I am proposing the design for a Glasgow Council run “Centre for Cultural Promotion”. This project is the result of my first semester research on Sauchiehall street. My proposal comes from observing a high turnover of lease in the commercial units of the hight street, focusing specifically on an assigned bloc. I found out that many indipendent shops and franchises have closed down. What is left is a very narrow choice of fast food joints and bars, offering heterogenous entertainment, driven by mindless consumers, who are manipulated into binge-drinking first and binge-eating at the end of the night.
This phenomen, which also extends to the majority of the street, is familiar to many, to the point that it’s become a ritualistic way to go out and socialise.

My intervention focuses on proposing the existance of a place in which people can meet up and look for an event happening on the day. The Centre for Cultural Promotion would serve as a Lobby in which people can wait for each other and meet, and chose together their destination. The centre’s aim is to inform residents and tourists on events happening in the city, while providing a place for people to establish new rituals in their social lives.