This is a project about British New Towns.
New Towns were mostly built, in stages, between the late forties and early sixties to create new
urban centres, as well as to accommodate overspill from major conurbations. They are still being
built today, although they are now referred to as ‘Garden Cities’.
New Towns were designed for “Modern” living. New Towns are very honest about what it is to
live “Modern”.
Drive, Shop, and Eat, Drink then Home.
This is a project about how when there is no other poetry, a space will create some itself.
A new language emerges that resembles, ironically, the plans and data visualisations based
upon which these towns were built.
The ‘Modernist’ impulse results in the abstract within its spaces as well as its art.
A town built based on a plan can come to resemble that plan in surprising ways, but only once
the ‘newness’ has faded.