Architecture+Design Scotland

The Lighthouse, 21 Feb 2012 2-4pm

Please note that this event is now fully booked - if you would like to be kept up to date on outcomes from this seminar please email Mark Whitehead to indicate your interest in the seminar.

Calling on Scotland’s creative entrepreneurs to help contribute your ideas on the future of the Scottish High Street.

Traditional ideas of what the High Street is, its purpose and attractiveness as a place to be are being challenged. What is the modern High Street as a social space, and what are its possible futures?

Architecture and Design Scotland would like to invite you to contribute to a workshop to explore creative and alternative High Street futures. Share your experiences and help shape the emerging action plan on town centres by the Scottish Government. Writer and commentator Julian Dobson will start the discussion with a presentation on re-imagining the High Street as a social space. Julian’s submission with Urban Pollinators informed the recent Mary Portas Review of High Streets. The submission is available here.

Event Schedule

14.00 Curators welcome: tour of exhibition
Emma Halliday, Exhibition Director, A+DS

14.15 Purpose of workshop and intended outcomes
Diarmaid Lawlor, Head of Urbanism, A+DS

14.20 21st Century Agora: re thinking the High Street as a social space
Julian Dobson, Urban Pollinators

14.40 Workshop group sessions:
• What does a modern social public space look like?
• What are the creative alternatives for how we could
use the High Street as a social space?
• What have we got and what do we need in terms
of collaboration, innovation and capacity to achieve
these futures?

16.00 Summary and next steps
Diarmaid Lawlor, Head of Urbanism, A+DS

16.15 Close

This event accompanies A+DS’s current exhibition, High Street at

The Lighthouse in Glasgow, which runs until 17 April 2012.

The event is free and booking is required. Please contact Mark Whitehead to reserve your space.