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Street Matters

Street Matters. Dr Griet Scheldeman Lancaster Environment Centre g.scheldeman@lancaster.ac.uk. Street Matters. Matters of the street: life, movement: walking Matter: surfaces, stuff, things Street matters because. Context. Design anthropology

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Street Matters

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  1. Street Matters Dr GrietScheldeman Lancaster Environment Centre g.scheldeman@lancaster.ac.uk

  2. Street Matters • Matters of the street: life, movement: walking • Matter: surfaces, stuff, things • Street matters because...

  3. Context • Design anthropology • New approaches to design • What can other disciplines bring to it? What is good design?

  4. Good design? ‘User friendly’

  5. keep in mind‘Glide through life effortlessly’Funfair obstacle course

  6. Westbourne road picture

  7. A street: a strange choice? • Public • Continuous change • Institutional • People • Forces of non-human nature Made, remade, learned, relearned, maintained, used, produced

  8. Street: where we meet Others – world- ourselves intermingle Through matter friction

  9. Street • Event, happening Lived bodies belong to places and help constitute them. Places belong to lived bodies and depend on them Casey 1996 • Walking: Movement – surfaces – matter Finding/making your place

  10. Good design? • ‘User friendly’ • Practitioner friendly: Skill - enskillment

  11. Westbourne road picture

  12. Why?

  13. Transport - planning • Regulated, contain chaos ‘Pedestrian dressage’ • Reduced streets to one function: transport: fastest, straightest route from A to B

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