High-rise landscapes: The afterlives of tower block 'failure' and rethinking urban futures

高层景观：塔楼“失败”的后遗症和重新思考城市未来

• 批准号: MR/Y003586/1
• 负责人: Constance Smith
• 金额: $ 74.95万
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FY003586%2F1
• 关键词: rise; landscapes; afterlives; tower; block

This project will examine the ripple effects of high-rise building failure: how it unfolds in the world with far-reaching consequences, and how its afterlives might be harnessed for rethinking urban futures. Taking the Grenfell Tower fire in London and a series of building collapses in Nairobi as its starting points, it will critically engage with 'failure' as both a socio-political category and as an event to explore how failure acts in the world, and what its afterlives might generate. Qualitative, interdisciplinary urban methods and an ambitious impact and public engagement programme will investigate how fire and building collapse can transform wider urban landscapes across multiple scales, from demolition to urban renewal, material innovation to politics and public opinion. It will explore how failures such as fire, material malfunction and building collapse are embedded in longer histories of social, political and infrastructural intervention, and how these accumulate across time to shape high-rise geographies of exclusion, aspiration and transformation. Investigating urban transformation from sites of failure, the project will track the interrelations of legislative, political and social change triggered by fire and building collapse, alongside powerful urban activism and civic empowerment that are reshaping communities in Nairobi and London.Methodologically, the project will adopt a comparativist, global urbanism approach that implements an open-ended mode of working with variation and discrepancy rather than attempting to control for difference. Working across conventional Global North/ South divides in urban studies, this approach is impact-oriented and participatory, working with built environment professionals, artists and community groups - as well as buildings themselves. Fundamentally, it foregrounds the voices of communities affected by housing disasters, recognising their expertise in their own neighbourhoods, and integrating them into methods for rethinking the future of high-rise landscapes.

这个项目将研究高层建筑失败的涟漪反应：它如何在世界上展开，产生深远的影响，以及如何利用它的来世来重新思考城市的未来。以伦敦的格伦费尔大厦火灾和内罗毕的一系列建筑物倒塌为起点，它将批判性地将“失败”作为一个社会政治类别和一个事件，探索失败如何在世界上发挥作用，以及它的来世可能产生什么。定性，跨学科的城市方法和雄心勃勃的影响和公众参与计划将调查火灾和建筑物倒塌如何在多个尺度上改变更广泛的城市景观，从拆除到城市更新，材料创新到政治和公众舆论。它将探讨火灾，材料故障和建筑物倒塌等故障如何嵌入社会，政治和基础设施干预的更长历史中，以及这些如何随着时间的推移积累，以塑造排斥，愿望和转型的高层地理。该项目从失败的地方调查城市转型，将跟踪火灾和建筑物倒塌引发的立法、政治和社会变革的相互关系，以及正在重塑内罗毕和伦敦社区的强大的城市行动主义和公民赋权。全球城市主义的方法，实现了一个开放式的模式，工作与变化和差异，而不是试图控制的差异。在城市研究中，这种方法跨越了传统的全球南北划分，以影响为导向，参与性强，与建筑环境专业人士，艺术家和社区团体以及建筑本身合作。从根本上说，它突出了受住房灾难影响的社区的声音，认识到他们在自己社区的专业知识，并将其融入重新思考高层景观未来的方法中。