Promenade on Slow Street
Rozet / City Centre Arnhem
Around the world, the high street is in urgent need of redesign. From how we shop, repair, sew, swap, collaborate, create and customise, we need to build an entirely new experience around clothes and accessories, the ways to express ourselves through what we wear, and how and where we access fashion.
Decades of mass consumption and cheap goods have had a detrimental effect on our shopping centres, which are in turn becoming increasingly abandoned or monopolised by big brands - an aesthetic hegemony of sameness.
We need to invent new systems that encourage slower, more creative and individualised consumption, value skills and services that result in reducing our carbon footprint and increase our appreciation. What does your slow street look like? What’s missing out there? How can we take action to redesign our high-street?
This intervention is a walk into a near future scenario, where the high street is about relationships and social interaction rather than simply commerce and product. We have commissioned a central 'living sculpture', an installation in which visitors can visualise and imagine your future high street.
This installation will capture the existing ‘slow street’ initiatives in the city of Arnhem, mapped by Ruimtekoers. Visitors can interact with the living sculpture to leave their ideas and inspirations throughout the biennial. The promenades of the modular section into the street will encourage further interaction.
Clara Chu
Clara Chu is a London based multidisciplinary artist and designer. She creates work that re-imagines everyday, mundane objects in our domestic world, mixing mass production with the hand crafted. Visionary and colourful pop accessories challenge what we wear on our bodies, not only textiles but everyday household objects we take for granted such as vegetable peelers and spoons. Graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2019, her work has been featured in publications including The Face, Lifestyle Asia, Dazed and Vogue Italia. Much of it questions the prominence of fast-moving consumer goods, blurring boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ forms of culture through humorous transformations.
For Promenade on Slow Street, Clara has designed an interactive installation to give participants the opportunity to engage in redesigning the way they would like to interact with their shopping streets and community spaces to allow for a more inclusive and regenerative fashion system.
Programme June
4-6-2022, 12:00-16:00, City Center Arnhem
Promenade on Slow Street - The installation is taking to the streets!
Free admission
11-6-2022, 12:00-16:00, City Center Arnhem
Promenade on Slow Street - The installation is taking to the streets!
Free admission
18-6-2022, 12:00-16:00, City Center Arnhem
Promenade on Slow Street - The installation is taking to the streets!
Free admission
25-6-2022, 12:00-16:00, City Center Arnhem
Promenade on Slow Street - The installation is taking to the streets!
Free admission
Programme July
2-7-2022, 12:00-16:00, City Center Arnhem
Promenade on Slow Street - The installation is taking to the streets!
Free admission
10-7-2022, 15:00-16:00, City Center Arnhem
Promenade on Slow Street - The installation is taking to the streets!
Free admission