ID:153 | Open in NocoDB | Type:Text | Themes:8 | Attachments:1 | Finding:24 chars | Connections:0→1 | Location:52.50958264326422, -2.0843926775708597 | Weather:1 tags | Date:Friday 30 July 2021 | Press 'D' to close

Dudley Time Portal

A lady waving to a child - 210730 1530 Friendliness.jpg
A lady waving to a child
Added to Archive Thursday 21 October 2021
Experienced Friday 30 July 2021
Last Updated Tuesday 25 November 2025
Location 52.50958264326422, -2.0843926775708597
Season Summer
Type Text
Weather Rainy
Themes Community Connection Conversation Friendliness Interacting Actions Kindness People
What was/is/if What is

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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 Friendliness
People chatting & saying hi to someone passing in their car - 210730 1530 Friendliness.jpg
Golden Touch.docx
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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
Market people chatting under the shelter - 210730 1530 Friendliness.jpg
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Together, dad feeding birds - 210715 1600 Happiness.png
A lady waving to a child - 210730 1530 Friendliness.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
More tagged with theme People
The Gift represents the two different typologies of building and its facade located on the High Street. One resembles St. Thomas Top Church and the other is the common modern building facade. The design of High Street buildings has evolved throughout the period. Its use, materiality, construction technique etc. The High Street has always represented a role as a commercial and social hub. The concentration of public on the High Street provides the opportunities to designers to showcase creativity and innovation in design which impacts on visitors. We can say in other words, an ‘Exhibition’ of evolution of buildings in a row. So, facade plays a key role as it reflects the local identity of the town and its culture. So I did a little experiment to understand the street in the form of juxtaposition of facade by placing two different typologies of buildings located on the street. The voids on the facade have changed and adapted to more convenient rectilinear shapes during the past few decades. The model made of plain paper can represent the periodical difference in buildings to which people of the High Street can easily relate and take a place within their memory. - 0_VZnqEpx8xTTZXQdp.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
Land lords residents - 211110 1730 Homes.png
Tiny random acts of kindness like picking up blown away posters - 210730 1400 Tiny Things.jpg
Stepping Stone 4 adds layers to the High Street. Like the other visions, we wanted to use CoLab Dudley’s principles ‘use nature as a guidebook’ and ‘create conditions for curiosity and experimentation’. The main way we proposed to do this was adding a green canopy to provide shelter, create a hybrid indoor outdoor space welcoming to families and a more communal open space, and support ecosystems. - 1_LproE6m65nkUvUNOhgvtwg.png