{"id":1414,"date":"2016-10-26T13:08:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T11:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wehaveasituation.net\/?page_id=1414"},"modified":"2024-05-22T12:23:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T10:23:32","slug":"we-have-a-situation-coventry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/?page_id=1414","title":{"rendered":"We have a situation, Coventry!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">24 November 2016<br \/>\n7pm UK time (<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/z464k6y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">find your local time here<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatreabsolute.co.uk\/shop-front-theatre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shop Front Theatre<\/a>, Coventry, UK<\/p>\n<div class=\"ace-line\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wehaveasituation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/whas_michelle_drawing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1457\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wehaveasituation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/whas_michelle_drawing-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"whas_michelle_drawing\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/whas_michelle_drawing-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/whas_michelle_drawing-768x452.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/whas_michelle_drawing.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ace-line\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wehaveasituation.net\/?page_id=1473\">Documentation<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"ace-line\"><a href=\"#team\">The Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"ace-line\"><a href=\"#research\">Research<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"ace-line\"><a href=\"#media\">Media<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coventry.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coventry University<\/a> dominates in the centre of Coventry, a sprawling campus that is gradually swalllowing more and more formerly public spaces as it builds an academic empire on top of what was once the bustling centre of a large manufacturing town. As this transformation takes place, what is happening to the social relationships between the citizens of Coventry and the staff and students of the university? What does the university bring to Coventry, and what does the town give to the university? What is lost in the process? And what do wheelie bins have to do with it all?<\/p>\n<p>Staff and students from the university collaborated with interested people from the local community in a one-week workshop to develop a cyberformance, which was presented on Thursday 24 November at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatreabsolute.co.uk\/shop-front-theatre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shopfront Theatre<\/a> and online in <a href=\"http:\/\/upstage.org.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UpStage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dmll.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1417\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wehaveasituation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/dmll_logo-300x259.png\" alt=\"dmll_logo\" width=\"149\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/dmll_logo-300x259.png 300w, https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/dmll_logo.png 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 149px) 85vw, 149px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;We have a situation, Coventry!&#8221;<\/em> is a project of the <a href=\"http:\/\/dmll.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Disruptive Media Learning Lab<\/a> at Coventry University, coordinated by Rachelle Viader Knowles, with <a href=\"http:\/\/creative-catalyst.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Helen Varley Jamieson<\/a> as International Artist in Residence in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Helen gave a FACETS lecture at the Herbert Gallery; there is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y9GiJykWluc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video of her lecture online here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a name=\"team\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Team<\/h3>\n<p><em>We have a situation, Coventry!<\/em> was created and presented by Alan Van Wijgerden, Bailey Pembro, Carys Fyson, Dom Breadmore, Gabija \u0160imaityt\u0117, Helen Varley Jamieson, Jenelle Marfo, John Hammersley, Katherine Wimpenny, Lauren Heywood, Lyle Weir, Michelle Englefield, Raef Boylan, Rachelle Viader Knowles, Savannah Sengooba, Thomas Lawlor.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to: <a href=\"http:\/\/dmll.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Disruptive Media Learning Lab<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatreabsolute.co.uk\/shop-front-theatre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shop Front Theatre<\/a>, Jess Pinson &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theherbert.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Herbert Art Gallery and Museum<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.covfablab.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coventry Fab Lab<\/a>, Bojan Petrov, Kay Rothwell, Mary Courtney, Poppy Wilde, Caron McKenna &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cusu.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coventry University Students&#8217; Union<\/a>, Alice Williams &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belgrade.co.uk\/take-part\/arts-gymnasium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arts Gym, Belgrade Theatre<\/a> and the Coventry residents who contributed to our research.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"research\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Research<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1435 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wehaveasituation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/wheeliebins_rubbish-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Mary Courtney\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/wheeliebins_rubbish-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/wheeliebins_rubbish-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/wheeliebins_rubbish.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>Rubbish seems to be a point of conflict between residents and their student neighbours (photo at right by Mary Courtney). One attempt to improve this problem is an app, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.seriousgamesinternational.coventryrecycling.yourrubbish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Your Rubbish!<\/a>&#8220;, which tries to make it easier for people to remember which bins to put out for collection when. However, some reviews of the app say that it has incorrect information. Furthermore, every household in Coventry is required to have three wheelie-bins in their front garden &#8211; yet many houses don&#8217;t have a front garden, so where are they supposed to put their bins? As a result, many streets, particularly in areas now occupied by students, are permanently lined with bins in various states of tidiness.<\/p>\n<p>The university is making an effort to address the problems, with the app, neighbourhood wardens, and other measures aimed to improve awareness in the student population; but as students come and go, the problem persists.<\/p>\n<div id=\"magicdomid275\" class=\"ace-line\"><span class=\"author-g-b6hz122z1cgxh3ck6k9y\">We asked Coventry residents<\/span><span class=\"author-g-b6hz122z1cgxh3ck6k9y\">:<\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"magicdomid299\" class=\"ace-line\"><span class=\"author-g-b6hz122z1cgxh3ck6k9y\">What<\/span><span class=\"author-g-p17ucbmhjaz122zy0sxk\"> concerns you most<\/span><span class=\"author-g-b6hz122z1cgxh3ck6k9y\"> as a resident<\/span><span class=\"author-g-p17ucbmhjaz122zy0sxk\"> of Coventry<\/span><span class=\"author-g-b6hz122z1cgxh3ck6k9y\">?<\/span><\/li>\n<li id=\"magicdomid385\" class=\"ace-line\"><span class=\"author-g-p17ucbmhjaz122zy0sxk\">What, if anything, concerns you about the relationship between the university and the city?<\/span><\/li>\n<li id=\"magicdomid423\" class=\"ace-line\"><span class=\"author-g-p17ucbmhjaz122zy0sxk\">What concerns do you think students have<\/span><span class=\"author-g-5pi7eal8n9ulqw70\"> about their relationship with Coventry residents<\/span><span class=\"author-g-p17ucbmhjaz122zy0sxk\">?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and they contributed answers online via a public anonymous etherpad which is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wehaveasituation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/whas-coventry-residents.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archived here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>News Articles<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/coventrytoday.co.uk\/situation-coventry-cyberformance-focus-one-coventrys-hottest-topics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article about <em>We Have a Situation<\/em> in Coventry Today<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coventrytelegraph.net\/news\/coventry-news\/coventry-city-centre-youngest-area-12096657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coventry city centre is youngest area in West Midlands<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coventrytelegraph.net\/news\/coventry-news\/progress-made-tackling-dumped-rubbish-10756782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Progress made on tackling dumped rubbish problem in Coventry blamed on university students<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coventryobserver.co.uk\/news\/keep-coventry-tidy-campaign-targets-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keep Coventry tidy campaign targets students<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 November 2016 7pm UK time (find your local time here) Shop Front Theatre, Coventry, UK Documentation The Team Research Media Coventry University dominates in the centre of Coventry, a sprawling campus that is gradually swalllowing more and more formerly public spaces as it builds an academic empire on top of what was once the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/?page_id=1414\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We have a situation, Coventry!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":1420,"parent":65,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1414","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1414\/revisions\/1745"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}