Rhyl To The Rhyl
2018
Designer : Shuo Chen, Theo Chang, Yilin Liu
''Your future is whatever you make it to make it a good one'' - Dr.Brown
Rhyl is located in the northeast of Wales and was once one of the best seaside resorts. From the glory of the Victorian era to the influx of migrants from the refugees after World War II, the population was complicated. The appearance and popularity of the city began to decline to a considerable extent around 1990, The reason for the sharp drop is also after the UK joined the EU.With the emergence of low-cost airlines to neighbouring countries, it is no more worthwhile than coming to the resort.Since then, the city has been basically reduced by tourists, and the state of depression, which has been largely displaced by the population, continues to this day.
Real Rhyl Agency (RRA), a city development agency we created. We've done series of street visits and field research, then we realized that Rhyl had a very glorious past, facilities and industrial integrity, a resort shrine, but no longer in the past.
When we actually visited Rhyl, we pre-conceived three options to help us gather information quickly and efficiently. The first one is a carrier with the concept of a suitcase. The inside is divided into a grid with a layer of laser-engraved acrylic Rhyl map on the surface. In this way, we can store the things collected at the location corresponding to the map in the corresponding grid. The second one allows us to map the local people through this transparent map to analyse the urban living routes of different ages. As well as summarizing the intersection points, it can be summarized which areas are relatively frequent. Finally, we created a local blank newspaper, hoping that the local people would write the information they wanted to get, such as job information, or ideal construction in mind.
In the middle of the investigation, we also found interesting phenomena. The elderly are very proud of the past prosperity and miss, and the middle-aged people think that the past has passed, no matter how good it is before, now and in the future. Development is a priority for them. Young people and children are surprised when they know how busy and bustling the past is. Everyone does not know this passage.
For Rhyl, the golden age was in the past,
people want to go back and feel the glory of that time.
But in fact, it is an escape from the status.
Rhyl’s past is its future.
“Span time and space redistribution”
We put different periods of Rhyl on the same level
Tourism in 1970, housing in modern times.
When we realized that Rhyl’s past prosperity was his future. We have returned to the past and brought the glory of the past to the UK after the Brexit. RRA has made a blueprint plan here, by displacing the past grand structures in the future, and through the ideas of the residents. To depict the future of the building blueprint. On the other hand, we also cooperate with local cartoonists, and create a series of comics together. Tell the RRA to travel through time to leave good buildings for future development. Use this comic to attract young people’s sense of identity in this town. Bring hope that the young people can look back and move forward.
