Empty Shops Network - Pop-Up People

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People are filling the UK's town centres with community, creativity and a little bit of chaos. Pop-up shops, temporary and meanwhile, empty shops, shop front art ... what does it all mean for shopping, high streets and town centres?

We're spending the next three months (November 2011-January 2012) meeting the nation's pop-up people and working it all out. We're going to run five workshops around the south east and online, and make a series of research visits taking us further afield. We'll find out what\'s been going on, look for key trends, map networks and identify the best pop-up projects. We'll let you look at all of that as it happens on a live wiki, and at the end of January in a published report, which will have a go at identifying some future trends too.

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What we're doing                                                                                                                 

• run four workshops around the country, collecting information from local projects
• manage an innovative discussion using Twitter
• produce a piece of research, with hard facts about our town centres alongside case studies
• create an inspirational Empty Shops Wiki

Where we'll be                                                                                                                      

• 27/28 October 2011; Rotterdam, Amsterdam (Research)
• 8 November; Twitter debate using #popuppeople hashtag 10am-5pm
• 14 November; Margate (Research)
• 30 November; Bedford (Workshop with We Are Bedford) Fully Booked
• 3 December, 1-3pm; The Brick Box, Tooting Market (Workshop with The Brick Box and Invisible Circus - No Dress Rehearsal) with film screening in the evening
• 12 December, 2-5pm; So Co Creative Hub, Bargate Centre, Southampton (Workshop with SoCo Creative Hub)
• 2 February, 2-4pm; Report launch, Fresh Egg, Buckingham Road, Worthing (with Fresh Egg)
• 29 March 2012; International Empty Shops Conference, Theatre Absolute Shop Front Theatre, City Arcade, Coventry

If you'd like to attend an event or talk to us about what you\'ve been doing in empty shops, get in touch or join in the conversation on Twitter using the #popuppeople hashtag.

And supported by funding from the crowd: private donor, Action for Market Towns, 3 Space, AOE Media Ltd, PLACE NI, UK Handmade, Turned On Digital, CLES, Urban Pollinators, My Coffee Stop, Sharon Shephard

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