Arrant Industries is the collected urban enquiry of Duncan Blackmore.
It contains various small projects which start with a recognition that ownership usually determines control, an instinct about potential and a desire to understand a place or test an idea. These projects often present a public face to the city and conciously negotiate around issues of access and agency in our vaulable ground floor urban spaces.
Persistent themes and values in the work include (in no particular order) economy, care, non-determinism, idiosyncrasy, intensity, diversity, time, history, decoration, taste, collaboration, art and the outer limits of the planning system.
Alongside these explicitly experimental projects sits Arrant Land, a small sites development company which explores the potential for a progressive and engaged design and planning process to unlock commercially viable development, and for small scale development to positively engage with the dynamics of or our towns and cities and the complex systems which shape them.
Neighbourhood is the vehicle through which, together with others, broader strategic ideas and impacts are pursued.
