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COLLABORATOR: Keeley Travel
STUDENT GROUP: BA (Hons) Architecture, MArch Architecture
PROJECT TYPE: Transdisciplinary practice, creative writing, publishing

Birmingham may or may not be a traditional tourist destination, despite having more canals than Venice. But what might the gaze of tourist uncover when we look at the city in a different way?

This project invites you to create an experimental tourist guide to a single aspect of the city. Starting from a series of routes across the city, students engage with the environment – real and imagined – in order to understand the city from a different point of view. Each student will identify an object of study along the route – be that a building, landscape, a historical event, a person you may or may not have met, or something else entirely – and produce a visual and textual response to it.

Remake the city in paper and ink… building on references including Guy Debord, Patrick Keiller, Reyner Banham, and Doreen Massey; as well as ideas of ecology, walking, art practice, and site-specific approaches to reading and writing.

Wish you were here!