Dunfermline Show Off

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TestTown People: Pop-up Displays For Pop-up Shops

Participants

Paula Grubb – Show Off.

About the project

Interior and Environmental Designer, Paula Grubb showcased her unique display design at TestTown Dunfermline in 2013. Show Off was a creative business designed to host pop-up events to showcase work of emerging artists and designers prior to graduation.

“Paula reclaimed the material and found a visually interesting and environmentally friendly way of displaying work.”

To create the display for her pop-up shop, Paula sourced recyclable material which she constructed together to create a display on which to showcase the work of over 40 up-and-coming creative talents. Making use of cardboard discs which are used to protect flexible packaging and manufactured by a factory in Dundee, ‘Discover Flexibles’, Paula reclaimed the material and found a visually interesting and environmentally friendly way of displaying work.

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Words of Advice

  • I would advertise the event on local radio stations and also in the local newspaper to create local interest in the town to raise awareness of the event. As not everyone who shops in the town uses the internet.’

    TestTown 2015 Participant

  • We underestimated a lot or things which needed to be considered for the units and ended up doing the cleaning etc. for a couple on our own. All a good learning curve though for future initiatives and we’d make sure we added more lead in time to them.

    TestTown 2014 Host

  • It was an amazing location, yet because of the distance between finalists, we felt a little neglected because we so far out of the way. Try and have all finalists a fairly equal distance apart  

    TestTown 2014 Participant

Highlights from the recent years

Five Ways To Supercharge Your TestTown

We believe there are five things which would Supercharge your TestTown:

  1. Every town should create a clear, supported pathway into trading and opening up a shop  for new town centre entrepreneurs.
  2. Every town should have a permanent pop-up facility in a viable trading space which offers flexible lease arrangements up to a year for new town centre entrepreneurs to learn.
  3. Every town should work, within their means, to reduce financial barriers in reduced rates and rents for new traders during their first year of business.
  4. Every town should carry out a regular (every five years) entrepreneur-led consultation which would feed into a business-led strategy for town centre development and business support.
  5. Every town should develop a hyperlocal cross-sector partnership to lead local innovation, ensuring that agencies, businesses, and residents are all powerful in leading local development.