I wrote this article for Super Slow Way, the Creative People and Places programme in Pennine Lancashire. I’m their critical friend. This is a reflection on where Super Slow Way are now and where I think they’re going.
Here’s the opening paragraph:
‘Creative People and Places has shackled itself to a notion of “place” as an area on a map.
I presented this paper at Art and the Urban symposium at Senate House last week. It reflects some of my PhD research.
Screenshot from ‘Birdhouse in Your Soul’ (Official video) by They Might Be Giants.
Fifty years ago, Henri Lefebvre wrote that ‘Everyday life, the social territory and place of controlled consumption, of terror enforced passivity, is established and programmed … [so that] as a social territory it is easily identified, and under analysis it reveals its latent irrationality beneath an apparent rationality, incoherence beneath an ideology of coherence, and sub-systems, or disconnected territories linked together only by speech’ (1968).… READ MORE
