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Part 2 Project 2022
William Weston
Louis Stephenson
Adam Nuttall
Birmingham City University | UK
The ideas, tensions and exploration documented within this thesis is grounded in the city of Coventry. A city that has undergone a near constant evolution at the hands of war, city planners and developers with little input from the communities these changes affect and represent.

Through a documented exploration of the components that make up Coventry’s multi-faceted and complex genius loci, music has proven to be one of few foundational cornerstones that give opportunities for a collective representation of culture and being.

The discovery of musical pioneers such as Delia Derbyshire, who was able to invent novel soundscapes within a closed system and hack devices and equipment of her epoch to an exceedingly modern effect, has created a blueprint for disrupting the established order of development in the city.

An alternative history is presented In which lost music venues are retained and rebuilt. These theatres of collective euphoria and vehicles of culture are reclaimed through a city wide bricolage process that reuses elements from destroyed urban fabric to protect the beating heart of the city.

This ethos of reinterpreting and finding new significance in the existing city runs throughout the thesis in its architecture, in the collage-based methods of representation, and with the use of archival content in multimedia work.


Tutor(s)
Alessandro Columbano
Valeria Szegal
2022
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