Architectures of Displacement
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 223044
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
- Tate Exchange, Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Brief description of type
- Creative body of enquiry
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- April
- Year
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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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
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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B - Art & Performance
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Architectures of Displacement (AoD) was an exhibition and events program curated by Jane Brake in collaboration with John van Aitken, Institute of Urban Dreaming (IUD), which took place at Tate Exchange, Tate Liverpool, 10/04/2017 to 17/04/2017, programmed by Liverpool International Photography Biennial. Artist, writer and curator Brake established, IUD as an artistic partnership with Aitken in 2004. The research focused on the city of Guangzhou, developing the Industrial Road Project, which investigated the impact of the construction of a major transport hub on 1950s housing created under the Maoist Danwei or factory system, which provided for all aspects of workers’ daily life. Research also drew upon IUD’s network of academic colleagues and significant body of research into UK and Chinese housing development, displacement and planetary gentrification. During fieldwork in Guangzhou, IUD experimented across a range of transdisciplinary methodologies, particularly mobile and collaborative processes including: longitudinal walking, which renders manifest spatial conflicts and attunes walking bodies to atmospheres (Debord 1956, Augoyard 2007); consideration of the possibility of new knowledge produced through walking interviews (Kusenbach 2003) and photo elicitation (Harper 2010). The contemporary Danwei is under-researched and this output is unique in its application of sensory and walking methodologies in collaboration with a local resident. The resulting exhibition included: a handling collection of original photographic prints and video screenings; a research library and curated archive boxes, incorporating original responses or interventions by activists, artists, academics and postgraduate students. The exhibition presented new research into urban development, enabling the facilitation of generative dialogue between local activists and gentrification specialist, Professor Loretta Lees. The dialogic exhibition combined interactive display of research materials and artistic outcomes with interdisciplinary debate and informal participatory activities, which focused on the value of sensory experience and knowledge gained from being in spaces, as a means to challenge spatial inequalities.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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