Meeting with Amanda Bevan ( Neighbourhood Coordinator) at Heath Town Community Centre, we shared ideas on how individuals could 'map' their own everyday routes and therefore experiences and memories of this area. In this way we thought it useful to find out answers to simple questions such as 'what goes on here? and what routes do people take and why? What do people notice about this area changing?
This is important on a variety of levels to understand how the canal corridor is used, as well as roads such as Sun Street and what the terms 'landmark' or 'meeting place' means here. Its also important to see how people get to and from the city centre.
A resource has been distributed in the hope that this can build a picture of the area; its uses past and present and how this can merge together harmoniously. Perhaps then by undertaking a route, your experiences could naturally let you engage with the place and its identity.
Walk around this place and don't read any signs. How do you know you are in Wolverhampton?
Ask yourself what this area is known for? What this place is all about..what goes on here? It's not just what stories in the Express and Star tell us, and it is not going to make itself apparent from blank grey cladded structures or a choice of construction materials that echo an industrial past.
It's everything that has been, what goes on now and what will go on. How we use this place and experience it in our daily lives. Wolverhampton has to authentically be itself, not compete or relate to anywhere else. It is how best we are able to embed, keep and allow ways to experience authenticity throughout the changes that is important.
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