Scope and Content
File documents the unexecuted project, Dukeries Thinkbelt, conceived for West Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom.
The proposal called for a network of educational facilities for 20,000 students to be located over a 200 square mile area north of London. Moveable components, including fold-out lecture/demonstration units, rail-based teaching units, self-teach carrel units, faculty units, and housing units, were to be dispersed along the rail system. Existing conditions materials include regional aerial photographs with overlays of the rail system, and photographs, photo collages and panoramas of the region. Schematic sketches and drawings show the development of Fellows’ design. Regional plans examine links between new and existing rail systems and national transportation networks and their projected use. Diagrammatic plans illustrate the relationships between recommended functions/activities attributed to specific areas. Detailed plans, sections, elevations, and isometric drawings show housing types (battery, capsule, crate and sprawl), faculty and transfer areas at Teversal, Clipstone Colliery, and Hucknall. Other materials include regional land-use plans, photomontages with drawn perspectives, thumbnail sketches, life-span charts, conceptual sketches, aerial photographs and reprographic copies, some rendered and annotated. Many of the drawings were published in Fellows, N., ‘Dukeries Thinkbelt‘ (New Society, 2 June, 2016) and in Fellows, N., ‘Dukeries Thinkbelt: A Plan for an Advanced Educational Industry in West Nottinghamshire‘ (Anticipatory Design, October, 2016). Material in this file was created between 1982 and 2017 but predominantly between 2013 and 2017.
File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, presentation drawings, publication drawings, reference drawings, photographic material, and textual records.