A little direction for the project, and after talking with Nigel and the group, I have decided to think about a few key themes...
I have been thinking about non spaces/ dead places, and something in particular I have been interested in are the abandoned telephone exchanges around Manchester- dead empty/unused spaces (some still with equipment). They have lost function, and in one sense the jobs of people who worked there unthinkable, probably very silly, in todays digital age; if a 999 call was put in, someone would have to run around the exchange to trace the number to find where it was coming from, something that happened at least until 1985...
The main things to consider from this were...How to tease out the memories, how can I represent things that happened in spaces/places that give it that history or feeling?! Re-stage it? Spaces hold down memory, so how can we let that speak...And so the talk with Nigel really did help, as I guess this is what I am trying to explore and present.
Now, how to do this!
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