Turning Balfron Tower Inside Out.
Balfron Tower, Summer 2015 pic by @BalfronSocial
My paper "Turning Balfron Tower Inside Out" was presented to the “Social Injustice & Inequalities: ‘Race, Gender & Class’” conference at The Centre for Social Justice and Inequalities, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick on 10th July 2015, and was subsequently published as guest post on the Balfron Social Club blog (link at the end). **
Between February 2011 & February 2014, I was a resident of Ernö Goldfinger’s brutalist icon Balfron Tower in Tower Hamlets. Throughout this period, predominantly making connections through word-of-mouth, I set about capturing, on large format transparency film, from a singular viewpoint, a perspective from within each of my neighbour’s homes. By taking an identically situated photograph in as many of my neighbour’s homes as possible, I intended to deconstruct the form of the architecture of Balfron Tower, with my ultimate intention being to create an, as yet unrealised, photographic sculpture of the building in its geometrically deconstructed form: effectively turning Balfron Tower Inside out.
During this process I encountered a glimpse into the function of Balfron Tower and the realities of some of the lives occupying this Grade II listed, purpose-built social housing block.....
this paper continues on the Balfron Social Club blog:
http://50percentbalfron.tumblr.com/post/124053438534/turning-balfron-tower-inside-out
