Culture-led Urban Regeneration vs Heritage Degeneration



You may have noticed the opening of the Hepworth, Wakefield, last month...yet another Culture-led Urban regeneration project.  These projects seem to be consistently appearing lately....and whilst there is some debate about whether these projects do, in fact, regenerate an area in the ways that the planners and designers suggest (and hope) - in the sense that economic regeneration is not necessarily synchronic with social regeneration (at least not for 'everyone' I suppose...and that's the point!)...they do open up an evolving landscape of opportunities and possibilities. 
However, at the same time as these spectular events are happening in one part of Wakefield, the possible closure of the heritage/education museum at Clarke Hall remains a possibility....I wondered what you thought about this 'in with the new'......'out with the old' dynamic?...seems curious?

Clark Hall, Wakefield

Mark



Hepworth, Wakefield
photo copyright Chipperfield Architects



Visions of the Future Roundtable Discussion

Saturday, 4th June 2011, 2-4pm

In connection with the special display on science fiction art entitled ‘Visions of the Future: the Art of Science Fiction’, the Gallery hosts a Roundtable discussion, which brings together group of people working in different fields with a shared interest and enthusiasm for science fiction.

Participating panellists include Dr Richard Brown, Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature from the English Department at Leeds and Dr Samuel Francis, whose first book, 'The Psychological Fictions of J.G. Ballard', will be published by in November by Continuum Books. They will be joined by Andy Hedgecock, co-editor of Interzone, Britain’s longest running science fiction magazine, and Chris Pak, PhD researcher at the University of Liverpool. The roundtable is moderated by Liz Stainforth.

Free event, all welcome.
Refreshments will be available after the event.