Orienting the Future: Design Strategies for Non-Place

Research project

Research team

Ian Graham
James Stewart
Robin Williams

Overview

1 January 2005 - 31 March 2006

This AHRB-EPSRC Research Cluster brings together designers and scholars to develop resources that address a specific contemporary design problem: making ordinary urban spaces more accessible, friendly and useable ... or, more specifically, to articulate the problematic nature of so-called non-places and their technologies. We experience non-places routinely. They include urban environments such as airports, supermarkets, motorways, hotels, and offices. What is distinctive about non-places? Why are they relevant to design? Non-place website

Contact: James Stewart