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Dr Griet Scheldeman Lancaster Environment Centre [email protected] Street Matters

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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 Presentation

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Dr Griet Scheldeman Lancaster Environment [email protected]

Street Matters

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Matters of the street: life, movement: walking

Matter: surfaces, stuff, things

Street matters because...

Street Matters

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Design anthropologyNew approaches to designWhat can other disciplines bring to it?

What is good design?

Context

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‘User friendly’

Good design?

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keep in mind

‘Glide through life effortlessly’

Funfair obstacle course

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Westbourne road picture

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PublicContinuous change

InstitutionalPeopleForces of non-human nature

Made, remade, learned, relearned, maintained, used, produced

A street: a strange choice?

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Others – world- ourselves

intermingleThrough matter

friction

Street: where we meet

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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

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‘User friendly’

Practitioner friendly:Skill - enskillment

Good design?

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Westbourne road picture

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Why?

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Regulated, contain chaos ‘Pedestrian dressage’Reduced streets to one function:

transport: fastest, straightest route from A to B

Transport - planning

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