The English Country Estate was once a social and political centre of the countryside. During the Medieval period, known as the lost great English Hospitality, the House would have fed and entertained anyone who passed through its land.
The services it provided - millhouses, dairies, schools - physically bonded the community together. But let's not be too nastalgic, it was a feudal system in which people traded freedom for security.
A Public House is a project based on one such country estate in the West Midlands, in the heart of the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. It looks at finding a new role for the estate to relate to its community both at the local and regional level. In particular it is concerned with the continuing craft tradition in the area as well as the manufacturing sector; both of which are undergoing once-in-a-lifetime technological and practice changes.
The project will utilise modern day technological advances such as DIY manufacturing and the Open Source movement, as well as reinterpret traditional social models such as the Guilds - to create a contemporary public role for the estate.
By Jing Lu
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