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
Posted November 29, 2011 21:44 by Kathrin Böhm
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.
Posted November 18, 2011 09:54 by Kathrin Böhm
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.
Posted November 3, 2011 12:08 by Kathrin Böhm
