Monday, 5 October 2015

Place making in my chosen site

I struggled to come up with an idea for this one. I think mostly because I see the whole place making concept as a way of improving a site whether its be renovating it or giving it exposure. But the problem with this is that I think my site is perfect as it is. If it was to gain mass exposure with any of the ideas I've proposed, it would take away the magical component that comes with being so untouched. So as a result of this line pf thought, I'm going to answer this weeks task with just no. Place Making wouldn't work in my site because I can't see creating a work for collaboration between companies and the government or community would be worth losing the appeal of this natural place. It's the classic problem of something being ruined as soon as humans put their hand to it. It's a miracle that we have been able to have a  reasonably minimal effect on this site so far, I wouldn't want to expand on the effect we have already had. Creating paths and steps as well as the human traffic that use these paths has caused enough disruption to this place without creating public art within the spot.

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