74-76 Cromer Street London WC1H 8DR +44 (0)20 7278 8373 artscatalyst.org @TheArtsCatalyst PRESS RELEASE Thu 21 April 2016 Images: Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, 2016; Arts Catalyst Centre, 2016 Arts Catalyst announces Everyday Urbanism: Architecture as Social Process, a 3 year research and public programme launching in May 2016 with A Public Hearing. Starting from Arts Catalyst’s new neighbourhood in London’s Kings Cross and expanding out across the city, Everyday Urbanism: Architecture as Social Process will create a platform for international artists, urbanist collectives and research architects to link with a diverse range of local communities. Together these groups will explore and document the social, political and environmental issues affecting those who inhabit the city. Drawing on community-centred practices from around the world, Everyday Urbanism will develop user-centred, sustainable technologies to address some of these key issues and explore the potential of the commons as a way for residents to reclaim their right to the city. In a time of ever diminished state welfare, decreasing council run community infrastructures and housing provisions and the dwindling potential of public space as a site of civil agency, Everyday Urbanism sees an urgency in finding alternative ways of living and thriving in our cities. Everyday Urbanism will evolve over the course of three years creating new relationships, networks, events, exhibitions and commissions. In May 2016, Arts Catalyst will launch the first of these projects A Public Hearing. Developed by postgraduate students from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London A Public Hearing is centred on a two-month residency at Arts Catalyst’s Centre for Art, Science and Technology. During this time, they will use the form and function of a traditional public hearing to investigate a number of contemporary conditions. Throughout May the group will conduct closed research with local residents, jointly shaping the form and content of the series of public hearing events. As well as the public hearings themselves,
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74-76 Cromer Street
London WC1H 8DR
+44 (0)20 7278 8373
artscatalyst.org
@TheArtsCatalyst
PRESS RELEASE Thu 21 April 2016
Images: Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, 2016; Arts Catalyst Centre, 2016
Arts Catalyst announces Everyday Urbanism: Architecture as Social
Process, a 3 year research and public programme launching in May 2016
with A Public Hearing.
Starting from Arts Catalyst’s new neighbourhood in London’s Kings Cross and expanding
out across the city, Everyday Urbanism: Architecture as Social Process will create a
platform for international artists, urbanist collectives and research architects to link with
a diverse range of local communities. Together these groups will explore and document
the social, political and environmental issues affecting those who inhabit the city.
Drawing on community-centred practices from around the world, Everyday Urbanism will
develop user-centred, sustainable technologies to address some of these key issues and
explore the potential of the commons as a way for residents to reclaim their right to the
city. In a time of ever diminished state welfare, decreasing council run community
infrastructures and housing provisions and the dwindling potential of public space as a
site of civil agency, Everyday Urbanism sees an urgency in finding alternative ways of living
and thriving in our cities.
Everyday Urbanism will evolve over the course of three years creating new relationships,
networks, events, exhibitions and commissions. In May 2016, Arts Catalyst will launch the
first of these projects A Public Hearing. Developed by postgraduate students from the
Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London A Public Hearing
is centred on a two-month residency at Arts Catalyst’s Centre for Art, Science and
Technology. During this time, they will use the form and function of a traditional public
hearing to investigate a number of contemporary conditions. Throughout May the group
will conduct closed research with local residents, jointly shaping the form and content of
the series of public hearing events. As well as the public hearings themselves,
documentation, audio recordings and research materials will form the basis of an evolving
installation, open to the public throughout June 2016.
Everyday Urbanism will be developed in collaboration with a curatorial advisory group
including Arts Catalyst, Territorial Agency / John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog,
curator Claire Louise Staunton (Flat Time House/MK Gallery) and Susan Schuppli, Deputy
Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, and
Cromer Street based Barrister Ousman Noor.
With a history of over 20 years, Arts Catalyst has pioneered art that engages with science
and technology, commissioning over 125 ambitious artists’ projects and numerous
exhibitions. In January 2016, Arts Catalyst opened a Centre for Art, Science and
Technology in London’s Kings Cross, providing a space for artists, scientists and experts
to experiment and create new projects, and enable vital audience interactions. Exhibitions
reflect and extend Arts Catalyst’s national and international projects and the work of
partners.
Everyday Urbanism: Architecture as Social Process
Arts Catalyst Center, 74-76 Cromer Street, London WC1H 8DR