T23/2 Don't draw anything

Strength and weakness. At policy level this is very important and is perhaps a measure of character. We want to preserve character but also make improvements on weaknesses.
If the character of Soho means that it is an urban assortment of close, busy, smallish scale exciting streets and squares; but a weakness is that the area lacks access to public open space how do you approach the steerage of development to improve Soho.
Perhaps you negotiate with the private and release some land to public access. Perhaps you make some buildings more accessible in this way. Perhaps you shape uses in the area so there could be lulls in certain sections of the area at certain parts of the day, with plenty of specific street furniture this could hold the attributes that public open space is deemed to give, such as peace, a place to sit, nice yet narrow view, trees.
Perhaps it is a negotiation with surrounding areas, with the creation of good transport and accessibility to spaces out of the area of research. This sort of thing is a trade-off, Soho couldn’t exist in isolation, it relies on people coming from all its surrounding areas in an ever-widening concentric circle around the world.
How could bin collection be catered for without leaving office rubbish on the streets at Soho’s busiest time, when the offices have finished for the day and its nightlife hotting up.

I like big industry. It comes in many forms. I always thought reservoirs were beautiful places and would never imagine that it wouldn’t be beautiful to live next to one. But if you live in 1 of 1000 houses in a modest estate and are hemmed in by the fences of the water company and couldn’t possibly get within 400m of the water, you probably wouldn’t feel such romanticism.
Process in industry or more especially infrastructure is very interesting and architects and designers could learn a lot, in fact most things given a questioning mind from it.

How much policy does a place need. I think we would all say that you can never have enough good policy, but this relies on good everything else. If the implementation is rubbish the policy is equally so.

By virtue a developed economy relies on its innovation. You can develop an idea and produce a good and profit but sooner or later somebody else will be able to do it better, or cheaper. The danger is then that an economy slips into reliance on sales of consumer goods, a quick fix for the country’s balance sheet.
What could be more innovative than a housewife who sets up an e-bay shop to carry out in between her other tasks. How do we design for innovation, change, change in family structure over the lifetime of a building.

A building has a lifetime, which is equal to its maintenance.

Agriculture in the UK is one of the biggest issues. If they weren’t propped up by the EU’s Common Agriculture Policy most farms in the UK would be defunct. Firstly, how do you work with these rules to your benefit. Secondly, how do you plan for the demise of the subsidy, while also defending farming communities.

Appropriation. It is a wonder that a thought or idea can be put across so beautifully with an image-an appropriation. A carefully selected appropriation, with edges. Architectural appropriations are carefully selected through necessity, demand or a test. The framing, the existence is its usage. The space is used for moments that the people who use the space live, whether that be an exciting moment or peeling a potato-is exciting also to some, (or something exciting can happen while peeling a potato).