{"product_id":"transformations-art-and-the-city-9781783207725","title":"Transformations: Art and the City","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritically challenging the notion of cities as hegemonic spaces, \u003cem\u003eTransformations: Art and the City\u003c\/em\u003e explores interactions between the human subject and their urban surroundings through site-specific art and creative practices, tracing the ways in which Chapters include case-studies raging from corporate- and public-funded art in Sydney; creative exchanges in Cambodia; politically-engaged enterprise art in the USA; affordable housing models in Australia; street-art under surveillance in Melbourne; and community memorial in post-disaster New Zealand, amongst others. People live, imagine and shape their cities. Drawing on the work of artists globally, from Cambodia to Australia, New Zealand to the USA, this edited collection investigates the politics and democratization of space through an examination of art, education, justice, and the role of the citizen in the city. The writers critically and poetically engage with the temporality and genealogies of public spaces, and ask: how do we reconcile artistic practices with an urbanism driven by globalization and capital? And is there room for aesthetic practices in urban discourse? This collection explores how creative practices can work in tandem with ever-changing urban technologies and ecologies to both disrupt and shape urban public spaces, democratization of space through an examination of art, education, justice and the role of the citizen in the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'This wide-ranging collection of essays is the fruit of a symposium held at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, in 2014. Artists, media professionals, and specialists in public policy, law, business, science, cartography, geography, and many other fields convened to ask: How can we understand the contemporary city “through an aesthetic lens—and what possibilities exist for transformative action?” Topics range from art projects intended to revitalize city neighborhoods to artistic interventions in the justice system to artists as recorders and archivists of urban realities.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Public Art Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection I\u003cbr\u003e Mapped City   Reading the Mapped City \u003cbr\u003e William Cartwright   Carto-City Revisited: Unmapping urbaness \u003cbr\u003e Maggie McCormick   Sensing Sydney: An experiment in public art of the smart eco-city \u003cbr\u003e Jodi Newcombe   Section II\u003cbr\u003e Contested City   Travels and Tapestries: Possibilities for creative exchange in Melbourne and Phnom Penh Clare McCracken and Roger Nelson   Art as Enterprise Grace McQuilten   Recipe for Homefullness  Keely Macarow   Interrogating Space: The 'Urban Laboratory'\u003cbr\u003e Fiona Hillary and Geoff Hogg   Section III\u003cbr\u003e Pedagogical City   Writing transparadiso: Across and beside \u003cbr\u003e Jane Rendell   Raising Alterity: Working towards a just city \u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth M. Grierson   Fragments, Lyotard and Earthquakes: A mosaic of memory and broken pieces\u003cbr\u003e Kirsten Locke and Sarah Yates   Section IV\u003cbr\u003e Temporal City   Feature 13: Suburban 'Terrain Vague'\u003cbr\u003e Anthony McInneny   Beyond the Tarmac: Temporality and the roadside art of Melbourne \u003cbr\u003e Ashley Perry   Walking the Post-Quake City: (Re)making the place in Ōtautahi Christchurch\u003cbr\u003e Barbara Garrie   Section V\u003cbr\u003e Creative City   Listening to the City \u003cbr\u003e Kristen Sharp   Applying the Creative City: Curating art in urban spaces\u003cbr\u003e Tammy Wong Hulbert   The Poetic City: Old songs left beneath the arches\u003cbr\u003e Nicholas Lyon Gresson","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042267267415,"sku":"9781783207725","price":36.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781783207725.jpg?v=1750953696","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/transformations-art-and-the-city-9781783207725","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}