Dicky White Lane Analysis

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Beyond the idea of communicating knowledge and narrative, another approach is to shift attention from theory to practice to see how structural or landscape elements could be seen as ‘performative’ in a spatial sense of Dicky White Lane. The landscape element is defined and treated in a new way as a tactic to perform the spatial and the integration within the space. In interval or ‘folly’ in the exposed brickworks of heritage city of Launceston and people’s working life, the intervention is to propose a landscape to cover some part of this hidden laneway. The sprouted geometric furnishings and the narrow laneway create the ambience in Dicky White Lane and where it encouraging the passer-by to freely participate with the space to lunch, chat, or picnic on this ‘pocket’ park. The impression is about …show more content…

As to support the discussion, the public art project of ‘escapespace’ in Brisbane city is taken as the precedence Extending upon performative operations that shift spatial and environmental relationships, another theory to argue is that on how to exhibit the ability of performative acts to recode, modify and transform meanings and function. The idea is to transform Dicky White Lane into lively night walk and popped up street Market at night concept where people can experience the atmosphere and discover local foods and drinks on the same time people can perceive the Launceston urban personality from bright day to the fascinating darkness of night. On top of that, according to Launceston’s economic profile of employment industry, retail/business trade is placed in the second top of industry sector, thus it promotes and creates employment opportunities . Ultimately, the performance practice offers new manners of interacting in creating different social methods through spatial interventions which are reach over embodying different strategies of using the public