community narratives and regeneration in peripheral regions
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Our physical environments are heavily marked by the history of human activity. Our presence is written into the landscape in so many ways we scarcely notice - patterns of movement, place names, festivals and gathering points. The landscape has ghosts; it is in this way that it has narrative and it has meaning. When ex-industrial areas are physically transformed by “regeneration” processes these connections are often lost and the new environment, no matter how rich, has only fragments of a broken narrative.
Can cultural activities lead a process of reconnection, making new memories,
new histories, new ghosts?