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Framing the City<\/h3>\n

Visual Essay
\nFeatured in JAWS
\n<\/a>Volume 1 Number 2
\nISSN: 20552823<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/b>Published by Intellect<\/p>\n

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Framing the City is a visual essay reflecting on the construction of images and the fabric of place. Combining 6 original collages and writing by Camilla Brueton with quotes from theorists and artists who influence her, it presents the city as a living collage. Hopes, dreams and optimism from different decades are embedded in the built environment; constantly framed and reframed by our movements and actions as we go about our daily lives.<\/p>\n

Find out more about JAWS<\/a> or download Framing the City <\/a><\/p>\n

nb. many universities subscribe to Intellect, making it free to download this article whilst on campus.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2018There is labour in making images \u2019 (Julien 2014)<\/em><\/p>\n

An image: a framed view of the world.<\/p>\n

How do we construct\/ deconstruct images: on the page, on the screen, in the city around us?<\/p>\n

Framed by a car window, a door, a passageway. Buildings collage against each other. Modernism against neo classicism, the architecture of neo capitalism adjacent to brutalism. Framing and reframing is ongoing and constant. The planning process- ideas \/ logistics underpin it all. Shifting values. Shifting power.<\/p>\n

Powerlines cut across an apartment block, framed by a flyover.<\/p>\n

Glimpses of a past and a future race past.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Architecture is the form in which many cultural forces find expression and become therefore accessible to a mute, visual medium.\u2019 (<\/em>Stephen Shore 2014)<\/p>\n

Tower blocks rise up.<\/p>\n

Individual units stacked on top of each other.<\/p>\n

Previously built as social housing, towards a better future for all (although in reality, often problematic).<\/p>\n

Aspirational sky-scrapers are being built again across London, this time driven by market forces and capital gain.<\/p>\n

A strange dodecagonal building squats in the foreground. Built maybe as a community centre, now an evangelical church. Hopes, aspirations and beliefs play out in the cityscape.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Further references include Marc Auge, John Berger, Doreen Massey, Iain Sinclair, Saint Etienne… find out more here<\/a><\/p>\n

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