Participation
Urban Translation Middlesbrough
From the new town hall to the old town hall and on to the transporter bridge
For Design Event, October 2009
Design Event commissioned Northern Architecture to devise the third in a series of new, alternative public tours in the North East, this year held in Middlesbrough over the two weekends of the design festival in October.
The tour is based on a series of conversations about Middlesbrough's past, present and future. It follows a route, which captures Middlesbrough's story of rapid growth and prosperity, economic decline and ambition to reinvent itself.
Along the route arise a series of critical questions about the role of planning, urban design and architecture in the future development of the town and the tour is puncuated by a new sonnet series by Andy Croft, specially commissioned for the project. The others who kindly contributed their wealth of knowledge and opinion on the town include Stephen Stokoe, Head of Design Services and Rachel Cleminson, Urban Design Officer at Middlesbrough Council, Les Southerton, Chartered Town Planner and Economist, Tim Bailey, xsite architecture and Ian Stubbs, curator at the Dorman Museum.
Look out for the official launch of Urban Translation Middlesbrough during the North East Festival of Architecture in June 2010 and meanwhile follow this link to check out Urban Translation Newcastle
To see images from the Middlesbrough tour during Design Event visit our flicr page
