Developing a sense of place : the role of the arts in regenerating communities / edited by Tamara Ashley and Alexis Weedon

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Hedley Roberts -- Introduction: Sensing place, a moment to reflect -- Section 1: Case studies of place-making. 1. Eastern Angles: A sense of place on stage -- 2. Lesson drawing and community engagement: The experience of Take A Part in Plymouth -- 3. Raising the Barr -- 4. Interview with E17 Art Trail directors Laura Kerry and Morag McGuire -- Section 2: Models and methods for developing place-making through the arts. 5. A model for university-town partnership in the arts: TestBeds -- 6. The Beam archive, Wakefield -- 7. This Is Not My House: Notes on film-making, photography and my father -- 8. Notions of place in relation to freelance arts careers: A study into the work of independent dancers -- Section 3: Multidisciplinary approaches to place and contested identities. 9. Performing places: Carnival, culture and the performance of contested national identities -- 10. A sense of place: From experience to language, from the Polish traveller through a Spanish saint to an adaptation of a Zimbabwean play -- 11. The EU migrant: Britain's sense of place in English newspaper journalism -- 12. Rethinking the photographic studio as a politicised space -- 13. Creative routine and dichotomies of space -- 14. Doing things differently: Contested identity across Manchester's arts culture quarters -- 15. First, second and third: Exploring Soja's Thirdspace theory in relation to everyday arts and culture for young people -- 16. A sense of play: (Re)animating place through recreational distance running -- 17. Shiftless Shuffle from Luton: An interview with Perry Louis -- Afterword / Tamara Ashley and Alexis Weedon.

"How do cultural planners and policymakers work through the arts to create communities? What do artists need to build a sense of place in their community? To discuss these issues, Developing a Sense of Place brings together new models and case studies, each drawn from a specific geographical or socio-cultural context. Selected for their lasting effect in their local community, the case studies explore new models for opening up the relationship between the university and its regional partners, explicitly connecting creative, critical and theoretical approaches to civic development. The volume has three sections: Case Studies of Place-Making; Models and Methods for Developing Place-Making Through the Arts; and Multidisciplinary Approaches to Place and Contested Identities. The sections cover regions in the UK such as Bedford, East Anglia, Edinburgh, Manchester, London, Plymouth and Wakefield, and internationally in countries such as Brazil, Turkey and Zimbabwe. Developing a Sense of Place offers a range of viewpoints from, for example, the arts strategist, the academic, the practice-researcher and the artist. Through its innovative models, from performing arts to architectural design, the volume will serve the needs and interests of arts and cultural policy managers, master planners and arts workers, as well as students of Human Geography, Cultural Planning, Business and the Creative Industries, and Arts Administration, at undergraduate and postgraduate level."-- Provided by publisher.

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