Our nature as humans is to be inquisitive and curious about the area which surrounds us, however with the ever growing existence of social media and the internet the need to physically go out and explore has become obsolete. Why go out in to the unknown space when you can simple stay in the comfort of your own home and find out everything by asking google? “Urban spaces in particular are comprised of a multiplicity of past and present traces that coexist on an abundance of visual and auditory trails that, when followed, offer opportunities for creating interventions into the city’s life” (Hahn, 29)

As we develop our script for our performance we are researching more in to the history of the Brayford and what types of buildings and people used to inhabit the waterfront. Researching on the internet has turned out to be rather redundant and we haven’t managed to find much regarding the people who made the history, more the archeology of the river. We headed out to the Central Library and found a lot of information about the buildings that used to be on the waterfront and the people that worked and lived there, but it was only when we went out on to the waterfront itself and looked did we realise just how much had really changed in only a few decades. The rate of progression and change is quite monumental and it is only when you go out and explore that you truly understand how much a space can change. That is an element we want to try to include in our performance, by finding first hand accounts of what the space has looked like over time we want the audience to see how quickly we move forward and how easy we find it to erase elements of the past to create more layers of history.

Hahn, D 2014, ‘Performing Public Spaces, Staging Collective Memory’, TDR: The Drama Review, 58, 3, International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text, EBSCOhost,