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Designer: The designer’s profession is often reduced to creating form rather than experimenting with content. Rock stated that the trend of the current design movement ‘values organisation of content over manipulation of content’.  Designer versus Author? Considering this design perception, Rock explained the designers’ anxiety toward authors. With his article, he aimed to encourage designers…

The two references that directly relate to my investigations of Columbia Road in London are Georges Perec’s section ‚Species of Space’ in his book Species of Spaces and Other Places (1974, pp. 50-55), as well as Patrick Keiller’s movie Robinson in Space (1997). Reference One Perec’s book Species of Species and Other Places (1974) inspired…