Browse Hierarchy ESH7078: Curating London

How does London's built environment narrate the city? Are we able to read London through its architecture, civic spaces and museums? How might we read London's spaces alongside texts representing them? In this module, we adopt a situated view of the city's literary and visual cultures, conceptualising London as a curated space. We ask how London's built environments frame our understanding and guide our interpretation of the city and its literary representation. As such, we will visit a series of key sites across the city, reflecting on the ways in which their histories of construction and destruction have been represented in the literary and visual arts over time and asking how these spaces seek to represent the city of London today.