ID:143 | Open in NocoDB | Type:Text | Themes:2 | Attachments:1 | Finding:6 chars | Connections:0→1 | Location:52.508652340703314, -2.086642661401924 | Weather:2 tags | Date:Saturday 31 July 2021 | Press 'D' to close

Dudley Time Portal

Church - 210731 1335 Big Things.png
Church
Added to Archive Wednesday 3 November 2021
Experienced Saturday 31 July 2021
Last Updated Tuesday 25 November 2025
Location 52.508652340703314, -2.086642661401924
Season Summer
Type Text
Weather Cloudy Rainy
Themes Big Things Architecture
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 Big Things
[Drawing - trident] - 210731 1335 Big Things 2.png
This visual represents Dudley High Street re-imagined; a new vision of a re-wilded, food-centric town centre. The green canopy will begin as a frame that will encourage the growth of plants. Smaller scale units will be integrated at the start and build towards the final vision. - 1_8oJ0eISAIDZ0uX4_VksliQ.png
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
Church - 210731 1335 Big Things.png
The themes I investigated were the Connections, Movement, Routes and Ways. My gift explores those themes through a figurative expression hidden within the structure of the dreamcatcher, allowing for a flexible interpretation by the audience, and to aid the imagination. The structure of the dreamcatcher symbolizes the relationship between the destination and the journey the user undertakes, but while it highlights the importance of the destination, placing it in the centre as the biggest piece, it emphasizes the significance of the journey over the destination in the ratio of one big element vs many small elements. This can be relevant to the High Street, if the connections are thought of beyond the transport means, and can relate to anything from the layout of the landscape of the High Street, to the interactions between the users. The web symbolizes the connections between the pieces, plotting the blue foam pieces around the different lengths of the thread, off the centre where the destination piece is plotted. This is meant to show how the connections can be made in various ways and that there is no set order or pattern, meaning that the movement is individual and the connections are adaptable. The blue foam pieces can be viewed as points or highlights of the journey, or they can represent different ways of getting to, and from the centre, suggesting that the journey doesn’t end with the destination. Another way in which the web can be interpreted is that the small foam pieces are the destinations, the thread is the connection between them and the big piece symbolizes the decision making. - 0_kW-5L8zNDic2CWkq.jpeg
More tagged with theme Architecture
Loss or original building line enclosure too much horizontality - 210731 1403 Identity.jpg
Dudley Market pictured in May 1982 - Screenshot 2022-02-24 at 15_14_27.png
Big old building - 210731 1335 Big Things.png
Unused little balconies - 210730 1400 Tiny Things.jpg
We initially collaged together all the facade images taken and then annotated them with further reference to key areas. The right hand side looking at materiality, street furniture and observations of people. The left hand side looks at observing some of the most dominant features - the traffic, shopping centre and busy public market in the centre. - Michelle Gartside Initial response.png
More tagged with type Text
Pink shirt man in front of pink/red sign - 210730 1110 Colour.jpg
It's funny how the street is jammed with parked cars @ 5:30pm - 211110 1730 Funny.png
Up high buddleia + fern waving in gentle breeze - 210715 1600 Speeds.png
Rotten wooden wall - 210731 1030 Decay 3.png
Loss of firm enclosure but still just about maintains the spatial flow - 210731 1403 Identity.jpg