Co-Curating the City: Universities and Urban Heritage Past and Future - Paperback

by Clare Melhuish (Editor), Henric Benesch (Editor), Dean Sully (Editor)

A significant contribution to knowledge about university spatial development in urban contexts.

Co-Curating the City explores the role of universities in the construction and mobilization of heritage discourses in urban development and regeneration processes, with a focus on six case study sites ranging from Sweden to Brazil. The book expands the field of critical heritage studies in the urban domain, arguing that universities should position themselves as significant institutions in the development of urban heritage narratives and heavily influence urban development. The case studies investigate how universities, as mixed communities of interest dispersed across buildings and urban sites, utilize strategies of engagement with local people and neighborhoods and ask how this could contribute to a reshaping of ideas, narratives, and lived experience of urban heritage in which universities have a distinctive agency.

Author Biography

Clare Melhuish is a principal research fellow in the Bartlett at UCL and director of the UCL Urban Laboratory. She is the author of Luis Vidal + Architects. Henric Benesch is a senior lecturer at University of Gothenburg. Dean Sully is associate professor in conservation at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL. Ingrid Martins Holmberg is a senior lecturer in the Department of Conservation at the University of Gothenburg.