The Co-construction of Community in Relation to Site
- Submitting institution
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Nottingham Trent University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 51- 1255531
- Type
- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- N/A
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- June
- Year
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- 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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A - Artistic Research Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This practice-based enquiry, comprising of participatory site-specific installations, explores how the co-construction of forms of habitation can develop community through a specific relationship to context This research examines the relationship between existing and temporary communities, exploring how groups can be formed by establishing structures that test people's relationships to each other and their environment
The research's originality lies in its insights into the relationship between community, participation and site specificity (an urban island, a city square, a river). The works' co-production by participants fulfilled the projects; key to the work was the groups' development of autonomy, agency, and shared responsibility. The body of work contributes to wider debates about models of citizenship, including the imagined communities of nationality (Anderson, 1983); the nature of human co-operation (Sennett, 2013); personal identity in relation to community (Agamben, 1990).
The practice-based critical context for Judd's enquiry will be further established through his Stanley Picker Fellowship which will use the River Thames as the site for a floating resource for the local community that reflects upon Britain's island status. Judd will collaborate with an architectural practice to create a structure on a boat, the design and construction of which will be determined by discussions with local groups. The work will engage a wide range of participants by inviting them to form a floating community, enabling Judd to clarify the distinctiveness of his enquiry in relation to co-construction, habitation and site.
Judd's exploration of the co-production of community and its relationship to site has developed through a series of commissioned works each funded through Arts Council England. These include It Grows Like a strange Flower (2017), commissioned by Bloc Projects; From the Ground to the Sun (2018) for the high profile Art Night, London; award of the prestigious Stanley Picker Fellowship (2019- 21), Kingston University, London.
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- Non-English
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