Objective
The project brings into focus a little studied relation between cultural pluralization in enlarging Europe, its visualization in the public spaces of European cities, and alternative approaches to manage social change and the potentially growing social tensions through regeneration and re-appropriation of the urban environment. Therefore, the main objective of the proposed research is to reveal how growing cultural diversity and social and economic restructuring become visualized in public spaces of different types of European cities as particular focus through which can be observed and analysed processes of social inclusion or exclusion in society. From this point of view, the research will be interested in the changing iconography of urban public space in the studied cities (St. Petersburg, Sofia, Lviv and Manchester).
Besides that, the role of symbolic ethnoscapes in the construction of the urban imagery will be explored, such as places and signs of memory or markers of the identity of ethnic, religious, migrant and other subcultures and diasporas in the urban environment; the extent to which these different cultural markers co-exist in public space, or whether they denote tension or a potential conflict of interests. The highly interdisciplinary project includes not only the empirical research with its various parts (historical study of archives, photo-diary, participant observation, semi-structured in-depth interviews), but the dissemination of its results and policy implication practices, such as:
- Stimulation of a debate among the scientific community about possibilities for introduction of alternative science-based approaches in urban planning and regeneration (at an international conference where the findings from each case will be analysed and summarized and urban policy recommendations will be offered)
- Sustaining the debate (through a book with conference proceedings);
- Raising awareness of the civil society about the potential of urban environment to be a factor of integration or alienation of certain social groups and subcultures on the territory of the city (through the creation of a touring documentary photographic exhibition);
- Sensitising the key urban policy-makers about the existing new practices and shifts in the urban planning and regeneration, reflecting some global changes (through book, exhibition and catalogue of positive/negative examples of urban regeneration).
Thus the project as a whole will contribute for the re-conceptualisation of the European city not only as the key scale at which conflicts arise, but may also be resolved through the promotion of innovative urban design and new management approaches to public space of the city. This determines not only the scientific novelty of the proposed research but its high potential for large-scale and long-term social implications within the enlarging European Union assisting the sustainable development of societies.
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BLAGOEVGRAD
Bulgaria
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