Shifting Order / Data-Visuals & Loose Maps

This project examines how different approaches to land use have shaped Glasgow’s cityscape. In cooperation with Showpeople—travelling fairground workers and enduring placemakers in the city—it uses mapping as a tool to trace regulative building, lived spatial know-how, and the reciprocity between people and place.

Cities are often framed through master plans and fixed zones, erasing adaptive or resourceful spatial use. This project is a counter to that—a mapping of anomalous practices forming a consequential urban element, one displaying our tendencies while making place. Through loose maps and data-visuals, the work aims to both outline urban zones and expose the forces blurring their designs. Meshing mobilities, self-assembly, and tangled infrastructures, this project embraces a messy, process-driven approach to urban form.

Visitors can add spatial accounts on-site, expanding the archive beyond official records. An online archive extends this dialogue, forming an ongoing chronicle of Glasgow’s unfixed, in-between spaces.

There's no cost to attend, and no advance booking is required. For further details, visit Unfixed Design: https://unfixed-design.org/