Written by Nicky Getgood on Monday, December 14th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
Tags: bbc, links, philjones, rescuegeography, toblog, universityofbirmingham
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.
Written by Nicky Getgood on Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 ( One response )
Tags: Capsule, custardfactory, Digbethisgood, links, made, peteashton, releasethebats, rescuegeography, toblog
- A diarising jazz musician discovers Digbeth – ‘Digbeth is very interesting. it has vintage shops, and theres this place called Custard Factory which holds an art gallery, some shops, a small broadcast radio… mini minor shops. Basically, quirky interesting things. And here I found the elusive violin shop that I’ve wanted to visit ever since I got here…Also, there is a pub by the corner of a road that is exactly like the many we saw at Stratford – all Tudor. Genuine Tudor too by the looks of it. Where they had a wider upper floor compared to the lower one.’ I wonder which pub he means?
- The exhibition and after « Rescue Geography – Phil Jones stops to take stock and look ahead at the end of the Rescue Geography exhibition.
- Release The Bats – I was too hungover from the Ikon Eastside closing party to go, but Pete Ashton made it and took some great photos. ‘The gig itself was excellent. I wasn’t too bothered with Wooden Shjips in the context but Pissed Jeans were great, Om were surprisingly suitable…and Shellac were as fantastic as I had hoped. Really tight, really entertaining, really quite scary. Thank you Jenny and Lisa Capsule for bringing them to Birmingham!’
