Coastal illuminations for an age of
austerity. Environmentally friendly and anti-light pollution, Lime
Light
will make the town of Lyme Regis into a planetarium for the
Jurassic Coast, reflecting night skies past
and present.
Take one seaside tourist trail. Make a
few holes in the ground and cut some out of the many benches on the
promenade. Add some virtual vaudeville and give everyone a mallet and
club. We hope this is just one example of a sustainable approach to
regeneration that encourages exploration, exploits exisiting
infrastructure and that encourages a particpatory and
non-invasive approach to interpretation of places.
Lidos deserve a second chance. Many
lidos across the UK are disused, but are architectural gems worthy of
new life. What if they could be new centres for both recreation and
ecological education. What if we could actually use them for developing
sustainable aquaculture, through to fighting the rise of biological
pollutants such as invasive (non-native) species. Find out how in this
strategy with a national scope that will create new facilites for
eco-recreation.
Tourism cuts both ways, a way of
consuming places inevitably has repercussions for the places consumed.
What though if the subjects of the tourist gaze had control over how
they are seen ? The Jaywick Tourist Board is a DIY marketing project
that takes the intiative and represents this DIY community on the terms
of its residents. Jaywick, its wicked !
What happens when we destroy the things
we love ? Should erosion on the paths of the Lake District mean that we
just shouldn't walk there anymore ? A temporary project for Keswick and
Grasmere to tally up the cost of the search for solitude.
Films, notes and observations on the state of the nation.
