{"id":906,"date":"2018-03-31T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workingwithgold.org.uk\/?p=906"},"modified":"2020-06-11T17:47:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T16:47:12","slug":"clare-rosie-wander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/clare-rosie-wander\/","title":{"rendered":"Clare &#038; Rosie went for a wander"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_681\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-681\" style=\"width: 856px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-681 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clare-Rosie.jpg\" alt=\"Clare and Rosie go for a wander\" width=\"866\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clare-Rosie.jpg 866w, https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clare-Rosie-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clare-Rosie-768x630.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 866px) 100vw, 866px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clare and Rosie go wiggly walk-about in St Loyes, 28 July 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Back when I was still thinking about what a programme of public in art in St Loyes might look like, I went for a wander around the ward with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rosiekingartist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rosie King<\/a>. Rosie is an environmental artist with an interest in place and its buildings. I first came across her in 2015 when she was chalking on the pavement of Princesshay. It turned out she was drawing the outline of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Exeter-Phoenix-Rebuilding-Thomas-Sharp\/dp\/B0000EFZJ9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Exeter Phoenix<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exetermemories.co.uk\/em\/_people\/sharp.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Sharp&#8217;s plans<\/a> for rebuilding Exeter after World War II.<\/p>\n<p>We found a great deal to mull over:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>St Loyes as the digestive system of Exeter, the source of much of what it needs: water, energy, comms companies have offices there; Sowton supplies building materials, Amazon, Booker; police, fire, ambulance have bases.<\/li>\n<li>St Loyes is on the east side of the city; it\u2019s where the sun rises and the day starts.<\/li>\n<li>Transience &amp; liminality: arterial routes bounding or cutting through; holiday makers on change-over day at the J30 services; shoppers at Exe Vale retail park; boulders placed against travellers.<\/li>\n<li>Navigating boundaries: flowering&nbsp;bedding plants in strict lines are used to &#8216;fence off&#8217; suburban properties; remote civil servants draw&nbsp;invisible boundaries around school catchments, health authorities, constituencies, council wards, and even dustbin collections!<\/li>\n<li>Navigating changing land use:&nbsp;industrial estates lead to suburbia to retail parks, which is a good thing if people can live near where they shop and work and go to school, and get in the car less and build community more.<\/li>\n<li>Urban design priorities, and subverting them: road crossings fit with cars rather than people on foot; desire paths where the crossings are made anyway; men in hi-vis jackets, using the boulders as a smoking stop; the homeless man making a camp.<\/li>\n<li>Green space: all the trees and mini-wildernesses, and dens; pockets of green and biodiversity; picnic tables and benches dotted around Sowton.<\/li>\n<li>Different areas of knowledge held by different people: where to forage for cherries, plums and blackberries; where parking spots for campervans are available.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Waves of immigration\u2019 and its associated architecture: pre-war council housing; suburbs of the 1960s and 1970s boom; new suburban in-fill estates, building on the green lungs.<\/li>\n<li>Signage: restricting parking; designated activity zones; rules in playgrounds and other possibly community space.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are Rosie\u2019s photos of suburban architecture through the ages&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-906 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Suburban-architecture-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Suburban-architecture-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Suburban architecture through the ages. Credit: Rosie King.\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Suburban-architecture-2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Suburban-architecture-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Suburban architecture through the ages. Credit: Rosie King.\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Suburban-architecture-3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Suburban-architecture-3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Suburban architecture through the ages. Credit: Rosie King.\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Suburban-architecture-4.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Suburban-architecture-4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Suburban architecture through the ages. Credit: Rosie King.\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&#8230;and mine of pockets of green space.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-906 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Green-space-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Green-space-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Pockets of green space: Sowton\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Green-space-2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Green-space-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Pockets of green space: Sowton\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Green-space-3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Green-space-3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Pockets of green space: M5 J30 services\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bishops-Court-quarry.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clarebryden.co.uk\/wwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bishops-Court-quarry-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Pockets of green space: Bishop&#039;s Court quarry\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I was still thinking about what a programme of public in art in St Loyes might look like, I went for a wander around the ward with Rosie King. Rosie is an environmental artist with an interest in place and its buildings. 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