consumed bodies

Now we are asking the students to explore ethical consumption within the city centre… “It is now 2020 and due to radical changes in attitudes to consumption, various consumption dominated public spaces in the city centre are now able to be re-thought through. Manchester City Council has agreed that some of these sites may be used for purposes of ethical consumption. Site A MARKET STREET and THE ARNDALE Site B KING STREET and ST.ANNES PASSAGE Site C ST.ANNES SQUARE and BARTON ARCADE Site D EXCHANGE SQUARE and THE TRIANGLE For the consumed bodies project we are asking you to propose the following: A Create a group site strategy based on ethical/sustainable consumption B Produce a 1:1 detail of an ethical transaction C Create a timeline for the development of your site D Your consumed bodies must: 1. actively engage the citizens of Manchester with the issue of sustainable and ethical consumption 2. have a minimum of three floors with some additional half landings 3. contain at least two volumetric space which is open to different levels or half levels 4. contain at least one other function beyond ethical consumption (agreed with your studio tutor) 5. contain a simple designed staircase which is correctly worked through and demonstrated in 3-dimensions 6. contain a series of outdoor spaces for the continuous urban production of food 7. develop a relationship to the scale of the human body and to the commercial scale of the landscape of shopping