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Beauty, form and function: Sheffield and London
Following on from my previous post on the recent TCPA GI conference which had a large number of presentations (around 12), I’m going to focus on the issues and ideas arising from just a few of these. Nigel Dunnett is Professor of Planting Design … Continue reading
InspiralLondon – re-imagining the built environment #3
Several artists spoke at InspiralLondon’s Friday event, including Alberto Duman and Claire Qualmann. Artist Alberto Duman described his recent Leverhulme Trust Funded project ‘Music for Master planning’. It focusses on the area of Newham, London – which he described as … Continue reading
Tagged Art, Canning Town, city, CPUL, Culture, Foraging, London, Music, Newham, Stratford, Urban, Urban development, Urban Walking, Walking
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InspiralLondon re-imagining the built environment #2
This second post unpacks some of Rebeka Clark’s presentation at InspiralLondon Festival in September 2016. Rebecca is the site manager of Stave Hill Ecological Park in Rotherhithe, London, where the Friday events for the festival took place. The park has been … Continue reading
Tagged Art, city, CPUL, Culture, Docklands, Ecology, Environment, Green space, Housing, London, Park, regeneration, Rotherhithe, Urban, Urban development, Urban Growing
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InspiralLondon Festival: re-imagining the built environment #1
This post kicks of a short series about InspiralLondon. This is an urban trail developed and led by artists, spiraling out from Kings Cross and ends at Gravesend, it enables the public to experience the city as one vast art … Continue reading
Tagged Art, London, Metropolitan, Performance, Planning, regeneration, Trail, Urban, Urban Walking, Urbanism, Walking
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Meeting at Stave Hill Eco Park: possibilities and potentials
On Sunday July 6th the discussion expanded to include a larger group, who met and talked at Stave Hill Eco Park, a fantastic space hidden away in amongst housing in Rotherhithe. Artists introducing themselves included Christian Nold, Daniel Lehan, Josée … Continue reading
Tagged Art, city, Culture, Essex, Live Audio Feed, London, Rotherhithe, Stave Hill, Urban, Walking
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Gravesend to Tilbury… traversing the outskirts of London with ‘counterproductions’
On the 5th and 6th July, I travelled down to London to take part in Detours2London. Hosted by counterproductions director Charlie Fox, a group of around 15 artists were brought together to talk through ideas around the creation of an urban/semi-urban … Continue reading
Taking photographs in cities in the UK and Europe – Shopfronts #1
As in earlier this month, here are another series of photographs – this time taken of shopfronts. London, 2010 Marseille, 2012 Montpellier, 2014 Zagreb, 2012
Tagged Art, city, Cityscape, Culture, London, Marseille, Montpellier, Photography, Shopfronts, Shops, Urban, Urban Design, Zagreb
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