Vision 2030
Art Centre and Youth Space at former Dairy Crest site (© Richard Hodgson)
By 2030, Totnes and District has successfully retained its creative, artistic edge, and the arts are more an element of people’s everyday experience of life in the area. The ‘Transition years’ have brought together people in exciting and imaginative ways to enjoy and express their feelings and talents through creative community-based activities and developments. The Dartington Estate continues to benefit local society through its nurturing presence supporting new ideas and ways of being creative. Localisation has expanded creative talent at a more practical level and artistic expression is to be seen in almost every product, building and view.
Artists, writers, singers, poets, actors have all found more local support as people want their local areas where they spend more time to be enriched with local culture, and with little electricity available for TV, people spend more time enjoying live performance, and everyone now has a ‘turn’ to perform at parties and social events, a song, a story, a magic trick. One of the most profound changes has been how what was, thirty years previously, a community that largely saw art as something to be bought/consumed, now sees it as part of everyday life, with locally-made crockery, furniture and other household essentials being more commonplace than the long-travelled, high carbon, Ikea-style products of twenty years previously.
Totnes Times Classifieds of 2030
OFFERED: An ancient policeman’s helmet.
WANTED: A potting shed
OFFERED: A dozen eggs
OFFERED: Thermal underwear
OFFERED: CDs of celestial music
WANTED: Set of sharp knives
OFFERED: Brace of pheasants
WANTED: Roll of paper
OFFERED: A pig
WANTED: A goat
WANTED: Bi-curious couple seek amorous couple to generate heat for cold Ashburton flat
WANTED: Electric footspa. I just wondered what one was.
WANTED: Car to keep chickens in. Must have opening glove box / nesting box.
OFFERED: for the post-liquid-fossil-fuel enthusiast who is seeking an unusual structure up which to grow his legumes, this wonderful ‘pea coil’.
OFFERED: Potato jewellery, carrot combs, beetroot
WANTED: Creative recycler seeks spare vegetables
OFFERED: Top hats sown with mustard cress for mobile snacks. £30 each
OFFERED: Entire back collection of ‘Thimbles of the World’, collected over 2 years into a full collection in its own binder, because I recently got a life.
OFFERED: Outdated computer, made 2029, still functions, with retro old-fashioned design. Slow, compared to what’s hot today. Give-away price only one bale of hay.
WANTED: Marmalade.
OFFERED: All the bread in my cupboard
WANTED: Full scuba-diving kit
OFFERED: Shoelaces
WANTED: Socks
OFFERED: Will trade anything From Wondermentalist Transition Cabaret workshop January 2009
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