Pub Date : 2021-03-11DOI: 10.5117/9789462984912_CH03
M. Ferreri
In recessional London, the celebration of pop-up art spaces plays an important part in the official narrative of temporary use as countercultural, secretive, transgressive and slightly illicit. This chapter mobilises the standpoint of visual and performative arts practitioners to analyse motivations and constraints in lawful and unlawful negotiations to access vacant spaces and their position within wider geographies of urban change. Through longitudinal case studies, it discusses tensions between community-oriented and career-oriented temporary practices and how these play out in relation to shifting cultural and urban policy. The selfreflexive experiences of practitioners reveal a critique of the ‘pop-up’ logic and the role of entrepreneurial space activators in the cracks of the creative city.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-11DOI: 10.5117/9789462984912_CH04
M. Ferreri
This chapter analyses the performative urban experiences produced by temporary projects and their claim to publicness and openness to local communities. Through a critical discussion of the promises of ‘vibrancy’ and community engagement, it examines the importance of staging in temporary urban spaces, its co-optation and its everyday, contested performative encounters. The chapter draws extensively on participant observations of temporary projects in the Elephant and Castle shopping centre during the last decade before its final closure. The frictions between staged and unexpected urban encounters challenge the celebration of ‘use value’ as inherently beyond commodification. It reveals the need to attend carefully to local power entanglements and to the potential role of temporary uses in solidarity movements against demolition and displacement.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-11DOI: 10.5117/9789462984912_CH02
M. Ferreri
The chapter analyses the emergence of pop-up and temporary urbanism in the UK after the 2008 global financial crisis as an entangled field made of competing narratives and representations. Media coverage, public events and self-representation are discussed to outline how official and unofficial narratives are constructed, mobilised and performed. Focusing on London, it presents a critical cultural discussion of transfers and translations between central and local government officers, property investors and estate agents, and third-sector ‘meanwhile space’ intermediaries. Temporary urbanism at times of post-crisis austerity is confirmed as an ambiguous urban cultural discourse that raises the promise of practices of dissent and vacant space re-appropriation, such as community-oriented radical practices and squatting, while practically foreclosing them.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-11DOI: 10.5117/9789462984912_CH05
M. Ferreri
The chapter explores how temporary urban ideas and values have become embedded in urban planning policy. It examines the institutionalisation of pop-up and temporary places in post-2008 London policymaking. It particularly draws on policy analysis, participant observations and interviews with public agencies, professionals and community organisations involved in the redevelopment of the London 2012 Olympics neighbourhoods. The case of a youth-oriented temporary community space is taken as emblematic of a shift towards increasingly short-term public provision at the margins of longer-term privatisation. It concludes that the imaginary of pop-up participation follows an ‘on-demand’ logic that sits uncomfortably with the needs and demands of urban communities affected by austerity policies and that risks ushering in further exclusion and precarisation.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-11DOI: 10.5117/9789462984912_CH01
M. Ferreri
Over the past decade, temporary urbanism has emerged as an imaginary and a practice. This chapter introduces the importance of a critical and grounded approach to the phenomenon and outlines the key themes discussed in the monograph. It argues that the roots of temporary urbanism lie in established Western cultural tropes depicting vacancy and temporariness as urban social and spatial alterity. Linking its establishment to dynamics of austerity policymaking and urban restructuring, it contends that temporary urbanism has become a key imaginary in a recurrent urban crisis landscape geared towards greater life and place insecurity. The need for a situated and longitudinal approach undergirds the rationale behind a semi-ethnographic focus on the glamorisation of austerity culture in post-2008 London.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1017/9789048535828.006
M. Ferreri
The concluding chapter examines the mechanisms that have normalised temporary urban practices since the 2008 global financial crisis and their relationship to longer-term cultural and economic shifts. Such normalisation combines a narrative construction of vacant spaces as a problem and a celebration of a projective logic of on-demand connectivity. It argues that temporary urbanism has ushered in a deeply problematic glamorisation of impermanence and ephemerality and a new ideal of urban life in which the anticipatory politics of precarity become normalised and celebrated. The imaginary of a ‘festivalisation of urban policy’ reveals an increase in planned spatial and temporal foreclosures in contemporary cities. The chapter concludes by offering a propositional cultural and political critique of temporariness at times of permanent uncertainty.
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