This book offers a critical exploration of the emergence and establishment of temporary urbanism, as a seductive discourse and as an entangled field of practice encompassing architecture, visual and performative arts, urban regeneration policies and planning.
This book offers a critical exploration of the emergence and establishment of temporary urbanism, as a seductive discourse and as an entangled field of practice encompassing architecture, visual and performative arts, urban regeneration policies and planning.
Mara Ferreri is an urban and cultural geographer. She is VC Research Fellow in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Northumbria University, UK, and is the co-author of Notes from the Temporary City (Public Works, 2016).
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Chapter 1. Temporary urbanism: a situated approach Reclaiming spaces and the role of temporariness The trope of temporariness as 'alterity' For a situated approach to temporary urbanism 'Post-crisis' London The book's questions Chapter 2. The entangled field of temporary urbanism The emergence of a discourse Countering recessional perceptions 'Creative' fillers Art showcasing to the world: pop-up in the shadow of the 2012 Games The rise of the pop-up intermediary Meanwhilers: a clever rebranding The Meanwhile London Competition Enrolling urban professionals in the shift to austerity The unresolved question of unlawful occupations Conclusion: the primacy of property Chapter 3. 'Not a pop-up!' The experience of performers and visual artists A well-established history 'Provided you can beg steal or borrow a space' Group+Work and 1990s myths in public commissioning Pop-ups in Westminster ArtEvict in 'forgotten spaces' Settling down in Hackney Wick Fish Island? Pop-up spaces as festivals and digital arts incubators Conclusions: in the cracks of the creative city promise Chapter 4. Staging temporary spaces Experiential economies and the performativity of urban activation The Elephant as a site for 'community engagement' Studio at the Elephant A strategy of open programming Visibility for recognition Mediating face-to-face interactions Empowerment for surrender? Conclusions: the openness of agonistic encounters Chapter 5. Planning a temporary city of on-demand communities Temporariness in planning at times of austerity 'Stitching the fringes' before and after the Olympics Learning from Others: interim uses as urban 'testing sites' Vacant land and setting up a temporary community hub Young people and the 'two communities' Risky grassroots Temporary 'urban vitality' in the LLDC Local Plan (2015-2031) 'Seeding' long-term uses Learning to become 'on-demand communities' Conclusions: the risk of planned precarization Chapter 6. The normalisation of temporariness Underused spaces as a 'problem' The projective logic Ephemeral architectures Permanent 'times of uncertainty' Tactical or precarious acting? Precarity as temporal foreclosure Conclusion: reclaiming urban space-time after the pop up Index Bibliography.
Chapter 1. Temporary urbanism: a situated approach Reclaiming spaces and the role of temporariness The trope of temporariness as 'alterity' For a situated approach to temporary urbanism 'Post-crisis' London The book's questions Chapter 2. The entangled field of temporary urbanism The emergence of a discourse Countering recessional perceptions 'Creative' fillers Art showcasing to the world: pop-up in the shadow of the 2012 Games The rise of the pop-up intermediary Meanwhilers: a clever rebranding The Meanwhile London Competition Enrolling urban professionals in the shift to austerity The unresolved question of unlawful occupations Conclusion: the primacy of property Chapter 3. 'Not a pop-up!' The experience of performers and visual artists A well-established history 'Provided you can beg steal or borrow a space' Group+Work and 1990s myths in public commissioning Pop-ups in Westminster ArtEvict in 'forgotten spaces' Settling down in Hackney Wick Fish Island? Pop-up spaces as festivals and digital arts incubators Conclusions: in the cracks of the creative city promise Chapter 4. Staging temporary spaces Experiential economies and the performativity of urban activation The Elephant as a site for 'community engagement' Studio at the Elephant A strategy of open programming Visibility for recognition Mediating face-to-face interactions Empowerment for surrender? Conclusions: the openness of agonistic encounters Chapter 5. Planning a temporary city of on-demand communities Temporariness in planning at times of austerity 'Stitching the fringes' before and after the Olympics Learning from Others: interim uses as urban 'testing sites' Vacant land and setting up a temporary community hub Young people and the 'two communities' Risky grassroots Temporary 'urban vitality' in the LLDC Local Plan (2015-2031) 'Seeding' long-term uses Learning to become 'on-demand communities' Conclusions: the risk of planned precarization Chapter 6. The normalisation of temporariness Underused spaces as a 'problem' The projective logic Ephemeral architectures Permanent 'times of uncertainty' Tactical or precarious acting? Precarity as temporal foreclosure Conclusion: reclaiming urban space-time after the pop up Index Bibliography.
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