Inbetween: Cultural regeneration in market towns

其间：集镇的文化复兴

• 批准号: AH/I022414/1
• 负责人: David Butler
• 金额: $ 4.54万
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2011 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI022414%2F1
• 关键词: Inbetween; Cultural; regeneration; market; towns

This network will bring together an international, interdisciplinary body of researchers to critically consider the interaction of visual arts practice, policy and cultural infrastructure in the regeneration of market towns. It is innovative in tackling core research questions through practice-led research and interdisciplinary symposia. Events will be sited in England, Scotland and Wales to examine the impact of devolved governance and cultural infrastructures. As market towns struggle in the current economic climate, this project is timely in pursuing the feasibility of alternative strategies to enable market towns to secure a sustainable future. In so doing, it aspires to the aims of the AHRC's Connected Communities programme.Research ContextThe Labour Government launched its Market Towns Initiative in 2001 to address the problems posed by demographic shifts and changes in retail habits, work/life balance and general mobility. In response, several regional networks were launched throughout the UK and the umbrella body 'Action for Market Towns' formed (www.towns.org.uk). Recent research has developed a definition of variously termed market, small or rural towns as having between 1500 and 40,000 inhabitants. This places such towns as 'in-between' places and they have been largely neglected in studies especially related to cultural activity. Often market towns have contradictory fortunes: they are desirable place to live but become commuter towns with inhabitants who commute to their workplace and to larger retail centres. This leaves the town centre vulnerable and the town's cultural identity challenged. The Department of Environment, Transport and Regions see market towns as having considerable policy relevance as a rural hub for economic development and regeneration. Almost a decade after the launch of the Market Towns Initiative, the role that of visual arts practice in this context remains inadequately explored.In order to tackle this gap in knowledge the network will innovatively bring together practice-based and theoretical researchers from a range of disciplines including: arts practice, architecture and planning, heritage, cultural and economic regeneration, cultural policy and arts administration. In recent years, vacated shops and shop fronts have become emblematic of the problems faced by market towns but also a prime site of artistic intervention. Keeping in vein with this, the proposed networking events will address research questions through artistic practice in public locations, such as market squares and shop fronts, as well as workshops.Aims and ObjectivesThe aim of this network is to develop new understanding and critical analysis of the role that visual arts have played and might play in the regeneration of market towns with a view to influencing policy and informing best practice.It will do so by:- Networking a multi-disciplinary body of artists, theorists, professionals and policy makers engaged in market town studies and cognate fields, such as planning, heritage and regeneration. Disseminating results back to key research groups and networks (e.g. Action for Market Towns).- Developing a knowledge base of practice (best and worst; perceived successful and unsuccessful drawn from case studies and their evaluations) - Facilitating knowledge transfer between participants- Generating critical dialogue through artistic practice, symposia discussions and on-line debate- Creating artworks in the public domain as catalysts for discussion, engaging the public in wider debateThe network will develop a new knowledge base on cultural regeneration in market towns and facilitate knowledge transfer between artists, regeneration professionals, community organisations and policy makers.

该网络将汇集一个国际跨学科的研究人员，以批判性地考虑市场城镇再生中视觉艺术实践，政策和文化基础设施的相互作用。通过实践领导的研究和跨学科研讨会来解决核心研究问题，它具有创新性。事件将在英格兰，苏格兰和威尔士举行，以研究权力的治理和文化基础设施的影响。随着市场城镇在当前的经济环境中的斗争，该项目正及时追求替代战略的可行性，使市场城镇能够确保可持续的未来。这样一来，它渴望就AHRC连接的社区计划的目的。进行研究环境，工党政府于2001年发起了其市场城镇倡议，以解决人口统计学变化和零售习惯，工作/生活平衡和总体流动性的变化所带来的问题。作为回应，在英国启动了几个区域网络，以及形成的雨伞机构的“市场城镇”（www.towns.org.uk）。最近的研究已经对有多种多样的市场，小镇或农村城镇的定义开发了1500至40,000名居民。这将诸如“之间”之类的城镇等地放置在尤其与文化活动有关的研究中被忽略了。市场城镇经常有矛盾的命运：他们是理想的居住地，但成为通勤城镇，居民通勤到工作场所和更大的零售中心。这使镇中心脆弱，该镇的文化认同受到挑战。环境，运输和地区部将市场城镇视为具有相当大的政策相关性，这是乡村经济发展和再生的枢纽。市场城镇倡议发起近十年后，在这种情况下，视觉艺术实践的作用仍然不足。为了解决这一差距，网络将创新地将基于实践的基于实践的研究人员汇集在一起​​，包括：包括：艺术，建筑，建筑，遗产，文化和经济重新生产，文化政策，文化和艺术政策，包括艺术实践，建筑和规划，建筑和规划，文化和经济政策，文化和艺术政策，文化和艺术政策和艺术政策。近年来，腾空的商店和商店的前沿已经象征着市场城镇所面临的问题，也是艺术干预的主要地点。依靠这一点，提出的网络活动将通过公共场所（例如市场平方和商店前线和车间）以及研讨会的艺术实践来解决研究问题，该网络的目标和目标是对视觉艺术的作用进行新的理解和批判性分析，以对视觉艺术的作用和批判性分析，并可能在整个城镇中发挥作用，以实现整体的态度，以实现策略，以实现策略。艺术家，理论家，专业人士和政策制定者从事市场城镇研究和同源领域，例如计划，遗产和再生。 Disseminating results back to key research groups and networks (e.g. Action for Market Towns).- Developing a knowledge base of practice (best and worst; perceived successful and unsuccessful drawn from case studies and their evaluations) - Facilitating knowledge transfer between participants- Generating critical dialogue through artistic practice, symposia discussions and on-line debate- Creating artworks in the public domain as catalysts for discussion, engaging the public in wider DebateThe Network将在市场城镇中建立有关文化再生的新知识基础，并促进艺术家，再生专业人员，社区组织和政策制定者之间的知识转移。