People and Place.
Citation Summary:
Mackinnon-Day, P. The Darwin Green Sweetpea (2019), bespoke sweetpea strand, produced in collaboration with horticulturist Roger Parsons and Darwin correspondence project, Cambridge University.
Mackinnon-Day, P. Tree of Life (2021), designs for permanent glass installation
Mackinnon-Day, P. (2016) essay Marking Time, case study included in An Artist's Anthropological Approach to Sustainability, study Volume 35.3, International Journal of Art and Design Education (2016). http://radar.gsa.ac.uk/4555/4/iJADE%20Programme%202015%20-%20Final%5B1%5D.pdf
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Liverpool John Moores University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32PMD3
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
- The Darwin Green housing development, Cambridge
- Brief description of type
- Multi Component Output
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- September
- Year
- 2014
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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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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1 - Contemporary Art Lab
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Can an artist’s artwork impact on regeneration and its communities by drawing on the history of the site. This research is developed from the long-term preoccupation of Mackinnon-Day with regard to the impact and relevance of public art in forming communities. The underpinning research addresses arts function for social and cultural benefit, examining arts role in drawing on local histories and its purpose in urban regeneration. Origin (2020) artwork addresses art's use and function in the planning and development of public space as well as putting the users of the space at the centre of the design process. Mackinnon-Day’s The Darwin Green Sweet Pea (2019] proposes new models of participatory art practice. A Welcome Folder illustrating the research process has already been distributed to new residents. The Darwin Green Sweet Pea, once planted throughout the area, aims to give the new development a distinct visual identity. The Darwin Green Sweet Pea project is unique in its link to Darwinian research, recreating the Darwin 1860’s sweetpea experiment. This new propagated sweetpea now exists within the Darwin Green housing development. It aims to create integration within shared spaces and a sense of belonging. Both Origin (designs for a permanent printed glass panel building structure) and The Darwin Green Sweet Pea has enabled a dialogue about Darwin’s research and his relevance today between numbers of different groups - The Darwin Correspondence Project, Cambridge University; NIAB, Barratts developers local history groups, Cambridge City council and Artscape management, Darwin Green residents and allotment communities. Mackinnon-Day's research examines the relationship between art, history and place. As a result, it has enabled a new articulation and understanding of public art's impact upon community cohesion, via processes of participation and has therefore embraces arts role as part of civil society.
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- Non-English
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