Summary Project Proposal
In this project we are going to explore the regeneration story in the building of the main stadium for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games on the edge of Hackney Marshes in the Lower Lee Valley. The stadium is not only the central site in and around which the Olympic Spectacle is staged and relayed, it is a monument designed to long outlast the event that produced it. The story this building has to tell is not only about the materials, technologies and skills that go into its construction, or the sporting events that take place in it; it concerns the fate of Olympism and the values it is supposed to represent: internationalism, youthful fraternity, the power of congregation, peaceful coexistence between different faiths, to which we must now add planetary environmentalism. This study will use narrative interviews, photo-ethnography and cartography.
For further information contact Phil Cohen
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