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Public Space/Contested Space illustrates the ways in which creative interventions in public space have constituted a significant dimension of contemporary political action.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Public Space/Contested Space Kevin D. Murphy and Sally O’Driscoll Section 1: The Built Environment 2. Process, Product, Program: The Architect as Facilitator of Social Change Garrett Nelli, AIA 3. "The Search for New Forms": Black Power and the Making of the Postmodern City Brian D. Goldstein 4. Centro Cultural Móvil: Critical Service Learning and Design with Latinx Farmworkers Silvina Lopez Barrera and Erin Sassin 5. Inside Out: Private Space on Public Display in Modern and Contemporary Demolition Art Kevin D. Murphy Section 2: Artists and Public Space 6. Intervention: Indigo Laura Anderson Barbata 7. "No Matter Where We Move, We Look at the Same Moon": A Half-Century Between the Pacific and Stars Jerome Reyes and tammy ko Robinson 8. Silenced Subversions: Critical Messages Exhibition at Artemisia Gallery, Chicago (1985) Joanna Gardner-Huggett 9. International Revolution by Design: The Art of Tanya Aguiñiga Sheila Pepe Section 3: Activists and Urban Space 10. Occupying Domesticity: Reproductive Labor in Zuccotti Park Susan Fraiman 11. Occupy Wall Street: Mapping a Movement Marlisa Wise 12. Tent City, USA: The Growth of America’s Homeless Encampments and How Communities are Responding Maria Foscarinis and Eric Tars 13. Bodies in Space: A Conversation with L.A. Kauffman L.A. Kauffman with Sally O’Driscoll
About the author
Kevin D. Murphy is Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities and Professor and Chair of the Department of History of Art at Vanderbilt University. Previously, he was on the faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center and the University of Virginia School of Architecture.
Sally O’Driscoll is Professor of English and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Fairfield University. Her work on 18th-century literature and culture has appeared in such journals as Signs, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, and Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation.
Summary
Public Space/Contested Space illustrates the ways in which creative interventions in public space have constituted a significant dimension of contemporary political action.
