the data collected beneath has been reinterpreted from stoke-on-trent city council's burslem conservation area appraisal, 2011. download here.

this project focuses on sites deemed as having "negative views" or rather "views that DETRACT from the character of the conservation area."

kon-serv plays with the semantics of conservation, questioning why these sites have been barred from accompanying their fellow, central locations on the "positive views" map. 

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​Step 1: Decipher the language
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​step 2: examine the area data

fig. 1. burslem conservation parameter

fig. 2. "negative views" recorded by the city council.

fig. 3. combines 1 & 2.
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step 3: go see & compare notes

a) use the homepage map to explore each area online.

or

b) locate all 7 of the qr codes spread out across burslem with a free print-out map! (this is the more exciting one).
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