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Active energy: Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park - communities countering climate change - project installation
No full textInstallation of a floating water wheel in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park that drives an aerator to help keep fish alive at times of high pollution. This was accompanied by a launch event involving speakers on environmental/climate change issues, project participants and the general public, who all contributed to a discussion around how older and younger people have been countering the effects of climate change in this area through the Active Energy arts project
Geezer power: the Active Energy project
No full textInterview with Loraine Leeson, Toby Borland and The Geezers on the Active Energy project for book entitled Culture, community and climate: emergent transpraxis.
The book is primarily interested in exploring how we can cross disciplinary boundaries in exploring a question or idea and also transculturalism. Professional disciplines have their own cultures and ways of thinking and working, but even in this globalised world, so do individual nations and ethnic groups. All of these cultural languages play into our work: this book would like to explore how culture, practice and language can intermingle to create new projects that explore real-world questions
The Art of Engagement
No full textThe project explored how the teaching of social practice can be improved for arts practitioners through partnership between cultural and higher education institutions. It made use of online communications to test practical possibilities for augmenting learning through collaboration across national boundaries, and investigate other benefits that networking across institutional and geographical divides can bring
Interview and video in London Community Video Archive
No full text1) Lorraine Leeson -Art Conferring Power
Production Credits
Camera
Rosie Saunders
Interview and Editor
Siobhan Schwartzberg
2) Emergency — Keep Bethnal Green Hospital Open
Production Credits
Videomaker
Loraine Leeson, Peter Dun
Art as Activism, interview with Peter Dunn and Loraine Leeson by Juliette Desorgues
No full textInterview by Juliette Desorgues with Loraine Leeson and Peter Dunn for French online journal Switch (on Paper) on 1970s artwork on health issues produced with trades unions
Simultaneity in signed languages: a string of sequentially organised issues
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Spaces of Hope
No full textSpaces of Hope aimed to produce the first sustained history of community-led planning in the UK documenting the diverse and previously hidden ways in which people have come together to care for the future of their local environments and exploring what their efforts mean for contemporary approaches to planning and participatory place-making.
The project has drawn on a number of case studies including the campaigning in the London Docklands in the 1980s to identify an approach to development that meets the needs of local people
Docklands community poster project: Peter Dunn & Dr. Loraine Leeson [Interview]
No full textInterview by Greenwich Mural Workshop about the photo-murals created for the Docklands Community Poster Project in the 1980s
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