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Title: Cotton Candy Seawalls
Name: Charlotte Scott
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"Enchantment is a surprising encounter that contains (1) a pleasurable feeling of being charmed by the novel and (2) an uncanny feeling that pulls one out of certain psychic, intellectual and emotional predispositions."
-Jane Benett
Bude’s local community is responding to a lack of infrastructure with low-tech, colorful, economic placeholders. A miniature Bude station in the minigolf is the closest they have gotten to getting a life-size, functional connection to the English Railway Network in the last 50 years. Eroding cliffs are replicated in the adventure center so that people can keep climbing on them.
In this world of vernacular placeholders, enchantment and infrastructure are set in an either-or relationship; the lack of infrastructure is precisely what generates these enchanting moments.
By reimplementing and designing a connection between Bude and the English railway network, I would like to suggest that vernacular enchantment and functional infrastructure do not need to be opposed. Perhaps the design of required infrastructure could be inspired by these placeholders. Perhaps, these economic placeholders offer valuable design input.
While aiming to provide a pragmatic solution to Bude’s infrastructural needs, the project poses broader and open-ended questions of whether we can institutionalize bricolage, and whether the enchanting qualities of these infrastructural placeholders are inextricably dependent on its original context of scarcity or not.
Name: Charlotte Scott
Voiceover:
Sound:
"Enchantment is a surprising encounter that contains (1) a pleasurable feeling of being charmed by the novel and (2) an uncanny feeling that pulls one out of certain psychic, intellectual and emotional predispositions."
-Jane Benett
Bude’s local community is responding to a lack of infrastructure with low-tech, colorful, economic placeholders. A miniature Bude station in the minigolf is the closest they have gotten to getting a life-size, functional connection to the English Railway Network in the last 50 years. Eroding cliffs are replicated in the adventure center so that people can keep climbing on them.
In this world of vernacular placeholders, enchantment and infrastructure are set in an either-or relationship; the lack of infrastructure is precisely what generates these enchanting moments.
By reimplementing and designing a connection between Bude and the English railway network, I would like to suggest that vernacular enchantment and functional infrastructure do not need to be opposed. Perhaps the design of required infrastructure could be inspired by these placeholders. Perhaps, these economic placeholders offer valuable design input.
While aiming to provide a pragmatic solution to Bude’s infrastructural needs, the project poses broader and open-ended questions of whether we can institutionalize bricolage, and whether the enchanting qualities of these infrastructural placeholders are inextricably dependent on its original context of scarcity or not.
