ECLECTIC: A MIGRATION MUSEUM
TED Happold Award winner for the integration of design and engineering
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Britain has a rich history of migration, and yet there are no cultural institutions that record and showcase this part of the country’s identity. This adaptive reuse project looks at a 1930’s bus depot in King’s Cross. The brief evolved significantly over the course of the group project. We believe the story of migration is one that is continually written, by the migrants themselves and their descendants; the museum should not limit itself to only retelling past stories.
We asked ourselves: ‘what role could the museum have at a local, national and international level?’.
The two themes that we were exploring were: food fusion, a celebration of cultural integration and diversification at a local and national level; and raising awareness to the increasing levels of forced migration caused by climate change and environmental degradation. This led to the thinking of using culinary diversity to improve food security and also reverse soil degradation and over-irrigation: an approach coined as agrobiodiversity.