Within a creative process or experience, for something ‘charged’ to happen, the space in which this takes place will need to be assigned with both authority and uncertainty. It will need to simultaneously accommodate perceptions of continuity and security, and attitudes of unease and revolution.

 

This dynamic can often be contextual and transitory, depending on a shifting palette of criteria, such as points in time, personnel mixes, intentions, available technologies, funding, and so forth.

 

How, then, do we develop highly provocative physical and conceptual spaces where ‘unfixed’ energies, opportunities, occasions, and languages coalesce and flourish? And, how can we advance such flexible creative environments that support multiple use, practice and philosophy, and which themselves can be programmed to learn, anticipate and prepare for unknown futures?

Simon Thorogood

Design thinker, fashion speculator, creative consultant and academic based in London.

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