Govan – Gdansk – uncertain futuresRegeneration and Waterfront Heritage Zones in Northern Europe research network (artists, activists, architects, urban planners, politicians and local people)https://waterfrontheritagenetwork.wordpress.com/

Complex heritage narratives

Activism and Artistic Interventionism •Series of ‘summer schools’ •Challenge to conventional ‘urban planning’ approaches

•‘joining up’ narratives? •Arts methods to promote engagement/dialogue

Andy McAvoy: the ghost of Water Row

Grzegorz Klaman: subjective bus line

Participatory Action ResearchArtistic Interventionism

(artists, activists artists as activists & activists as artists)

• The potential and the contribution of participatory arts practice increasingly recognised a means to

• ‘restore the social bonds’ (Ranciere 2006)

• ‘tighten the space of social relations’ (Bourriaud 2002) and place-making

• The artist interventionist approach

• Very different from the use of the arts to tackle problematic issues in communities (Matterasso, 1997)

Rancierre, J. The Politics of Aesthetics. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006 Bourriaud, N. Relational Aesthetics. Paris: Presses du réel, 2002. Mattarasso, F Use or Ornament, Comedia, 1997.  

Image:Thomas Hart

• PAR (Participatory artist interventionism and activism) • Connecting the post-industrial waterfronts of two European cities

• International network Regeneration and Waterfront Heritage Zones in Northern Europe

• UWS, Fablevision, NHSGGC • Public engagement - Visitors/audience

THE QUESTION

Is it possible to

Influence planning

outcomes?

THE METHODS

After some success in Gdansk in 2017, Govan's Dilemma in 2018

• “Grade A Listed Historic Structure”

• Tangible and intangible cultural

heritage

• “Of national and International importance”

• Last great, original historic heritage site on the Upper Clyde

• Two competing planning proposals:

housing or re-industrialisation

DREAMING / BELIEVING / ACHIEVING A 21ST CENTURY UNIVERSITY

- A Third way? Industrial City:2? - Cultural Planning?-Expand the Network, expand the dialogue, action and research, expand the impact- River Cities: Sweden, Belgium, Ireland, Greece with Govan and Gdansk- Memory of Water - European solidarity: Connected Communities across Europe

The Way Forward

DREAMING / BELIEVING / ACHIEVING A 21ST CENTURY UNIVERSITY

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