Theorizing artists as actors of urban change / Monika Murzyn-Kupisz and Jaroslaw Dzialek -- Artists as pioneers or tools for urban redevelopment? Inside the 'village of artists' of Saint-Gilles, Brussels / Tatiana Debroux -- Artists as initiators of urban transformation: are gentrification and touristificaion inevitable? A case study of the Reuter Quarter in Neukolln, Berlin / Mariko Ikeda -- Do artists need artistic quarters? Spatial preferences and choices of artists in Krakow / Jaroslaw Dzialek and Monika Murzyn-Kupisz -- Dynamics behind the rise of a creative space? A creative quarter development in Belgrade / Nikola Jocic, Aljosa Budovic, and Andreas Winkler -- After the Archipelago Basins: the case of independent music sate in Warsaw / Katarzyna Wojnar -- The role of theatre venues in the transformation of Barcelona / Daniel Paul i Agusti, Joan Ganau and Pilar Riera -- Agglomeration of Bohemians across different spatial scales in Slovenia / Jani Lozina and David Bole -- Beyond art in 'meanwhile spaces': temporary parks, urban governance and the co-production of urban space / Niamh Moore-Cherry -- Street art events and their impact on urban redevelopment, case study of Paris 13 Tower exhibition in the Paris Ricve Gauche mixed development zone / Clotilde Kullmann -- Starting a creative city from below: artistic communities in St. Petersburg as actors of urban change / Aleksandra Nenko -- Leipzig's visual artists as actors of urban change / Silvie Jacobi -- Artistic intervention and pockets of memory on the former Wall Strip in Berlin / Martin Barthel -- Artists as planners? Identifying five conceptual spaces for interactive urban development / Thomas Boren and Craig Young -- Practices and prejudices: lessons from a n encounter between artists and urban planners / Elsa Vivant, Naia Arab and Burcu Ozdirlik.
Summary:
This book provides a review of theoretical concepts connecting artists and urban development. It focuses on the multidimensionality of potential and actually observed interactions between artists and cities and their impacts on urban space, its form, functions and perceptions. Departing from the viewpoint that a more nuanced geography of artists is still needed to fully conceptualise the diversity of roles artistic creatives play in urban transformations, the book presents contributions with a common denominator of distinguishing artists as a unique professional and social group. The essays focus on the complexity of the artists' spatial preferences and analyse a myriad of expressions of artists' presence in urban centres in different geographic, political, economic, social, and spatial contexts drawing on experiences from 16 cities across Europe. The book presents several case studies ranging from Spain to Russia and from Scandinavia to Slovenia, and offers new pathways into understanding the implications of artists' residence and activities in contemporary cities. Apart from presenting less obvious expressions of artists' involvement in urban transformations such as their participation in urban planning or grass root urban movements, the volume explores the ambivalence of artists' interactions with cities. Particular chapters test several divergent narratives of artistic creatives as inspirers and instigators of urban changes, pioneers of gentrification, contesters and resisters of neoliberal urban policies or mere indicators of transformations inspired by other actors, instrumentalized by public and private stakeholders.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.