Selfridges - Bullring.
The Bull Ring Shopping Centre was a big sign of this change in 2003 and its where the Filthy Luker placed his inflatable giant paintbrush for the City of Colours Festival in 2014. The Bull Ring building can be seen as impressive to young people but in the end, they could see it as "just a shopping centre".
David Harvey
Harvey argues that this mobile capitalist approach to artwork see's that the environment gets financial gain whilst re-developing the city. Following suit, the cathedral city becomes a heritage/relic town, the industrial city becomes de-industrialised, and gentrified neighbourhoods arise on the frontiers of capitalist developments. City of Colours has been argued to be responsible for participating in the regeneration of the city. By redecorating Digbeth with street art, it is connecting the community of young people with opportunities to get involved in such events. Using the workshops available and getting an insight into the art form.
Giving that the piece was designated on the side of the Bull Ring Shopping Centre, I feel that the space in which it occupied didn't reflect the tourist hot spot of the Custard Factory. I will look into designing ideas that actually reflect the City of Colours's essence.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_City_Plan#/media/File:Birmingham_Selfridges_building.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_City_Plan
http://www.endoftheline.co/endoftheline-city-colours-festival-birmingham/#!prettyPhoto[slides]/48/
http://www.endoftheline.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/IMG_7585.jpg
http://www.yooyahcloud.com/JIMMYC/MKremc/Birmingham_wall_with_crowd_for_web.jpg
http://www.creatingfreedom.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/david-harvey.jpg
Harvey, D. 2006. Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development. London and New York, Verso.
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