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What makes a common landscape a public space? Around this question, Ghent city resident Elly Van Eeghem created an audiovisual show with photographs, video images, scale models, maps and voice recordings of residents and city planners. With ?(Dis) placed interventions? she creates wonder, insight and confusion about the spaces that we share as residents and users of the city.00Since 2012 artist Elly Van Eeghem focuses her gaze and lens on how cities change. In the past six years she has worked in various city districts in Paris, Berlin, Montreal and Ghent. She used photo and video recordings, actions in the public space and archival images to initiate collective interventions with local residents.00The collected material comes from the different city districts, where Elly worked in recent years on the representation of urban development and co-creation of public space. In this publication as the result of her artistic research at KASK Gent, Elly Van Eeghem draws inspiration from the urbanized landscape and the design and use of the city

This book questions the why and how of setting up artistic and social practices in interstitial spaces in the city, urban cracks. Urban cracks are conceptualised as in-between time spaces, characterised by an apparent void, where different logics meet and conflict. The lamination of different historically grown layers of meaning and the crossing of conflicting logics in these 'useless' places, are highlighted as significant features which artists and community workers could act upon. The authors discuss the potential of localized artistic and social practices that work with the context of urban cracks, and therefore bring forth significant political meanings. Artists and community workers are both engaged in reading, analysing and translating pertinent developments of society, although their intentions and outcomes are fairly different. This book is the result of a two-year interdisciplinary research project of the University College Ghent: a collaboration between the School of Arts and the Faculty of Education, Health and Social Work