Laura was 'Tweeting' from the engage conference between Wednesday 4 November and Friday 6 November. Her tweets are archived here. Below this is an archive of messages sent by any member of Twitter using the #enage09 tag between 4 and 8 November.
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Wednesday 4 November
Freezing cold morning. Full moon. Dawn breaking over the Wick. Heading to City Corner cafe.
6:15 AM Nov 4th from txt
Bright and cold now,walking past old Atlantis building on Plumbers row with a speculative eye.
7:12 AM Nov 4th from txt
Rampart squatted social centre off Commercial road evicted after 5 years.
7:21 AM Nov 4th from txt
My mate's block has cctv on the tv. Everyone's a security guard here.
7:40 AM Nov 4th from txt
Leaving Shearsmith House for walk round Watney market.
8:05 AM Nov 4th from txt
Lidl, Burdett road, my favourite shop.
9:45 AM Nov 4th from txt
Lord Coe ! Your project will fail!!
3:01 PM Nov 4th from txt
London fields,colonised by hipsters. Boring and grim.
3:33 PM Nov 4th from txt
Space, site of infamous hackney community college rave 1999
3:35 PM Nov 4th from txt
Protest against G4S security firm, Ocean 1 mare st thurs 5th
4:42 PM Nov 4th from txt
Ocean Hackney ,yeah remember that great regeneration scheme!
4:44 PM Nov 4th from txt
Eddie's caf mare st now closed. Very few prole cafs left down here.
4:47 PM Nov 4th from txt
The Hare. Julian the landlord outside smoking a fag. Good boozer.
4:48 PM Nov 4th from txt
Old Ford road, Globetown zine out this weekend!!
4:53 PM Nov 4th from txt
Old stag pub cambridge heath road now estate agent. I'll leave it up to you
4:56 PM Nov 4th from txt
Whose utopia? Good question.
5:15 PM Nov 4th from txt
I should have told them there's 8 Grolsch for a fiver at beer cellar on Kingsland rd.
5:21 PM Nov 4th from txt
Might liven things up.
5:22 PM Nov 4th from txt
Role of artists in regeneration programmes. Art is the enemy of regeneration!
5:25 PM Nov 4th from txt
Public art opens territories for colonial invaders.
5:29 PM Nov 4th from txt
Public art is cultural abuse.
5:31 PM Nov 4th from txt
Docklands redevelopment tries to erase worker militancy.
5:32 PM Nov 4th from txt
Cultural flagships..whose culture. Who has right to city?
5:36 PM Nov 4th from txt
'Non privileged people's lives do not lack culture'.
5:44 PM Nov 4th from txt
Whose city? Whose culture when city redesigned?
5:55 PM Nov 4th from txt
Liverpool city centre privatised. Edge Hill streets boarded up.
5:57 PM Nov 4th from txt
L 1, replicating repressive ideologies.
6:00 PM Nov 4th from txt
Relocated houses, Britton's yard, Wellington.
6:34 PM Nov 4th from txt
Getting stared at for sending tweets, quite funny.
6:39 PM Nov 4th from txt
Legacy? Weeds, dereliction, nomadic cities.
6:56 PM Nov 4th from txt
2012 is being built for two weeks televised spectacle.
7:03 PM Nov 4th from txt
Going to find the booze now, let's hope they went to Lidl.
7:11 PM Nov 4th from txt
Thursday 5 November
Just leaving Balfron house. Meeting Baz in caf in Limehouse.
5:58 AM Nov 5th from txt
Toynbee hall,philanthropic relic.
9:40 AM Nov 5th from txt
70s zone between city and brick lane.
9:52 AM Nov 5th from txt
Bomb sites, prefabs, vagrants in Spitalfields market.
9:53 AM Nov 5th from txt
Truman's Brewery. .....1972.
9:56 AM Nov 5th from txt
Christ church spitalfields has become a quotation.
9:59 AM Nov 5th from txt
Places have to explain themselves,have a narrative or must have it imposed on them.
10:02 AM Nov 5th from txt
Beckton budget retail park. Gallions Reach utopian shopping mall.
10:04 AM Nov 5th from txt
Liminal spaces yet to be drawn into narrative. Beckton factories expelled from Olympic zone.
10:06 AM Nov 5th from txt
Er,it's not that funny love.
10:06 AM Nov 5th from txt
Investigating territory beyond the known. Known to who?
10:10 AM Nov 5th from txt
God how awful it must have been to live in Hackney before Iain Sinclair discovered it.
10:38 AM Nov 5th from txt
Places like Hackney were so dark before the colonialists came in, how generous of them to put it on the map for us.
10:40 AM Nov 5th from txt
The artist in HIS studio wrestling with his demons,the heroic painter,the curator with his book...
10:41 AM Nov 5th from txt
Someone still wishes it was the 1940s. #engage09
10:47 AM Nov 5th from txt
My Grandma Toolan was born in Forest Gate in 1912., think I will write a book about it thus laying claim to Newham.
11:02 AM Nov 5th from txt
very nice in Toynbee hall,red and black with deco reliefs.
11:04 AM Nov 5th from txt
Delivery. The word that sums up the obscenity of the Blair era like no other.#engage09
11:13 AM Nov 5th from txt
Reclaim the future.11:15 AM Nov 5th from txt
Success of regeneration measured by increase in land value.#engage09
11:21 AM Nov 5th from txt
Liverpool Leeds canal. Artists 'encouraging developers to look at canal as starting point' . Staggering.
11:26 AM Nov 5th from txt
Leeds Liverpool canal looks amazing without public art jamboree.
11:27 AM Nov 5th from txt
The pioneers of regeneration want us all to feel included in their schemes. Some 'artists' are stupid enough to help them.
11:29 AM Nov 5th from txt
The pioneers of regeneration want us all to feel included in their schemes. Some 'artists' are stupid enough to help them.#engage09
11:30 AM Nov 5th from txt
Aldgate Masterplan will fail. Social housing not yuppiedromes.#engage09
12:03 PM Nov 5th from txt
Art can be used to pacify the mob. whitechapel gallery 1901. ..an ammeliorative tool.
12:05 PM Nov 5th from txt
Make people feel they're part of regeneration.Artists get them to make survey of area,it gets 'fed back' into scheme... VILE
12:11 PM Nov 5th from txt
Kids drawings can form a frieze in area they can no longer afford to live in.#engage09
12:17 PM Nov 5th from txt
Yuppiedromes can be decorated with east end heritage motifs.
12:20 PM Nov 5th from txt
REGENERATION IS CLASS CLEANSING!#engage09
12:21 PM Nov 5th from txt
Regeneration schemes are not designed to benefit the poor. Sometimes forced to spell these things out #engage09
12:24 PM Nov 5th from txt
Whose values are being imposed on an area? #engage09
12:35 PM Nov 5th from txt
Standard curry house on brick lane is pretty good,although pictures not as good as in sweet and spicy.
2:26 PM Nov 5th from txt
East London is being subjected to a corporate land grab with stigmatization of existing communities.#engage09
2:57 PM Nov 5th from txt
Communities are displaced and attempts made to erase the areas' real histories.
2:59 PM Nov 5th from txt
Increasing police harrasment on brick lane,trying to cleanse area ahead of olympic spectacle.
3:03 PM Nov 5th from txt
It amazes me the lengths planners,developers,public artists will go to to stop people rioting .#engage09
3:31 PM Nov 5th from txt
you can trace a lot of these pacifying projects back to Heseltine's garden festival Liverpool1984 #engage09
3:34 PM Nov 5th from txt
Meanwhile gardens near trellick tower is another good example.#engage09
3:42 PM Nov 5th from txt
Glasgow will suffer from the impact of the 2014 Commonwealth games.#engage09
4:40 PM Nov 5th from txt
Malcolm is talking a lot of sense. Linking Red Road estate with area demolished for 2014 games.
#engage094:45 PM Nov 5th from txt
Malcolm Dickson, best speaker all day.#engage09
4:48 PM Nov 5th from txt
Deleuze and Guattari would never have written 1000 plateaus if they had foreseen horrible relational art projects.#engage09
5:25 PM Nov 5th from txt
Friday 6 November
Just been mapping graffiti in whitechapel,tracing lines of social antagonism. #engage09
2:20 PM Nov 6th from txt
The old squatted streets of Myrdle and Parfett are turning into Farrow and Ball heritage site.#engage09
2:27 PM Nov 6th from txt
The interstices between the zones are where the repressed outpourings become visible #engage09
2:33 PM Nov 6th from txt
Future . Crumbling yuppie flats. Negative equity ghettos. #engage09
2:46 PM Nov 6th from txt
Flash mob, recuperated by mobile phone ads. Before that flash mob was a sanitised version of reclaim the streets #engage09
2:51 PM Nov 6th from txt
Transmissions may be temporarily suspended #engage09
2:58 PM Nov 6th from txt
I can't believe how the term state of exception is being appropriated in discussions about regeneration. #engage09
3:03 PM Nov 6th from txt
Infact Benjamin's name has been taken in vain a lot over the past few days #engage09
3:10 PM Nov 6th from txt
Cultural Olympiad. What a joke. #engage09
3:14 PM Nov 6th from txt
Bringing people on journey of regeneration. Sounds like the x factor #engage09
3:15 PM Nov 6th from txt
What is meant by community ? Who is regeneration for? #engage09
3:27 PM Nov 6th from txt
Malcolm Dickson, great comments again. ..some of these projects more about therapy. Classic!#engage09
3:41 PM Nov 6th from txt
All this talk of finding space for communities to come together is ridiculous, we used to have streets.#engage09
4:03 PM Nov 6th from txt
Tweets sent using #engage09
engage2009 Future perfect #engage09 is just kicking off with talks and drinks at the v and a museum of childhood
5:32PM Nov 4 from mobile web
axisweb Check out this in relation to Malcolm miles and Claire Doherty talks at #engage09 http://bit.ly/3ucPsk
6:27pm Nov 4 from mobile web
BeaconforWales Looking forward to #engage09 to see what universities can learn from the visual arts about public engagement
8:06 AM Nov 5 from TweetDeck
axisweb Iain Sinclair: 'The real art of contemporary England is the retail park' #engage09 10:04 AM Nov 5 from web
axisweb Paul Domela: Those seen as 'up to no good' engage with art on the Leeds-Liverpool canal #engage09
11:28 AM Nov 5 from web
BeaconforWales #engage09 artists are concerned with managerial curators deciding what is and isn't valid. Sounds familiar to debate about research impact
11:32 AM Nov 5 from TweetDeck
logube @LauraOF success of regeneration should be being able to go out without being scared #engage09
11:53 AM Nov 5 from TweetDeck
logube @LauraOF the problem is what do you do with high levels of crime: deport them? kill them? brush them under the carpet? #engage09
11:54 AM Nov 5 from TweetDeck
axisweb Marijke Steadman:1901 Whitechapel 'art used as an ameliorative tool to calm the dissenting masses' #engage09
12:15 PM Nov 5 from mobile web
engage2009 Fascinating presentation from Reem Charif from Febrik about topography of play in refugee camps #engage09
12:10 PM Nov 5 from mobile web
engage2009 How do you beat the system? Stay under the radar and keep a strong team on the ground #engage09
12:29 PM Nov 5 from mobile web
calippo Enjoying discussion about missing the point #engage09
12:30 PM Nov 5 from mobile web
calippo institutions are also people #engage09
12:31 PM Nov 5 from mobile web
engage2009 Find the right person on the wrong chair in institutions to effect change #engage09
12:34 PM Nov 5 from mobile web
calippo How can you impose your own values on a community? Do they have a chance to question? #engage09
12:35 PM Nov 5 from mobile web
calippo be really careful with branding to allow the community to feel involved? #engage09
12:40 PM Nov 5 from mobile web
engage2009 Learning about regeneration in Japan, Grizedale and Denmark from inside and outside existing systems #engage09
3:16 PM Nov 5 from mobile web
calippo Try to disturb just by imagining #engage09
3:16 PM Nov 5 from mobile web
engage2009 How do you plan for play? #engage09
3:38 PM Nov 5 from mobile web
engage2009 Looking at maps, dots,cracks,gaps- imagining and reimagining... #engage09 3:18 PM Nov 5 from mobile web
axisweb Adam Sutherland:problem if arts organisation with limited resources works with large no. people #engage09
3:57 PM Nov 5 from mobile web
BeaconforWales Advice for academics (1) - an artist was called "not socially engaged" as he used communities as material FOR his work #engage09
4:24 PM Nov 5 from TweetDeck
BeaconforWales Advice for academics (2) - communities need to benefit from the engagement too #engage09
4:25 PM Nov 5 from TweetDeck
engage2009 #engage09 contemporary urban archaeology session with James Dixon: the public don’t use cities the way we are meant to...
11:30 AM Nov 6 from mobile web
axisweb 'learning to love you more' Miranda July project cited as a forerunner of how the internet creates new social communities #engage09
2:55 PM Nov 6 from web
engage2009 Creative thinking, relationships and inclusive strategies have the potential put the soul into regeneration #engage09
3:11 PM Nov 6 from mobile web
axisweb Charlie Tims: we need to keep commons, spaces to collide. This is separate and important to retain beyond the digital #engage09
3:24 PM Nov 6 from web
engage2009 What does a space for physical (as opposed to digital) collaboration look like? #engage09
3:24 PM Nov 6 from mobile web
axisweb Charlie Tims: People should be more angry and politicised about public spaces #engage09
3:34 PM Nov 6 from web
engage2009 What/who is public space for? Spontaneous interaction? Community arts? #engage09
3:36 PM Nov 6 from mobile web
engage2009 Karen Eslea: don’t forget the value of looking at and talking about great art in great buildings #engage09
3:39 PM Nov 6 from mobile web
axisweb Audience comment: we shouldn't abandon building the buildings that house art - continue this at http://bit.ly/BeJWV #engage09
3:42 PM Nov 6 from web
17e @LauraOF May I recommend James Bau Graves book Cultural Democracy. He's looking at the US -but it has insight into these issues.#engage09
8:50 PM Nov 6 from TweetDeck
17e @LauraOF 4 me the root of the questions on cultural engagement must B grounded in a re-evaluation of the terms artists meet art.#engage09
9:04 PM Nov 6 from TweetDeck
Alison_CSkills Left Engage conference head spinning art world full of regenerative degenerates or utopian dreamers? missed train back to Cornwall #engage09
1:17 PM Nov 8 from web
