Sent by Stephanie Brandt:
Living Landscapes Lecture Series*
Autumn 2009
Session 1 (5 October 2009): Public space and politics
Session 2 (2 November 2009): Art and agency: art and the creative city
Session 3 (7 December 2009): Alternative/subversive urban practices
Time: 18:30 – 20:30
Location: The Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT, (http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk)
Free admission
*Sponsored by the AIA UK and hosted by The Building Centre
Stephanie Brandt (SPACEPILOTS) and Carol Mancke (Machina Loci and Kingston University) are investigating the idea of space as a living landscape: spaces, not simply defined by pure physical mass, but rather as repositories of accumulated action. Their project has three strands: a lecture series around the politics of public space, art and agency and subversive or alternative urban practices; student workshops in Japan, Bucharest and London; and an intervention in the public realm on Roscoe Street at White Cross Street near Old Street in London to take place on 6 September 2009.
The first of the three lectures will take place at The Building Centre on the evening of 5 October 2009 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. The focus will be on the broad relationships between public space, politics and democracy. Speakers will be: Dr Luis Arena, Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Zaragoza; the architect and thinker Uriel Fogué of Architecture Agency in Madrid and Dr Malcolm Miles, Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Plymouth.