Friday Sessions are informal talks and presentations hosted by
public works on Friday evenings with invited guests and
friends.
FS_51 With Emma Hedditch, Anthony Davies, Howard Slater, Jakob
Jakobsen
From Trauma 1-11 to.....?
In the Summer of 2011 Emma Hedditch, Anthony Davies, Howard Slater,
Jakob Jakobsen along with Henriette Heise, worked together on
'Trauma 1 - 11: Stories about The Copenhagen Free
University and the surrounding society in the last ten years'
at the
Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde Denmark. This exhibition
was developed and staged as an attempt to retrace personal,
collective memories within the broader (and often traumatic)
framework of global events.
Since then, Howard, Anthony and Jakob have continued to work,
together with others, on Mayday
Rooms, an 'organisation' set up to recover and further
socialise histories of dissent and struggle. This along with Emma's
long term commitment to Feminist History/s will form the starting
point of the discussion at public works.
Friday 27th April
at 19.30 hours
public works
1-5 Vyner Street
London E2 9DG
Posted April 18, 2012 21:07 by Kathrin Böhm
This Friday Session doesn't promise a quick fix
to raising money for projects, but looks at different models and
concepts of self-funding and self-sufficiency. Speakers are
Tarkan Ahmet
UK MD of PleaseFund.Us
Introduction to crowdfunding and to PleaseFund.Us: what is it, how
it works.
Bianca Elzenbaumer Brave New Alps, a
collective based in Valdaora (Bolzano), Nomi (Trento) and London.
Presentation of Designing Economic
Cultures, a research project investigating the relation between
precarity, collaborative practice and the production of critically
engaged work.
Matilde Martinetti
Curator at Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary, a Contemporary Art Centre
based in Trevi (Perugia) and currently collaborator of public
works. A survey of alternative economic models and collaborative
practices to fund cultural activities outside mainstream
funding.
Friday 24th February at 19.00
at public works studio
1-5 Vyner Street
London E2
Organised and curated by Matilde Martinetti.
Soup will be served.
After a talk by James Quilligan at an event held by School of
Commoning the realisation of how far the thinking about commons
extends, from cultural commons to intellectual commons, digital
commons, common governance and the common sector as an additional
sector to the existing private and public sector lead to the
inspiration for this event.
In this Friday Session (on a SUNDAY) we are delighted to
invite:
The School
of Commoning will introduce their activities towards a new kind
of educational space, to bring the commons into being. It is a
social enterprise that provides education for commons culture and
social renewal.
Michel
Bauwens, research fellow at university of Amsterdam and
external expert at Pontifical academy of social sciences to talk
about co-production and co-governance.
Celine Condorelli
will explore forms of commons and commonality, making a small,
specific cut into the large question of how to live autonomously
and together by focusing on old and new enclosures, forms of
communing and of being in common.
public works will present a selection of projects which
attempted to implement co-production and spatial/urban tools that
tried to create commonality.
If there's interest, there will be also a possibility to test
the commons concept in practice, by envisioning the formation of a
knowledge commons on Urban Spaces for the People, by the People.
This could become a collaborative project to follow on from this
introductory session.
PLEASE RSVP
Posted December 4, 2011 11:16 by Kathrin Böhm
We are inviting friends and
colleagues to join us for drinks, music and get-your-design-x-mas
decoration laser cut on Friday 2nd December from 19.00 at our
studio on Vyner Street. Matilde Martinetti, who currently works
with us, will be playing her latest compilation "STEREO-TYPE. New
frontiers of Italian Music". See more info below.
Bring a design for a very special x-mas decoration and the most
popular one will be laser cut that night. You can also send it by e
mail in advance. Just keep it smaller than A4.
Spritz will be served. And there will be food - of course.
* The compilation explores the concept of stereotype starting
with a fundamental element of Italian culture: the melodic music of
the Classical Period. The composers of those early songs influenced
the shaping of a home made stereotype more than important historic
eras such as Risorgimento (the Italian unification 150 years ago),
the temporary post-war cohesion or the disown of terrorism during
the 1970ies.
Another compilation, the Compilation of Crisis, can be
seen
here.
Have a look at the winner of our Christmas decoration
competition by Christopher king.
Posted November 23, 2011 11:19 by Kathrin Böhm
Hackney Wick is a place transformed by the Olympics. What was
once described as an unregulated landscape has been transformed by
the Olympics into one of the most highly regulated landscapes
possible. The changing characters of Hackney Wick have inspired the
work of many artists, curators and
commissioners. Hackney Wick Un-Regulated
invites a selected number of practitioners who have worked with
Hackney Wick across this phase of transformation to critically
examine changes in motivation, praxis and outlook.
Friday Session 47 will take place in Hackney Wick, Hosted by
public works together with
Hilary Powell to form a
contribution to her forthcoming book about the Olympics, published
by Myrdle Court
Press and launched in April 2012.
Hackney Wick Un-Regulated is part of a weekend
of salons, discussions and round tables curated by Hilary
Powell with book contributors and invited participants drawing out
some of the issues within the book.
The session will be recorded and edited version will
form a contribution to the book.
Places are limited and RSVP is necessary. You can do so ->
here
For more information on the other salons of the series click
->here
Friday 30th September
2011 7.30-9.30pm Electric
Matchbox 92 White Post Lane, Hackney
Wick, London
E9 5EN http://www.electricmatchbox.com/
Posted September 5, 2011 16:00 by Andreas Lang
A round of presentations and discussion followed by a book
launch, accompanied by drinks.
And the presentation of the "Urban Interior - informal
explorations, interventions and occupations" book,
edited by Rochus Urban Hinkel.
Posted May 30, 2011 12:43 by Kathrin Böhm
ENGAGED AND ENRAGED A non-institutional evening forum on architectural
education
Friday 1 April at 19.00 at public works' studio.
1-5 Vyner Street, London E2
Architectural education has been talked about a lot recently;
mostly in terms of how it will survive within the landscape of
increased university fees and how it might better serve the
architecture profession of the future. This forum however is less
concerned with internal insecurities and instead opens up a
discussion about architectural education both to those not
traditionally valorized within the current system and to others who
have as much to say about cities, spaces and spatial practice as
architects.
The event invites people engaged and enraged by architectural
education to give voice to new potentials, locations and
collaborations in architectural education.
Format of evening: Six or Seven, 5min presentations
followed by discussion.
Views from the peripheral – professional, cultural, geographical
are welcome.
The Friday Session is facilitated by Ruth Morrow with public
works
Details of contributors to be confirmed and published
soon.
public works is organising a week long spring outing of
the WICK CURIOSITY SHOP
at Oslo House, 10 Felstead Street, Hackney Wick, London E9
5LT.
This WICK CURIOSITY SHOP focuses on current activities
and programmes including self-initiated, commissioned, informal and
formal projects. The programme splits into three groups of
events:
The Way We Walk The Way We Make The Way We Talk
Two evening sessions are announced here:
COLLECTIVELY WICK
Thursday, March 3, 2011, 7pm till late
A Wick Development Trust and trust in development.
There is no Development Trust in Hackney Wick or the surrounding
area. With so much speculative and top-down development descending
on Hackney Wick we want to take a moment and brain storm
alternatives for a collective community driven development of
public spaces in Hackney Wick.
Speakers to be confirmed.
GROUNDS FOR CULTURE
Friday, March 4, 2011, 7pm till late
Wick Session Number 2 will bring together artists and activists
currently working on projects or setting up initiatives in Hackney
Wick. A friendly and informal exchange between practitioners with a
passion for Hackney Wick.
Speakers to be confirmed.
