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This chapter analyses a unique collaboration between artists and urban planners and managers and its effect on urban policies. We discuss whether artists help the latter to develop new perspectives on their own practice, and thus bring about new ways of understanding and representing urban issues. Artists appear as professionals whose sensitivity and reflexive practice can open new perspectives on the understanding of urban issues, here the uses and attachments to public space. They take into account subjectivities, whereas, in the urban professional world, information is usually objectivised, and personal feelings and perceptions are hidden. Art-based methods (such as performance) offer to urban planners ways of moving beyond their preconceived notions of public space and question their vocabulary (the word appropriation) and practices (in public consultations, for instance). Artists may however question their creativity and the reality of art in such a collaboration framework.
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This chapter is based on a collaborative research study funded by La Région Ile de France. Four other case studies were conducted to present the contribution of artists along with urban professionals to discussions on urban issues. Rosière is a cryptonym for one city in Paris’s northern suburb. According to ethics code, the real names of the city, participating urban planners, artists and the training program remain anonymous.
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In this case study, three of the four artists involved, five urban professionals of the city of Rosière, one resident and one ArtPol manager were interviewed and the documents produced by the artists were analysed. One researcher participated in one of the artistic experiments: ‘la balade des yeux’ (Eye Stroll) in the context of her own neighbourhood.
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As the intellectual process of ArtPol is to develop its own concepts, in a French context, we introduce them in italics in French and provide our own English translation of the terms in parenthesis. We then use the French conceptual terms in italics throughout the rest of the chapter.
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Vivant, E., Arab, N., Özdirlik, B. (2017). Practices and Prejudices: Lessons from an Encounter Between Artists and Urban Planners. In: Murzyn-Kupisz, M., Działek, J. (eds) The Impact of Artists on Contemporary Urban Development in Europe. GeoJournal Library, vol 123. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53217-2_15
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