Event
Geohumanities Exhibition Tour and Seminar: The Multiplicity of Place
22 Feb 2017
Furtherfield Commons
London, United Kingdom
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Katherine Stansfeld, 2016
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Place Portrait, “Welcome to Finsbury Park // entering from one space to the next”, March 2016
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Image from ‘Finsbury Park Vernacular’, June 2016, including background fuzzy boundary map by Paul Brindley. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2015 - Katherine Stansfeld, 2016.
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‘Putting people on the map’ workshop at Redmond Community Centre, August 2016. "Reproduced from Ordnance Survey 1:25000 Explorer © Crown copyright 2017.” All rights reserved.
Exhibition
Superdiversity: Picturing Finsbury Park
18 Feb 2017 – 26 Feb 2017
Event times
Open 11am-5pm, Sat 18 - Sun 19 Feb, Thu 23 to Sun 26 Feb 2017, or by appointment.
Cost of entry
FREE
Address
- Furtherfield Gallery
- Finsbury Park, London
- London
- N41NY
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 4, 19, 29, 106, 153, 210, 236, 253, 254, 259, W3, W7
- Manor House, Finsbury Park, Harringay Green Lanes
Event map
Furtherfield presents Superdiversity: Picturing Finsbury Park, an exhibition collaboration between researcher and artist Katherine Stansfeld and local people and communities in London’s Finsbury Park.
About
“My roots are here, I’m very proud to be where I am, I’m happy to be where I am…I have very good memories and bad I guess, I felt like one of the key things for my children is to make sure they fit in, it’s so important to fit in and feel part of something and I think that was my struggle…” - Finsbury Park worker and ex-resident
Superdiversity: Picturing Finsbury Park questions what the area means for different people. It is an exploration of what place and difference mean in the context of a neighbourhood in today’s London, a global city. It attempts to re-socialise ‘the map’ through a social research practice.
The diversity of contemporary urban life reflects and creates its complexity. This is particularly true of Finsbury Park, an area of London which is home to people from all backgrounds. Conceptualising place as open and shifting, the exhibition focuses on the different ways local place is understood and experienced in the super-diverse area of Finsbury Park. ‘Superdiversity’ is a concept that attempts to conceptualise the complexity, mobility and unpredictability of this form of diversity, recognising the ‘diversification of diversity’.
