BBC – Digbeth’s ‘forgotten’ past saved – A good write-up on the Rescue Gegraphy project undertaken in 2007-2008, the results of which were exhibited October 2008:
“Essentially we’re trying to ‘rescue’ local people’s understandings of an area before it is redeveloped, just as rescue archaeologists go into an area to record archaeological traces which are threatened by new building,” says project leader Dr Phil Jones.
Phil Jones hopes the human data of photographs, recorded interviews and maps collected will ‘lead to more sensitive approaches to urban regeneration’ in the future. One can only hope.
