Art : Process : Change

Loraine Leeson is Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University, UK, and was Senior Research Fellow at the University of Westminster, UK.

Introduction

Part 1: Contexts and Case Studies

1. Seventies

1.1 London/Berlin Series

1.2 The Present Day Creates History

2.2 Bethnal Green Hospital Campaign

2.3 East London Health Project

2. Eighties

2.1 Docklands Community Poster Project

2.2 The Photo-murals

2.3 Campaigns

2.4 The People's Armadas to Parliament

2.5 The People's Plan for the Royal Docks

2.6 Docklands Roadshow

3. Nineties

3.1 The Art of Change

3.2 West Meets East

3.3 Celebrating the Difference

3.4 Between Family Lines

3.5 Awakenings

3.6. The Infinity Story

4. The New Millennium

4.1 cSPACE

4.2 The Catch

4.3 VOLCO

4.4 Cascade

4.5 The Young Person's Guide to the Royal Docks

4.6 The Young Person's Guide to East London

4.7 Lambeth Floating Marsh

4.8 Active Energy

5. In Hindsight

Part 2: Reflections

6. Process and Product

6.1 An Invitation

6.2 The Art of Negotiation

6.3 Managing Collective Input

6.4 From Communication to Community

6.5 Objects, Fragments and Narratives

6.6 When It Goes Wrong

6.7 Outcomes and Products

6.8 Feedback and Evaluation

7. Themes and Issues

7.1 Collaboration or Participation?

7.2 Interdisciplinarity

7.3 The Dynamics of Difference and Issues of Multiculturalism

7.4 Activism into Identity

7.5 Where Education Meets Production

7.6 Technology as Facilitator and Transformer of Social Engagement

7.7 From Co-op to Charity: Working from an Organisational Base

7.8 Funding

7.9 Regeneration

7.10 Social Change

8. Situating the Practice

8.1 Locating the Aesthetic

8.2 A Question of Function

8.3 Rebuilding the Cultural Frame

Appendix: Summary of Projects 1975–2016