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Dudley Time Portal

I was asked about what I was doing [asked them what they think is beautiful] Old lamp posts giving the town some character - 210730 1100.JPG
I was asked about what I was doing [asked them what they think is beautiful] Old lamp posts giving the town some character
Added to Archive Friday 15 October 2021
Experienced Friday 30 July 2021
Last Updated Tuesday 27 January 2026
Location 52.50896973017513, -2.086249846779774
Season Summer
Type Text
Weather Rainy
Themes Aesthetic Beauty Care Community Connection Conversation Curiosity Favourite Things Friendliness Identity Interacting Old Past People
What was/is/if What is

Has inspired

More-than-humanising data through sonification Sound artist Bill Laybourne invited Dudley time rebels to create a collective score inspired by street detectorist findings through noise making.
More tagged with theme Past
We created a visual representation of the main factors and sectors we came across in our research and explored individually: environment, economy, technology and education. It also summarises our goal of creating a connected High Street, and the steps we took to achieve this goal. - 1_7s93a2RG5Ut3waM0oEJExw.png
Evidence of Bronze Age pottery in Dudley town was found but signs of occupation was only revealed in the eighth century AD - Sita Patel township 2.png
The Spiers home furnishing store in Dudley High Street in April 1970 -
Seen as the heart of the town, Dudley High Street stretch- es from the Dudley ASDA, all the way up to the St. Edmund King & Martyr Church. Although, the street has seen better days. Along the High Street itself, there are 28 abandoned shop fronts, accounting for 1/5 shops being neglected. It is also home to a few of Dudley’s landmarks: The Drinking Fountain, a Grade II listed fountain, which had a portion of a £4.6 million funding from the HLF European 2015 funding go towards to its restoration (Richards, 2017). The Market Place is a fixed centre of trading and selling at the heart of the market square. It too benefited from the funding, allowing for permanent fixings. The Top Church, St. Thomas and St. Luke, overlooking the entire street, and most of the surrounding town itself. - Oscar Law Group 1.png
Loss or original building line enclosure too much horizontality - 210731 1403 Identity.jpg
More tagged with theme People
Only two people sitting on benches at this time - 210715 1600 Lingering.png
The third Stepping Stone project attempted to design the community kitchen in one of the empty shops on Dudley High Street. We all know that food is an essential factor in our life and eating and cooking the food is not an abstract activity we do, it is part of our everyday routine. In our initial research, we found that many people live alone in compact housing on the High Street. We thought the kitchen connect the residents with society. We decided to make the process of preparing food more enjoyable. As our aim was to grow food on the street wherever possible, we can use these vegetables for the community kitchen. This will encourage residents to come down onto the street and engage with it. This could also be a new experience for the visitors of the High Street. - 1_hvQXOY39qWZ19g07wz8ung.png
The first step is sectioning out for pedestrianisation. It was important that we did this so we can move down the intervention scale to the next stepping stone; laying the foundation for social and ecological benefits. The hierarchy of space is very much dedicated to cars right now. If you design for cars, you’re going to get more cars. If you design for people, you’re going to get more people. According to Just Economics, the footfall can increase by about 40% following pedestrianisation, and retail follows suit with about 30% increase in sales. - 1_u90NvmZWEYJpy_l7kZT3ww.png
This gift is made of cardboard and acrylic. A map of the High Street is drawn on the acrylic sheet, and the distribution of buildings and roads are drawn on different acrylic sheets. Through my research, I know that the annual precipitation rate in Dudley is very high, but from the photo, there is no place to block the rain beside the buildings on the street, so I want to add the element of the poncho and make it transparent, so that it will not block the sun, and it is also more convenient for people to travel. - 1_AAMq9ulJJ0Nb8lyw33ztDg.png
Pink shirt man in front of pink/red sign - 210730 1110 Colour.jpg
More tagged with theme Interacting
This post captures the street qualities where the visitors experience the colour and aromas of the food. (We decided to present our narrative through social media and instagram posts as we wanted to showcase what individual experiences might be like when experiencing the future High Street. Each of our posts captures a different element of experience on the High Street to form a collective scenario.) - 1_xTufD_UHcNclrjiOlfcOeA.png
A collage response to a Co.LAB gift for the High St - “It was nice to be able to use the image for something else. It made me think about placing the cut-out roadmap onto a slightly brighter future version, with colour, vibrancy and plantlife, so that it reminds me what we are heading towards, but still with a hark back to the people and the industry that made Dudley the town it is...” - 2656268F-99B4-47D8-8FF5-953A7068378B (1).jpg
friendly surveillance of spiders in the top right corner of the lab - be nice! - 211110 1730 Hiding 4.png
Tiny random acts of kindness like picking up blown away posters - 210730 1400 Tiny Things.jpg
A lady waving to a child - 210730 1530 Friendliness.jpg