| Small actions - big change |
| Flexible leases, working with existing buildings, and running events to attract people – some of the factors which have helped to regenerate South Bristol and could work for Birmingham’s Digbeth area, according to George Ferguson. George Ferguson, Past President of RIBA, was speaking of his experiences of The Tobacco Factory, a mixed used development of a factory complex in Bristol, at our seminar last month on Organic Eastside: Creative Approaches to Regenerating Digbeth. Coinciding with the seminar, we hosted a photographic installation by Dan Burwood whose sharp monochrome portraits illustrate Digbeth’s gritty character to the full. Digbeth is to the south-west of Birmingham’s city centre, home to a variety of 100-year old factory buildings, the Digbeth Branch and Grand Union Canals, and a combination of traditional metal-working and newly-established creative industries. With an office in Digbeth, MADE plans to bring stakeholders together to explore how, in today’s economic climate, small-scale interventions could contribute to regenerating this area. Tobacco Factory website |
