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You Can Make History: Extending and developing youth engagement in cultural heritage.

Funder: UK Research and InnovationProject code: AH/R004544/1
Funded under: AHRC Funder Contribution: 80,087 GBP

You Can Make History: Extending and developing youth engagement in cultural heritage.

Description

This project follows on from "'You Can't Move History. You Can Secure the Future': Engaging Youth in Cultural heritage". This project on the Long Live South Bank (LLSB) campaign to save the skate spot in the Undercroft from redevelopment was funded by the AHRC. Until recently, the involvement of young people in heritage debates has typically been as part of a rhetorical strategy that serves to speak for them as future stakeholders. However, as this project demonstrated, the campaign to save the Undercroft was led by young people who were highly engaged political subjects capable of defining their own claims to urban space. There are two stands of academic research underpinning this project. The first strand asks how successive generations of young people developed attachments to the skate spot. The second strand engages with the way in which LLSB activists communicated their attachment to the Undercroft to policy makers and the wider public. Both strands draw on an existing body of archival material and new walking interviews, film interviews and oral histories to develop an understanding of the micro-politics of heritage campaigns. During the project we collaborated critically and creatively with community filmmakers, the BrazenBunch, as well as with the youth engagement officers of the Heritage Lottery Fund. We produced a film and an online exhibition which were presented to heritage and arts organizations during a workshop in central London. Since then we have written and circulated a report drawing out the key themes discussed during the workshop. These processes were genuinely collaborative and were experienced by the academics, filmmaker, campaigners and policy makers as an extremely positive, creative and critical dialogue. The new project aims to continue to extend and develop this participatory ethos. To achieve this we will: Organize a travelling series of screenings for our award-winning film 'You Can't Move History', followed by discussions. Six screenings will take place over the course of a year. Two screenings will engage with audiences interested in thinking differently about the ways in which young people participate in public life. Two screenings will engage with audiences interested in heritage activism in locations beyond the Southbank. Two screenings will engage with audiences interested in participatory film making as a methodological approach to policy/research. All of the screenings will take place outside London. Produce a 'coda' for the original film including footage documenting evidence of impact beyond immediate stakeholders, for example from the screening discussion outlined above. This ten-minute section of film would also document the post-workshop changes in the relationship between young people and policy makers on London's Southbank and offer the Southbank Centre a space to articulate their experience of moving towards a positive and collaborative relationship with the Long Live Southbank campaign. Organize a screening discussion of both the original film and the newly produced 'coda' which will be timed to coincide with the opening of the restored sections of the Undercroft and the Children and Young People's Centre. This event will enable us to demonstrate the ways in which innovative research methods of engagement and co-production feed into policy-making and contribute to the development of better understanding of the ways in which young people articulate their claims to urban space and in doing so participate in public life. Three workshop attendees have expressed an interest in hosting this event (from the Southbank Centre, the British Film Institute and the Museum of London). However, as this decision depends in part upon factors out of our hands (such as the completion of building work!), it will be taken in 2018.

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