According to Henri Lefebvre (1991, p.341), ‘’the commodity is a thing: it is in space and occupies a location. The commodity world brings certain attitudes towards space, certain actions upon space, and even a certain concept of space.’’ So, a commodity and its consumption create
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According to Henri Lefebvre (1991, p.341), ‘’the commodity is a thing: it is in space and occupies a location. The commodity world brings certain attitudes towards space, certain actions upon space, and even a certain concept of space.’’ So, a commodity and its consumption create a consumerist space. Consumerist spaces are designed to encourage consumption and were continually reinvented and reshaped to keep up with the most subtle changes in society (Chung, Inaba, Koolhaas, 2001). However, today's society is urged to move towards sustainable consumption patterns by 2030 (12th sustainable development goal). This project explores how Dutch post-war shopping malls could be adapted for this future, where a society would consume less. The project proposes to create a shopping mall, which is more embedded in a local context and more significant to a local community. The project especially focuses on textiles as a connecting element between the shopping mall and the local context (Tilburg’s history). Textile is used both functionally and physically. Functionally, the buildings are converted to facilities focused on the recycling, reuse, and repair of textiles. Physically, textile is used as an exterior finish of the building. The possibility to use textiles combined with solar films is explored.