Kathrin and Andreas will be running a workshop session during the Future Perfect Engage Conference which will take place in London this week.
Who is building what when it comes to large scale regeneration schemes? How do collective and participatory public art projects contribute to the shaping of the public realm? Where does the social become spatial? What does it mean for art and architecture collaborations?
The session is to look at collective, bottom up approaches and self initiated cultural projects that take place within larger scale regeneration environments.
public works is going to show some of their recent projects to introduce the session:
- Folk Float - a mobile local archive for the town of Egremont, which has become part of a longer term and larger scale planning, and addresses
issues of local participation and culture (see also www.diyregeneration.net)
- Park Products/Serpentine Pavilion 2004, a collective production and informal trade project for Kensington Gardens which generated a new public realm and space
The aim of the sessions is to assess participatory and process based cultural projects in regards to their spatial and architectural realities and potentials. The intention is to develop a better understanding and subsequent recognition of the spatial production that is going on in relational practice, both within concrete examples and across the field of practice.
The workshop part will introduce methodologies to represent and present them as such. We invite all participants to choose a cultural project they have been involved in/are aware of and to revisit it, with the aim to read and sketch it as a spatial proposal.