Se11: [Re]Generations

The derive of the Situationists reviewing and critiquing the redevelopment of post-war Paris prefigured the process by which generations of inner-city dwellers have documented and resisted the de-territorialisation of their neigh-bourhoods and the dispersal and destruction of communities. Marc Auge defines anthropological space as the basic human need for a sense of continuity of time and proceeding and succeeding generations, provided by a monument which varies from culture to culture, but is defined as evidence of permanence or extended duration. As Lambeth Walk proceeds west beyond Fitzalan and Juxon Streets, a block of nondescript low-rise sheltered accommodation and a day-centre evidences the start of an earlier regeneration onslaught by Lambeth Council. Yet despite the changes to the residential community with the inevitable migration of people in and out of the area, there continues a stubborn identification and resistance to the voracious developers and council officers with their commitment to regeneration as privatisation.