Becoming One with the Neighborhood: Collaborative Art, Space-Making, and Urban Change in Izmir Darağaç

2021 ◽  
pp. 120633122110402
Author(s):  
Kıvanç Kılınç ◽  
Burkay Pasin ◽  
Güzden Varinlioğlu
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Urban Change ◽  
Alternative Route ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Collaborative Art ◽  
Income Neighborhood

Darağaç is a former industrial, lower-income neighborhood in Turkey’s third-largest city, Izmir. In 2015 several artists settled in the area and started a nonprofit initiative called the Darağaç Collective (DC). DC has since organized numerous art events and exhibitions, receiving considerable interest and publicity. Yet, to date, the changes in Darağaç’s material landscapes have been subtle, and the area remains ungentrified, unlike similar examples in Turkey. This article argues that the collaborative art practice spearheaded by DC played a major role in the preservation of the neighborhood’s urban texture. The artists became neighbors with the residents, benefited from the expertise of mechanics, and drew inspiration from the site, while the local community has contributed to the production, exhibition, and appreciation of artworks. Thus, art has become a tool for sociability and a catalyst for interpersonal, cultural, and cross-class exchanges, which could offer an alternative route to art-led urban change in Turkey.

Collaboration: A Strategy for Neighborhood Planning

1991 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-14
Author(s):  
Ronald Register
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Ford Foundation ◽  
Neighborhood Planning ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Income Neighborhood ◽  
Community Foundation

In 1990, the Ford Foundation launched the Neighborhood and Family Initiative Project (NFI) in four U.S. cities. A low-income neighborhood in each of the four cities is the target for the initiative, which is administered through a local community foundation in each city. The initiative relies on neighborhood leadership to develop strategic plans which reflect the goals and aspirations of neighborhood residents and institutions. A collaborative, or committee, composed of neighborhood leaders and key representatives from the public and private sectors is charged with overseeing the planning process.

Sociosonic Interventions: Distributed Authorship in Socially Engaged Sound Practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 109-113
Author(s):  
Tullis Rennie
Keyword(s):  
Art Practice ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Socially Engaged Art ◽  
Collaborative Art ◽  
Ethics And Politics

How do creative sound practices function in the context of socially engaged art? Toward developing a practical methodology, this paper focuses on sound-led projects that stage socially engaged art practice in community settings, including some involving the author. Aesthetics, ethics and politics are employed as interrogative lenses for distributed creative processes. Methods for collaborative art-making that facilitate a balance between these lenses are discussed, with the author further arguing the necessity of artistic “disruption.” Such sociosonic interventions are demonstrated to occur most effectively when sound practices challenge the paradigm of unidirectional audial reproduction: rupturing traditional hierarchies of creator and listener.

scholarly journals HOW ARE PUBLIC SPACES SUSTAINING CULTURAL IDENTITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF CHINA’S INCREASINGLY GLOBALLY FOCUSED URBAN DEVELOPMENTS: USING A CASE STUDY OF PUTUO IN SHANGHAI

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-205
Author(s):  
Hee Sun (Sunny) Choi
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Urban Change ◽  
Global Presence ◽  
The City

This paper explores what it means for a public space to embody the city within rapid urban change in contemporary urban development and how a space can accomplish this by embracing the culture of the city, its people and its places, using the particular case of Putuo, Shanghai in China. The paper employs mapping and empirical surveys to learn how the local community use the act of communal dance in everyday public spaces of this neighborhood, and seeks not to find generalizable rules for how humans comprehend a city, but instead to better understand how local inhabitants and their chosen activities can influence their built environment. The findings from this emphasize the importance to identify how public spaces can help to define cities with China’s emerging global presence, whilst addressing the ways in which local needs and perspectives can be preserved.

scholarly journals “When I was little, I loved to play”. Describing play experiences using a community-based lens

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Learning ◽  
Community Project ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Diverse Communities ◽  
Income Neighborhood

Focused on community play memories, the goals of this project were to (1) uncover the variety and degree of playful learning memories; (2) ascertain whether community members would spontaneously share memories of play, and (3) appraise whether memories differed between low-income and mixed-income communities. Results indicated that although community members freely shared play memories, the responses differed between the two communities. Those from the lower-income neighborhood were more likely to share experiences of playful learning; these embraced multiple dimensions of development (e.g. cognitive, social, physical); describing a rarely acknowledged strength of lower-income communities. It is concluded that a community project can elicit fond memories of playful learning and the wider range of play experiences. This portrait of a playful learning community can be achieved through a fun and rich neighborhood experience. This study has implications for community engagement and supporting play as a vehicle for community learning across diverse communities.

scholarly journals Reflective Student Practitioner – an example integrating clinical experience into the curriculum

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Sparrow
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Management Unit ◽  
Research Management ◽  
Substantial Proportion ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Alternative Route ◽  
Course Structure ◽  
Second Year

<p>This project began in 2004 and involves LLB students training (in year two) and then acting as Citizens Advice Bureau (‘CAB’) advisers for 120 hours (in year three). </p><p>We have been able to incorporate this work into the existing course structure fully in third year (40 credit ‘Reflective Student Practitioner’ unit) and partially in second year (as part of a 10 credit Careers and Research Management unit), so that students undertake a substantial proportion of this work for credit. This has been possible by creating a parallel and alternative route to the existing 40 credit Legal Dissertation. Assessment in third year is by way of a 3,000 word legal essay (based on a legal topic raised in client interviews); a 3,000 word reflective analysis of their experience, a journal and three letters that they have drafted in their CAB work. This is produced through one-to-one supervision – in much the same way as one would supervise a dissertation.</p><p>Our aims in this project were to give students the opportunity to learn skills which would be of benefit in their professional lives, improve their employability and allow them to become more engaged in their local community. Portsmouth CAB was in need of more advisers and was interested in recruiting younger volunteers to establish a broader mix of advisers. The guarantee of 120 hours was a valuable commitment to them.</p><p>I propose to offer an explanation of how we manage our relationship with Portsmouth CAB and how we share responsibilities between us (for example, in training and recruitment). I also seek to evaluate what has worked well and what has been problematic in working with CAB. </p>

scholarly journals Entanglements of Difference as Community Togetherness: Faith, Art and Feminism

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hickey-Moody ◽  
Willcox
Keyword(s):  
Direct Products ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Collaborative Art ◽  
Community Belonging ◽  
And Gender

Using a feminist, new materialist frame to activate ethico-political research exploring religion and gender at a community level both on Instagram and in arts workshops, we show how sharing ethnic backgrounds, religious beliefs, gender identities and sexualities through art practice entangles a diffraction of differences as ‘togetherness’. Such entanglement creates cross-cultural interfaith understandings and gender diverse acceptance and inclusion online. We use diffraction, intra-action and entanglement as a way of framing our understanding of this ‘togetherness’ and show that human feelings rely on more-than-human assemblages; they rely on homelands, countries, wars, places of worship, orientations, attractions, aesthetics, art and objects of attachment. The feelings of ‘community’ and ‘belonging’ that we discuss are therefore direct products of human and non-human interactions, which we explore through arts-based research. In this article, we apply Karen Barad’s feminist new materialist theories of ‘diffraction’, ‘intra-action’ and ‘entanglement’ to ways of thinking about human experience as intra-acting with aspects of the world that we classify as non-human. We use these new materialist frames to reconceptualize the human feelings of ‘community’, ‘belonging’ and ‘what really matters’ in feminist and intra-religious collaborative art practices and Instagram-based art communities. To better understand and encourage communities of difference, we argue that the feelings of ‘community’ and ‘belonging’, which are central to human subjectivity and experience, are produced by more-than-human assemblages and are central to identity. The methodologies we present are community focused, intra-active, arts-based research strategies for interrogating and understanding expressions of ‘community’ and ‘belonging’. We identify how creative methods are a significant and useful way of knowing about communities and argue that they are important because they are grounded in being with communities, showing that the specificity of their materiality needs to be considered.

Collaborative art practice as HCI research

interactions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laewoo (Leo) Kang ◽  
Steven Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Art Practice ◽  
Collaborative Art

scholarly journals Hemispheric Conversations: Exploring Links between Past and Present, Industrial and Post-Industrial through Site-Specific Graffitti Practice at the Carrie Furnaces

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 17-26
Author(s):  
Caitlin Frances Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Urban Art ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Collaborative Art ◽  
Post Industrial

In this article, I briefly discuss a project I co-organized this year in collaboration with Oreen Cohen, Shane Pilster, Rivers of Steel, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts, and the American Studies Association. Named “Hemispheric Conversations: Urban Art Project” we used international collaboration between artists in Chicago, Pittsburgh, and León Guanajuato Mexico as a platform for conversation about how to reimagine our shared urban spaces. In a political moment that might be a cause for despair, collaborative art practice in urban space can serve as one vehicle to reignite our shared sense of possibility and energy.

scholarly journals An Intergenerational Singing Group: A Community Music Therapy Qualitative Research Project and Graduate Student Mentoring Initiative

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guylaine Vaillancourt ◽  
Danna Da Costa ◽  
Evie (Yi) Han ◽  
Gloria Lipski
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Clinical Group ◽  
Community Music ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Community Art ◽  
Urban City ◽  
Group A ◽  
Income Neighborhood

This study describes the implementation and investigation of a community music therapy (CoMT) intergenerational singing group. Participants were a non-clinical group of adults aged 20 to 65 years old. Weekly sessions were held over a 10-week period at a community art studio in a lower-income neighborhood within a large Canadian urban city. Participants reported experiencing increased self-expression, a sense of accomplishment, improved respiration, and feelings of general well-being. They developed new relationships and social and community networks, however participants mentioned limitations regarding the sustainability of this community development. They also indicated challenges with the multilingual repertoire. Three professional music therapy graduate students, acting as co-researchers, were introduced to and mentored in implementing community music therapy practice and research. Potential implications and recommendations for further research are discussed.

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