
Liza Fior was speaking about this in a Gresham College lecture recorded 28th of January 2024, and according her, for publicly funded spaces ‘austerity’ means designing out maintenance and risk. All tend towards the neutral, the generic and empty.
With reference to recent and historical case studies, the Gresham lecture will explore an alternative approach which sees the public as the clients in public realm projects and you should watch it because you may better understand you and the world. Designing with specificity to site and situation creates spaces which are open to appropriation by many.
From the particular can come the universal, and you may get some strenght to do more with your life in a better way, both in private and public.