{"id":321,"date":"2012-06-01T12:29:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T12:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsbrg.net\/?p=321"},"modified":"2020-01-04T14:49:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T14:49:59","slug":"notes-on-the-potential-of-void","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsbrg.net\/notes-on-the-potential-of-void\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on the Potential of Void"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Blair-Aylesbury\"<\/a>
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Tony Blair, during his 1997 first speech as Prime Minister in the Aylesbury estate (South London), announcing New Labour\u2019s plan to regenerate Britain\u2019s inner-cities.\u00a0Photograph: Stefan Rousseau\/PA<\/h6>
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\r\nThe Heygate estate is stuck, not only in its process of demolition and reconstruction, but also in a timeworn debate confronting its narrated past with the speculative future about to replace it. In the paper, the focus is shifted to the material presence of the place today\u2014as a void in the bustling city. Turned into an overactive filming location, the Heygate\u2019s void helped constructing a ruined image of the council estate. Its derelict fac \u0327ades serve today as a valorising background for the shiny new developments that surround it; in the landscape thereby constructed, the estate\u2019s failure and its promised solution are told together. However, the Heygate\u2019s void is also a place\u2014a suspended, indeterminate one. Rousing us from our accustomed urban experience, voids like the Heygate are propitious places to start thinking and engaging in a transformation of the city, beyond its mere regeneration.
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Tony Blair, during his 1997 first speech as Prime Minister in the Aylesbury estate (South London), announcing New Labour\u2019s plan to regenerate Britain\u2019s inner-cities.\u00a0Photograph: Stefan Rousseau\/PA The Heygate estate is stuck, not only in its process of demolition and reconstruction, but also in a timeworn debate confronting its narrated past with the speculative future about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsbrg.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsbrg.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsbrg.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsbrg.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsbrg.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fsbrg.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/fsbrg.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsbrg.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsbrg.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsbrg.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsbrg.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}