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

自现代性以来，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、地理学和人类学的学术关注的焦点(斯托巴特，2014)。这个项目结合了艺术历史文献和对建筑形式的深入视觉分析，塑造了英国购物景观在形成和消失的点上的后冰盖理论(Benjamin，2000)。聚焦于中部地区，我打算探索这个关键的历史时刻，远离记录充分的发展，如斗牛场和像伦敦这样的大城市(莫里森，2003)，以及百货公司以外的地方(克罗西克，1999)，从而将后冰盖理论纳入艺术史领域。购物空间面临的全球困境越来越成为新闻文章(Hatherley，2020；《纽约时报》，2020)的焦点，强调了在该领域内推进艺术历史思维的必要性。我打算将这一最新转变置于更广泛的背景下，突显消费空间是如何随着时间的推移而减少的，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，否则将面临被抛弃，这给我的项目带来了双重启示。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，受到列夫·马诺维奇的影响，融合数字文化理论和图像构建(2016)。通过关注随着时间的推移消费空间的(重新)生产，I13/27还旨在形成一种对话，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。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？后冰冻环境对未来(再)发展意味着什么？这些问题将与以下目标一起衡量：-整合艺术史和其他学科的文献，包括数字研究，以形成一个关于购物的理论，从战后到封顶后-贡献有价值的艺术史分析，扩大购物类型的学术研究-塑造纳入数字文化的艺术史方法论，展望未来-提供对作为对地方、地区和国家历史的贡献的对不太知名的购物类型的深入的美学和批判性研究。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，同时获得对购物公众随着时间的推移的日常体验的洞察。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.