Project Lead
Email: richard.laing@northumbria.ac.uk
Project Themes
Far from being ‘non spaces’, transport hubs (railway stations, airports, etc) seem to hold the potential for adventure. They seem to offer the possibility of adventure, featured and reflected in so many dramas, songs, romances and personal stories.
Indeed, how mobility hubs can facilitate connections between people, transport modes, businesses and communities has attracted significant interest in recent years, and can drive design, infrastructure and life.
Stations are embedded in their localities, and manifest close interrelationships between site-specific conditions, interwoven with local economies, identities, histories, and communities. In addition to physical connections and movement, are there perhaps also plenty of invisible flows and meetings?
The workshops seek to trace and disentangle these meetings at the station: their what, how, why? Initial output from the workshop will take the form of a manifesto, which we intend to use and further develop as a touchstone for the transport and mobility theme in our IDRT over the coming year.
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