EVENT LISTINGS ON CITIES
If you have an event (exhibition, filmscreening, discussion, workshop, walk, book launch etc) related to cities, details can be posted here.
* If you are having trouble posting, please email the details to coordinatorsATthisisnotagateway.net *
Urban Age Understanding Cities series
Cities, Design and Climate Change
Date: Tuesday 17 November 2009
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Professor Saskia Sassen, Professor Richard Sennett
Chair: Jonathon Porritt
With cities contributing a large portion of global carbon emissions, urban design is increasingly important when planning for climate change. This discussion examines the creative urban design solutions coming out of the world's cities.
Saskia Sassen is Robert S Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. Richard Sennett is professor of sociology at LSE and NYU.
Jonathon Porritt is the chair of the sustainable development commission and founder and director of Forum for the Future.
The event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. Any queries, email events@lse.ac.uk or phone 020 7955 6043.
Cities, Design and Climate Change
Date: Tuesday 17 November 2009
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Professor Saskia Sassen, Professor Richard Sennett
Chair: Jonathon Porritt
With cities contributing a large portion of global carbon emissions, urban design is increasingly important when planning for climate change. This discussion examines the creative urban design solutions coming out of the world's cities.
Saskia Sassen is Robert S Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. Richard Sennett is professor of sociology at LSE and NYU.
Jonathon Porritt is the chair of the sustainable development commission and founder and director of Forum for the Future.
The event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. Any queries, email events@lse.ac.uk or phone 020 7955 6043.
November 17, 2009 |
Adam Kaasa
Adam Kaasa
The Changing Face of Hackney
Thursday 26 November 7-9pm
The Building Exploratory, Waterhouse, 8 Orsman Road, London N1 5QJ
http://www.buildingexploratory.org.uk/findingus/
Join the Building Exploratory for its first Pecha Kucha night. Artists, storytellers, architects and designers will explore the theme ‘The Changing Face of Hackney’ via 20 images, shown for 20 seconds each. An enlightening and inspiring evening as well as an opportunity to discuss projects in Hackney and engage in debate with a varied audience.
Free entry and glass of wine. Booking essential.
0207 729 2011 or mail@buildingexploratory.org.uk
Thursday 26 November 7-9pm
The Building Exploratory, Waterhouse, 8 Orsman Road, London N1 5QJ
http://www.buildingexploratory.org.uk/findingus/
Join the Building Exploratory for its first Pecha Kucha night. Artists, storytellers, architects and designers will explore the theme ‘The Changing Face of Hackney’ via 20 images, shown for 20 seconds each. An enlightening and inspiring evening as well as an opportunity to discuss projects in Hackney and engage in debate with a varied audience.
Free entry and glass of wine. Booking essential.
0207 729 2011 or mail@buildingexploratory.org.uk
November 11, 2009 |
The Building Exploratory
The Building Exploratory
CHOCOLATE FACTORY OPEN STUDIOS
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Over 100 artists and creative companies are taking part and opening their studios to the public, making it one of the largest events of its kind in London.
Open Studios offers an opportunity for all sectors of the creative community, as well as members of the public, to come and explore The Chocolate Factory and be inspired by an amazing array of art forms live in the artists’ studios. This eclectic and interactive event offers a huge selection of contemporary art and design from leading practitioners in their fields and features internationally acclaimed painters, sculptors, photographers, musicians, film-makers and designer-makers.
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14/11/09 - 15/11/09
12pm - 6pm
Free event
The Chocolate Factory
Clarendon Road
Wood Green
London N22 6XJ
t: 020 8365 7500
e: info@collage-arts.org
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Tube: Wood Green (Piccadilly Line)
British Rail: Alexandra Palace
Bus: 29, 67, 121, 123, 141, 144, 184, 221, 230, 232, 243, 329, W3, W4
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For more information visit:
http://www.collage-arts.org/collagearts/open%20studios.php
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Over 100 artists and creative companies are taking part and opening their studios to the public, making it one of the largest events of its kind in London.
Open Studios offers an opportunity for all sectors of the creative community, as well as members of the public, to come and explore The Chocolate Factory and be inspired by an amazing array of art forms live in the artists’ studios. This eclectic and interactive event offers a huge selection of contemporary art and design from leading practitioners in their fields and features internationally acclaimed painters, sculptors, photographers, musicians, film-makers and designer-makers.
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14/11/09 - 15/11/09
12pm - 6pm
Free event
The Chocolate Factory
Clarendon Road
Wood Green
London N22 6XJ
t: 020 8365 7500
e: info@collage-arts.org
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Tube: Wood Green (Piccadilly Line)
British Rail: Alexandra Palace
Bus: 29, 67, 121, 123, 141, 144, 184, 221, 230, 232, 243, 329, W3, W4
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For more information visit:
http://www.collage-arts.org/collagearts/open%20studios.php
October 26, 2009 |
Collage Arts
Collage Arts
*Creative Edge: Reconceiving Suburban London*
*Monday 19 October *
London’s outer suburbs have stereotypically been portrayed as safe, boring and uninspiring, especially against more dynamic central districts. Yet London’s suburbia has proved a fertile seedbed for creativity, particularly in contrast to an increasingly gentrified and generic centre. Speakers including sociologist Rupa Huq, geographer David Gilbert, writer Tim Lott and artist Nico Hogg, consider the trajectories, contradictions and possibilities of London suburbia.
/In collaboration with the UCL Urban Laboratory/
6.30–8 pm; Reynolds Room, Royal Academy; £7/£4 reductions (includes a drink)//
**To book call 020 7300 5839 or online
www.royalacademy.org.uk/events/talks
<http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/events/talks>**
*Monday 19 October *
London’s outer suburbs have stereotypically been portrayed as safe, boring and uninspiring, especially against more dynamic central districts. Yet London’s suburbia has proved a fertile seedbed for creativity, particularly in contrast to an increasingly gentrified and generic centre. Speakers including sociologist Rupa Huq, geographer David Gilbert, writer Tim Lott and artist Nico Hogg, consider the trajectories, contradictions and possibilities of London suburbia.
/In collaboration with the UCL Urban Laboratory/
6.30–8 pm; Reynolds Room, Royal Academy; £7/£4 reductions (includes a drink)//
**To book call 020 7300 5839 or online
www.royalacademy.org.uk/events/talks
<http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/events/talks>**
October 13, 2009 |
This Is Not A Gateway
This Is Not A Gateway
Ove Arup Foundation Lecture Series | Urban Technologies and the Environment
Wednesday 14 October 2009 | 6.30-8.00pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Urban Age, and the Ove Arup Foundation present: Urban Technologies and the Environment
SPEAKER: Peter Head, Arup Director of Planning Plus
CHAIR: Ricky Burdett, Centennial Professor in Architecture and Urbanism, LSE
What makes cities sustainable?
How do changing urban technologies enable us to change our patterns of behaviour?
Director in charge for the first eco-city, Dongtan near Shanghai, Peter Head of ARUP will describe how to retrofit old cities and design new self-sufficient urban form to meet the challenges of climate change.
Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary. Contact events@lse.ac.uk for additional information.
Details:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154999274849&index=1
http://www.urban-age.net/events/publicLectures/
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2009/20090825t1236z001.aspx
Wednesday 14 October 2009 | 6.30-8.00pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Urban Age, and the Ove Arup Foundation present: Urban Technologies and the Environment
SPEAKER: Peter Head, Arup Director of Planning Plus
CHAIR: Ricky Burdett, Centennial Professor in Architecture and Urbanism, LSE
What makes cities sustainable?
How do changing urban technologies enable us to change our patterns of behaviour?
Director in charge for the first eco-city, Dongtan near Shanghai, Peter Head of ARUP will describe how to retrofit old cities and design new self-sufficient urban form to meet the challenges of climate change.
Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary. Contact events@lse.ac.uk for additional information.
Details:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154999274849&index=1
http://www.urban-age.net/events/publicLectures/
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2009/20090825t1236z001.aspx
October 13, 2009 |
Adam Kaasa
Adam Kaasa
No Planning Permission
Private View: Thursday 8th of October, 6-9 pm
Exhibition runs from 08-11 October
Blows Yard
15 Winchester Walk
London SE1 9AG
(London Bridge/Borough Market)
Solo exhibition of paintings by Agnieszka Mlicka
Set in a building awaiting its own refurbishment, the exhibition ‘No Planning Permission’ shows the artist’s view on how the city is planned and built, in contrast to its organic growth. In cities as old and dense as London, buildings are constantly reused and the list of planning applications is long. But why do we need permission to plan, and who do we ask for this permission? What does it mean when we are not permitted to do as we wish? These questions attempt to erase and redraw the line between the individual’s own territory and that of greater authorities. Do citizens have a voice? Does the urban planner or architect have the veto power? The paintings are a visual analysis of these conflicts in the cityscape, as well as experiments with the transforming view through our window.
Agnieszka Mlicka (b. 1983, Poland) studied Fine Art at the University of Oxford and received her MA in Painting at the University of the Arts London in 2007. Her practice is a combination of painting and drawing, inspired by architecture, the city and urban planning. She is represented by the organisation Polish deConstruction (platform for Polish artists in the UK).
More Information: +44 (0)770 8307 838 www.agnieszkamlicka.com
Private View: Thursday 8th of October, 6-9 pm
Exhibition runs from 08-11 October
Blows Yard
15 Winchester Walk
London SE1 9AG
(London Bridge/Borough Market)
Solo exhibition of paintings by Agnieszka Mlicka
Set in a building awaiting its own refurbishment, the exhibition ‘No Planning Permission’ shows the artist’s view on how the city is planned and built, in contrast to its organic growth. In cities as old and dense as London, buildings are constantly reused and the list of planning applications is long. But why do we need permission to plan, and who do we ask for this permission? What does it mean when we are not permitted to do as we wish? These questions attempt to erase and redraw the line between the individual’s own territory and that of greater authorities. Do citizens have a voice? Does the urban planner or architect have the veto power? The paintings are a visual analysis of these conflicts in the cityscape, as well as experiments with the transforming view through our window.
Agnieszka Mlicka (b. 1983, Poland) studied Fine Art at the University of Oxford and received her MA in Painting at the University of the Arts London in 2007. Her practice is a combination of painting and drawing, inspired by architecture, the city and urban planning. She is represented by the organisation Polish deConstruction (platform for Polish artists in the UK).
More Information: +44 (0)770 8307 838 www.agnieszkamlicka.com
October 7, 2009 |
This Is Not A Gateway
This Is Not A Gateway
[noplaceprojects*] open call for submissions:
BeLonging
Following on from the success of RePlace at Ada Street Gallery in June 2009, [noplaceprojects*] invites participants working in lens based media [moving and still images] to engage with the theme of BeLonging.
While the context of BeLonging should be urban and global, an engagement with being and place is critical. Regardless of origin, we are interested in exploring issues that a person or a community could face when choosing to live in a city.
[noplaceprojects*] are looking at a February 2010 opening.
Deadline for submission is Monday, November 30th 2009.
Final selection of six to eight participants by mid December 2009.
Venue TBA (East London).
To express interest please email, with supporting visuals and biog to:
Liz Helman
liz.helman@dsl.pipex.com
+
Mischa Haller
mischa@mischaphoto.com
[noplaceprojects*]
http://www.noplaceprojects.net
http://replaceproject.blogspot.com
http://belongingproject.blogspot.com
http://www.openvizor.com/events/replace-exhibition
BeLonging
Following on from the success of RePlace at Ada Street Gallery in June 2009, [noplaceprojects*] invites participants working in lens based media [moving and still images] to engage with the theme of BeLonging.
While the context of BeLonging should be urban and global, an engagement with being and place is critical. Regardless of origin, we are interested in exploring issues that a person or a community could face when choosing to live in a city.
[noplaceprojects*] are looking at a February 2010 opening.
Deadline for submission is Monday, November 30th 2009.
Final selection of six to eight participants by mid December 2009.
Venue TBA (East London).
To express interest please email, with supporting visuals and biog to:
Liz Helman
liz.helman@dsl.pipex.com
+
Mischa Haller
mischa@mischaphoto.com
[noplaceprojects*]
http://www.noplaceprojects.net
http://replaceproject.blogspot.com
http://belongingproject.blogspot.com
http://www.openvizor.com/events/replace-exhibition
October 5, 2009 |
This Is Not A Gateway
This Is Not A Gateway
The Semiotics of the City
STUDENTS’ CITY CULTURAL CENTER
4th – 18th September, 2009
The project "The Semiotics of the City" presents the international group of artists usually4 – Karolina Freino [Poland], Sam Hopkins [UK/Kenya], Teresa Luzio [Portugal] and Dusica Drazic [Serbia]. The group was formed as the extension of a cooperation between alumnis from the master program «Public Art and New Artistic Strategies» at the Bauhaus University Weimar that studied between 2003 and 2006. The artists collect information and create their works by moving within, and intersecting with, a city. They communicate with passers-by/citizens in a manner often referring to the broad field of walking art.
A guest of the project is Vanessa Mayoraz [Switzerland], also an alumni from the Bauhaus University Weimar.
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In the video-work "Motion Picture", Karolina Freino navigates already existing web cameras and, using a live-stream video of the constant movement in Belgrade (Trg Nikole Pasica), records her performative act that slips out of a common routine of that place – by breaking a routine she becomes visible.
In the project "6 hours for 6 days" that was realized in Wroclaw in 2006, Sam Hopkins explores the state of being stationary within a city that is in constant flux. Hopkins searched for patterns/routines within the city, but he also attracted people’s curiosity…
Teresa Luzio installs a flag on a pole in the Student City announcing her work "Bohemian Home" together with a series of photographs in the Gallery that remember an act of discarding the personal belongings that refer to a nomadic identity.
Dusica Drazic reconstructs "Deadend street" and by that connects the exhibition space and the public space. A viewer is in the gallery, but placed within the city – the photograph functions as a virtual gate taking the dimension of the corridor. The viewer performs a walk from the moment when he faces the deadend street and goes back taking a new path.
"Outer Circle" is the work by Vanessa Mayoraz which consists of five notebooks that will be given away at the opening. Visitors will use them to draw their favorite bench, street, window, or any other place within the city which is significant for them. By dissemination of these notebooks Mayoraz will detect existing personal networks that exist in the city.
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The project is supported by Swiss Cultural Program – Pro Helvetia Belgrade, The Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Ministry of Culture Republic of Serbia.
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Contact:
STUDENTS’ CITY CULTURAL CENTER
Bul. Zorana Djindjca 179
11070 New Belgrade
T:+381 11 2691 442
E: galerija@dksg.rs
www.dksg.rs
STUDENTS’ CITY CULTURAL CENTER
4th – 18th September, 2009
The project "The Semiotics of the City" presents the international group of artists usually4 – Karolina Freino [Poland], Sam Hopkins [UK/Kenya], Teresa Luzio [Portugal] and Dusica Drazic [Serbia]. The group was formed as the extension of a cooperation between alumnis from the master program «Public Art and New Artistic Strategies» at the Bauhaus University Weimar that studied between 2003 and 2006. The artists collect information and create their works by moving within, and intersecting with, a city. They communicate with passers-by/citizens in a manner often referring to the broad field of walking art.
A guest of the project is Vanessa Mayoraz [Switzerland], also an alumni from the Bauhaus University Weimar.
***
In the video-work "Motion Picture", Karolina Freino navigates already existing web cameras and, using a live-stream video of the constant movement in Belgrade (Trg Nikole Pasica), records her performative act that slips out of a common routine of that place – by breaking a routine she becomes visible.
In the project "6 hours for 6 days" that was realized in Wroclaw in 2006, Sam Hopkins explores the state of being stationary within a city that is in constant flux. Hopkins searched for patterns/routines within the city, but he also attracted people’s curiosity…
Teresa Luzio installs a flag on a pole in the Student City announcing her work "Bohemian Home" together with a series of photographs in the Gallery that remember an act of discarding the personal belongings that refer to a nomadic identity.
Dusica Drazic reconstructs "Deadend street" and by that connects the exhibition space and the public space. A viewer is in the gallery, but placed within the city – the photograph functions as a virtual gate taking the dimension of the corridor. The viewer performs a walk from the moment when he faces the deadend street and goes back taking a new path.
"Outer Circle" is the work by Vanessa Mayoraz which consists of five notebooks that will be given away at the opening. Visitors will use them to draw their favorite bench, street, window, or any other place within the city which is significant for them. By dissemination of these notebooks Mayoraz will detect existing personal networks that exist in the city.
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The project is supported by Swiss Cultural Program – Pro Helvetia Belgrade, The Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Ministry of Culture Republic of Serbia.
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Contact:
STUDENTS’ CITY CULTURAL CENTER
Bul. Zorana Djindjca 179
11070 New Belgrade
T:+381 11 2691 442
E: galerija@dksg.rs
www.dksg.rs
September 17, 2009 |
dusica drazic
dusica drazic
SENSESCAPES – Live event! at The O2
London Thursday 1st of October 2009
Workshops and live events: 14.00 – 18.00
Talks and Discussion: 19.00
Organized and curated by SPACEPILOTS [www.spacepilots.net] in association with BME [www.britishmusicexperience.com] Paulo Barbaresi and Stephanie Brandt [SPACEPILOTS] in collaboration with the British Music Experience Exhibition [BME] are setting up a day of talks, workshops, live demonstrations and an exclusive look at Britain’s newest interactive Exhibition at The O2, London exploring the relationship between sound, light, space and experience.
The symposium takes place at The British Music Experience Exhibition, The O2, Peninsula Square, London.
Tickets are sold by BME.
Talks: £ 5.00
Workshops: £10.50 per participant, including entrance to the exhibition. [Usual Exhibition Entrance Costs: £12.00 for Students and £15.00 for adults.]
tickets can be booked at: learning@britishmusicexperience.com
for more details contact: sensescapes@spacepilots.net
London Thursday 1st of October 2009
Workshops and live events: 14.00 – 18.00
Talks and Discussion: 19.00
Organized and curated by SPACEPILOTS [www.spacepilots.net] in association with BME [www.britishmusicexperience.com] Paulo Barbaresi and Stephanie Brandt [SPACEPILOTS] in collaboration with the British Music Experience Exhibition [BME] are setting up a day of talks, workshops, live demonstrations and an exclusive look at Britain’s newest interactive Exhibition at The O2, London exploring the relationship between sound, light, space and experience.
The symposium takes place at The British Music Experience Exhibition, The O2, Peninsula Square, London.
Tickets are sold by BME.
Talks: £ 5.00
Workshops: £10.50 per participant, including entrance to the exhibition. [Usual Exhibition Entrance Costs: £12.00 for Students and £15.00 for adults.]
tickets can be booked at: learning@britishmusicexperience.com
for more details contact: sensescapes@spacepilots.net
September 2, 2009 |
This Is Not A Gateway
This Is Not A Gateway
A video screening and an architectural reading in an occupied house.
Saturday 21st November, 5pm at 195 Mare Street, Hackney, London.
Joanna Zawieja screening Imagine a House, Ruth Oldham reading Institute of Oral History
Imagine a House
Imagine a House explores cinematic storytelling as an architectural tool. Taking the 19th century mass mediated cult of domesticity and the separation of spheres as a starting point, Imagine a House looks into the making of the modern home during the early days of British industrialisation. A story of Victorian domesticity is played out in the empty house on 195 Mare street, East London, where “fallen women” are trained in the art of homemaking and working class men are taught political consciousness.
The Hackney Council Planning Department has done a survey where they state that the windows and the four stairs up to the entrance of 195 Mare street should be saved as cultural historic elements. I propose to save the housed stories. I propose a total make-over: Imagine a house as an attempt to narrate a monument into being.