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Dudley Time Portal

Aesthetics of decay, worn-out remnants, decline post-industrial. Beautiful ruins. Fragments of the past. - 211110 1730 Aesthetic.png
Aesthetics of decay, worn-out remnants, decline post-industrial. Beautiful ruins. Fragments of the past.
Added to Archive Thursday 11 November 2021
Experienced Wednesday 10 November 2021
Last Updated Tuesday 25 November 2025
Season Autumn
Type Text
Weather Damp Mild Cloudy
Themes Aesthetic Broken Material Care Decay Beauty Past
What was/is/if What is
More tagged with type Text
Roller shutters - 210731 1403 Identity.jpg
Small graffiti - 211110 1735 Tiny Things 3.png
Weeds growing on pavement - 210730 1515 Tiny Things.png
Peeling layers of paint grey, blue, red, green layers of the past revealing themselves... - 210731 1050.jpg
Industrial aesthetic functional utilitarian - 211110 1730 Aesthetic.png
More tagged with theme Past
After investigating the history, heritage, culture and institutions of Dudley and its High street, I made a kaleidoscope gift based around the themes ‘overlooked’, ‘resilience’ and ‘layered’. Although sight is the most immediate sense in which many people engage with their surroundings, it’s not until you look beneath the surface and start to see things from a new perspective that you fully appreciate what is there and the potential beyond. I wanted people to engage with my gift, have fun and evoke a sense of nostalgia, whilst also using it as a way to look forward to what the High Street could be, all the while embodying the CoLab Dudley principle of allowing this object to be a co-op piece. The gift relates to the people and allows for each user to interpret and express their own thoughts. - 0_45V_6qYjaVPtSZYF.png
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. - IMG_7586.jpeg
This gift was created to highlight different points in the social spaces on the high street. Aspects that we can improve on and celebrate. One point found was to incorporate more green spaces to improve health and wellbeing. The other to celebrate the textures and embossings in Dudley’s early ironworking. These ornaments were created by melting sweets and printing patterns onto them. - 0_bLySD-pGcd7BOWUv.png
Township of Dudley 1750 - Sita Patel Township 1.png
Dudley was pretty much at the centre of the Industrial Revolution. It had many advantages like making things faster, leading to technological advancements, a wider distribution of wealth and the social changes that came with this. However, it also had its own set of problems that are still relevant today which we need to acknowledge and address to successfully move forward, mainly: overpopulation, housing, water, air pollution and depletion of natural resources. - 1_DKKRYjcJTsB-G2mICyI8qw.png
More tagged with theme Decay
Unused shop, spray painted numbers - 210731 1050.jpg
Old shop sign - 210731 1030 Decay.png
Mossy algae on wall below the windows - 210731 1050.jpg
[What do you notice if you imagine you are a worm / a bird / somebody else?] weed under bench, rusting lamppost, vehicles, business - 211110 1730 Views.png
Street scale patchwork Investigating Facade Damage will highlight where the repair needs to be undertaken. It is creating an irregular pattern of repair that evolves. Only intervene when necessary; this proposal will not ‘repair what does not need fixing’ as it appreciates there could be a negative effect on an already declining high street. Repairs will be constructed with the materials grown on the street as part of the Macro-scale intervention. - Ryan Cooksey Street Scale Patchwork 1.png