Creativity from Suburban Nowheres: Rethinking Cultural and Creative Practices

Author:   Ilja Van Damme ,  Ruth McManus ,  Michiel Dehaene
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
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9781487525798


Pages:   390
Publication Date:   25 July 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Ilja Van Damme ,  Ruth McManus ,  Michiel Dehaene
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781487525798


ISBN 10:   1487525796
Pages:   390
Publication Date:   25 July 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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List of Illustrations and Tables Preface Contributors Part I: Openings 1. Rethinking Creative and Cultural Practices from the Outside in – An Interdisciplinary Exploration Ilja Van Damme, Ruth McManus, and Michiel Dehaene 2. The Uncool Hunt: Searching for the Creative Suburb David Gilbert Part II: The Suburban Home as Locus of Creativity 3. “Pictures, Plants, and Ornaments”: Jane Ellen Panton and Creative Practice in the British Victorian Suburbs Sarah Bilston 4. Battlegrounds of Taste and Distinction: Art and Antique Collectors in the Suburban Hinterland of Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Belgium Ulrike Müller and Ilja Van Damme 5. The Art of Living in the Australian Suburb: Creative and Cultural Production at Home in Suburban Melbourne, 1910s–1960s Susan Reidy 6. Ideal Homes and Haunted Houses: Twenty-First-Century Irish Suburban Art and Writing Simon Workman Part III: The Suburban Creative Milieu 7. Halfway between Nature and Culture: Uccle Centre d’Art, a Colony of Artists in Brussels’s Suburbs in the Interwar Period Tatiana Debroux 8. Exploring Creativity in Dublin’s Suburbs, 1900–2000: Insider, Outsider, Bourgeois, or Bohemian? Ruth McManus 9. Recreating Locality: Community and Identity in Budapest Suburbs, 1995–2020 János B. Kocsis 10. Creativity in Contemporary Housing Estate Neighbourhoods: The Case of Kontula, Helsinki Johanna Lilius 11. The Fung Bros Rep the Ethnoburb Margaret Crawford 12. Grounding Suburban LGBTQ+ Vernacular Creativities in the Toronto City-Region Alison L. Bain Part IV: Creating Suburbia 13. From Artistry to Agency? Transactional Architecture for the Creative Fashioning of the Antwerp Suburbs in the Early Twentieth Century Tom Broes and Michiel Dehaene 14. Creating Suburbs in North America: A Mutual Blind Spot Richard Harris

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"""This collection effectively challenges assumptions underpinning the denigration of suburbs as cultural wastelands. Spacious, affordable, connected, and closer to nature, the suburbs of Antwerp, Brussels, Helsinki, Dublin, Budapest, London, Melbourne, Los Angeles, and Toronto offer grounded examples of home-based decoration, artistic activity, collecting, and innovative digital, architectural, and garden design. Detailing the suburban milieux of different times and places moves them from 'nowheres' to somewheres of creative endeavour."" - Louise Johnson, Honorary Professor, Deakin University and University of Melbourne, and author of Cultural Capitals: Revaluing the Arts, Remaking Urban Spaces ""This marvellous collection not only explodes the myth of suburban conformity but also makes us question what creativity means in the context of the 'creative city.' It is required reading for anyone interested in the past and future of the modern city."" - Simon Gunn, Emeritus Professor of Urban History, University of Leicester"


"""This marvellous collection not only explodes the myth of suburban conformity but also makes us question what creativity means in the context of the 'creative city.' It is required reading for anyone interested in the past and future of the modern city.""--Simon Gunn, Emeritus Professor of Urban History, University of Leicester ""This collection effectively challenges assumptions underpinning the denigration of suburbs as cultural wastelands. Spacious, affordable, connected, and closer to nature, the suburbs of Antwerp, Brussels, Helsinki, Dublin, Budapest, London, Melbourne, Los Angeles, and Toronto offer grounded examples of home-based decoration, artistic activity, collecting, and innovative digital, architectural, and garden design. Detailing the suburban milieux of different times and places moves them from 'nowheres' to somewheres of creative endeavour.""--Louise Johnson, Honorary Professor, Deakin University and University of Melbourne, and author of Cultural Capitals: Revaluing the Arts, Remaking Urban Spaces"


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Ilja Van Damme is an associate professor of urban history at the University of Antwerp. Ruth McManus is an associate professor of geography and associate dean for teaching and learning in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Dublin City University. Michiel Dehaene is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Ghent University.

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