The world is formed and created through the changing of its surroundings over time. As well as the events that spark that inevitable change.How has technology formed the spaces around us? When walking down the Brayford waterfront I found myself trying to picture a street with no lights. What would happen if you took away the simplest form of technology from a busy plaza? How would this effect the surrounding businesses and the use of this walkway? This simple change would effect everything from normal working hours to the type of activity on the waterfront at night time. So with this is mind, the group began exploring the idea of showing a timeline of the Brayford waterfront through the involvement of technology over time. Originally, paintings were one of the only documentations of the image of an area, but today we take pictures on personal devices that we can access any time. In truth we carry around a documented trail of our life and never truly leave a place in the past as a memory, instead it is always present and part of daily life. The history of technology is documented in every form, starting with paintings and drawings, moving onto photographs in different quality’s, styles and colours and this gives us a trail to discover. A map of an area to follow and see how adding a steam train changed the landscape, how adding a road formed the layout, how wooden cargo boats have now become narrow boats. All these advancements created the Brayford we know today and in the near future will keep advancing. So what future creations will change the place we know so well and leave our images rendered old and redundant? A memory to be added to an ever changing timeline.

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