Conference Presentations by Carl Fraser
Our research looks at the role of the high street within a local community. The high street is of... more Our research looks at the role of the high street within a local community. The high street is often reductively classified as a space for commercial opportunity. However, it’s prominent position within the urban fabric also creates the opportunity for activities, enterprises and identities which have a more socially focused remit. If the idea of the diverse high street, a typology which integrates residential, communal, institutional and commercial programs within the same locality is valued by those who instigate change, we believe that they can help to facilitate a vibrant, diverse and sustainable environment. One where the potential of plurality engrained within social, political and economic structures, are maintained in local, regional and national development strategies.
Papers by Carl Fraser
The image above shows the implementation of a series of laws which completely changed the conditi... more The image above shows the implementation of a series of laws which completely changed the conditions under which unions' operated in the UK. Over a thirteen-year period unions went from being the dominant oppositional political force, to the much diminished position that they hold today. The reasons for this transition become tangible when represented in this redacted diagrammatic form. By drawing and effectively documenting these changes within the structure of a timeline, the key changes of both political trajectories and their effect on physical space can be made tangible. This theoretical notion of representational justice is tested by the visualisation of this system of accumulative piecemeal change. The decisions that they implement, result in tangible physical changes in the types of activities which can occur in said territories. Thus, public(ly accessible) spaces in proximity to powerful institutions are spaces typically subjected to such legislative constraints including expulsion or omission based on identity or varied methods of profiling 5 . Without a visual representation of the trajectory of these changes as they are implemented through time, the restrictions can easily progress without public knowledge 6 or understanding of their impact. Thus discourse or resistance 6 More information on knowledge as a socially and politically constructed phenomenon can be found in the chapter "City and Power in the subsection "Power and Knowledge" 8: Thatcher & The Employment Act Protest Contingencies map: Extract (Author) See appendix for a more in-depth description of related acts i 12: Westwood Common (1635) 13: Parish of Llyswen iii commoning (1840)
Spatial Practices: Modes of Action and Engagement with the City, 2020
Exploring the assertion that protests are an encapsulation of our right to the city, working agai... more Exploring the assertion that protests are an encapsulation of our right to the city, working against the culmination of measures put in place to curtail the impact of this public practice and its associated actions and agencies for participants. Expanding on observations realised at the Occupy LSX - London Stock Exchange (2011/12) protest camp as an exploratory framework, where the precarity over the role of dissent in contemporary neo-liberal societies becomes evident.
This thesis is an investigation into the role that public(ly accessible) space plays in contempor... more This thesis is an investigation into the role that public(ly accessible) space plays in contemporary society. Exploring how these locations can be utilised as a platform to better understand the relationship between citizens and their representatives. The social, political and economically motivated activity which engages with this spatial potential is protest . This thesis will research the way in which locations which are recognised as spaces of congregation such as squares, markets, plaza and parks are intrinsically political, both in the way these locations come into being and the way that their presence is utilised by a politically active user group. In tandem, the thesis will also research locations with a more temporary association with socialisation, but are utilised by activists for their spatial significance when pertaining to a particular cause, complaint or agenda which sparks an idealistic conflict. These are spaces which, as inhabitants of the city we all transgress; s...
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Conference Presentations by Carl Fraser
Papers by Carl Fraser