Belfast Imaginary

Katharine Keenan is director of Foundation and Corporate Relations at Carthage College.

The Belfast Imaginary provides a timely and important review of how artists, in concert with public officials, have pioneered what Katharine Keenan calls ‘third way art’ in the imagining and construction of a new Belfast. Keenan shows that we can all take heart that a city, so torn by decades of violent conflict and years of post-conflict liminality, can still imagine itself as a space of creativity and peace. The Belfast Imaginary may very well serve as a blueprint of similar imaginings in places geographically distant but close in spirit to this rapidly evolving global city.

• Chapter 1: In Medias ResChapter 2: Third Way Art – Policy and ProcessChapter 3: The Painting on the WallChapter 4: Performing DiversityChapter 5: Stopping in the StreetConclusion: Belfast in the Meantime