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Tag Archives: Art
Agency, empowerment and the role of co-production when working with community groups #1
I’ve been thinking about co-production and discussing the subject with colleagues in the last year or so. I’m interested in individuals and communities (of place, interest or identity) having more agency in how their neighbourhoods are developed. This agency is … Continue reading
Musings on markets #2: traditional markets, traders stories & opportunities to explore
In Sara Gonzalez and Gloria Dawson’s report ‘Traditional Markets under threat – why it’s happening and what traders and customers can do’[1], which researches and reports on current issues for traditional markets. They define a traditional market as: ‘A traditional retail … Continue reading
Levenshulme Close Up #1
Having become a resident of Levenshulme recently, I’m going to undertake series of blog posts over the next year or so, that look at the neighbourhood in close-up, in detail, at textures, patterns and surfaces. I saw these collages on … Continue reading
Tagged Art, Cityscape, Culture, Levenshulme, Manchester, Photography, The City, Urban, Urban Walking, Walking
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InspiralLondon – re-imagining the built environment #3
Several artists spoke at InspiralLondon’s Friday event, including Alberto Duman and Claire Qualmann. Artist Alberto Duman described his recent Leverhulme Trust Funded project ‘Music for Master planning’. It focusses on the area of Newham, London – which he described as … Continue reading
Tagged Art, Canning Town, city, CPUL, Culture, Foraging, London, Music, Newham, Stratford, Urban, Urban development, Urban Walking, Walking
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InspiralLondon re-imagining the built environment #2
This second post unpacks some of Rebeka Clark’s presentation at InspiralLondon Festival in September 2016. Rebecca is the site manager of Stave Hill Ecological Park in Rotherhithe, London, where the Friday events for the festival took place. The park has been … Continue reading
Tagged Art, city, CPUL, Culture, Docklands, Ecology, Environment, Green space, Housing, London, Park, regeneration, Rotherhithe, Urban, Urban development, Urban Growing
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InspiralLondon Festival: re-imagining the built environment #1
This post kicks of a short series about InspiralLondon. This is an urban trail developed and led by artists, spiraling out from Kings Cross and ends at Gravesend, it enables the public to experience the city as one vast art … Continue reading
Tagged Art, London, Metropolitan, Performance, Planning, regeneration, Trail, Urban, Urban Walking, Urbanism, Walking
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The 4×4 series on place-making and the built environment: On Love
The second of the 4×4 series of discussions in Manchester on 11.5.16 of this year had the theme of Love – asking how does love impact on our understanding of the built environment. Mick Timpson is an architect and yoga … Continue reading
Musings and reflections on Leeds city centre – housing, consumerism and ‘narrowing the gap’ #2
In my last post, I made the connection between my 2011 collaborative drawing project Dwelling: a visual gazetteer, which included my own drawing of Skyline Apartments on Duke Street, and the new Victoria Gate shopping centre on Eastgate/Duke Street, sited … Continue reading
Tagged Art, Artists, city, Culture, Drawing, Housing, Leeds, Planning, regeneration, TCPA, Urban development
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Visualisations of Urban Walking in Kopenhagen – movemarkmap.wordpress.com
This post aims to link those of you who follow waymarkingthesketchbook to another of my ongoing online projects, https://movemarkmap.wordpress.com. Move Mark Map, aims to collect recorded movement, visual and GPS data created during some of Waymarking’s research processes. The latest … Continue reading
Tagged Art, Copenhagen, Kopenhagen, Mapping, Maps, The City, Urban, Urban Walking, Walking
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