Matilde Martinett, who currently works with public works sent this very cool gift-drawing - worth publishing! Merry Christmas to all friends and colleagues of public works and see you again in 2012.
Matilde Martinett, who currently works with public works sent this very cool gift-drawing - worth publishing! Merry Christmas to all friends and colleagues of public works and see you again in 2012.
On Thursday 15th December form 3 - 7 pm in front of the new
firstite building in Colchester.
As part of the ongoing Colchester Inn project.
This is a first get together to find out more about who is using the space in front of the gallery. Skaters are obviously making good use of the new hard-edge landscpaing, and there is a very regular group of EMOs in one corner. We have linked up with Buffalo Jonny from Buffalo Tank to invite more members of the Colchester Skater's scene, and there will be video screenings, some mapping and lovely hot chocolate from Matt who is running the Bike Guru Cafe on the square.
Join us at 'DémocraCité' a one day symposium at l’ENSA Paris-Malaquais on Friday December 9th.
Participants include: Markus
Bader Raumlabor, Nicolas Bonnenfant et Pablo
Georgieff CoLoCo, Francesco
Careri Stalker, Santiago Cirugeda Recetas
Urbanas, Anne Debarre, Maarten Gielen Rotor,
Andreas Lang Publicworks, Caroline Maniaque, Yann
Moulier Boutang Multitudes,, Ramon
ParramonIdensitat, Constantin Petcou, AAA,
Meredith TenHoor.
Faire les territoires autrement:
Participations et expérimentations collectives
Journée d’études du département Art
Architecture Politique (AAP)
Vendredi 9 décembre 2011 de 9h00 à 18h30
Amphi 2 des Loges
entrée libre
Monrning
9h00 Accueil des participants :Nasrine Seraji AA dipl. RIBA,
directrice de l'ENSA Paris-Malaquais
9h30 Ouverture et présentation de la journée. Jac Fol AAP/ Enrico
Chapel et Thierry Mandoul
9h45 Caroline Maniaque, maître-assistante ENSA Paris-Malaquais «
Architecture et actions,
1960s : retour d'expérience »
10h15 Francesco Careri, Stalker, Rome. « Pidgin City. Une ville
métisse pour le projet indéterminé »
11h00 Constantin Petcou, Atelier d'Architecture autogérée, Paris. «
Faire rhizome »
11h30 Santiago Cirugeda, Recetas Urbanas, Séville. « Architecture
négative »
12h00 Ramon Parramon, Idensitat, Barcelone. « Cities, communities
and artistic practices »
12h30 Discussion
Afternoon
14h15 Meredith TenHoor, Princeton university, New-York. « Lieux
empruntés, espaces inventés »
14h45 Maarten Gielen, Rotor, Bruxelles. « Préoccupations... »
15h15 Yann Moulier Boutang, Multitudes, professeur des universités,
Paris « Wiki-architecture » 16h00 Markus Bader, Raumlabor, Berlin.
«Total freedom is no freedom at all?»
16h30 Andreas Lang, Publicworks, Londres. « Local cultural
production,and co-authorship »
17h00 Nicolas Bonnenfant, Pablo Georgieff, CoLoCo, Paris. « Actions
territoriales, la pioche VS Google Earth »
17h30 Anne Debarre, maître-assistante ENSA Paris-Malaquais «
Activations, acteurs, interactions »
18h00 Discussion, conclusion
Regarder autrement l’architecture et le territoire pour en saisir collectivement les potentialités, investir des objets et des espaces délaissés pour qu’ils deviennent des lieux appropriables par chacun, élaborer des projets relationnels, participatifs : telles sont les stratégies que développent depuis plus d’une décennie des collectifs qui réunissent architectes, artistes, paysagistes, urbanistes... Pour ce faire, ils se glissent dans des interstices spatiaux, réglementaires, administratifs, économiques, ils inventent des tactiques multiples et annoncent des modalités alternatives de fabrication de l’espace architectural et urbain.
Stalker propose des marches collectives dans la banlieue de Rome.L’Atelier d’architecture autogérée organise un système d’éco-interstices dans l’Est parisien pour contrecarrer la crise de la ville capitaliste.Raumlabor imagine des ateliers collectifs pour construire et tester du mobilier à Berlin, à Saint-Nazaire et dans d’autres villes. Recetas Urbanasfait une animation vidéo avec des Playmobil pour décrire le procédé constructif d’un abri sur les toits de Séville. CoLoCo imagine dans les cours anglaises du 104, centre culturel à Paris, un jardin participatif planté de graines et boutures collectées dans le quartier. Rotor développe une base de données sur les matériaux mis au rebut par plus de 200 entreprises belges.
Autant d’actions qui font d’un projet sur l’espace, le lieu d’un acte politique et qui engagent une pratique esthétique profondément démocratique. Autant d’œuvres collectives qui rejettent toutes méthodes académiques et privilégient avant tout l’expérience du terrain, l’implication dans la fabrication et l’exécution en favorisant la relation à autrui. Autant de bricolages savants qui questionnent, et enfin critiquent, l’élaboration de la ville libérale et de la société de consommation tout en envisageant des propositions éthiques relatives à l’habitation, l’écologie.
Comment interpréter ces productions à première vue insaisissables ? Se réfèrent-elles à l’art, à l’architecture, à l’activisme social des années 1960? D’où vient leur passion pour l’interactivité et les réseaux? De quels imaginaires politiques et esthétiques sont-ils porteurs ?
La journée d’études du département Art/Architecture/Politique-ENSA Paris-Malaquais veut interroger ces démarches nouvelles qui invitent les citoyens à la transformation de leurs cadres de vie.
Elle constitue le deuxième volet d’un projet démarré au printemps 2011 avec l’exposition « Urbanités inattendues » (ENSA Toulouse/AERA) et la journée d’études tenue à Toulouse à cette occasion.
Département AAP : Clotilde Barto, Anne Debarre, Xavier Dousson, Catherine Clarisse, Xavier Fabre, Jac Fol, Bertrand Lamarche, Thierry Mandoul, Caroline Maniaque, Caroline de Saint Pierre, Emmanuel Pinard, Yann Rocher, Jean-François Roullin
ARCHITECTURE OF MULTIPLE AUTHORSHIP
Opening: Thursday 1st December 2011,
Talk at 6:30pm - in Main Forum
40-44 Spring House,
Holloway Road
London N7 8JL
A collaborative project between London Metropolitan Univeristy
and public works presents a programme of events and workshops
on how architecture can become part of a progressive process of
social change and exchange, rather than an end product. We will
pose questions about where the architecture lies within this
context and our shifting roles as architects in the development of
spatial production.
Exhibition open: 1 – 9 December 2011
The exhibition illustrates the process of the development and
construction of three cultural in villages in the Indian state of
West Bengal, with each one reflection the particular local cultural
traditions and skills. The project was led by Indian NGO
Banglanatak.com, and aims to develop the unique folk art and
culture based creative industry in a way that benefits poor and
marginalised rural and tribal communities in West Bengal.
The programme of events to considers the position of architecture
in socially driven projects, and how buildings become part of the
process of cultural and educational production.
01 Dec 6:30pm, Lecture and exhibition opening - with a one evening
International Village Shop
06 Dec 1pm-2pm, “Moving In” workshop, a workshop to frame different
possibilities for the appropriation of the buildings, to host
existing needs and develop possible new programmes and activities
All students welcome, see leaflet in shop for signing in
07 Dec 10am – 1pm, Seminar: Peter Carl, Maurice Mitchell, Bo Tang,
Torange Khonsari, Julie Scott, Jonathan Karkut
09 Dec 1pm-2pm, “Moving In” workshop
The two mobile exhibition cases which normally tour with the mobile Folk Float, are currently in an exhibition on architecture and mobility in Glasgow. "Mobile Solutions" runs until the 17th December at the Mackintosh Museum at the School of Art and Design in Glasgow. That's a lot of mobility. The vitrines will come back to the Florence Mine Creative Centre in Egremont afterwards, where the Float is now at home and has its own special socket.
Installation shot by Janet Wilson.
Designing Economic Cultures is a series of seminars organised by Brave New Alpes, and tailored for design students that takes the contemporary precarious working conditions of creatives as a starting point and investigates strategies of how to go beyond this current state of insecurity.
As the crisis of the financial market seems to have turned into
the crisis of all social relations and of everyday life itself,
designers are as affected by these developments as most other
actors in society. How can we face these conditions with our
creative skills and deal with them in a more proactive and
propositive way?
The seminars will serve as a platform to discuss and develop
questions like the following:
How can designers avoid the conventional choice between either
financial stability or critically engaged work?
Which work settings may positively affect our abilities to address
contested social, political and environmental issues?
What alternative economic values and strategies can be adopted to
overcome precarity?
What can critically engaged creatives learn from the experiences of
self-organised citizens and workers in other fields?
public works – exchanging practices
· speaking about the organisational structure of their collective
and practice
· introducing two projects with different economies
· mapping the growing international network of colleagues, sites
and work
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
5pm
Hexagon
Lockwood Building
1st floor
Goldsmiths College
All welcome.
Matilde Martinetti who currently works with public works went to Birmingham for the Public Evaluation Event of Eastside Projects: a three day production symposium, analysing and evaluating three years of work and presence in the city. Refelcting on shifts in artist run activity in Birmingham, the UK and internationally, and impact and changes in cultural policy agendas, regeneration and support structures for art spaces with invited speakers/respondents/representations.
public works handed out some lovely gold medals alongside some reflections about what we like and dislike, and we had stickers prepared for everyone in the audience to set a shelf life for certain elements in the space.
For a 30 min clip of the whole event on Bambuser click here.
The ever-so-good-looking compact seed bombs are part of Dutch Design Week TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT, at the Van Abbe Museum in Einddoven, 22nd to the 30th October. Poster designed by Andreas.
We will be taking part in two evening discussions that week.
The first one on invitaion by Helen Stratford, called "Performative
Architecture" at The Showroom on Tuesday 25th of October at
18.30, together with Jane Rendell and Doina Petrescu from aaa.
And on Wednesday the 26th of October at 19.00 on invitation by
P.E.A.R
magazine - the Paper for Emergin Architectural Research - at the
Architecture
Foundation.
We will be giving a talk in Innsbruck, Austria on the 14th of October as part of the 'Workspaces' series in the 'Bäckerei' orgainsed by Birgit Brauner and Nicola Weber. (text is in German only)
Stadträume – Aneignung und Intervention
Öffentlicher (Stadt)Raum wird von allen Seiten beansprucht. Investoren, Stadtplanung, Verwertungseffizienz, Sicherheitsansprüche und Einzelinteressen zerren an den Räumen und Rechten des städtischen Kollektivs.
In letzter Zeit ist aber ein neuer Anspruch der Selbstbestimmung spürbar. Neue urbane Praktiken der Aneignung, Teilnahme und Mitgestaltung werden erforscht, stereotype Nutzungspraktiken aufgebrochen, Grenzen verschoben, Lücken erobert, das Gestaltungspotenzial des Stadtraums wird neu verhandelt.
Von der minimalen künstlerischen Intervention bis hin zum sozialen Nachbarschaftsprojekt - immer spürbarer wird eine Kultur des urbanen Handelns, die - eingebunden in das Alltägliche - dazu auffordert den öffentlichen Raum neu zu erobern, ihn sich anzueignen, Verantwortung dafür zu übernehmen. Spontan oder langfristig. Nomadisch oder dauerhaft.
Die Bäckerei startet im Herbst 2011 die Veranstaltungsreihe "workspaces" zum Thema und möchte über verschiedene Formate Methoden des Intervenierens im und mit dem öffentlichen Raum sowohl praktisch als auch theoretisch diskutieren und Möglichkeiten der Teilhabe veranschaulichen.
An zwei Terminen werden KünstlerInnen / ArchitektenInnen / StadtforscherInnen aus London, Berlin und Rotterdam eingeladen ihre Projekte vorzustellen und mit Kulturschaffenden vor Ort und interessierten StadtbenützerInnen in einem Workshop zum Thema zu arbeiten. Die in den Workshops entstandenen Arbeiten werden in einer Ausstellung im Rahmen der Premierentage gezeigt.