Culture-led regeneration is a relatively new force within urban planning and gentrification strategies. Bringing counter culture and "bohemia" into the mix is something that has been part of gentrification since its conception, they just hadn't been so clearly instrumentalised or written into the text until recently.
Are artists and cultural producers now fully inscribed within these strategies and processes or is it still possible to question and create public projects that can operate on some other level - particularly now in light of the financial crisis and its massive impact on the public sector and redevelopment schemes?
Related art projects
Public Workspace Playscape Sculpture Graz, 2009
The Death and Life of the Workplace/Public Space, 2009
Temporarily Permanent Monument to the Occupation of Pseudo Public Space, 2009
The Creative City in Ruins. Drawings for Mute Magazine, 2009
Hudson River Park Proposal, 1999
The Cruel Dialectic: Decay and Opportunity, 1999
Tompkins Square Park Monument to Civil Disobedience, 1997
Related collaborative projects
Edible Park with Permaculture Den Haag, 2010
You Have Been Misinformed with Stephan Dillemuth, 2008
The Kite Kiosk with Simon & Tom Bloor and Gavin Wade, 2008
Counter Campus with Stephan Dillemuth, 2005
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Es regnet Kaviar - Aktionsnetzwerk gegen Gentrification
Hamburg action-network against gentrification
Park design from below, Hamburg, Germany
A Brooklyn based nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and art to improve civic engagement