Build Art, Build Resilience: Spatial Appropriation Through Co-Creation
- Submitting institution
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University of Portsmouth
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 26322454
- Type
- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- A multi-component consisting of four temporary public installations and one journal article, submitted with contextual information and supporting media via USB.
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2019
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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
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Build Art, Build Resilience is a MULTI-COMPONENT output initiated, devised and coordinated by Guido Robazza. The output consists of four temporary public installations and one journal article. It is submitted with supporting contextual media via USB which can be requested from the REF archive. The installations developed through iterative processes that engaged local communities in participatory and co-creational methods in order to create tools for community resilience and revitalisation of neglected places.
The project’s structure revolves around three key phases of work. The first site hunt phase uses crowd mapping and an online participatory platform through which citizens identify neglected spaces and desires. Secondly, co-design and fabrication brings all participants together in a workshop- residency, culminating in a collaborative-design and hands on building experience to tangibly and socially improve the quality of public spaces in their city. The final analysis of the project’s engagement phase gathers and monitors data on both participants and wider public perception. This data is collected via technology (e.g. infrared movement cameras), and through semi-structured community/participants conversations, structured and filmed interviews, written feedback, and continuous field observations.
The project demonstrates the social impact of using public art in city-making through encouraging communities’ active citizenship and their voice in shaping the city. It brings new forms of expression and practice in place-making, which foster creative and social environments, bring urban liveliness and joy, and enhance community wellbeing and self-esteem through co-regenerating their forgotten places.
The research project has been additionally disseminated at national and international conferences; the Biennale Spazio Pubblico in Rome, 2017, the Beijing Jiaotong University, 2018, and the ASEAN Placemaking Week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2019. It has been published in the Architects’ Journal, local press, and through the organisation of open events, gathering wide public presence within the community.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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