Fred Preston

Mapping shifting realities of immediate public space 

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This interdisciplinary work seeks to gain insights into societal relationships with streets. Working from a design perspective, the work engages with ideas present in social sciences and anthropology; the work develops interactive design research methods to support new sense making in the urban environment.   

designed environments that can become sterilized by rules and regulations, created by and for the privileged and those of dominant age groups. The work explores ideas of emotive rewilding that can rebalance societal priorities and cultural norms in a collective way, towards recreation and reciprocal community.