2017 — OCCUPYING THE POST-INDUSTRIAL CITY
Like many cities, Glasgow has a wealth of vacant buildings and sites following industrial decline. As demand for space changes, we need to explore processes that are less capital intensive and quicker to respond to people and change. Test Unit 2017 was designed to explore these issues of Post-Industrial buildings through a live case study; Civic House and it’s adjacent site, Phoenix Nursery.
Civic House was acquired by Agile City to create a new learning space for progressive forms of city development and act as a hub for the Glasgow Canal area. Test Unit 2017 came at a unique point to shape it’s future and begin the process of introducing it as a public space.
We invited Jason Bruges Studio, A Feral Studio, BAXENDALE, Valentina Karga, Assemble & TAKTAL to lead units responding to issues of lighting, occupation, communication, alternative economies and urban tourism.
Alongside we ran a public programme – featuring talks, demos and workshops from:
dpr-barcalona, London Legacy Development Corporation, NDSM, National Theatre of Scotland, Le Grand Voisins, Assemble, RISOTTO, Recoat, Akiko Kobayashi, Glasgow Tool Library.
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