The entire Olympic Infrastructure in East London stands united behind the colour blue. It is a strategic symbol for creating an urban identity, which includes scanned individuals and excludes itself from the surrounding city with a 18 kilometre blue plywood security fence.
“Blue” fragments and extends this perimeter of the cultural Olympiad by literally transforming the excluding fence to the Olympic site into a network of 36 public timber buildings that promise a true social legacy and reconfigure and reconcile the relationship that will exist between fringe communities and the physical and social barriers of new developments.
“Blue” argues, that in addition to urban mega projects, an infrastructure for engagement is needed which can respond to the immediate local effects of change in the city, alleviating the urban stresses of fringe communities and their lost cognitive relation to space.