Findings from New Zealand's Urban Dream Brokerage
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Standard
Findings from New Zealand's Urban Dream Brokerage. / Jerram, Sophie.
In: The Urban Transcripts Journal, 2020.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Harvard
APA
Vancouver
Author
Bibtex
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
T1 - Findings from New Zealand's Urban Dream Brokerage
AU - Jerram, Sophie
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Between 2013-2018, the Urban Dream Brokerage ran as an urban revitalisation platform, commissioned by four distinct New Zealand municipalities. The model: during a period of economic recession and commercial vacancy, original proposals from artists and non-profit communities were placed into urban retail sites, dependent on a broker’s negotiation. Following the closure of the Brokerage, a research colloquium was held with project makers to understand what had been created collectively as an entwinement ‘between people and space.’ Four common narratives between the project makers were found: the presence of hostile conditions for the creation of community; the opportunity for experimentation within vacancy, the cloaking of political action through art, and fourthly the observation that the revival of ‘dead’ spaces created a longer term value that was not transferred to the project creators. This article provides a quotation-rich overview of the colloquium through the frame of these narratives.
AB - Between 2013-2018, the Urban Dream Brokerage ran as an urban revitalisation platform, commissioned by four distinct New Zealand municipalities. The model: during a period of economic recession and commercial vacancy, original proposals from artists and non-profit communities were placed into urban retail sites, dependent on a broker’s negotiation. Following the closure of the Brokerage, a research colloquium was held with project makers to understand what had been created collectively as an entwinement ‘between people and space.’ Four common narratives between the project makers were found: the presence of hostile conditions for the creation of community; the opportunity for experimentation within vacancy, the cloaking of political action through art, and fourthly the observation that the revival of ‘dead’ spaces created a longer term value that was not transferred to the project creators. This article provides a quotation-rich overview of the colloquium through the frame of these narratives.
U2 - 10.26686/wgtn.12993410.v1
DO - 10.26686/wgtn.12993410.v1
M3 - Journal article
JO - The Urban Transcripts Journal
JF - The Urban Transcripts Journal
SN - 2514-5339
ER -
ID: 243063144