PROJECTS

Street life and street culture: Between Early Modern Europe and the present

Award Holder

Dr Fabrizio JD Nevola

Higher Education Institute

Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath

Street Life and Street Culture involves art historians, architectural historians and theoreticians, planners, public officials, artists and critics, film-makers, a sound artist and an actor, who create an interdisciplinary, international community drawn from the UK, USA and Europe. We are considering how streets shaped and informed the daily lives of urban communities in the past, and how this historical experience relates to contemporary realities. Six major themes linking the Early Modern urban experience and today are the focus of our studies:

  • the relation between ephemeral performances and permanent urban change
  • the street as locus for celebration, religion and rituals
  • the performative siting of violence, punishment and protest
  • surveillance, policing and control
  • gossip and the circulation of news
  • street sounds

Our events will take place in the UK and Europe. Outputs will include sound recordings, films, as well as symposia, research papers and a conference. For more information please visit the Street Life website

 

Lively discussion at our agenda-setting event: 28 November 2008, Oxford Brookes University

Arts & Humanities Research Council: Each year the AHRC provides approximately £100 million from the Government to support research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities, from archaeology and English literature to design and dance. In any one year, the AHRC makes approximately 700 research awards and around 1,000 postgraduate awards. Awards are made after a rigorous peer review process, to ensure that only applications of the highest quality are funded. Arts and humanities researchers constitute nearly a quarter of all research-active staff in the higher education sector. The quality and range of research supported by this investment of public funds not only provides social and cultural benefits but also contributes to the economic success of the UK. See Arts & Humanities Research Council website.