New Challenges on the Urban Periphery

城市周边的新挑战

• 批准号: AH/W009684/1
• 负责人: Christina Horvath
• 金额: $ 10.27万
• 依托单位: University of Bath
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW009684%2F1
• 关键词: New; Challenges; Urban; Periphery

This project builds on the Banlieue Network (BN) project led by the PI and Co-I in 2012-2014. BN addressed segregation in Greater Paris, France, by building a network of scholars and practitioners and creating interdisciplinary knowledges and resources made accessible to civil society groups, through an innovative Summer School in 2013. However, over the last decade, inequalities in the French banlieue have worsened considerably due to a combination of local and international trends including rising mistrust for institutions in marginalised urban areas, growing stigmatisation and isolation, disproportionate exposure to the Covid-19 pandemic, the decline of active citizenship in young residents and State-promoted gentrification through, for example, global sporting events that displace working-class residents. While these issues have recently become relevant to many marginal neighbourhoods in the Global North, they have been affecting vulnerable urban areas in the Global South for much longer. After completing the BN project in 2014, the PI and Co-I have worked with communities in Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City where they successfully tested Co-Creation, a methodology with a measurable impact developed during BN's 2013 Summer School in Saint-Denis. This arts-based knowledge production method seeks to promote active citizenship and creativity to share knowledges and build resilience in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Evaluative methods were used to assess the impact of Co-Creation for participating communities. Co-Creation methods and knowledge sharing between resilient communities in the Global North and South can help policy makers and grassroot organisations in the French banlieue consolidate their understanding of urban deprivation and develop new hands-on solutions to the arising new challenges. We therefore propose to return to Saint-Denis, one of France's most stigmatised cities which is currently attracting public attention as the future site of the 2024 Olympic Games to:1) Disseminate Co-Creation to a focused audience of urban policy makers and practitioners accustomed to top-down approaches, familiarising them with alternative ways of co-designing practical solutions in collaboration with civil society partners;2) Extend the impact of BN both in France and in the Global South by broadening the network to include new stakeholders, NGOs, artists and policy makers from these contexts and engaging them in sharing best practice;3) Build bridges between stakeholders and youth activist groups in France, Mexico and Brazil to stimulate new ways of thinking about urban peripheries.These objectives will be achieved through a set of creative events and outputs, including the following:a) Two interactive training workshops in Co-Creation methods delivered to policy and practice audiences;b) A 12-week artist-led multimedia workshop, training young adults in creative writing, filmmaking, photography, event organisation and communication;c) A photography and short film contest resulting in a 2-day short-film festival and a photographic exhibition;d) Five international discussion panels conducted face-to-face but involving speakers from the Global South participating via Zoom;e) A series of documentaries created by workshop participants on the theme "A citizen in my neighbourhood" and shared with local and global audiences to stimulate debate and broaden understanding between participants.The project will be facilitated by a Greater-Paris-based NGO, European Alternatives, and a Project Management Committee including artists, NGOs, institutions, grassroots organisations and venues in Saint-Denis. The project will build a lasting legacy by producing a series of Co-Creation training materials and 15-minute podcasts subtitled in three languages to be made accessible via BN's website and YouTube channel for global audiences. A policy brief will maximise impact and promote new approaches to the key new challenges.

该项目建立在2012-2014年由PI和Co-I领导的郊区网络(BN)项目的基础上。BN解决了法国大巴黎地区的种族隔离问题，建立了学者和从业人员网络，并通过2013年创新的暑期学校，向民间社会团体提供跨学科知识和资源。然而，在过去十年里，由于当地和国际趋势的综合作用，法国郊区的不平等现象大幅恶化，包括对边缘化城市地区机构的不信任加剧、日益耻辱和孤立、不成比例地暴露在新冠肺炎大流行中、年轻居民中活跃公民人数的减少，以及国家通过例如取代工薪阶层居民的全球体育赛事推动的中产阶级化。虽然这些问题最近变得与全球北部的许多边缘社区有关，但它们影响全球南部脆弱的城市地区的时间要长得多。在2014年完成BN项目后，PI和Co-I与里约热内卢和墨西哥城的社区合作，成功地测试了联合创造，这是在BN 2013年圣丹尼暑期学校期间开发的一种方法，产生了可衡量的影响。这种以艺术为基础的知识生产方法旨在促进积极的公民意识和创造力，以分享知识并在弱势社区建立复原力。评估方法用于评估共同创造对参与社区的影响。全球北方和南方有弹性的社区之间的共同创造方法和知识共享可以帮助法国郊区的政策制定者和草根组织巩固他们对城市贫困的理解，并为正在出现的新挑战开发新的实践解决方案。因此，我们建议回到圣丹尼，这是法国最受耻辱的城市之一，目前正吸引公众关注，作为2024年奥运会的未来举办地：1)向习惯于自上而下方法的城市政策制定者和实践者的重点受众传播共同创造，使他们熟悉与民间社会合作伙伴合作共同设计实际解决方案的替代方式；2)扩大BN在法国和全球南部的影响，扩大网络，包括来自这些背景的新的利益攸关方、非政府组织、艺术家和政策制定者，并让他们参与分享最佳做法；3)在法国、墨西哥和巴西的利益攸关方和青年活动家团体之间建立桥梁，以促进对城市边缘的新思维。这些目标将通过一系列创造性的活动和产出来实现，其中包括：a)向政策和实践受众提供两个关于共同创作方法的互动培训讲习班；b)为期12周的由艺术家领导的多媒体讲习班，对年轻人进行创意写作、电影制作、摄影、活动组织和交流方面的培训；c)举办摄影和短片大赛，举办为期两天的短片节和摄影展；D)五个国际讨论小组进行了面对面的讨论，但有来自全球南方的发言者通过Zoom参加；e)讲习班参与者制作了一系列纪录片，主题为“我所在社区的公民”，并与当地和全球观众分享，以激发辩论和扩大与会者之间的了解。该项目将通过制作一系列共同创作培训材料和15分钟的播客字幕，以三种语言向全球观众提供BN网站和YouTube频道的字幕，从而建立持久的遗产。政策简报将最大限度地发挥影响，并推动采取新方法应对关键的新挑战。