What is a sense of place? How is it created? How does this change?

Occupation of space – creating a sense of place Dwelling (Heidegger: being-in-the-world ) Buildings and neighborhood Work Transportation Shopping Leisure Identity: race, gender, class, sexuality, Process: marginalization, segregation, removal, isolation, resistance Counter-space: graffiti

Occupation and the Poetics of Place Hayden, The Power of Place The story of cities and urban landscapes is tied to the conflicts between the making of space and its multiple signification as place Hayden ties place-making to memory-making through poetics and art creating an inclusive “cultural citizenship” reflected in the making and occupation of landscapes that bear the traces and scars of time

Cognitive Maps

White landscape in colonial Virginia: articulated and processional “… rooms in the house, the house itself, the outbuildings, the church with its interior pews and surrounding walled courtyard, the courthouse and its walled courtyard … linked by roads that functioned as the setting for community interactions that worked together to embody the community as a whole” (Upton p.66) Black landscape: static and discrete –Moving from one point to another in discontinuous and concrete fashion “keep to the right hand path, then you’ll come to an old field, you are to cross that, and the you’ll come to the fence of such a one’s plantation, then keep to that fence, and you’ll come to a road that has three forks... Then you’ll come to a creek, after you cross that creek you must turn to the left, and you’ll come to a tobacco house …”

Place Memory Edward Casey: –“It is the stabilizing persistence of place as a container experience that contributes so powerfully to its intrinsic memoriability … we might even say that memory is naturally place-oriented or at least place-supported” More simply: –Places make stories because stories make places

What is Public about Public Art? or Public History? or Public Archaeology?

1992 LA Riots Why destroy your own neighborhood?

1992 LA Riots How to commemorate negative heritage? "We wake up and we're surprised that there's poverty in our midst, and that people are frustrated and angry. There's recriminations as to what happened, and then there are panels and meetings and commissions, then reports. Then there's a little bit of money folks piece together to send it into the community to make sure the folks are quiet and go back to the status quo. But we never take the bullet out of the arm and stitch up the wound that has been made in this country." Many people rose, applauding. "We don't need panels and reports and commissions. We need some surgery on the indifference to poverty in this country that has gone on for too long. We know what needs to be done. We know what it would mean to take the bullet out—the bullet of slavery and Jim Crow. We know what it would take to take that bullet out..." Then Obama stopped his speech. "I've got to take a break, because Stevie Wonder's in the house," Obama said. (April 29, 2007 First AME Church)

Symbolic acts endure and traditions live on when the metaphor is right Gloucester till the end Greasy Pole 2007

Post Industrial André Derain, Fishing Boats, 1905, Collioure It took 400 years to build this culture, and it could all be lost in a few decades. Fishing and the culture of fishing, an ancient trade and a way of life that has defined coastal towns throughout history are vanishing from the Atlantic.

Life and Debt