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Coloured lines, representing the routes of Glasgow’s tram network in the late 1890s, were marked throughout the ground floor of the building. Traced from maps dating 1893 - 96, the routes were scaled to fit within Tramway’s walls. Visitors were encouraged to use the lines to navigate their way through Tramway. This alternative, illogical, mapping system was intended to grant them the licence to move through the building disrupting cultural codes and ignoring the conventional modes of behaviour that the space engenders – to access designated ‘non-public’ areas and act in unpredictable ways. | ||||
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Each of the routes – the coloured lines - was punctuated by a number of ‘landmarks’: selected spots signposted by fragments of maps and plans placed on the floor. Some landmarks were ‘historical’, transposed from the late nineteenth-century map of Glasgow - the Victorian cityscape shrunk to fit within Tramway’s walls. | ||||
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Other landmarks rooted the visitor in the here and now, pointing to features of the current building. | ||||