Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Library Wall at the Ribbon Factory in Harringay's Warehouse District
A couple of weeks ago a group of warehouse folk launched the Library Wall in the Warehouse District's East End.
The project's website describes what its about as follows:
The Ribbon Factory Library Wall is an interactive outdoor library installation created by Artefacto. Commissioned by Haringey Arts, it is a curated collection of digitised texts, which people are able to freely obtain, read and share through the use of smartphones or other “smart” mobile devices such as ipads and tablets by pointing their device at the installation.
The project’s aim is to celebrate the role of public libraries in providing open access to cultural content in this brave, new e-book and digital publishing world.
I couldn't get to the launch myself. So many thanks to Hande for sending through the picture and a link to the project's website.
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Permalink Reply by Sharon on
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The cafe in Florentina clothing village IS brilliant! Gorgeous all day breakfasts, kebabs, good puddings...come down and have a look at the installations and treat yourselves to some good grub!
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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I did wonder if I was going to get away with that one - but I couldn't resist taunting the tutters amongst you.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Just to be clear, for people who chance on this discussion, it's not about who is right. Or whether people have the right to reinterpret history as they choose. It's about getting things as right as we can.
"I think history’s job, even if it does say it is difficult to get to the truth, is to say this is how it really happened. History should do everything it can to flee from falsehood." — Simon Schama.
As well as being taught history by the best teacher in my secondary school, I found Josephine Tey's Daughter of Time helpful. The title coming from Francis Bacon:"Truth is the daughter of time. not of authority".
More recently, I very much enjoyed reading Fintan O'Toole on the Scottish Referendum. And especially his article: "It is not that Scotland might become a new state but that it might become a new kind of state". In it he argues the need to break free of "warm fuzzy" idealised, nice images. To break free of myth-making.
This also rang other bells for me - about the past three years in Tottenham. Having seen, read and listened to the repetition of old myths and invention of new ones. To official announcements of astonishing complacency and inanity. To propaganda; and blatant self-serving lies. All of which have prevented more real progress in understanding and tackling the causes of the Tottenham riot.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Alan, glad you read Fintan's Scottish Referendum article.
But on your earlier point about interesting given or acquired or imposed placenames, Derry/Londonderry is now Stroke City. Thought I'd mention it. After late night pub, though, Forward Slash City may be more like it.
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I've now read a a couple of Fintan O'Toole's articles. He's very subtle and writes beautifully. I'm embarrassed by my ignorance of his work - any recommendations on where to start?
"Stroke City" that's perfect. It led me to the jokes in Wikipedia. Including Londondara Ó Briain
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Thanks, Annee. Explorations of "mental maps" - how children and young people see their schools and neighbourhoods - are fascinating aren't they?
And adults as well, if they still keep their eyes and ears open. I have some Flickr contacts who use their cameras make city "photoblogs".
We have a two-year old grandchild and it's amazing to observe her brand new view of the world.
"... your toddler’s exploration on the journey of every paving stone, minibeast and weed in the gutter can exasperate. However, if you can join your child in their investigation, the world can become a different place as you share the wonder in the seemingly mundane." - Marion Dowling
Have you come across a 1996/8 study called Finding the Way Home? Among other things it asked 13 and 14 year olds in Deptford and the Isle of Dogs to use photography, written stories, artwork, mapping and video to show their own local "landscapes of safety and danger". Les Back wrote it up as a chapter in his book "The Art of Listening".
I once tried something far more limited and amateur when I chaired an Area Assembly. We loaned some local residents cheap cameras and asked them to photograph and then present "loves and hates" about their Tottenham neighbourhoods.
Of course those were optimistic days when I believed people leading Haringey Council were interested in or even capable of learning.
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