The Placing Project
Placing
is intended to be a critical and cultural exploration of place, writing
place and place writing. Fundamentally, the project will result in a
number of writings and publications addressing the intersection of
cultural and urban life.
The objective of the project is to
draw out emerging and changing ideas about urban environments with a
particular emphasis on the role artists, designers, planners,
architects and other urbanists can play as changemakers. It is grounded
in a critical planning approach or praxis that is attentive to the need
for innovation and change (restructuring, retrofitting, recreating,
replacing, renewing, redirection etc). It is intended to "act in the service of what is seeking to emerge".
Theorist
Jane Rendell engages the idea of ‘site writing’, interleaving the word
with site and architecture. Placing considers practices of place.
However, the project is not only about practices of place but also
about practices of writing place. Place is both a noun and a verb. This
prompts an inquiry of place as something we do; beyond placemaking.
More info at http://placing.wordpress.com.