| Description | This proposal started in 1988 under the aegis of APG and progressed as an unrealised O+I project. The papers include:
Folder 1:
- Papers relating to proposal to Derry City Council, 'Social Strategy in organisations and Institutions - the new role of the artist in the decision making society', including notes and drafts of proposals of 14 July 1988 and Autumn 1988; letter to Declan McGonagle, Orchard Gallery, re Derry proposal, 26 October 1988; typescript notes by Barbara Steveni on the Derry proposal, July 1988.
- Papers relating to the proposal to the Northern Ireland Office and its departments including minutes of meetings, draft proposals and correspondence with John F Walker, Northern Ireland Office, W Pinkerton, Department of Environment, Northern Ireland, W G McKeown and David Brittain, Department of Education, Northern Ireland, J Cowan, Londonderry Development Office, G Mackey, Laganside Development Corporation, Tony Hill, University of Ulster, Belfast and others.
- Supporting documents including a list of Northern Ireland Civil Service contacts; organogram of government departments, Northern Ireland; annotated list of ministerial responsibilities, February 1988; map of areas for special action in Belfast; folder 'Making Belfast Work' including leaflets, annual review and brochure on Laganside and its developments and strategy, action programmes and press releases on 'Making Belfast Work' government policy for supporting disadvantaged areas in Belfast, 1988-9.
Folder 2:
- Research materials including report on 'The Two Irelands: the problem of the double minority - a dual study of inter-group tensions' by Harold Jackson, published by the Minority Rights Group, May 1972; article 'Life goes on in Northern Ireland' by Veronica Horwell, The Weekend Guardian, 25-26 March 1989; Copy of 'Fortnight: an independent review for Northern Ireland, October 1989.
- Notes by Barbara Steveni, including drafts of letters and records of conversations. |