From post-war to post-Covid: Shifts in the Design and Vision of the Shopping Centre Experience

自现代以来，购物空间的设计和使用的演变一直是20世纪和21世纪艺术史，城市研究，地理学和人类学的关注焦点（Stobart，2014）。该项目将艺术历史文献与建筑形式的深入视觉分析相结合，以塑造英国购物景观的后Covid理论，在其“形成和消失”的点上（Benjamin，2000）。我把重点放在中部地区，打算远离斗牛场和伦敦等大城市等有据可查的发展，探索这一关键的历史时刻（莫里森，2003年），并超越百货公司（Crossick，1999），从而将后新冠肺炎理论纳入艺术史领域。购物空间面临的全球困境日益成为新闻报道的焦点（哈瑟利，2020年;纽约时报，2020年），强调有必要在该领域内推进艺术史思想。我打算把这一最新的转变放在一个更广泛的背景下来讨论，强调消费空间是如何随着时间的推移而重新塑造的，为资本和消费服务。随着电子商务和虚拟购物的兴起，购物类型必须适应或面临放弃，这对我的项目有两方面的影响。我将利用这项研究，将创新的数字研究方法纳入艺术史领域，受到Lev Manovich的影响，结合数字文化理论和图像构建（2016）。I13 /27关注消费空间随着时间的推移而产生的（再）生产，旨在围绕“真实性”和“物质性”如何影响城市规划和购物类型的设计形成对话。战后购物类型的设计、使用和愿景如何适应更广泛的社会、技术和文化变化？后COVID环境对未来（再）发展意味着什么？这些问题将与下列目标一起加以衡量：- 整合艺术史和其他学科（包括数字研究）的文献，以塑造战后至后新冠肺炎时期的购物理论-贡献有价值的艺术史分析，拓宽购物类型学的学术研究-塑造融入数字文化的艺术史方法论，展望未来-对“鲜为人知”的购物类型学进行深入的美学和批判性研究，为地方、地区和国家历史做出贡献通过追求这些问题和目标，我将调查每个案例研究的建筑和设计意图，同时深入了解购物公众的日常体验。反过来，这项研究旨在影响面向公众的购物空间的未来。

The evolution in design and use of shopping spaces since modernity has been the focus of scholarlyattention through the 20th and 21st centuries across art history, urban studies, geography andanthropology (Stobart, 2014). This project combines art historical literature with in-depth visual analysesof architectural forms to shape a post-Covid theory of Britain's shopping landscape, at a point of its'becoming and disappearing (Benjamin, 2000). Focusing on the Midlands, I intend to explore this keyhistorical moment away from well-documented developments such as the Bullring and major cities likeLondon (Morrison, 2003), and beyond the department store (Crossick, 1999), thus incorporating a post-Covid theory into the field of art history.The global predicament facing shopping spaces is ever-increasingly the focus of news articles (Hatherley,2020; New York Times, 2020), underlining the need to advance art historical thought within the field. Iintend to situate this latest shift into a wider context that highlights how spaces of consumption arerefashioned over time, servicing capital and consumption.With the rise of e-commerce and virtual shopping, shopping typologies must adapt or face abandonment,which informs my project two-fold. I will leverage this research to incorporate innovative digital researchmethods into the field of art history, taking influence from Lev Manovich, coalescing digital culture theoryand image construction (2016). By focusing on the (re)production of spaces of consumption over time, I13 / 27also aim to shape a dialogue around how 'authenticity' and 'materiality' impact urban planning and thedesign of shopping typologies.How has the design, use and vision of post-war shopping typologies adapted to wider societal,technological and cultural changes? What does the post-Covid environment mean for future(re)development? These questions will be measured alongside the following objectives:- To coalesce literature across art history and other disciplines, including digital studies, to shape a theoryof shopping, post-war to post-Covid- To contribute valuable art historical analyses that broaden scholarship on shopping typologies- To shape an art historical methodology incorporating digital cultures, to look towards the future- To provide in-depth aesthetic and critical studies of 'lesser-known' shopping typologies as a contributionto local, regional and national historyBy pursuing these questions and objectives, I will investigate the architectural and design intentions ofeach case study while gaining insights into the day-to-day experience of the shopping public over time.In turn, this research aims to influence the future of public-oriented shopping spaces.