Talking Walls: What Graffiti Should be Saved?
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="schema:primaryImageOfPage og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="
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https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/talking-walls-graffiti-cover.jpg?itok=HSNQ4jrB" width="610" height="336" alt="Deliberately preserved graffiti within the German Reichstag in Berlin." /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="schema:description content:encoded"><p>These days, town halls tend to equate unsanctioned graffiti with vandalism, identifying it as a costly “problem” or eyesore. All too often local administrations prioritize the quick removal of graffiti, following the lead of the now defunct broken windows theory, proposed by James Q. Wilson and George Kelling in 1982, which claims that visible disorder such as graffiti encourages further crime. It’s a theory which anti-graffiti warriors love to quote?
ad infinitum, particularly followers of the Keep America Beautiful movement, and its ex-sidekick Graffiti Hurts, as well as similar organizations which have popped up throughout the world.</p>
<p>In response to the officially sanctioned whitewashing of graffiti which appeared in Cuenca during the October 2019 indigenous protests in Ecuador, I worked on a research project for the University of Azuay in southern Ecuador evaluating graffiti management strategies being used in different cities across the globe. The aim was to understand other ways in which the Municipality?
could? have reacted. In essence the project was an attempt to answer a question posed by Dr. Richard Clay in the BBC FOUR documentary?
A Brief History of Graffiti: “Should we always succumb to the knee-jerk reaction of scrubbing it off?”</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Cleaning graffiti which states “Solo el Pueblo Salva el Pueblo” " class="media-image" height="456" style="width: 610px; height: 456px;" width="610" typeof="foaf:Image" src="
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Cleaning graffiti which states “Solo el Pueblo Salva el Pueblo” (only the people can save the people) from the façade of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage (INPC) in Cuenca on October 10, 2019. (Cecilia Bogaard)</p>
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