Writing
Expanded City Perspectives: Artist Gavin Renshaw
September 2016 Artist Lauren Velvick discusses Gavin Renshaw's research for The Expanded City project. At first glance, Gavin Renshaw's contribution to The Expanded City is the one that seems to most directly, and pragmatically relate to the potential for [...]
The Expanded City Symposium, June 2016
June 2016 Artist Lauren Velvick reflects upon The Expanded City symposium. As a public introduction to The Expanded City project, a symposium held on June 16 2016 reflected the research concerns of In Certain Places and the commissioned artists [...]

The Expanded City. Roman Way, Rough Hey, Red Scar: Ruins in Reverse
May 2016 Artist Lauren Velvick talks about her research for The Expanded City project. Maps of the outskirts of Preston, and many similar towns I’m sure, exhibit little in the way of landmarks to latch on to when planning [...]
Homing: visit to the Somme
March 2016 Artist Jen Southern describes her visit to The Somme, as part of her research for the Homing project. At the beginning of March, Sam Thulin and I went to France to make sound recordings and collect GPS [...]
The Expanded City: Initial Artists’ Meeting
March 2016 Lauren Velvick introduces The Expanded City project. How to encompass a city, and which boundary line, image, or description is the truest? These have emerged as pertinent questions during an initial meeting between the four artists who [...]
Imagining wetlands: geography between wet and dry
July 2015 Artist and UCLan Fine Art MA student, Tracy Hill reflects on her experience of the Nordic Geographers Conference in Estonia. Imagining wetlands: geography between wet and dry bought together 11 individuals from 6 countries all presenting personal [...]

Subplots to a City: Ten Years of In Certain Places
'Subplots to a City: Ten Years of In Certain Places' explores how In Certain Places has developed new approaches to art, culture and urban development since its inception in 2003. Alongside images, project outlines and [...]