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Activity - people walking up and down the High Street

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Beautiful flower display

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Good survivals

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Slow car reversing into bay where I am sitting

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Shrewsbury Arms mates outside laughing. Work, play after.

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Bake 'n' Butty.docx

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Bake ‘n’ Butty Fairy lights all year round Three clocks working triple time More seating at the rear and Above the sound of something frying in a pan Laughter The scrape of cutlery on finished plates Stacked and cleared Two cappuccinos Two toasted teacakes Footsteps on the lino floor The hum of radio from somewhere The clash of a saucepan lid Tea, milk, two sugars The tapping of a spoon on a plastic bowl Fishfinger sandwich to take away Do you need a receipt? It won’t be long, alright? Chips sizzling in the deep fat Steam escaping the coffee machine There’s your knife and fork Musical buttons singing from the till No sugar, I’m sweet enough A message left on the answering machine Phone rings How can I help you? Mobile notification Chatter Printing There’s your change I’ll bring your coffee over Sausage, egg and chips Large breakfast, no beans Two lattes Milk delivery Grated cheese in a bag Butter balanced in the crock of an arm Is there enough money in the till? Bacon and egg sandwich to go Cappuccino Cheers love It was lovely, thank you All this is seen and heard as I am joined at my table To talk through Covid Cars Past lives Old homes Acceptance Cooking Gender Pubs Health and Putting the world back together My tea is done I pop my mug back on the counter All this for the prices of a cuppa I think Stepping out past the flashing fairy lights

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Tree on roof

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Language

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Kid on bike

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The classic Dudley view up to spire of Top Church

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Wet grass smell

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Here's some stuff in a locked yard (that just happened to be open) down Wolverhampton Street. There are what look like two chapels in there.

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Christmas lights FESTIVE

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Maybe there are new cars

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Trad ground materials + patterns

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High Street Development The following images represent the high street development over the next 10 years. Green Corridor The hard standing throughout the high street is quickly converting a field of seeding of wild grasses and wildflowers, in the mix is also a high density of tree saplings. These will then grow to become the high streets Miyawaki forest and the centre point of Dudley’s green corridor. Vertical Farming Initially one vertical farm would appear on the high street and as the idea of urban farming becomes more widely accepted more and more buildings will either be converted, extended or built as new farms. Apartment Conversion As the population increases and more people are predicted to live in built up towns and cities, apartment blocks will pop up in new environments. As for the high street this will become a desired place to live as there are already most common amenities ready to use. As more blocks are created they themselves will become semi self sustaining.

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(*imagining*) two Christmas spirited robins joining in with the festivities of the street, singing along with your Christmas joys.

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[Drawing - bottle cap]

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There are ghosts here so I am told... Exposed, weathered concrete

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Grime streaked windows

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Our collective vision for Dudley is to support a creative community that is connected through our internet of things; creating spaces that allow for the collection and redistribution of materials that locals can use to construct products with. Community engagement is central to this design network with local businesses encouraged to get involved in manufacturing. We decided to bring alive this vision through a series of pavilions positioned through the High Street, following a process through recycling, storing constructing and manufacturing. To take this idea further, we allocated several empty units along the High Street to become spaces involved in the open factory, from workshops, educational centres and co-working hubs. Since we wanted to show the journey people would be able to take, we decided to create a storyboard for our final visual. These visuals show how the pavilions could sit in the High Street, starting at the market place, past CoLab Dudley’s base, and ending up at Top Church. We wanted to show how people would be able to interact with these different spaces and navigate between them.

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Explore The History Of Site Voids - This will provide an opportunity to reimplement these to allow vertical green corridors to occur. Explore Vacant Buildings - To avoid damaging an already deteriorating high street, I aim only to take over vacant plots. Investigate the opportunity for Miyawaki planting - understand the conditions required to grow a sustainable material source on-site, including ground, water, and space conditions. It takes over a building that leads directly to an open space where a community hub is the centre of the thesis, offering education, community engagement and material celebration.

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Peeling paint on beautiful old windows

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Smoking pit

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Unused little balconies

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"Dudley's Edwardian Market Place pictured around 1905."

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The inner circle represents the average colours of the Dudley High Street - the outer circle is the inverted version. Boasting more greens and purples (with a hint of orange), this new colour pallete sits a lot more comfortably with the surrounding nature reserves. If Dudley decided to just paint over their existing facades, Dudley could be nestled gently within the great nature spaces around it, instead of just being a town that exists ontop of green spaces.

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Slow car 11, faster car 9, faster van 1

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Top Church spire focal point

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Davo Turkish Hairstyles - Laughs, ginger beer, smiles

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Unused shop, spray painted numbers

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TAKING BACK OWNERSHIP - To utilise the empty spaces and units on the high street with a place to celebrate the local institutions work. A space to help build a stronger connection within the community, creating a sense of fulfilment with the people of Dudley.

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Alley-waste - glass - furniture - plastic bags

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Nurturing AgroEcology in Urban Life A strategy for living alongside food production A critical part of the climate crisis is the degradation of soil, leading to scientists predicting the UK has approximately 100 harvests left of stable crop production. As an attempt to address the problem this project will explore the possibility of integrating sustainable agriculture into an urban setting, reducing the strain on agricultural land, reducing food miles and widening city biodiversity. Taking guidance from the farming movement, ‘Agroecology,’ a climate conscious, wildlife supporting and community engaged closed loop system will be developed, combining traditional growing with technology driven techniques that will support each other to produce a diverse plate. Dudley High Street will be the focal point, reinvented as a destination not just for the purchase and consumption of food but also its creation, driven by the needs and engagement of local people. Connecting the community to the food they eat.

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Unused little balconies

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Nowhere to sit?

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Fairy lights in window

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Tiny patches of grass under bench

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Abundance of flowers welcoming everyone a "great night"!

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