Empty Shop Revival Fund
The Empty Shop Revival Fund has been made available by central government to help reverse the decline of high streets in these recessionary times, so there is money available for installations to be made in disused shops and windows.
When in Boston a few years back Cefn and I saw a whole set of great tech-art shop window interactions - including Jeff Lieberman’s Slink, plus some solar creatures, video pieces and interactive displays. There have also been some very nice street based multitouch systems such as CityWall in Helsinki. All pretty ambitious but shows what can be done in these spaces.
Tom and I went to see the folk at Slack Space in Colchester in the summer - where artists had taken over empty shops for galleries and workshop spaces.
I think this is a very exciting initiative indeed and would like to discussing ideas if you’re interested too
Cheers,
Dave
Comments
discount vouchers on 18 January 2010
Anything that makes high streets better places and hopefully encourages people to spend time there and spur on the economy must be a good thing.
outdoor solar lighting on 19 March 2010
solar system in a long hallway or
playing field and observe that the solar system is mostly empty space. They will also observe
that outer planets are much farther apart than inner planets and learn that it takes a long time to travel through the solar system. outdoor solar lighting