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== FOREWORD ==
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• Cover of 'Factories and Plant' by William Hornby

== Introduction ==

Design of the Potteries Thinkbelt (PTb) started in August 1964. It was published in two different formats:—

# [https://thinkbelt.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/price-c.-1966-potteries-thinkbelt-new-society.pdf New Society], 2 June 1966;
# [https://thinkbelt.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/price-c.-1966-potteries-thinkbelt-architectural-design.pdf Architectural Design], October 1966.

Thus this article assumes:—

* ... that learning can be a sufficient generator of cities; [1]
* ... that anticipation of social change is a necessity. [2]

The prime aim is to enable others to engage in this area of research.

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== Original Conception ==

* "Defence, [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Energy energy] and commerce have in the past been sufficient generators of [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Cities cities]. This [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Project project] assumes that education and the need to exchange [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Information information] may have a similar generative force: [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Cities cities] can be made by [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Learning learning]."
* ([https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Cedric_Price Cedric Price], '[https://thinkbelt.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/price-c.-1966-potteries-thinkbelt-architectural-design.pdf Potteries Thinkbelt]', AD/10/66, p.484).

[https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/w/images/c/c9/Finding_Aid.pdf Finding Aid]

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• Panel 1: 'The Potteries Thinkbelt Study 1964' by Adam Levin (2011)

A thorough review of the literature provides evidence to support the first prong of the argument, namely:—

* ... that [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Learning learning] can be a sufficient generator of [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Cities cities].

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== Thinkbelt "Now" ==

* "When we asked Cedric Price if he would consider presenting POTTERIES THINKBELT at a Supercrit in 2003 he asked one question: 'what is the value of it now - what is useful about it now for you?'"
* (Samantha Hardingham, 2007, in 'Supercrit #1' by Samantha Hardingham and Kester Rattenbury).

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• Panel 2: '[https://beyond-supercrit-1-cp-ptb.blogspot.com/2011/10/supercrit-1_07.html Supercrit #1]', Posted 8th October 2011 by Norman Fellows

* "Supercrit #1 (the book - published in 2007) is effectively a pilot research report.
* The research proposal was "...to plot a provisional thesis of EXP's definition of the term 'experimental' - when applied to architectural practice through the detailed analysis of a specific design proposal - and to present a way in which to explore architectural ideas in an evolving and discursive manner - based on the premise that (in Price's words) 'ideas exist today'."
* The case selected was Supercrit #1 (the event - staged on 5 November 2003) which took Cedric Price's Potteries Thinkbelt - a major experimental project deemed to have `changed the weather' of architectural thought and practice - and put it back into the design studio `crit' format for open public and expert debate. The event was presented by a panel, due to Price's death three months earlier. Speakers included Paul Barker, Paul Finch, Jeremy Melvin, Stephen Mullin and Peter Murray.
* The data produced took the form of facsimiles of the articles published in New Society and Architectural Design in 1966; copies of 7 project illustrations from the Cedric Price fonds at the Canadian Centre for Architecture; and a transcript of the event which includes contributions by the various speakers and ends with a transcript from an exhibition in Madrid in 2000 in which Price began by asking "What is the value of it ... now?" and ended by saying "I think I have said enough."
* The data analysis - as distinct from the detailed analysis of the PTb design proposal found in the transcript - was carried out by Kester Rattenbury and suggests that Price's own description of the PTb should have come first and that what Price said is sufficient to enable us to work out what is necessary.
* I think the report should be continuously updatable."

(Norman Fellows, 2013, '[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cedric-Price-Potteries-Thinkbelt-SuperCrit/dp/0415434122 Review]', Amazon UK, July.)

A detailed survey of reviews provides evidence to support the second prong of the argument, namely:—

* ... that anticipation of social change is a necessity.

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== Possible Development ==

* "'Immediate' increase in activity and population*"
* “Possible Thinkbelt development in old industrial net between Nottingham and Sheffield 30-40 miles”.
* (Cedric Price, 1969, 'Non-Plan', [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WF-cHR7w0hDgGMsDYOcoajq7ZR2WODlD/view?usp=sharing Architectural Design], May)

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• Panel 3: 'The Dukeries Thinkbelt Study' by Norman Fellows (2015)

* * "It must not become necessary in these proposals and in fact to make estimates (either extrapolatory or by prediction) of long-term growth since this negates the self-adjusting factor implicit in Non-plan"
* (ib.)

A review of the research documents enables other interested parties to pick up the argument, namely:—

* If [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Learning learning] is to be a sufficient generator of [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Cities cities] then anticipation of social change in [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Communities community] and the individual, and in the constructive response of the [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Built_environment built environment], is a necessity.

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== Conclusion ==

This article affirms its premises and founds a conditional argument.

It therefore concludes:—

# ... that the Potteries Thinkbelt and the Dukeries Thinkbelt are cities generated by learning; [1]
# ... that both projects recognise the necessity for anticipation of social change. [2]

Thus this article also achieves its aim, namely:—

* to enable others to engage in this [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Area area] of [https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Research research].

[https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Potteries_Thinkbelt Back to Top]

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== Notes ==

[1] The term 'learning' is defined in this article as 'possession of knowledge got by study' (OED).

[2] The term 'social change' is defined in this article as 'social change in community and the individual, and in the constructive response of the built environment' (Cedric Price, 1999, 'FAX', Canadian Centre for Architecture).

[3] In response to a request from Norman Fellows in 1982, Cedric Price wrote back saying that he had "... no objection (to possible development) as long as due acknowledgement is given to the original conception.”

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== References ==

Panel 1: Levin, A. (2011) 'The Potteries Study 1964', from '[https://extremelyprovocative.wordpress.com/2011/06/ Potteries Thinkbelt – Education, Architecture and a Way Foward]', on Extremely Provocative, June.

Panel 2: Experimental Practice (2004) 'Supercrit', deprecated Indexhibit file.

Panel 3: Fellows, N. (2018) 'The Dukeries Study 2015', Unpublished.

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== Further Reading ==

Abel, C. (1972) 'Cultures as complex wholes', Architectural Design, December.

Archiblog (2016) '[https://www.facebook.com/thinkbelt.world/ Thinkbelt World]' Facebook.

Architecture + Design Scotland (2012) [https://vimeo.com/37940157 'Cedric Price - The Potteries Thinkbelt, Lecture by Samantha Hardingham]', Vimeo.

Aureli, P. V. (2011) ‘[https://www.jstor.org/stable/41765697?seq=1 Labor and Architecture: Revisiting Cedric Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt]‘, Log No.23 (Fall 2011), pp.97-118 (22 pages), Anyone Corporation.

Aureli, P. V. (2015) '[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpJxPAEyfYI Labour, City and Architecture Cedric Price's Pottery Thinkbelt and the Post]' (sic), AA School of Architecture, YouTube.

Bendall, P. (2017) '[https://vimeo.com/222146129 Potteries Thinkbelt]', Vimeo.

Callaghan, M. (2015) '[http://ceramiccitystories.postach.io/page/the-potteries-thinkbelt Cedric Price - The Potteries Thinkbelt - A City Caused by Learning]', Ceramic City Stories.

Canadian Centre for Architecture (2009) '[https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/archives/380477/cedric-price-fonds/396839/projects/402011/potteries-thinkbelt Potteries Thinkbelt]', CCA.

Cervantes, J. (Undated) '[http://www.morethangreen.es/en/potteries-thinkbelt-by-cedric-price/ Potteries Thinkbelt by Cedric Price]', More Than Green.

East Midlands Economic Planning Council (1966) 'The East Midlands Study', HMSO.

Edukit (2017) '[https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/collection/8f1b26fb-2c8a-4bf0-92e7-c2190553b4f6/Thinkbelt-Study Thinkbelt Study]', 3D Warehouse.

Fellows, N. (2008-2018) '[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF77F14E35FF94FB6 S8.D064: Dukeries Thinkbelt - Preparatory videos]', YouTube.

Fellows, N. (2013) 'A book that changed me: Education Automation by Buckminster Fuller', originally published in Guardian Witness but now only in '[http://beyond-supercrit-1-cp-ptb.blogspot.com/ Beyond Supercrit #1: CP: PTb]', Blogger.

Fellows, N. (2014) '[https://dukeries-thinkbelt.blogspot.fr Dukeries Thinkbelt: A plan for an advanced educational industry in West Nottinghamshire]', early work posted on Blogger.

Fellows, N. (2014-2016) '[http://dukeries-thinkbelt.blogspot.com/ Dukeries Thinkbelt]', Blogger.

Fellows, N. (2015) '[http://beyond-supercrit-1-cp-ptb.blogspot.fr Beyond Supercrit #1: CP: PTb]' Blogger.

Fellows, N. (2015) '[http://beyond-supercrit-1-cp-ptb.blogspot.com/2015/03/submission.html 'The Fuller Challenge: My First Submission'], Beyond Supercrit #1: CP: PTb, Blogger.

Fellows, N. (2016) '[http://potteries-thinkbelt.blogspot.fr Potteries Thinkbelt by Cedric Price]', Blogger.

Fellows, N. (2016) '[https://thinkbelt.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/fellows-n.-2016-dukeries-thinkbelt-new-society.pdf Dukeries Thinkbelt]', New Society, 2 June, WordPress.

Fellows, N. (2016) '[https://thinkbelt.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/fellows-n.-2016-dukeries-thinkbelt-anticipatory-design.pdf Dukeries Thinkbelt]', Anticipatory Design, October, WordPress.

Fellows, N. (2016) '[http://online.nextflipbook.com/dobo/32ue/ Dukeries Thinkbelt]', NextFlip.

Fellows, N. (2020) '[https://archiblog.wordpress.com/scrapbooks/ Annotated scrapbooks for a series of continuously updated reports]' in Fellows, N. (2020) '[https://archiblog.wordpress.com/ The Digital Now]', Archiblog, Wordpress.

Fellows, N. (2020) '[https://vimeo.com/manage/folders/3090922 Dukeries Thinkbelt]', Vimeo.

Fellows, N. (2020) '[https://thinkbelt.wordpress.com/ The Thinkbelt Now]', Thinkbelt, Wordpress.

Hacedor De Trampas (2010) '[https://hacedordetrampas.blogspot.fr/2010/10/potteries-thinkbelt-de-cedric-price.html Potteries Thinkbelt of Cedric Price]', Blogger.

Hardingham. S. (2004) 'Supercrit #1 Review', Architectural Design, May/June.

Hardingham, S. and Rattenbury, K (2007) '[https://www.routledge.com/Cedric-Price-Potteries-Thinkbelt-SuperCrit-1/Rattenbury-Hardingham/p/book/9780415434126 Cedric Price: Potteries Thinkbelt - Supercrit #1]', Routledge.

Kovai*, G. (2021) '[https://www.academia.edu/76084129/Arendt_s_Break_with_the_Liberal_Imaginary_of_Society Arendt's Break with the Liberal Imaginary of Society]', Filozofski vestnik

Landau, R. ed. (1972) 'Complexity', October, Architectural Design.

Landau, R. (1985) ‘[https://thebartlettdrawingresearch.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/royston-landau-a-philosophy-of-enabling.pdf Philosophy of enabling: The work of Cedric Price]‘, AA Files, No. 8, January, pp. 3-7 – also in Price, C. (1984) ‘Cedric Price Works II’, Architectural Association, pp. 9-15.

Levin, A. (23 June 2011) '[https://mfareview.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/potteries-thinkbelt-education-architecture-and-a-way-foward/ Potteries Thinkbelt - Education, Architecture and a Way Forward]', Sputnik Shuffle.

Lobsinger, M. L. (undated) '[http://zeitkunst.org/media/pdf/Lobsinger2000.pdf Cedric Price: An Architecture of the Performance], Daidolus.

Martin, D. (2014) '[https://discoversociety.org/2014/07/01/the-thinkbelt-the-university-that-never-was/ The Thinkbelt: The University that never was]', Discover Society.

Mathews, S. (2000) '[https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/74970/Cedric_Price-Potteries_Thinkbelt.pdf Potteries Thinkbelt: an architecture of calculated uncertainty]', Hobart & William Smith Colleges.

Mathews, S. (2014) '[https://issuu.com/upcercle/docs/cedric_price__from_the____brain_dra Cedric Price - From "Brain Drain" to the "Knowledge Economy"]', issuu.

Mathews, S. (2007) '[https://www.scribd.com/document/92064405/Potteries-Thinkbelt From Agit Prop to Free Space: The Architecture of Cedric Price]', pp.196-197, Scribd.

Museum of Modern Art (2017) '[https://www.moma.org/collection/works/849?locale=en Cedric Price Potteries Thinkbelt Project, Staffordshire, England (1964-1966)]', MoMA - the permanent exhibition includes 10 works illustrating the project.

NORD (2012) '[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3NsUVaRv4U CP Potteries Thinkbelt Model Railway]', YouTube.

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