I was recently a ‘judge’, along with Jon Pratty from Arts Council England, and Chris T-T, for the Degenerate Art GONG Show. A Fortunecat Production event, this was held as part of Brighton £5 Fringe in May. The third in a series of Art GONG Shows, it aimed to draw a new line in the sand between modern concepts of decency in art on one side, more...
Architecture, built environment and arts collective Threshold will be taking over the space at myhotel, Brighton, for the second year as part of Love Architecture festival. The space has been curated to include work and activity inspired by the theme of ‘future city working’, with exhibitions and installations, and a daily programme of workshops, more...
I found out recently that BrightonLookUp has been used as a teaching resource with a local youth organisation, which made me very happy as its just this kind of public reach that I wanted the project to achieve. the youth leader, Natalie Kane, kindly wrote about the work for me: I am a Support Art Trainer at Nacro in Brighton, a crime prevention charity more...
Its taken a while to write this, as Detroit gave me so much to think on, but here it is, a blog on my time in Detroit last month at the Placemaking Leadership Council: Detroit was host to 300 placemakers from ten countries this April with the inaugural meeting of the Placemaking Leadership Council (PLC), an initiative formed by Project for Public more...
I have recently been published on the excellent This Big City urban news website, a piece on my time in Detroit at the Placemaking Leadership Council. The overview piece can be found here, and there is a follow up one on the healthy communities working group, here. more...
I covered a lot of ground in my States trip last week – the idea of course, it was a funded trip and I set out to make the money work hard, and me. I’ll talk about my New York days in this blog. The Detroit one might take much more time as there is so much to absorb from that experience! The main purpose of my visit to NYC was to meet potential more...
My time in the States of course went too quickly but it was a packed week and a very useful one too for my PhD. I started the week in New York, meeting with No Longer Empty, visiting Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, 11th Street community garden, American Institute of Architects; and then had an explore of the city, starting with the High Line. My photos more...
Yet again, I will be spending a week in the myhotel, Brighton, car park with the architecture group I am part of, Threshold, for Love Architecture in June. Last year was not only great fun – yes, a week running a series of installations, talks and events in a hotel car park was great fun – but it also made an impact on the architecture more...
I am very pleased to announce that I will be attending the inaugural meeting of the Placemaking Leadership Council in Detroit this April. Founded by Project for Public Spaces, the Placemaking Leadership Council is an international group of those involved in all aspects of placemaking, with the aim being to strengthen placemaking as a movement more...
I have been working with artist, writer, designer, educator and MRes student Rachel K Gillies in the design of a poster for submission to the University of Brighton research poster competition. Rachel has done an amazing job of translating my text and ideas into visual form and it’s been a reflexive and informative process for me to think about more...
