The Catalogue by Matthew Goodfellow, Studio Five, Sheffield School of Architecture
The economic downturn has highlighted the realities of commercial power over the urban realm. What was once public space has become increasingly privatised. The Catalogue has been established to counteract this by using the information hidden by bureaucracy to help the public fight, and take back their city.
In the Catalogue all information is important. Every action, meeting, event and observation is documented and issued its own Catalogue number for future reference. Through a flexible program where adaptability to the fast changing situation corporate resources can bring, ‘Reactionary Workshops’ and ‘Radical Libraries’ come together to cultivate an atmosphere where the transfer of legal knowledge occurs freely and informally alongside an ingrained impetus for the public act quickly and use these resources to argue their case in the most informed and effective way possible to gain maximum results.