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Garston is a town that grew because of it’s docks. It’s located in south Liverpool, separate from the city’s other docks, which are all north of the city centre. Garston existed as a village in intself, long before being caught up in Liverpool’s suburban sprawl. Therefore it has always had a very strong local identity, and was famous as one of the strongest community identities in the city.

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Similarly to Sheffield and Nowa Huta, Garston has suffered from the decline of industry. The docks still handle a high volume of trade, but due to the modern mechanisation of the process, fewer locals are employed, and so the docks cannot sustain the village. The interdependent relationship between the docks and the village is hence broken, leaving the village dependent on some outer infuence, from beyond the “independent” scenario. Locals are forced to move away.

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dock workers’ housing, ‘under the bridge’.

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Liverpool is currently the official European Capital of Culture 2008. But while the city centre benefits from this new renaissance and ‘creative buzz’, suburbs like Garston continue to be “EU cat. 1″ areas of depravation. Can ART make a difference to the streets of Garston? Click here to follow the story so far…


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Studio Six, MArch School of Architecture,

University of Sheffield

The work of  Studio Six is linked to the Interdependence Day project, (www.interdependenceday.co.uk)

launched in 2006 to reinvigorate sustainability debates and to question some of the technocratic outcomes of seeing ecological and economic concerns as an accounting or ‘problem solving’ challenge.

What can architecture contribute to this attempt to reconsider global, economic and environmental issues?

Interdependent understanding invites an architecture rooted in creativity and metaphor, which ‘listens’ to the potential of a city rather than imposing mark marketable criteria of enterprise, lifestyle or efficiency. This architecture is based on conversations between the city and its varied inhabitants, and in an awareness of its social, economic and ecological metabolism.

The interdependencies of a place may be understood as a particularly dynamic and complex constellation of social, economic and emotional relations, but the term also has ambitions for a sense of a place that is extroverted and unexpected. Interdependence includes a consciousness of links with the wider world integrating in a positive way the near and far, the local and the global, the human and the ecological.

The studio will instigate alternative modes of architectural collaboration, representation, and communication that are more open and amateur rather than specialised or expert. We will be exploring an architecture of ‘making-do’ and of ‘provisional construction’.

The studio has been exploring the ’steel cities’ of Nowa Huta and Sheffield but we have also been thinking about other cities, about state responsibility, about carnival, about pigeons…     Renata Tyszczuk

 

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