ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the role and agency of art in a social practice placemaking context, focusing on the co-produced art practice and process and the art experience in and affective spacetime; the role of the artist working with a collective body of urban co-creators; and its arts practice working as reinterpreting the space and cultural activities of the estate, enabling the residents to critically distance themselves from the estates' life-world. It presents a case study on 'The Drawing Shed' that explores aspects of social practice arts found in London, introducing the notion of the informal aesthetic first, and then including in the discussion relational and dialogical aesthetics, performativity and duration. The Drawing Shed's social practice arts process was seen to be of intra- and inter-community social exchange and connection-forming, through the performative intervention.
