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Street Matters. Dr Griet Scheldeman Lancaster Environment Centre [email protected]. Street Matters. Matters of the street: life, movement: walking Matter: surfaces, stuff, things Street matters because. Context. Design anthropology - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Dr Griet Scheldeman Lancaster Environment [email protected]
Street Matters
Matters of the street: life, movement: walking
Matter: surfaces, stuff, things
Street matters because...
Street Matters
Design anthropologyNew approaches to designWhat can other disciplines bring to it?
What is good design?
Context
‘User friendly’
Good design?
keep in mind
‘Glide through life effortlessly’
Funfair obstacle course
Westbourne road picture
PublicContinuous change
InstitutionalPeopleForces of non-human nature
Made, remade, learned, relearned, maintained, used, produced
A street: a strange choice?
Others – world- ourselves
intermingleThrough matter
friction
Street: where we meet
Event, happeningLived bodies belong to places and help constitute them. Places belong to lived bodies and depend on them
Casey 1996
Walking:Movement – surfaces – matterFinding/making your place
Street
‘User friendly’
Practitioner friendly:Skill - enskillment
Good design?
Westbourne road picture
Why?
Regulated, contain chaos ‘Pedestrian dressage’Reduced streets to one function:
transport: fastest, straightest route from A to B
Transport - planning