Go Between
2016
Accompanies the essay: Building Shaped Knowledge: Defining Spatially Bound Knowing in Community Work
In the UK, ‘Community work’ has never had a clearly applied definition, containing within it aspects of ‘community development’ and ‘community education’.
This 30 minute film is the end result of a period shadowing and observing the work of Leisure attendants in Community Centres across the North East Glasgow. Attendants are paid staff who look after the buildings, carry out daily maintenance and ensure the buildings run according to their programmed uses.
The film sets out to document the knowledge these workers put to use daily. The viewing experience is from the point of view of five different attendants in five different Community Centres. Their movements however, display a mixture of their personality and economic functions of their work. As each sets out to open the space to the public.
