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Contribution John Thackara:
What would it mean to design for fast and slow speeds? Today's high speed train (HST) travel is a marvel of speed (and profligate resource consumption). It is transforming the experience of space and time of 13 million travellers who already use it each year - and of citizens who live in places where the trains stop. But we have not made space for reflection on the cultural consequences of it all. To fill this gap, the High Speed Network Platform, an association of 15 European regions, and Urban Unlimited, a planning firm, asked Doors of Perception to organise a cultural expert workshop on the theme, "quality time". and its consequences for city nodes. The aim was to develop project ideas for services and situations that connect people, cultural resources, and places, in new combinations.
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