Below is the card visitors could pick up at the exhibition to write their comments on.
The exhibition may be over, but comments are still more than welcome! You may either leave general thoughts about design in the public realm and/or the context of Barking or react directly to the following question:
In what way can the design and use of public space address and mediate the complexity of the contemporary public realm, particularly in the context of Barking where issues of community cohesion, local politics, economic disparity, and local pride and identity have recently been associated with new urban development?
You may either comment on posts on this site or send your thoughts to comment@barking-assemblage.org
To browse the exhibition content please visit the category archive Barking from Without.
Barking from Without is part of the 2010 Cities Methodologies exhibition and conference organised by the UCL Urban Lab. The exhibition is taking place at the Slade Research Centre on Woburn Square from 5 to 7 May 2010.
Barking from Without is an interactive installation presenting material from an ongoing case study of the new Barking Town Square in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. Part of a broader research project on design in the contemporary public realm, the case study is supported primarily by participant-observer methods that draw as much on ethnographic fieldwork as on Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism. The research is presented in the form of an open dialogue which visitors are encouraged to join by leaving written comments.
All material from the installati0n is posted on Barking Assemblage under the category Barking from Without. If you would like to leave a comment, please email comment@barking-assemblage.org
