Background Reading

Launch Bench: Bench module, felt and plywood. Size:400×1400×970mm by Uglycute design.

Neil Gray, Constructing Neoliberal Glasgow: The Privatisation Of Space, Variant issue 25

Neil Gray, The Clyde Gateway: A New Urban Frontier, Variant issue 33

Research Links

Future Glasgow: an interactive map of Glasgow's recent commercial, residential and civic developments.

Urban Realm:a recent update on the proposed Selfridges site.

Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art / Atypical Route 2010

G&W: Futureproof (Ambition / Optimism), 2010. Pasific Quay, Glasgow

G&W: Futureproof (Masterplan), 2010. Glasgow Science Centre.

Work in progress

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Fonts

Text/ Font: Things to Come (1936)

Titles from Things to Come (1936), directed by William Cameron Menzies based upon the novel by H.G. Wells.

Atypical Route Maquette

As part of out Atypical Route project, G&W will also be creating a text based sculpture to be attached to the railings of the Clyde River bank at Pacific Quay. It is our intention to create a piece that can be viewed from each side of the river. One side will read "Ambition" and the other "Futurity". The text will be created from recycled wooden boards clad with aluminium foil. As a comment on the longevity of current trends of urban revitalisation (particularly visible in this area), it is our intention that these glimmering, optimistic words will quickly loose their veneer with the passing of time.

Ambition: (noun) the desire and determination to achieve success.
Futurity: (noun) the future time / renewed or continuing existence.