matt baker: highlands & islands rtpi chapter presentation

Artwork = Strategy x Process + Action / Place (+ the Scottish Nation)

(and vice-versa)

Momentum - trajectories

Torsten Hagerstrand

PART ONE – The aRty Bit

PART TWO – Artists as part of design teams and strategic thinking (whatever that is)

Gorbals – Crown St Regeneration Project:Interpreting a masterplan for the public

Percent for Art - an area-wide strategy

Re IMAGINING THE CITY

Inverness Old Town:

Artists contributing to a masterplan

Key Points1. A means of engaging the

creative economy sector in

3. Building confidence and

4. Changing the way a place is

2. Directly involving local people

in the future of their town

capacity locally

is perceived from the outside

the regeneration of the town

The ‘renaissance’ of the Old Town district is a major part of delivering the Inverness City Vision

Plan 1 Not something people could get involved with…..

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Church St – a potential cultural destination..?

Imagining the Centre 09.09.06 -14 Highland artists take over Church St for one day, to test local reaction to the idea of a ‘cultural city centre’

Inverness Old Town Art receives the maximum award from the Scottish Arts Council ‘Artists Work in Public Places’ scheme

PART THREE – working with housing and where that can lead…

Everywhere is a point of intersection

‘Govan has had two eras of greatness – and that is two more than most places’

View of Govan in approx 1750 – showing Doomster Hill on site of Govan Riverside