Divided Pasts - Design Futures
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Ulster
Department Name: Sch of Architecture and Design
Abstract
This multidisciplinary project aims to understand how urban design influenced by historical and heritage data can be used to address issues such as environmental sustainability, public health, and ethic/religious/class segregation in cities. The research brings a team of academic investigators (history, architecture, peace and conflict studies) together with local government officials (planning, environment, museums and heritage service) and social enterprise (design, digital fabrication) to collect a wide array of data that will then be used to aid the design of a multi-million pound public landscaping project in the city of Derry/Londonderry.
Research by the World Heart Federation (Smith et al, 2012) has established a strong link between urbanisation and cardiovascular disease, while also identifying urban design as an essential pillar in its recommendations for improving public health in cities. In particular, the engaged development of infrastructure, parks and green corridors were outlined as an essential part of a strategy to improve public health along with public information campaigns, access to healthcare, and stakeholder engagement.
Working from the premise that urban design can contribute to not only an improvement in public health, but also to environmental sustainability and community cohesion in divided cities, the project intends to build a bank of historical and heritage data that can be used to ensure that future urban design projects will reflect the cultural and architectural heritage of the area under development. In so doing, the community ownership and use of such projects and facilities can be increased through the formation of a partnership between academic researchers, local government officials, community activists, and residents.
The city of Derry/Londonderry has a history of violent division stretching back hundreds of years and urban design has been at the centre of attempts to both divide and integrate from the erection of the city walls in the seventeenth century to the construction of the pedestrian Peace Bridge linking the unionist east to the nationalist west of the city in 2011. The project combines methods from history and historical anthropology (oral history interviews, archival and statistical research), geography (GIS mapping), design (digital fabrication), and the wider social sciences (walking interviews) to collate data relating to space and place, and how people have interacted with a changing built environment over time in a divided city with a violent past. Borrowing from the thinking behind the emerging discipline of design anthropology, in which ethnographic engagement leads to better design solutions for products and services, the research attempts to harness history, cultural/architectural heritage and social memory to help provide urban design solutions that are more reflective of people and their often dearly held personal and environmental histories.
An official partnership between the project investigators and Derry City and Strabane District Council will result in the research data being used to inform large-scale landscape and urban design projects to be developed during the lifetime of the research project as part of the Northern Ireland Executive's Urban Villages scheme. A similar partnership with the Nerve Centre FabLab (a community based digital fabrication centre) will result in the grassroots production of 3D city model plans that will be exhibited in the Tower Museum and be further used to inform the projects due to be developed in the city in the coming years.
The project will also contribute to the developing historiography of the Troubles through the production of a co-authored book and journal articles on the history of how people in the city of Derry/Londonderry interacted with their built and environmental surroundings before and since the implementation of the Londonderry Development Plan (1968) and the onset of violence at the same time.
Research by the World Heart Federation (Smith et al, 2012) has established a strong link between urbanisation and cardiovascular disease, while also identifying urban design as an essential pillar in its recommendations for improving public health in cities. In particular, the engaged development of infrastructure, parks and green corridors were outlined as an essential part of a strategy to improve public health along with public information campaigns, access to healthcare, and stakeholder engagement.
Working from the premise that urban design can contribute to not only an improvement in public health, but also to environmental sustainability and community cohesion in divided cities, the project intends to build a bank of historical and heritage data that can be used to ensure that future urban design projects will reflect the cultural and architectural heritage of the area under development. In so doing, the community ownership and use of such projects and facilities can be increased through the formation of a partnership between academic researchers, local government officials, community activists, and residents.
The city of Derry/Londonderry has a history of violent division stretching back hundreds of years and urban design has been at the centre of attempts to both divide and integrate from the erection of the city walls in the seventeenth century to the construction of the pedestrian Peace Bridge linking the unionist east to the nationalist west of the city in 2011. The project combines methods from history and historical anthropology (oral history interviews, archival and statistical research), geography (GIS mapping), design (digital fabrication), and the wider social sciences (walking interviews) to collate data relating to space and place, and how people have interacted with a changing built environment over time in a divided city with a violent past. Borrowing from the thinking behind the emerging discipline of design anthropology, in which ethnographic engagement leads to better design solutions for products and services, the research attempts to harness history, cultural/architectural heritage and social memory to help provide urban design solutions that are more reflective of people and their often dearly held personal and environmental histories.
An official partnership between the project investigators and Derry City and Strabane District Council will result in the research data being used to inform large-scale landscape and urban design projects to be developed during the lifetime of the research project as part of the Northern Ireland Executive's Urban Villages scheme. A similar partnership with the Nerve Centre FabLab (a community based digital fabrication centre) will result in the grassroots production of 3D city model plans that will be exhibited in the Tower Museum and be further used to inform the projects due to be developed in the city in the coming years.
The project will also contribute to the developing historiography of the Troubles through the production of a co-authored book and journal articles on the history of how people in the city of Derry/Londonderry interacted with their built and environmental surroundings before and since the implementation of the Londonderry Development Plan (1968) and the onset of violence at the same time.
Planned Impact
The project is designed to achieve maximum impact, particularly through community and policy engagement facilitated by project partnerships with local government departments and third sector bodies. Derry City and Strabane District Council (DCSDC) have committed to playing a central role in the development of the research and its dissemination. Staff from the Environment section of the council will meet with the project team on a quarterly basis. The purpose of these meetings will be to utilise the ongoing research findings to inform the development of a proposed £5 million urban regeneration project in Derry/Londonderry. The research will also impact on the DCSDC Strategic Growth Plan and Local Community Plans as a result of the regular meetings. The project investigators and researcher, along with DCSDC staff and interested research participants will co-author a 'Collaborative Design Statement' that will be used as a guide in the roll out of the proposed urban regeneration project, and in the council's strategic growth and community plans.
The Nerve Centre FabLab (digital fabrication suite) will allow for the implementation of a creative dissemination process with a high impact. Research participants will harness the historical and heritage information gathered by the project to design and build 3D models of the city they wish to see. Young people from the case study area will contribute by listening to extracts of the oral history interviews and designing cityscapes based on this information using the popular computer game Minecraft. The electronic cities in Minecraft will then be given physical form as 3D models using digital fabrication technology. This process will provide local people with skills in digital fabrication and provide a means to utilise cultural and architectural heritage in the design process. The 3D city models will then form part of an exhibition to be held in the Tower Museum, Derry/Londonderry in late 2020. This award winning museum welcomed 22,749 visitors from around the world in 2015. The exhibition will also feature some of the oral history recordings, photos and videos collected as part of the project, and representations of historic drawings and plans of parks, residences and public buildings in the city.
The interactive project website will feature streaming audio of oral history interviews and animated videos based on the audio, photography and GPS tracking of walking interviews. The latter will include drone footage, virtual reality video and archival photographs and documents, which will ensure the research is accessed by a wide variety of audiences. The website will also include interactive historic maps, showing change over time. The oral history interviews will also be available on the Accounts of the Conflict digital archive so that they can reach a wider audience and contribute to the existing role played by personal narrative in dealing with the legacy of the Troubles. A seminar in 2020 will bring together academics, designers, heritage professionals, local government officials, and case study residents to discuss how the research can be best used to develop policy, influence design, and create cohesive and sustainable communities in urban areas suffering from societal division.
The research team will apply to present a paper at the Knowledge Exchange Seminar Series during the 2020-21 session. This series is a collaboration between UU, Queen's University Belfast and the Open University, and the Northern Ireland Assembly. Academic research papers are presented to civil servants, MLAs and advisors around broad themes on a monthly basis. The team will also take advantage of the expected public interest in books, articles, broadcasts, talks, lectures, and other events related to the 50th anniversary of events from the late 1960s onwards in Northern Ireland.
The Nerve Centre FabLab (digital fabrication suite) will allow for the implementation of a creative dissemination process with a high impact. Research participants will harness the historical and heritage information gathered by the project to design and build 3D models of the city they wish to see. Young people from the case study area will contribute by listening to extracts of the oral history interviews and designing cityscapes based on this information using the popular computer game Minecraft. The electronic cities in Minecraft will then be given physical form as 3D models using digital fabrication technology. This process will provide local people with skills in digital fabrication and provide a means to utilise cultural and architectural heritage in the design process. The 3D city models will then form part of an exhibition to be held in the Tower Museum, Derry/Londonderry in late 2020. This award winning museum welcomed 22,749 visitors from around the world in 2015. The exhibition will also feature some of the oral history recordings, photos and videos collected as part of the project, and representations of historic drawings and plans of parks, residences and public buildings in the city.
The interactive project website will feature streaming audio of oral history interviews and animated videos based on the audio, photography and GPS tracking of walking interviews. The latter will include drone footage, virtual reality video and archival photographs and documents, which will ensure the research is accessed by a wide variety of audiences. The website will also include interactive historic maps, showing change over time. The oral history interviews will also be available on the Accounts of the Conflict digital archive so that they can reach a wider audience and contribute to the existing role played by personal narrative in dealing with the legacy of the Troubles. A seminar in 2020 will bring together academics, designers, heritage professionals, local government officials, and case study residents to discuss how the research can be best used to develop policy, influence design, and create cohesive and sustainable communities in urban areas suffering from societal division.
The research team will apply to present a paper at the Knowledge Exchange Seminar Series during the 2020-21 session. This series is a collaboration between UU, Queen's University Belfast and the Open University, and the Northern Ireland Assembly. Academic research papers are presented to civil servants, MLAs and advisors around broad themes on a monthly basis. The team will also take advantage of the expected public interest in books, articles, broadcasts, talks, lectures, and other events related to the 50th anniversary of events from the late 1960s onwards in Northern Ireland.
Publications
Grant, A.
(2021)
Gaming the Urban Past
in Context: Journal of the Institute for Historic Building Conservation
Adrian Grant
(2019)
How memories of a past can be a powerful resource for the future
| Title | Historical Urbanism Exhibition |
| Description | This is a museum exhibition bringing together oral histories, archive material, historic architectural drawings, contemporary and archive photography, and planning maps. This is bound together by a short narrative and includes QR codes that users can scan to access additional materials, such as streaming audio oral histories and additional multimedia content. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | No impacts yet. Exhibition has been designed and produced, but public availability was postponed due to the closure of the Tower Museum until further notice in 2021. An online version of the exhibition is in development. |
| Description | 1. The research is fully integrated into Derry City and Strabane District Council's brief for the appointment of an Integrated Consultant Team tasked with delivering a high level vision and concept framework for the transformation of the urban environment and landscape. This work is supported by the Northern Ireland Executive and forms a core part of its Urban Villages strategy in Derry. The appointed ICT will be obligated to work in consultation with the research team to ensure that the findings and approach are productively integrated in the resulting plan for the area. We have prepared a set of resources which the ICT will use in their work and we will also lead Collaborative Design Workshops and co-author a Collaborative Design Statement which will be used as a guide for this and future urban design projects. This public tender will be advertised in March 2021, with work to commence immediately after the ICT is appointed. 2. Creative industry: We have worked closely with a video game development company, Cupboard Games, to use the research to develop a video game. This game, which is still in development, will put the player in the shoes of a letter carrier who walks the streets of the city delivering vesting letters. This will give the player a sense of the heritage of the historic streetscape, while also understanding the emotional connections to the space in a way that traditional outputs could never achieve. While the game has not yet been released to the public, there has been a significant impact on this particular game company. They have understood the importance of the research from first contact, and have now begun to develop their own ideas for future "serious games" based on the experience of working with the research team. This company is now in the process of preparing a proposal for Future Screens NI funding inspired by their work with us on this project. |
| Exploitation Route | The outcomes can mainly be taken forward by policymakers in the area of regeneration and placemaking policy, generally but also in terms of how a more broadly understood notion of heritage can be used to drive regeneration and the creation of better places. There is also significant potential for the methods used to be adapted or utilised by design practitioners engaged in placemaking and urban design, particularly in cities emerging from conflict. Communities can use the approach and findings to explore their own histories further, while museums and cultural institutions can engage in further collaborations along similar lines to that between the Tower Museum and the research team. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Environment,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Transport,Other |
| URL | https://historicalurbanism.space |
| Description | 1. The research is fully integrated into Derry City and Strabane District Council's brief for the appointment of an Integrated Consultant Team tasked with delivering a high level vision and concept framework for the transformation of the urban environment and landscape. This work is supported by the Northern Ireland Executive and forms a core part of its Urban Villages strategy in Derry. The appointed ICT will be obligated to work in consultation with the research team to ensure that the findings and approach are productively integrated in the resulting plan for the area. We have prepared a set of resources which the ICT will use in their work and we will also lead Collaborative Design Workshops and co-author a Collaborative Design Statement which will be used as a guide for this and future urban design projects. This public tender will be advertised in March 2021, with work to commence immediately after the ICT is appointed. 2. Creative industry: We have worked closely with a video game development company, Cupboard Games, to use the research to develop a video game. This game, which is still in development, will put the player in the shoes of a letter carrier who walks the streets of the city delivering vesting letters. This will give the player a sense of the heritage of the historic streetscape, while also understanding the emotional connections to the space in a way that traditional outputs could never achieve. While the game has not yet been released to the public, there has been a significant impact on this particular game company. They have understood the importance of the research from first contact, and have now begun to develop their own ideas for future "serious games" based on the experience of working with the research team. This company is now in the process of preparing a proposal for Future Screens NI funding inspired by their work with us on this project. UPDATE 2022 ICT referred to in 1 has no been appointed and research team has engaged regularly. Work continues as part of this process. The video-game referred to in 2 has now been published and was playable as part of the exhibition. It will be made available online when time allows. The policy / practice roundtable that took place in July 2021 resulted in requests for further meetings and discussion with planners from the Republic of Ireland. This engagement continues. The project exhibition took place from Sept 2021 - January 2022 and engaged with 1000s of visitors. This has now been reproduced as a virtual reality exhibition. Findings were also used by practitioners, students and the general public to draw up plans for the regeneration of a part of Derry city currently experiencing significant deprivation. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2021 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Environment,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Transport |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | Post Brexit landscape planning committee |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Public realm project steering committee |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Dobbin Atlantic Scholarship (Ireland Canada University Foundation) |
| Amount | € 4,400 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Ireland Canada University Foundation |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Ireland |
| Start | 05/2020 |
| End | 06/2020 |
| Description | Collaboration with NI Executive Office |
| Organisation | Government of Northern Ireland |
| Department | Office of First Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMdFM) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | A number of meeting have been held with Executive Office (Urban Villages) staff. Agreement reached that an external urban design consultant would be appointed via project partner Derry City and Strabane District Council to produce design concept for strategic capital investment in case study area. The research team will develop and package data for use by the external consultant, who will then base concept on data and a series of collaborative design workshops led by the research team and partners. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Urban Villages have agreed to fund the cost of external design consultants to work up a conceptual plan based on the research data. This is estimated to the value of £50,000. The resulting concept will feed into plans for a multi million pound capital investment in the case study area. |
| Impact | Ongoing. No outputs or outcomes to list yet. Disciplines include history, architecture, urban design, planning. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Digital Fabrication Workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A group of 10 individuals engaged in a series of digital fabrication workshops where they learned digital design skills and engaged in discussions about ways in which heritage and history can be positively used to influence urban design. This activity is ongoing and a physical model of the group's proposals for a specific part of the city is under construction. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | Documentary background request |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | I gave an interview to a television documentary researcher working for RTÉ, who is working on a social history of Northern Ireland. They wish to include a section on public housing provision. I provided a lot of background information and context, and brokered contact with a number of other individuals. I am due to appear as an expert when this documentary is filmed later in 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Forced displacement panel discussion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Participated in a panel discussion about forced displacement during the Troubles (a very sensitive topic) along with politicians and other academics. Discussion with the public on reasons for Protestant depopulation of Derry city. My contribution on wider housing regeneration brought about a discussion on the varied factors impacting on the process. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://peaceblog.ulster.ac.uk/tag/exodus/ |
| Description | Historical Urbanism Exhibition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A NEW exhibition at the Tower Museum will chart the path of Derry's transformation from the 1960s to the 1980s as the focus here shifted to urban regeneration. The temporary exhibition, which opens on Culture Night on September 17th, is titled 'Historical Urbanism: Planning the City of the Future' and has been developed by Dr Adrian Grant and Dr Pete Hodson from Ulster University, working alongside Council Archivist Bernadette Walsh. It's part of a wider research project being carried out by the university supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The exhibition focuses on the city's regeneration during these two decades when parts of the old city were demolished and replaced by modern housing developments. It also considers how this transformation brought with it both positive and negative consequences for the people living here. Speaking ahead of the launch, Mayor of Derry and Strabane, Alderman Graham Warke, said he was looking forward to learning more about the city's growth and development. "We are blessed to be living in such a beautiful city in terms of both our natural surroundings and our built heritage. "But the period of the 1960s-1980s was a time of great poverty and there was much demand for housing leading to the creation of new housing developments which completely changed the urban landscape. "I'm looking forward to learning more about the impact of these changes and what can be taken from them in terms of how we grow and develop our expanding urban areas to benefit future generations." Archivist with Derry City and Strabane District Council, Bernadette Walsh, said: "This research seeks to understand if a greater knowledge of the history of how cities changed over time can inform the design, planning and building of better urban places in the future. "We are really interested in hearing from visitors to the exhibition about their own thoughts on what makes a great urban place and to see some of the new ideas proposed." The exhibition focuses on a variety of collections from oral history interviews, archive photographs and architectural drawings, and the Londonderry Development Commission minute books. It also reveals some artists' sketches of what a future Derry might have looked like if a set of plans from 1968 were fully carried through. The exhibition features interactive elements for smartphone interaction and a video game. Dr Adrian Grant, a lecturer in politics at Ulster University who leads the Historical Urbanism research, said he was excited to see the exhibition take place, especially after the difficulties of carrying out such a people-focused research project during a pandemic: "We wanted to put the voices of the people who lived through urban regeneration in the city front and centre of our research and this exhibition," he explained. "That became a really difficult thing to do when we were prevented from meeting and interacting with people in person during 2020. "Luckily, we managed to use digital technology to our advantage and the exhibition now includes a digital recreation of the 1960s city through a video game. "Visitors will also be able to listen to the actual voices of the local people we spoke to, and give their own opinions, by using smartphones during and after their visits." 'Historical Urbanism: Planning the City of the Future' will open on September 17th and will remain onsite until January 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.derrydaily.net/2021/09/16/new-exhibition-to-explore-derrys-urban-development-story/ |
| Description | Historical Urbanism Public Research Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Can a deeper understanding of the history and heritage of place have a positive impact on urban design and placemaking? This research symposium considered the potential for historical research to contribute to urban design, planning and placemaking processes. Can a deep consideration of the historic 'everyday' experiences of people in urban spaces bring new insights to heritage-led regeneration? Is there a double benefit in researching the complexities of the urban past and then using this research to design better places? As new cities grow rapidly, and old cities expand and require regeneration, it is essential that policymakers, planners and designers consider how connection to and interaction with place is constructed over time. The question that arises is - can we use research that presents the intricacies of everyday life in the past city as a usable means to better understand the contemporary city and positively influence its future form? This symposium considered these questions in a broad sense by exploring the conceptual and methodological approaches necessary to create such 'usable pasts' and apply them in contemporary policy contexts. Speakers & talks Historical Urbanism: exploring and utilising the history of urban regeneration in Derry Dr Adrian Grant Prof. Brandon Hamber Mr David Coyles Dr Pete Hodson (Ulster University) Emotional attachments to historic urban places Prof. Rebecca Madgin (University of Glasgow) Oral history, urban change and the revision of Belfast's social history: case studies of Sailortown and the Holylands Prof. Sean O'Connell (Queen's University Belfast). The regeneration of Liverpool docks Dr Olivier Sykes (University of Liverpool) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Historical Urbanism Roundtable Policy Discussion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Historical Urbanism Roundtable Can a deeper understanding of the history and heritage of place have a positive impact on urban design and placemaking? This was a closed roundtable session on 1st July 2021 (13.30-15.30) to discuss the outcomes and potential applications of the Historical Urbanism (Divided Pasts - Design Futures) research project, recently carried out at Ulster University with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Historical Urbanism advocates for a deep understanding of the history and memory of place as a central component of the urban design process. Using oral history and archival research as core methodologies, the research team focused on the history of urban regeneration in the city of Derry/Londonderry as a case study. Emphasis was placed on tracing the impact of rapidly changing urban environments on individuals, communities and neighbourhoods.This session considered the most effective ways to positively integrate this historical knowledge with policy, planning and design processes in the contemporary and future city. While the research focuses on a specific case study, we intended for the discussion to concentrate on cities generally and to initially centre on the following topics: Social history positively informing urban design. How can this be achieved practically? Reflecting the historic character of 'everyday' people and places in regeneration processes Balancing competing definitions of 'heritage' Using historical research to identify and protect tangible and intangible heritage linked to people and places Potential to contextualise the history of urban Northern Ireland and other urban areas with a history of conflict by promoting further social history research Invitees were encouraged to submit further topics and sub-topics for discussion in advance of the roundtable. The outcome was positive, with follow up meetings organised with local authority planners in the Republic of Ireland interested in exploring the approach further. Work continues with NI policymakers and planners. The event also brought heritage policymakers and practitioners into contact with the research for the first time. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Historical Urbanism Virtual Reality 360 Exhibition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Following the closure of the Historical Urbanism exhibition, the Tower Museum invested in a 360 VR tour that will be available online until 2022. This will reach a much wider audience, and potentially advertise the physical exhibition to more physical venues to host in future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=QbaSoJRD3LL |
| Description | Project website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Multimedia interactive website (just launched in March 2021), which includes an oral history archive, museum exhibition panels, working papers, storymaps and other project information. Intended purpose is to disseminate to general public through oral history archive and exhibition, but also to reach practitioners and policymakers through storymaps and other targeted resources |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://historicalurbanism.space |
| Description | Public research seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | A planned seminar was moved online and was one of the first such events during the pandemic. There was a huge and varied attendance and a lot fo engagement and debate with the issues presented. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ulster.ac.uk/transitional-justice-institute/events/breaking-binary-history-can-the-storm... |
| Description | Radio interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with the Mark Patterson Show on BBC Radio Foyle, with a long discussion about the research and intended outcomes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p071lg91 |
| Description | Television appearance |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Television production that focuses on a particular topic for 30 minutes. This consists of an interview with a historian. In this case i spoke about Divided Pasts - Design Futures and the potential use of history and heritage data to inform urban design and planning. Also long discussion about how the social history of the troubles in underdeveloped |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.nvtv.co.uk/shows/history-now-adrian-grant/ |
| Description | Walking Tour for visiting conference delegation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Around 30 individuals belonging to the BuildPeace organisation visited the city of Derry. The PI and Co-I Hamber led a walking tour of the city with a focus on urban regeneration and its interaction with civil conflict and peacebuilding. Many of the participants noted that this was a new angle in terms of understanding the conflict for them and comparisons were made with American cities and conflict cities globally. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Walking tour: the hold of the old neighbourhood |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Walking tour of case study area with detailed commentary on project findings. Part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-hold-of-the-old-neighbourhood-tickets-424198809057?aff=ebdsoporgp... |
| Description | Workshop and Walking tour with international delegation from Transformative Memory Network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop and walking tour outlining project findings and linking to international discussion on post-conflict space, planning and peacebuilding in urban contexts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |