What do you do with an empty shopping centre? The Upper Level of the Bargate Shopping Centre, Southampton has fifteen units and ten of them are empty. Two that are occupied are used by creative organisations; Artswork use a small unit as offices (with desk space for a dozen people), and the SoCo Creative Hub uses one large unit as a music workshop and venue.
What would you do with one of the ten empty shops? The challenge is to suggest a creative and sustainable use of one of the spaces. Could your organization relocate here, working alongside Artswork and SoCo in a vibrant city centre creative hub? Could you manage a space, delivering services to the city? Or would you just like a pop-up shop to try something out?
We’re not going to give you the keys – this is just part of the Empty Shops Network’s action research project Pop-Up People, which will produce a report into the creative use of town centre spaces. We’re looking to find out what people would do with space.
Tell us in a paragraph what your organization does, and how you’d reuse one of the following shops.
We’ll be at SoCo in late January, when we launch the findings of the Pop-Up People report; and we’ll display all the suggestions for Bargate in the centre. Email your suggestions for the spaces to dan@artistsandmakers.com - and you’ll receive an invitation to the event in January 2012.
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