"Depending On time"is situated in a changing landscape during the period of time it takes to construct a new shopping centre. The book takes this period of change as its subject and draws out the narratives, the expectations, the aspirations and the criticism that local people have in the run up to its completion. Through transcribed conversations with small businesses, shoppers, local historians, architects, town planners and developers the book maps the anatomy of the development and traces a the trajectory of consumer culture from the city’s Victorian and Edwardian arcades through to the monolithic mall. Crucially asking the question: Who are cities for?
Depending on time is 152 pages long with full colour print and DVD Rom showing the film, A Million Moments & the audio guide, The Museum of the moment.
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"Nutopia" A newspaper documenting the Nutopia Symposium held in Cardiff in April 2009. The premise of the symposium and the newspaper is to explore and survey the many different possibilities for new - utopia's in the urban realm particularly in relation to contemporary town planning and architecture. Featuring contribted text from delegates and academics attending the symposium, Jill Fenton (QMW), Bas Speiring (University Utrecht), Tom Hall (Cardiff University), Karem Said (American University Cairo), Nell Quest, (Rutgers), Rachel Armstrong (Bartlett School)artists; Sophie Hope, Simon Whitehead & Ben Stammers, Esther Pilkington & Daniel Ladner, and many others. (full symposium listing www.arcadesproject.org) To recive a copy you will need to send a large letter SAE. Drop me an email and I will let you know cost/ address.
'Concrete : A User's Guide' Using narrative and found 'factual' information the book explores the meaning of concrete as a material. Given the pervasive use of this substance we are all 'users' of concrete, and yet how much do we consider its effects on the lives we lead in, around it. The book began with the question; does concrete refuse narrative? and if so, where do all our stories go.....?
Written by Jennie Savage & James Tyson
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'Auto - Portrait/ Description of a building site' is a collection of words extracted from a series of interviews conducted with the developers, architects, engineers, and people working on site who Landsecurites have employed to develop and build Saint Davids 2, an enormous shopping centre covering one third of Cardiff city centre. Through these interviews I sought to get a sense the practicalities and realities of such an endeavour and also invite the interviewee to reflect on the nature of the building site and what such a development means to the city both socially and culturally.
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'STAR : A Psyco topography of place.' STAR Radio was a project that explored the specificity of a 1 – mile geographic area. By exploring this area in all of its multiplicity the project sought to create a relationship between the micro and the macro; in looking very closely at the specifics of a place one discovers all places, all peoples and in fact, all the world, here.
The realisation of the project came through the construction of a framework which sought to examine STAR as a multi- layered map, or to suggest a multiplicitous reality. The creation of radio programmes plotted points on a virtual map, connecting groups of people, thoughts or ideas to one another- in order to construct a psycho – topography of the area. That is, a map of information which is un-mappable, the local, everyday knowledge which belongs to place and, because of its acute subjectivity and personality, is rarely revealed as ‘information’, it is simply lived knowledge. The project concluded as a Radio broadcast, museum exhibition and a book. The book is both a document of the event and an archive of audio fromt he area. It is priced £15. ISBN 0-9527802-9-1
'Mapping Publication 04', this publication was made in response to a workshop weekend which I held in my studio in Feb 04. Artists and academics to whom a sense of mapping is central to their practice, were invited to come along and take part in an experimental series of presentations and projects. Participants included: Stefhan Caddick, simon whitehead, Saul Albert, Lottie Child, Ivan Pope, Neil Jenkins, Mike Pearson, Heike Roms, Derek Mcormac, Simon Pope & Phil Babot.
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