{"id":1084,"date":"2016-03-01T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2017-03-06T17:28:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T17:28:48","slug":"research-seminar-esther-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/research-seminar-esther-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 01 March 2016 – Lunchtime seminar with Esther Johnson (Media Arts, SHU)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Title: Alone Together – The Social Life of Benches
\nSpeakers: Esther Johnson<\/a> (Media Arts, SHU)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Esther Johnson<\/a> will present work created as Co-Investigator of an AHRC Connected Communities innovation project, The Un-Sociable Bench<\/em><\/a>, and other urban micro-territories of encounter and intimidation. This research project aimed to look at the in\/exclusiveness of everyday urban realm design with a focus on benches as a resource for sociability and respite.<\/p>\n

As part of this project, Johnson created the film Alone Together – The Social Life of Benches<\/em><\/a>, which illuminates the thoughts and memories of frequent users of two public spaces in London: General Gordon Square, Woolwich and St Helier Open Space, Sutton.<\/p>\n

Revolving around the micro-space of the humble bench, the experiential capacity of film is used to highlight themes such as the feeling of being in a space, the rhythm and flow of visitors to a place, and the importance of design for everyday street furniture.<\/p>\n

The film acts like a stranger who joins you on a bench to \u2018watch the world go by\u2019, and to break the ice by starting a conversation with their fellow bench user.<\/p>\n

This project was supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council Connected Communities Programme 2015.<\/p>\n

Find out more:
\n\u00b7 Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches<\/a><\/em> \u2013 18\u2019 film and packaged DVD and film booklet
\n\u00b7 Benches for everyone, Solitude in public, sociability for free<\/em> \u2013 The Young Foundation research report<\/a>
\n\u00b7 Manifesto for the Good Bench<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

1.00PM \u2013 2.00PM
\nTUESDAY 1 MARCH 2016
\nCANTOR 9137<\/strong><\/p>\n

See here<\/a> for details of other seminars in the series.<\/p>\n

All SHU staff and students are welcome to attend the C3RI Lunchtime Research Seminars. If you are from outside of the University and would like to attend a seminar, please email C3RI Administrator<\/a> to arrange entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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This research project aimed to look at the in\/exclusiveness of everyday urban realm design with a focus on benches […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8633,"featured_media":1027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[5,140,115,240],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-art-and-design-research-centre","tag-esther-johnson","tag-media-arts-research","tag-urban-design"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/02\/2016-03-01-JOHNSON-Esther-Alone-together-the-social-life-of-benches.png?fit=396%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-hu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2738,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/esther-johnson-alone-together-switzerland\/","url_meta":{"origin":1084,"position":0},"title":"Dr Esther Johnson’s film ‘Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches’ screening in Switzerland","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"18\/04\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Dr Esther Johnson's AHRC-funded project, Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches, will screen at\u00a0Urbanisation in the British Isles: a historical and interdisciplinary perspective\u00a0at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland later in April. 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