As London 2012 draws to a close the questions of Legacy and how to measure the Games' impact emerge as present tense issues. In this week's Friday essay Phil Cohen challenges the starting point of these discussions: the assumption that the population who use and will come to use the space all share the same vision as the narrowly selected development committee. View the … [Read more...] about Towards a Good Enough Legacy: the Long Term Impact of London 2012
Archives for January 2013
Beyond Carnival Capitalism: London 2012 and its Legacy of Hope
London 2012 provided a key insight into the shifting relationships between global, national and local as residents with no material stake in the Games came together to participate in their success. How might the power of this already-existing ‘commons’ pave the way for an alternative legacy? Read the article on the openDemocracy ezine: Beyond Carnival Capitalism … [Read more...] about Beyond Carnival Capitalism: London 2012 and its Legacy of Hope
Globalisation And Its Discontents, After 2012
There are a number of grand narratives within which the Olympics might be evaluated, each of which inscribes the project in a very different value nexus. Perhaps the dominant paradigm on the Left is that of globalisation. The Olympics, and sports in general, are read as symptomatic of larger economic forces at work in the society, of which globalisation is paramount . … [Read more...] about Globalisation And Its Discontents, After 2012
January Blog
New Year Graphologies : I grew up with comics, but when I became a teenager I put them away as one does childish things. It was not until I met my second wife and began travelling regularly to Paris and Brussels to accompany her on trips to visit members of her family, that I had occasion to revisit a genre which in the meantime had grown up into a sophisticated art form. I … [Read more...] about January Blog