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SUMMARY:Housing redevelopment in Derry and Belfast\, 1960-1980: placemaking in a time of crisis
DESCRIPTION:Dr Adrian Grant\nLecturer in History\nINCORE / School of Arts and Humanities\, Ulster University\n\nPart of the monthly seminars for INCORE (International Conflict Research Institute) that Ulster University will be hosting throughout 2026.\nLocation: MD008 and online at:  https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/36371312362171?p=YzhAVpWkOiB5DX4vbx \nMeeting ID: 363 713 123 621 71 \nPasscode: WZ6JA3HU \nABSTRACT: \nIn the aftermath of the Second World War\, Northern Ireland’s cities faced a housing crisis driven not only by wartime damage\, but as a result of decades of neglect and government inaction in public house building. Major UK policy shifts forced the NI government to engage in a comprehensive public housebuilding programme from the late 1940s onwards. New build estates were constructed on greenfield sites\, dealing rapidly with the sharper edges of housing shortage. Housing in inner-city areas had also deteriorated massively\, requiring state intervention to tackle problems of overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. In the early 1960s the NI government tasked local authorities and the Northern Ireland Housing Trust with the large-scale clearance and redevelopment of the inner-city housing identified as being beyond repair. Victorian terraced streets were replaced with a modernist mixture of high-rise and low-rise apartment complexes and lower density traditional housing. The permeable gridiron of terraced streets was replaced with a mixture of culs-de-sac and courtyard developments that separated pedestrians and vehicles\, but also created more closed-off and insular micro-communities. The construction of new roads and urban motorways added to the comprehensive nature of the changes to the urban fabric. \nThis seminar paper outlines the history of this process and its immediate and long-term impacts on urban communities in NI. Histories of this period have an understandable focus on the beginning of the ‘Troubles’ and the issues that acted as a catalyst for the activism and later violence of the conflict. Fair housing allocation was of course central to the demands of the civil rights movement\, and has been researched in some detail. However\, housing has the potential to be used as a prism through which to view the multi-layered issues affecting NI society in this period and after. This frame allows us to identify the common experiences of urban communities globally in the post-war period\, but also the particularities of the NI experience. The paper finishes with an outline of the ‘Home in Troubled Times’ project\, which will utilise this history to engage younger people and migrant communities with the historical debates and legacy contemporary urban issues that continue to impact neighbourhoods today. \nDr Adrian Grant is a Lecturer in History at Ulster University and a member of INCORE. He has written widely on the conflicted history of twentieth century Ireland\, and more recently with a focus on urban change in time of conflict. He was PI on the AHRC funded ‘Divided Pasts – Design Futures’ project that explored the history of urban redevelopment in Derry. He was also CAIN Transformation Project Lead\, securing design upgrades and new funding for the CAIN website.
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SUMMARY:Symposium: Shaping a feminist art resource centre
DESCRIPTION:IMMA & NCAD present a Symposium\, entitled How shall we do this?\, that brings together a diverse range of feminist-led practices and voices\, to think through the imperatives for a feminist-led art resource centre on the island of Ireland. Contributors include Alex Martinis Roe\, Beulah Ezeugo & Joselle Ntumba\, Matylda Taszycka\, Adele Patrick\, Allison Elliott\, Êvar Huseynî and Alessia Cargnelli. \nForegrounding new research to shape an all-island feminist led art resource centre \nUnlike other settings in the Global North\, the island of Ireland still lacks an all-island focused\, community-led resource centre dedicated to feminist-informed artistic practices. This is remarkable given the central importance of Irish women’s role both as artists and as activists on the island and beyond\, from second wave feminism in 80s/90s\, till today. Although some aspects of feminist-led and artist-led scholarship are currently available in public collections across the island\, there are many more informal and overlooked archives. These materials exist in an ephemeral\, delicate state\, and it is a political act to take care of them and make them available for future research and education. \nUnderstanding archives as a site of radical imagination and learning\, How shall we do this? investigates the potential of inclusive feminist-informed methodologies for archiving underrepresented her/stories connected with the island of Ireland. Learning from international practices of feminist leadership and community-led\, anti-hierarchical approaches from the UK\, the US\, Europe\, and Australia; participants – along with the invited speakers – will initiate discussions around what a viable and long-term sustainable structure could look like in the context of the island of Ireland; as well as what feminist-informed methods of access and preservation are needed. \nInvited contributors include:\nAlex Martinis Roe: Artist and Researcher\, Melbourne\nÉireann and I Archive: Beulah Ezeugo & Joselle Ntumba\nGlasgow Women’s Library (GWL): Adele Patrick\nThe Feminist Institute NYC: Allison Elliott\nAWARE Paris Archives of Women Artists\, Research and Exhibitions: Matylda Taszycka\nThe West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library (WANAWAL): Êvar Huseynî \nThe programme concludes with a participatory-led workshop\, where attendees will collectively generate a series of proposition on feminist-informed archiving practices of donation\, conservation\, outreach\, and public engagement. The workshop will be practice-driven\, focusing on selected materials from the archive of Irish visual artist Patricia Hurl\, held in the IMMA Collection.
URL:https://culturalpolicyireland.org/event/symposium-shaping-a-feminist-art-resource-centre/
LOCATION:Irish Museum of Modern Art\, Royal Hospital Kilmainham\, Military Rd\, Kilmainham\, Dublin\, D08 FW31\, Ireland
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