Arroyo Moliner, Liliana and Galdon Clavell, Gemma and Willcocks, Marcus and Toylan, Gamze and Thorpe, Adam (2015) The Hands Behind the Cans. Street Art & Urban Creativity Scientific Journal, Methodologies for Research., 1 (1). pp. 80-91.
Type of Research: | Article |
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Creators: | Arroyo Moliner, Liliana and Galdon Clavell, Gemma and Willcocks, Marcus and Toylan, Gamze and Thorpe, Adam |
Description: | The aim of this paper is to provide a consistent typology of graffiti writers, offering a comprehensive picture of whose are the hands behind the graffiti cans. This serves a double level purpose: advancing at the theoretical level putting forward the sociocultural approaches to careers and social backgrounds provided by ethnographic approaches, as well as capturing the complexity of the phenomenon to serve as an operative conceptual basis for practitioners, professionals and decision makers. In doing so, the analysis is made on the transcripts obtained for 22 semi-structured interviews, carried out in the four participating countries. The transcripts have been analysed according to the “persona” methodology, which constitutes a systematic and novel approach and a qualitative technique for clustering information. As a result, three main categories have been defined according to important ambitions, challenges and stages of typical ‘journeys’ or ‘pathways’ of actors. These findings contribute to form a basis of a) highlight the misconceptions around graffiti as a petty crime, and b) offer a guide to understand graffiti writers under a socio-cultural perspective. |
Official Website: | http://www.urbancreativity.org/uploads/1/0/7/2/10727553/marcus_journal2015_v1_n1.pdf |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Central Saint Martins Research Centres/Networks > Design Against Crime at the Innovation Centre (DAC) |
Date: | 15 November 2015 |
Related Websites: | http://www.graffolution.eu, http://www.urbancreativity.org/uploads/1/0/7/2/10727553/marcus_journal2015_v1_n1.pdf |
Date Deposited: | 27 Oct 2017 12:55 |
Last Modified: | 01 Apr 2020 18:46 |
Item ID: | 9295 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/9295 |
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