Engaged Urbanism

Ben Campkin is Senior Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and Director of UCL s Urban Laboratory. He is the author of Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture (2015), which received the 2015 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Foundation Book Award. Ger Duijzings is Professor in Social Anthropology at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Universitat Regensburg and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Mu nchen, Germany. He was until 2014 Co-Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory. His most recent book is Global Villages: Rural and Urban Transformations in Contemporary Bulgaria (2013)."

'In putting all our sensory capacities to work, Engaged Urbanism offers evidence of the efficacy of methodological invention and demonstrates the possibilities researchers, activists, service providers, and policymakers everywhere have available to deepen their understandings of urban life and to work creatively with what is available to them. Participatory photography, art installations, data and spatial mapping, collective writing, undercover detection, longitudinal documentation, public performance, digital reconstruction, and community mobilization are all deployed to enliven our capacities to know the urban with greater rigor and enthusiasm, as well as an appreciation for the heterogeneity of conditions and "inhabitants" that surround us.' - Professor AbdouMaliq Simone, author of City Life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements at the Crossroads.

• ContentsPrefaceIntroduction Ben Campkin & Ger DuijzingsI: FRAMES1 Cities Methodologies matter: comparative urbanism and global urban theory Jennifer Robinson2 Methods, metaphors and the interdisciplinary terrain of urban research Matthew GandyII: SITE-SPECIFIC COLLABORATIONS3 Site-writing Jane Rendell with Adriana Keramida, Povilas Marozas, Mrinal Rammohan4 Towards an architecture of engagement: researching contested urbanism and informalities Camillo Boano, Caroline Newton and Giorgio Talocci5 ‘ Worlding’ the studio: methodological experiments and the art of being social Suzanne Hall and Juliet DavisIII: PERFORMANCE AND PARTICIPATION6 From ‘heroin’ to heroines David Roberts with Anne Louise Buckley, Briony Campbell, Chantel Forrester, Elam Forrester, Jahcheyse Forrester, Lorna Forrester, Rosie Fowler, Taina Galis, Steve Hart, Therese Henningsen, Lasse Johansson, Gillian McIver-Tanbouli, Lewis Osbourne, Eric Phillip, Adam Rosenthal, Georgia Sangster, Ruth-Marie Tunkara, Smart Urhiofe, Julie Vandemark, Julia Vandemark, Cathy Ward and Andrea Luka Zimmerman7 Four palimpsests on the erasure of the Heygate Estate Felipe Lanuza Rilling8 Hacking London’s demolition decisions: a new collaboration to scrutinise the technical justifications for retrofit, refurbishment and demolitionKate Crawford with Sarah Bell, Felicity Davies, Charlotte Johnson, Sunyoung Joo, Sharon Haywardand Richard Lee9 Authoring the neighbourhood in Wikipedia Rebecca Ross and Chi Nguyen10 ‘ The secret security guard’: being a G4S employee during the London Olympic Games Henrietta Williams11 Hide and seek: the dubious nature of plant life in high-security spacesMax ColsonIV: SITUATING IMAGES AND IMAGINARIES12 The ups and downs of visualising contemporary Mumbai Andrew Harris13 Creating systematic records through time: the destruction and reconstruction of heritage areas affected by earthquakes in ChileBernadette Devilat14 Paint. Buff. Shoot. Repeat: rephotographing graffiti in LondonSabina Andron15 Critical urban learning through participatory photographyAlexandre Apsan Frediani and Laura Hirst16 Assisted Self-Portraits and GUESTures: excerpts from a discussion on photography and participation Margareta Kern and Anthony Luvera17 Picturing place: the agency of images in urban change Ben Campkin, Rebecca Ross and Mariana Mogilevich18 ‘S eeing is believing’: the social life of urban decay and rebirth Wes Aelbrecht19 ‘ We thought we were making the car but it was the other way around’: historical pathways and the ecology of the street network in industrial and post-industrial Detroit Sophia PsarraV: EMBODIED CARTOGRAPHIES20 Lebensraum/Living Space Ger Duijzings and Rastko Novakovi?21 Abdication and arrival: using an open-ended, collaborator-led ethnography to explore constructions of newly encountered citiesAndrew Stevenson22 Learning to walk: on curating a walking methodologies programmeThienVinh Nguyen23 I hear sounds inside my head Joanna Rajkowska24 Charting smellscapes M?d?lina Diaconu25 Contra Band Leah Lovett VI: FABRIC AND FABRICATION26 The Twin Sisters Are ‘About to’ Swap Houses: displacement and the bordering practice of matching Mohamad Hafeda27 City shapes and urban metaphor John Aiken28 (In)visible bodies: migrants in the city of gold Johan Thom29 Negotiating space: the artist working as a creator and enabler of spaces for working, thinking and meeting Kieren Reed30 Twenty-five demolished houses Mircea Nicolae31 The bridge of sighs Henrietta Simson and Jo Volley32 Material, Stories Hilary Powell33 Building on fire: towards a new approach to urban memoryStamatis ZografosNotes on contributorsIndex