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Just Art for a Just City: Public Art and Social Inclusion in Urban Regeneration

Department of Geography and Geomatics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK, jsharp{at}geog.gla.ac.uk

Venda Pollock

JDepartment of Geography and Geomatics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK, vpollock{at}geog.gla.ac.uk

Ronan Paddison

Department of Geography and Geomatics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK, rpaddison@geog. gla, ac. uk

In this article, it is shown how cultural policy, and in particular public art, intersects with the processes of urban restructuring and how it is a contributor, but also antidote, to the conflict that typically surrounds the restructuring of urban space. The particular focus of the paper is on investigating how public art can be inclusionary/exclusionary as part of the wider project of urban regeneration. The first part of the paper examines examples in which public art intervention has attempted to generate inclusion. Subsequently, attention focuses more on examples in which the public art has been perceived as an aspect of cultural domination and has thus provoked resistance. Throughout, it is argued that the processes through which artworks become installed into the urban fabric are critical to the successful development of inclusion.

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