Activity Vs. Infrastructure In The Arts Analysis
Key Issues in the Arts
Prof. Rod Stoneman
Student: Paul Kearney
Student Number: 06892795
Activity vs. Infrastructure in the Arts
Activity in the arts is paramount; it the processes by which people make or create art forms, without activity the arts would not exist. Galway City is a prime example of a place where art activity is thriving in a small peripheral town with little infrastructure. Galway is a very isolated city; there is one railway station, with one destination, no airport, and a harbour which has not been updated since the 19th Century. Galway when looked at from this perspective seems an abysmal place, however it is from its proximity to nature (The Burren, Connemara, Coole Park, Lough Corrib, and more), world class heritage …show more content…
A creative city requires land and buildings at affordable prices especially for younger businesses or social entrepreneurs. These are likely to be available on the urban fringes, and in areas where uses are changing, such as former port or industrial zones. Cheap spaces that can be innovatively be adopted to reduce financial risk and encourage experiment, even at the most banal level of opening a new type of restaurant or shop. Recycling older industrial buildings is now a cliché of urban regeneration, but does not make it less worthwhile. Typically they can be reused as incubator units for new businesses or start-ups, as headquarters for cutting edge companies, or artist studios for design and new …show more content…
This question could be viewed as a paradox, no matter how much ideals are romanticised about the arts, they become quickly dissolved, unviable, and ephemeral, and without structure or preservation, nothing lasts very long.
By its very definition, activity is the condition in which things are happening or being done, and infrastructure can be surmised as the basic physical and organisational structures and facilities needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.
Given our society by its very nature rests on infrastructure for virtually everything (no pun intended), it would be unreasonable to delude oneself in to thinking the arts are exempt, when in reality, the activity is only made possible by infrastructure. I am not only thinking of the buildings built specifically for the arts, but also the infrastructure that contributes to the processes and procedural
Prof. Rod Stoneman
Student: Paul Kearney
Student Number: 06892795
Activity vs. Infrastructure in the Arts
Activity in the arts is paramount; it the processes by which people make or create art forms, without activity the arts would not exist. Galway City is a prime example of a place where art activity is thriving in a small peripheral town with little infrastructure. Galway is a very isolated city; there is one railway station, with one destination, no airport, and a harbour which has not been updated since the 19th Century. Galway when looked at from this perspective seems an abysmal place, however it is from its proximity to nature (The Burren, Connemara, Coole Park, Lough Corrib, and more), world class heritage …show more content…
A creative city requires land and buildings at affordable prices especially for younger businesses or social entrepreneurs. These are likely to be available on the urban fringes, and in areas where uses are changing, such as former port or industrial zones. Cheap spaces that can be innovatively be adopted to reduce financial risk and encourage experiment, even at the most banal level of opening a new type of restaurant or shop. Recycling older industrial buildings is now a cliché of urban regeneration, but does not make it less worthwhile. Typically they can be reused as incubator units for new businesses or start-ups, as headquarters for cutting edge companies, or artist studios for design and new …show more content…
This question could be viewed as a paradox, no matter how much ideals are romanticised about the arts, they become quickly dissolved, unviable, and ephemeral, and without structure or preservation, nothing lasts very long.
By its very definition, activity is the condition in which things are happening or being done, and infrastructure can be surmised as the basic physical and organisational structures and facilities needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.
Given our society by its very nature rests on infrastructure for virtually everything (no pun intended), it would be unreasonable to delude oneself in to thinking the arts are exempt, when in reality, the activity is only made possible by infrastructure. I am not only thinking of the buildings built specifically for the arts, but also the infrastructure that contributes to the processes and procedural