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city factory

for Hidden Door
with Civic Soup Members, Festival Goers
Leith, Edinburgh
2017


What would a street purely designed by its residents look like?

Civic Soup sought to find out through a performance-workshop first produced for Hidden Door festival and delivered in the former backstage choir room of Leith Theatre.



Participants-cum-workers were employed at the door by the floor manager and moved along a conveyor belt of production.

From tenants and shopkeepers, to community organisations, builders and developers, workers adopted roles and stakeholders within city development, setting out visions in cut-and-paste drawn elements and drawn building outlines.





With each role came a corresponding bay to work within, differing cutouts to use, and an opposing voice; local authority, architects, planners and government.

Through discussion, questioning and negotiation with one another, layers gradually accumulated at each station, building a collaborative, fantastical streetscape that brought to life the powers at play in the shaping of our cities, but also the individual will of citizens who use it.


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city factory

for Hidden Door
with Civic Soup Members, Festival Goers
Leith, Edinburgh
2017


What would a street purely designed by its residents look like?

Civic Soup sought to find out through a performance-workshop first produced for Hidden Door festival and delivered in the former backstage choir room of Leith Theatre.
Civic Soup © 2024

Civic Soup CIC is registered in Scotland with company number SC552340
Civic Soup © 2024

Civic Soup CIC is registered in Scotland
with company number SC552340