Past, present and future: connecting communities with shared histories

该项目将通过与门德尔松档案馆的积极接触来激发新观众和合作伙伴的影响力：门德尔松在20世纪60年代在CCCS学习时拍摄的3,000张照片，以及她与她的主题进行的采访。与项目合作伙伴- Flatpack电影节，Ikon画廊，伯明翰图书馆（LoB），Ort Café和一些城市合作开展-活动将包括：一个“弹出式”户外展览在巴尔索尔希思，伯明翰地区的门德尔松照片拍摄，由Flatpack运行。一个当地的讨论活动在奥尔特咖啡馆在巴尔索尔希思，在LoB举办了一个研讨会。两个摄影讲习班，由当地的一个摄影团体“一些城市”与难以到达的社区合作。该项目延续了最初的项目，鼓励观众参与CCCS的遗产批判性地思考社会。然而，该项目还超越了这一点，以创新的方式与难以接触到的社区合作，以挑战人们对他们生活地区的刻板印象，让社区对自己的生活进行批判性思考，并形成一个包含普通人经历的文化定义。首先，该项目将通过门德尔松档案将难以接触到的社区与他们共同的历史联系起来。第二，它将鼓励社区批判性地思考自己的经验和愿望。第三，该项目将使社区能够通过摄影形成这些经验和愿望的视觉表现。第四，它将挑战关于市中心地区生活和“文化”含义的陈规定型观念。第五，该项目将发展合作伙伴组织的工作实践，包括他们与难以接触的受众合作的方式以及他们自己对文化的理解。当地的讨论活动和“弹出式”展览将使巴尔索尔希思社区与门德尔松档案馆接触，并促进学术界和社区之间的知识交流。展览将面向那些通常不参与影响活动的观众，而摄影重点将有助于促进那些不以英语为第一语言，因此无法参加依赖书面材料的活动的人的参与;必要时将雇用一名口译员以促进沟通。通过参与他们共同的历史，社区将被鼓励批判性地思考他们自己的经历，并通过摄影工作坊，形成他们在巴尔索尔希思生活的视觉记录。Ikon展览和LoB研讨会将更普遍地挑战观众，以改变对“文化”和内城地区生活的偏见。Ikon的声誉意味着展览将覆盖全国各地的观众，而LoB每年吸引200万游客。通过将门德尔松拍摄的巴尔萨尔希思的照片和目前居民拍摄的照片放在这些艺术和公民背景下，该项目将挑战对市中心地区的负面刻板印象和对文化的保守理解，这种理解低估了普通人的经历。因此，该项目还将发展伙伴组织的做法，包括积极参与Balsall Heath等社区的活动。该项目将设在伯明翰大学现代英国研究中心（MBS）。部分受到CCCS的启发，MBS致力于开发新的影响形式。在人们对社区凝聚力感到焦虑的背景下，该项目是一项及时的干预措施，颂扬多样性，并促进就社区愿望进行对话。它的遗产将通过制作展览目录以及将新的照片档案与门德尔松档案一起存放在吉百利研究图书馆来确保。

The project will stimulate impact amongst new audiences and partners by staging active encounters with the Mendelsohn archive: 3,000 images taken when Mendelsohn was a student at CCCS in the 1960s, and interviews she conducted with her subjects. Undertaken in collaboration with project partners - Flatpack Film Festival, Ikon Gallery, Library of Birmingham (LoB), Ort Café and Some Cities - activities will consist of: A 'pop up' outdoor exhibition in Balsall Heath, the Birmingham district where the Mendelsohn photographs were taken, run by Flatpack.A local discussion event at Ort Café in Balsall Heath, and a symposium at the LoB.Two photography workshops with hard-to-reach communities run by Some Cities, a local photography collective.A major exhibition at Ikon, the most prominent art gallery in the region.The project follows on from the original project in encouraging audiences to engage with the legacy of CCCS by thinking critically about society. It moves beyond it, however, by working in innovative ways with hard-to-reach communities in order to challenge stereotypes about the areas in which they live, engage communities in thinking critically about their own lives, and form a definition of culture inclusive of ordinary people's experiences.First, the project will connect hard-to-reach communities with their shared histories via the Mendelsohn archive. Second, it will encourage communities to think critically about their own experiences and aspirations. Third, the project will enable communities to form visual representations of these experiences and aspirations via photography. Fourth, it will challenge stereotypes regarding life in inner-city areas and the meaning of 'culture'. And fifth, the project will develop the working practices of partner organisations, both in terms of their way of working with hard-to-reach audiences and their own understandings of culture. The local discussion event and 'pop up' exhibition will engage Balsall Heath communities with the Mendelsohn archive and facilitate knowledge exchange between academics and communities. The exhibition will reach audiences who do not usually engage with impact activities while the photographic focus will help facilitate an engagement with those who do not speak English as a first language and can therefore be excluded from activities reliant on written material; an interpreter will be employed to facilitate communication as necessary. By engaging with their shared histories, communities will be encouraged to think critically about their own experiences and, through the photography workshops, form a visual record of their lives in Balsall Heath.The Ikon exhibition and LoB symposium will challenge audiences more generally to modify preconceptions of 'culture' and life in inner-city areas. Ikon's reputation means the exhibition will reach audiences from across the country, while the LoB attracts 2,000,000 annual visitors. By putting Mendelsohn's photographs of Balsall Heath and those produced by current residents in these artistic and civic contexts, the project will challenge both negative stereotypes about inner-city areas and conservative understandings of culture that discount the experiences of ordinary people. The project will thus also develop the practices of partner organisations to include active engagement with communities such as those in Balsall Heath. The project will be based at the Centre for Modern British Studies (MBS), University of Birmingham (UoB). Partly inspired by CCCS, MBS is committed to developing new forms of impact. In the context of anxieties over community cohesion, the project represents a timely intervention that celebrates diversity and stimulates dialogue about community aspirations. Its legacies will be ensured by the production of an exhibition catalogue as well as the deposition of the new archive of photographs alongside the Mendelsohn archive in the Cadbury Research Library, UoB.