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Journal of Classical Sociology

Using Gorz’s writing on cities and time as a starting point, this sensory ethnographic study uses... more Using Gorz’s writing on cities and time as a starting point, this sensory ethnographic study uses pinhole photography to explore how time feels for ‘unemployed’ volunteers at a community garden in the north-east of England. It upholds that the garden’s ability to fill time meaningfully is grounded in the food-growing and composting cycle but is also anchored to the mature trees, structures and artworks – made, grown or maintained by the volunteers themselves, that persist in the space for many years. We argue that urban community gardens offer their denizens an ‘elongated present’ that is fulfilling to the individual while also sustaining community and nature. Emphasising the need for enduring, rather than temporary or pop-up, growing spaces in helping us transition to a sustainable, post-work society, the study thus adds temporal insight to existing scholarship on the importance of community gardens.

Hope Under Neoliberal Austerity

This chapter reflects on variations in practice across two instances of street activism in the we... more This chapter reflects on variations in practice across two instances of street activism in the west end of Newcastle. Both projects shared with the Big Society agenda concerns for local democratic renewal and the foregrounding of community-centred knowledge, as well as an operating context marked by mainstream service retrenchment and piecemeal opportunities for civic funding. However, they also illustrate spatial variations including neighbourhood affluence, level of dependence on the local state and the strength of anchor institutions. The case studies are presented as a microcosm of broader challenges posed by the Big Society, explored longitudinally across a period of deepening austerity. They question the limits which austerity places on social innovation and the implications these may have for the civic university agenda in the future.

Hope Under Neoliberal Austerity, 2021

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2020

City-edge office parks are a significant, and under-researched, urban phenomenon. Indeed the tran... more City-edge office parks are a significant, and under-researched, urban phenomenon. Indeed the transformation of these environments to better address social and environmental sustainability criteria has been described as 'the big project for this century'. While top-down 'retrofitting' is the dominant approach to such transformation, in this paper we highlight the limitations of such an approach and argue for the potential of more bottom-up and creative methods. We report on experiments with office park employees to address the 'placelessness' of such environments, aimed at improving ecological sustainability and individuals' health and wellbeing. We make three significant conclusions: a wealth of hidden ecological and social assets exist to be exploited in such environments; creative methods to envision more sustainable futures have a great deal of potential to break existing path dependencies; and, respecting participation constraints among employee-participants is vital for future research and action.

Journal of Urban Design, 2014

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Intern... more This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence Newcastle University ePrints-eprint.ncl.ac.uk Tardiveau A, Mallo D. Unpacking and challenging habitus: An approach to temporary urbanism as a socially engaged practice.

Architectural Research Quarterly, 2020

Over the last decade, we have witnessed renewed interest in design as a socially engaged practice... more Over the last decade, we have witnessed renewed interest in design as a socially engaged practice. Much of the debates around ‘social design’ point towards myriad approaches and disciplinary fields interwoven with grass-roots initiatives and social movements. Among these, design activism has gained traction as critical spatial practice that operates on the fringes of commercial and institutional spheres.The temporal, spatial and experimental nature of design activism is well delineated in scholarship but its long-term effect on everyday urban environments remains elusive. Moreover, the influence of design activism on socio-spatial dynamics is indeed largely under researched. By mobilising social practice theory, this paper proposes a novel theorisation of design activism that sheds light on the social formations and collective practices catalysed through the activist impulse. This ontological shift embraces an understanding of the socio-material world through practice. Such characte...

![Research paper thumbnail of Title] Unpacking and challenging habitus: an approach to temporary urbanism as a socially engaged practice Authors

[Abstract] Temporary urbanism is attracting worldwide attention and has been praised for its capa... more [Abstract] Temporary urbanism is attracting worldwide attention and has been praised for its capacity to transform socio-political and physical spaces while at the same time, it has been criticised for its tacit instrumentality as vehicle for the progressive gentrification of the urban environment. A closer look at temporary urbanism reveals a myriad of practices, initiated by a great variety of actors with diverse ways of operating and taking place in a wide range of environments. Rooted in assemblage theory, we situate our design practice in the specificity of an underused space surrounding social housing blocks in Gateshead, explore manifestations of habitus and the capacity of temporary urbanism to reveal and engage with socio-spatial struggles.

Journal of Classical Sociology

Using Gorz’s writing on cities and time as a starting point, this sensory ethnographic study uses... more Using Gorz’s writing on cities and time as a starting point, this sensory ethnographic study uses pinhole photography to explore how time feels for ‘unemployed’ volunteers at a community garden in the north-east of England. It upholds that the garden’s ability to fill time meaningfully is grounded in the food-growing and composting cycle but is also anchored to the mature trees, structures and artworks – made, grown or maintained by the volunteers themselves, that persist in the space for many years. We argue that urban community gardens offer their denizens an ‘elongated present’ that is fulfilling to the individual while also sustaining community and nature. Emphasising the need for enduring, rather than temporary or pop-up, growing spaces in helping us transition to a sustainable, post-work society, the study thus adds temporal insight to existing scholarship on the importance of community gardens.

Hope Under Neoliberal Austerity

This chapter reflects on variations in practice across two instances of street activism in the we... more This chapter reflects on variations in practice across two instances of street activism in the west end of Newcastle. Both projects shared with the Big Society agenda concerns for local democratic renewal and the foregrounding of community-centred knowledge, as well as an operating context marked by mainstream service retrenchment and piecemeal opportunities for civic funding. However, they also illustrate spatial variations including neighbourhood affluence, level of dependence on the local state and the strength of anchor institutions. The case studies are presented as a microcosm of broader challenges posed by the Big Society, explored longitudinally across a period of deepening austerity. They question the limits which austerity places on social innovation and the implications these may have for the civic university agenda in the future.

Hope Under Neoliberal Austerity, 2021

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2020

City-edge office parks are a significant, and under-researched, urban phenomenon. Indeed the tran... more City-edge office parks are a significant, and under-researched, urban phenomenon. Indeed the transformation of these environments to better address social and environmental sustainability criteria has been described as 'the big project for this century'. While top-down 'retrofitting' is the dominant approach to such transformation, in this paper we highlight the limitations of such an approach and argue for the potential of more bottom-up and creative methods. We report on experiments with office park employees to address the 'placelessness' of such environments, aimed at improving ecological sustainability and individuals' health and wellbeing. We make three significant conclusions: a wealth of hidden ecological and social assets exist to be exploited in such environments; creative methods to envision more sustainable futures have a great deal of potential to break existing path dependencies; and, respecting participation constraints among employee-participants is vital for future research and action.

Journal of Urban Design, 2014

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Intern... more This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence Newcastle University ePrints-eprint.ncl.ac.uk Tardiveau A, Mallo D. Unpacking and challenging habitus: An approach to temporary urbanism as a socially engaged practice.

Architectural Research Quarterly, 2020

Over the last decade, we have witnessed renewed interest in design as a socially engaged practice... more Over the last decade, we have witnessed renewed interest in design as a socially engaged practice. Much of the debates around ‘social design’ point towards myriad approaches and disciplinary fields interwoven with grass-roots initiatives and social movements. Among these, design activism has gained traction as critical spatial practice that operates on the fringes of commercial and institutional spheres.The temporal, spatial and experimental nature of design activism is well delineated in scholarship but its long-term effect on everyday urban environments remains elusive. Moreover, the influence of design activism on socio-spatial dynamics is indeed largely under researched. By mobilising social practice theory, this paper proposes a novel theorisation of design activism that sheds light on the social formations and collective practices catalysed through the activist impulse. This ontological shift embraces an understanding of the socio-material world through practice. Such characte...

![Research paper thumbnail of Title] Unpacking and challenging habitus: an approach to temporary urbanism as a socially engaged practice Authors

[Abstract] Temporary urbanism is attracting worldwide attention and has been praised for its capa... more [Abstract] Temporary urbanism is attracting worldwide attention and has been praised for its capacity to transform socio-political and physical spaces while at the same time, it has been criticised for its tacit instrumentality as vehicle for the progressive gentrification of the urban environment. A closer look at temporary urbanism reveals a myriad of practices, initiated by a great variety of actors with diverse ways of operating and taking place in a wide range of environments. Rooted in assemblage theory, we situate our design practice in the specificity of an underused space surrounding social housing blocks in Gateshead, explore manifestations of habitus and the capacity of temporary urbanism to reveal and engage with socio-spatial struggles.