Design brief and initial ideas for Re-imagining The High Street_ as the 'Lobby' of the City.
Studio Ethos: knowledge/ finding out in and through…
performance
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material artefact(s)
Site:
High street crisis deepens: 1 in 12 shops closed in five years
English and Welsh town centres have lost 8% of their shops on average since 2013, according to a Guardian analysis, with some major destinations shuttering two out of 10 town centre sites over the past five years. The average toll equates to at least 40 shops closing per town centre in England and Wales, in a stark illustration of the economic conditions faced by retailers and local communities.
Thriving retail developments can play an important role in maintaining healthy and successful communities, so the decline of the high street and closure of many retailers continues to have an impact on local communities through the loss of jobs and opportunities for local people, and a loss of community cohesion. In many cities, once vibrant centres are now shadows of what they were, with many units empty and boarded up, causing investment to slow, and people to abandon the area.
Materials:
abundance in an age of scarcity
“what if… instead of adding, one redistributes what already exists?”
Jeremy Till, Central Saint Martins, AUL
Approach:
Jugaad origin: Hindi. definition: a flexible approach to problemsolving using limited resources in an innovative way; frugal engineering
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