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The aim is to provide the most thoroughly documented account of a site design and construction process anywhere in the world. The project will not only detail what is happening immediately on the ground but explore the wider service and supply chains, the working practices, technologies and materials which directly and indirectly contribute to the design, maintenance, promotion, security and use of the Olympic Park.
The biographies of the workers involved on the Powerline Project , shown on the Powerline Boards produced by the Olympic Delivery Authority are drawn from work in progress involving interviews with a cross section of the workforce on the main Olympic Park site at Carpenter Road Using a mixture of methods, including site observation, visual ethnography, in depth interviews, photographic studies, virtual mapping, and the study of documents and plans, we hope to trace the fabrication of the Olympic Park every step of the way: from the site preparation to the architectural drawings to the final built out form, from the design of signage systems to the security and sewage systems, from the public response to the published plans, to the local host communities reactions to the buildings as they go up around them.
The main output will be an online multimedia archive of interviews and visual documentation, hosted by the Museum of London. This will be organised after the fashion of the ‘rational dictionary’ of arts and sciences produced by Diderot and d’Alembert (1751/72) , a masterwork of the Enlightenment which included a detailed inventory of the manual trades as well as of architectural styles and social customs.
In addition an audio trail will be available enabling visitors to the Olympic Park to learn about the workforce and labour processes that went into its making. A series of exhibitions, books, reports and learning resources will also be produced. In this way the project will constitute a major contribution to the living legacy of the London 2012 Games available to future generations.
The project is being delivered as a partnership between the London East Research Institute, University of East London, the Museum of London and the Hackney Building Exploratory.
For further information please contact: Professor Phil Cohen: P.A.Cohen@uel.ac.uk
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Publications from London East Research Institute including 'A Lasting Legacy for London?'
Host Cities, Education, Culture and Regeneration
A conference about the issues facing Olympic Host Cities. View the speaker presentations here
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