Royal Borough of Greenwich: The power of small
Tara AustinOgilvy & Mather London
Summary
There is a scourge on our society; made worse because the harm it causes is so pernicious, so silent, that we all accept it without ever really being conscious it is happening.
I am talking, of course, about shop security shutters: the boringly ubiquitous steel devices that line the UK's streets.
This paper describes how we realised shutters were subconsciously damaging our sense of togetherness and social cohesion; and what, in our small way, we tried to do to about it. For we saw that...