William Shannon Harvest City (Metro) , 2010
We have started the first decade in history in which the majority of the global population live in urban rather than rural areas. The city is now a place where most of civilization will live. The industry that once built these settlements has gradually been pushed to the urban fringes. With globalisation, industry and manufacturing have all but disappeared from British shores. This de-industrialisation is in need of revision. Harvest City re-imagines the city as a resource that can provide the raw materials for the production of goods. It proposes ways in which local materials and localised manufacture can allow a smaller lightweight industry to be reintroduced to shape a new urban landscape.
The Cabinet Maker
Discarded and unwanted material, tree branches, old newspaper and suitcases foraged from the city, form the key elements of the Cabinet Maker’s trade. His mobile factory allows him to work anywhere, moving to sites rich in these raw materials. The regional difference of the city along with the seasonal availability of such material is to be embraced as a dominant factor in the production process.
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