Housing imagination - assignment 1
The following info is on assignment 1 requirements on Housing Imagination [BA (Hon) Housing Studies of the Leeds Metropolitan University, UK]:
10 minute Presentation (50%)
The purpose of this assignment is for you to demonstrate that you can link the conceptual material we have covered in the module with a specific example
The key themes of the module I want you to think about are place, space and the housing imagination
You should select an ‘artifact’ which serves as an example of one or several of these key themes.
The term ‘geographical imagination’ encompasses a variety of meanings, including individual mental images and socially produced discourses about cultures, spaces, and differences.
Cultural geography suggests place is socially constructed, through IMAGINATION and REPRESENTATION
We can apply this to housing in order to thing about the various ‘housing imaginaries’ that exist and the different representations of place and the “other” in relations to housing
A powerful example of this is social housing and the way it is imagined, represented and “othered” depending on the position of the person doing the imagining (their social class, experiences, where they are from etc)
One example of the way social housing is stereotyped and imagined is through the image of a sofa placed in the garden of a home…
Depending on who is imagining this, or reflecting upon it, the sofa in the garden might be thought of as evidence of the negative connotations of social housing, neglect, the fecklessness of the tenants, ‘broken Britain’…
We might think about the ways in which social housing in represented in the media, books, art, film….
How is it discussed by politicians and policy makers?
What are it’s “socially produced discourses”
Is this different in other societies? Is the “social housing imaginary” different in Sweden or France for example? Why?
This was just a quick example, you can chose anything relating to ‘housing imaginaries’ or the place and space of housing.
Your artifact could be a piece of music, a book, a paining, a newspaper article or anything else
Your focus does not need to be social housing, it could be homelessness, home ownership, home improvement or something else
You will need to go into more depth than I have in this example
Reference: an article on Housing Imagination
10 minute Presentation (50%)
The purpose of this assignment is for you to demonstrate that you can link the conceptual material we have covered in the module with a specific example
The key themes of the module I want you to think about are place, space and the housing imagination
You should select an ‘artifact’ which serves as an example of one or several of these key themes.
The term ‘geographical imagination’ encompasses a variety of meanings, including individual mental images and socially produced discourses about cultures, spaces, and differences.
Cultural geography suggests place is socially constructed, through IMAGINATION and REPRESENTATION
We can apply this to housing in order to thing about the various ‘housing imaginaries’ that exist and the different representations of place and the “other” in relations to housing
A powerful example of this is social housing and the way it is imagined, represented and “othered” depending on the position of the person doing the imagining (their social class, experiences, where they are from etc)
One example of the way social housing is stereotyped and imagined is through the image of a sofa placed in the garden of a home…
Depending on who is imagining this, or reflecting upon it, the sofa in the garden might be thought of as evidence of the negative connotations of social housing, neglect, the fecklessness of the tenants, ‘broken Britain’…
We might think about the ways in which social housing in represented in the media, books, art, film….
How is it discussed by politicians and policy makers?
What are it’s “socially produced discourses”
Is this different in other societies? Is the “social housing imaginary” different in Sweden or France for example? Why?
This was just a quick example, you can chose anything relating to ‘housing imaginaries’ or the place and space of housing.
Your artifact could be a piece of music, a book, a paining, a newspaper article or anything else
Your focus does not need to be social housing, it could be homelessness, home ownership, home improvement or something else
You will need to go into more depth than I have in this example
Reference: an article on Housing Imagination
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