Category: Archives

• Stories of daily life in stevenage

  By Nicola Spurling and Elizabeth Shove Between 2014-2016 I explored how professional practices shaped everyday consumption of mobility and energy through inscribing the world with envisioned ways of living and doing. I worked with the New Towns Archive (in Hertford) and Stevenage Museum and used archive research and oral history interviews to look at the…

  July 14, 2023

• if the walls could talk

  By Nicola Spurling and Elizabeth Shove ‘If The Walls Could Talk’ was a public engagement initiative which I ran as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science in 2014. I produced two picture books conveying ideas and findings from research in the New Towns Archive (in Hertford) and the Stevenage Museum in which I…

  July 14, 2023

• parking in utopia

  By Nicola Spurling and Louise Mullagh (Imagination Lancaster) In 2017 I was funded by the Mobile Utopia Experiment to stage a 2-day intervention with Louise Mullagh (Imagination Lancaster) which I titled ‘Parking in Utopia’. I occupied two parking spaces on Lancaster campus. In one I installed an exhibition of historic maps gathered through archival work…

  July 6, 2023