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.

该项目将研究高层建筑失败的连锁反应：它在世界上如何展现出深远的后果，以及如何利用其来源来重新思考城市未来。将伦敦的Grenfell Tower大火和内罗毕的一系列建筑物倒塌为起点，它将与“失败”进行严格的互动，既是社会政治类别，又是探索失败在世界上的作用，以及其来临者可能产生的事件。定性的，跨学科的城市方法以及雄心勃勃的影响和公众参与计划将调查火灾和建筑物崩溃如何改变跨多个规模的更广泛的城市景观，从拆除到城市更新，重大创新，政治和公众舆论。它将探索诸如火灾，物质故障和建筑崩溃之类的失败如何嵌入较长的社会，政治和基础设施干预的历史中，以及它们如何跨越时间积累以塑造高层地理位置的排斥，愿望和转变。该项目调查了来自失败场所的城市转变，将跟踪立法，政治和社会变革是由火灾和建筑物崩溃引发的，以及强大的城市行动主义和公民赋权，这些城市行动主义和公民赋权正在重塑内罗毕和伦敦的社区。在伦敦学上，该项目在范围内将与一定的差异相比，该项目将在差异上进行比较，而不是进行跨度的差异。这种方法在城市研究中的常规全球北/南部分裂中工作，与建筑环境专业人员，艺术家和社区团体以及建筑物本身一起工作。从根本上讲，它预示着受房屋灾难影响的社区的声音，认识到他们在自己的社区中的专业知识，并将其融入重新思考高层景观未来的方法中。