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Tag Archives: Performance
Sensing the city; artists, embodiment and urban space #4
This is my final post on the Sensing the City Salon. My colleague, artist and academic researcher Dani Abulhawa spoke about her recent performance work ‘Feint Lines’ as well as earlier performance work. These pieces focus on issues of play in public … Continue reading
Sensing the city; artists, embodiment and urban space #1
I recently attended an event entitled Sensing the City Salon, at Coventry University, part of the research programme which is ‘Documenting and mapping the tempers of urban place (a practice-based case study of the city of Coventry)’, jointly led Warwick … Continue reading
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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The 4×4 series on place-making and the built environment: On Love
The second of the 4×4 series of discussions in Manchester on 11.5.16 of this year had the theme of Love – asking how does love impact on our understanding of the built environment. Mick Timpson is an architect and yoga … Continue reading
Waymarking’s recent studies enhance understanding of making maps #2
Continuing with the mapping and map-making theme of my previous post, here are a couple of maps for a potential development site from a student urban design project on the Stretford Road, in Trafford. The first is of roads and … Continue reading
Tagged Art, Culture, Manchester, Map-making, Mapping, Maps, Performance, Trafford, Urban, Urban Design, Urban development
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Domestic: personal, social and intimate perspectives revealed
In early November I attended two pieces of work as part of the Domestic programme, from Word of Warning. The whole programme was sited in a block of flats in Hulme, Manchester. Field Test in Garageland by Alex Bradley and … Continue reading
Communication between strangers; exploring 2D visual modelling to represent conceptual ideas
I recently had a stimulating conversation with artist Susanne Palzer, who’s based in Sheffield at Bloc Studios. During our conversation we were discussing issues around communication and information exchange in relation to our work. Following the meeting Susanne sent me … Continue reading
