nikki pugh | Blog Archive » Why I’ve been talking about Eastside a lot recently – Nikki takes a walk around the boundary of the ‘Anti Talent Zone’ (where ‘anything goes’) that is Eastside:
I’m at once amused, baffled, frustrated, and in concordance with this demarcation: it makes perfect sense in terms of following the existing lines of major roads etc, but I’m galled by the idea that what was once intended to be the ‘Cultural Quarter’ (I don’t know if that’s still the case) can be defined by a staked out territory and then filled in. Of course departments and policies need to name and define, but I have trouble mapping that onto creativity and culture which I conceive of more as bubbling out from particular points where circumstances collude to allow things to transpire…
As well as a lot of building sites and demolition, Nikki also finds uncertainty from her GPS devices, resulting in pretty pictures of lines:
