Sunday 11 July 2010

Frank's Cafe and the City Edges

Frank's Cafe caught my eye - featured briefly in AJ 080710. A temporary installation with cultural and social intent - it's edgy and not glossy but comes across as full of spirit. Intriguing to know what the show is like.
For me car parks are part of the city edge (edge of a hole?), they are low grade in terms of city quality and we should learn from activities like this that bring them into fruitful play. Carolyn Steel's piece in BD 090710 - Why not try living on the edge? - insightfully opens up some thoughts along these lines. How many car parks do we know that lead a double life with car boot sales at the weekend? While car parks are a necessity of the current human condition, the ability to make use of them when they are not being used for their prime purpose, does the city a great favour. What other uses have you observed or would like to see?