Ian Waites

My research interests centre on post-WW2 council estates, sense of place and memory. Currently, I am researching the history of the Middlefield Lane estate in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, a 1960s council estate where I grew up. I am examining the original design and planning of the estate in relation to the more phenomenological concerns of spatiality, sense of place and everyday life. The research is particularly defined by my childhood and teenage memories of the estate during the 1960s and 70s, in an attempt to regain a sense of what it ‘felt like’ to live there. I keep a blog, ‘Instances of a changed society’ that chronicles this research, and which you can find here: http://instancesofachangedsociety.blogspot.co.uk/

I am also interested in:

1. The artistic representation of English common land c.1700-1850.
2. Christopher Priest's 'Dream Archipelago' stories.
3. The paintings of Peter Schmidt.
4. Eno's Another Green World
5. The history and culture of pop music
Phone: 01522 835152
Address: University of Lincoln
School of Architecture and Design
Brayford Pool
Lincoln
Lincolnshire
LN6 7TS
United Kingdom