Pecha Kucha – 180 Degree City
Gallery One
20 June 2012
6:00pm
The 180 Degree City will look at the city in terms of its design, not by designers or creators but from the view of people that interact and work with it. The evening will uncover clues to understand behavioural patterns of people and the physical outcome of design.
Cities have physical reasons to be: A ford, a crossroads or port. Glasgow’s foundation was because of its river. Glasgow made the Clyde (dredged a channel) and the Clyde made Glasgow through export and import. The river as a physical vehicle for growth and exchange is no longer. The decline in shipping and trade has forced the city to reinvent itself to survive.
We have short memories. The reasons why things are like they are loose their meaning quickly. Often we don’t know about the origins of why a place or a design is like it is. Our personal mind maps of the city and interaction with its buildings and places is more likely than not biased to our personal experience. Design follows this course. The reasons for creation mutate and change their meaning as a design is adopted, adapted or rejected.
Speakers for the evening include:
– Iain Docherty
– Michael Kelly
– Riccardo Marini
– Howard Bernstein
– Philip Hanlon
– Jennifer McCarey
– Conzo Throb
– Mark Brand
– George Hazel