My Hackney? Book 2

My Hackney?

Book 2 Pauline Moon

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My Hackney?

Book 2 Pauline Moon 2023

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I have lived in Hackney for half of my life and witnessed it gentrify and change around me; changes that have not benefi ed everyone.

Digital footprints of gentrifica on in Hackney emerge from the archive of images embedded in Google Street View. This book draws on this archive and explores traces of unfolding changes in the landscape in and around Chatworth Road, E5. These traces speak of what is visible in the streets today and what is visible only in memory. They suggest and hide socio-economic and cultural changes.

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The 10 process of rematerialising images sourced from Google Street View that had otherwise only existed in digital form seeks to reconnect them with the past and present 'material' worlds that they reference, and to the diverse material reali es of Hackney's residents.

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Richard Yeboah asks 'I wonder if Hackney is really for me anymore'. ..."So many memories of Hackney's housing during the 1990s and 2000s are connected with deep poverty, structural decline, an -social behaviour and other socioeconomic problems, but are intertwined with a real sense of community, pride and sense of togetherness." …"I feel complex emo ons when I see changes - when I grew up it was rough, now the environment is cleaner and safer but as an exis ng resident though I wonder in the long-term who really benefits from the changes in Hackney?"

"Hackney is my home and has been for the last 30 years and the area will forever define me and many of its communi es."

From My London, February 2021 h ps://www.mylondon.news/news/nostalgia/lifelong-hackney-resident-compares-images-19863729

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Malakaï Sargeant: "The stark lack of integra on between the old and new communi es in Hackney hugely contributes to my feeling of no longer being at home walking down streets with memories and experiences ingrained in their pavements. Like the street where I grazed my knee a er falling off my bike, where my uncle taught me how to cycle. That road has been resurfaced now, with the council filling in potholes as per their deals with housing developers a er responding to complaints by the new residents. Or the street where my great granddad walked with me to take me to primary school, quickening his pace when going past the park."

From Malakaï Sargeant's story in 'Rife: Twenty One Stories from Britain's Youth', edited by Nikesh Shukla, 2019. This extract was quoted in Vice, July 2019 h ps://www.vice.com/en/ar cle/7xgye4/east-london-gentrifica on-rife-book-extract

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