Committee of lost memories cafe - West Bromwich - Birmingham
Showing the film 39 steps, leading lady West Bromwich born and Bred Madeline Carol
Cafe was set up last week ........
Torange from public works has been collaborating with Katy Beinart as described in previous post.
Black Country Living Museum
Katy visited the museum and photographed various relevant items.
She talked to the people running 'shops' including the bakery,
confectioners, pub and homes. This was useful to find out what the
traditional cakes and bread would have been so we make them for the
cafe. Katy also met with the education officer who was really keen
to be involved in some way and was going to check budgets and
timings and get back to us.
Sandwell Farm Museum
Katy visited the museum and spoke with John Stokes, who is an
archivist and historian, based there, and also responsible for
natural history of the area. He was very interested in hearing
about the project and in finding out more about the history of
Charlemont. He also said he could do a talk as part of the shop
programme. He has since been in touch with further information
about the history of the area.
For more updates also check
http://www.multistory.org.uk/blog/program-for-the-shop/ and
http://www.multistory.org.uk/blog/making-progress-in-charlemont/
public works in collaboration with Katy Beinart
first community meeting wednesday 18th Jan at 4pm
We are proposing a pop-up shop and cafe in Charlemont's row of shops, which will take place over 2 weeks in February 2012. Leading on from our previous research, the shop would have multiple functions including: an archive space for collecting and displaying artefacts and memories about the estate; holding classes and activities for adults which reflect the lost trades and knowledge of the community (and providing a space for 'local experts'; holding games nights to re-enact lost games; and generating funds through a cafe which people can then pitch for to make small local projects happen.
Flower arranging
Butcher – how to use cuts of meat and sausage making
cheese-making
bread-making
Barry – wildlife talk
using locally grown produce
re-enacting old games
other artists working in the area/with particular skills
We will design the space and furniture using reclaimed and locally sourced furniture and objects, with help from student or local volunteers.
public works is invited to take part in a workshop in the suburb of Copenhagen - as part of the preparation for a local festival in summer 2012.
Tingbjerg is a multicultural community and suburb in the
north-west part of Copenhagen. It is a small village and a
meltingpot of human experiences from all over the world meeting
Danish inhabitants in a condensed housing area builded in the 50's
as an ideal social housing project in a beautiful surrounding
landscape with approximately 6000 inhabitants.
Today, a stigmatized (and failed) version of the multicultural
society. At the same time Tingbjerg functions as a test site for
the multicultural society in its most condensed version. What we
learn in places like Tingbjerg will probably guide the future
decisionmaking of the Danish Welfare State e.g. Tingbjerg is
generally surrounded by a distorted, fear-based, prejudicial
mediation driven by ghetto terms with a public and political focus
on conflicts.
VISIT TINGBJERG – A COMMUNITY ART FESTIVAL
That's what VISIT TINGBJERG wants to discuss through an extensive
presentation of different experiences, images and stories based on
new recognitions fostered by a group of twenty contemporary artists
working in this public, socio-political art field. The title VISIT
TINGBJERG refers strongly to the Danish Official Travel Guide,
Visitdenmark (www.visitdenmark.com) and
VisitCopenhagen (www.visitcopenhagen.dk) –
official guides that focus on the good stories, the spectacular
sites, the prosporus city, the luxurious experiences. When you
arrive in the Copenhagen Airport the signs simply proclaim:
"Welcome to the land of luxury and passion".
Organised by Matthias Hvass Borello and Kenneth A. Balfelt
Matilde Martinett, who currently works with public works sent this very cool gift-drawing - worth publishing! Merry Christmas to all friends and colleagues of public works and see you again in 2012.
On Thursday 15th December form 3 - 7 pm in front of the new
firstite building in Colchester.
As part of the ongoing Colchester Inn project.
This is a first get together to find out more about who is using the space in front of the gallery. Skaters are obviously making good use of the new hard-edge landscpaing, and there is a very regular group of EMOs in one corner. We have linked up with Buffalo Jonny from Buffalo Tank to invite more members of the Colchester Skater's scene, and there will be video screenings, some mapping and lovely hot chocolate from Matt who is running the Bike Guru Cafe on the square.
Join us at 'DémocraCité' a one day symposium at l’ENSA Paris-Malaquais on Friday December 9th.
Participants include: Markus
Bader Raumlabor, Nicolas Bonnenfant et Pablo
Georgieff CoLoCo, Francesco
Careri Stalker, Santiago Cirugeda Recetas
Urbanas, Anne Debarre, Maarten Gielen Rotor,
Andreas Lang Publicworks, Caroline Maniaque, Yann
Moulier Boutang Multitudes,, Ramon
ParramonIdensitat, Constantin Petcou, AAA,
Meredith TenHoor.
Faire les territoires autrement:
Participations et expérimentations collectives
Journée d’études du département Art
Architecture Politique (AAP)
Vendredi 9 décembre 2011 de 9h00 à 18h30
Amphi 2 des Loges
entrée libre
Monrning
9h00 Accueil des participants :Nasrine Seraji AA dipl. RIBA,
directrice de l'ENSA Paris-Malaquais
9h30 Ouverture et présentation de la journée. Jac Fol AAP/ Enrico
Chapel et Thierry Mandoul
9h45 Caroline Maniaque, maître-assistante ENSA Paris-Malaquais «
Architecture et actions,
1960s : retour d'expérience »
10h15 Francesco Careri, Stalker, Rome. « Pidgin City. Une ville
métisse pour le projet indéterminé »
11h00 Constantin Petcou, Atelier d'Architecture autogérée, Paris. «
Faire rhizome »
11h30 Santiago Cirugeda, Recetas Urbanas, Séville. « Architecture
négative »
12h00 Ramon Parramon, Idensitat, Barcelone. « Cities, communities
and artistic practices »
12h30 Discussion
Afternoon
14h15 Meredith TenHoor, Princeton university, New-York. « Lieux
empruntés, espaces inventés »
14h45 Maarten Gielen, Rotor, Bruxelles. « Préoccupations... »
15h15 Yann Moulier Boutang, Multitudes, professeur des universités,
Paris « Wiki-architecture » 16h00 Markus Bader, Raumlabor, Berlin.
«Total freedom is no freedom at all?»
16h30 Andreas Lang, Publicworks, Londres. « Local cultural
production,and co-authorship »
17h00 Nicolas Bonnenfant, Pablo Georgieff, CoLoCo, Paris. « Actions
territoriales, la pioche VS Google Earth »
17h30 Anne Debarre, maître-assistante ENSA Paris-Malaquais «
Activations, acteurs, interactions »
18h00 Discussion, conclusion
Regarder autrement l’architecture et le territoire pour en saisir collectivement les potentialités, investir des objets et des espaces délaissés pour qu’ils deviennent des lieux appropriables par chacun, élaborer des projets relationnels, participatifs : telles sont les stratégies que développent depuis plus d’une décennie des collectifs qui réunissent architectes, artistes, paysagistes, urbanistes... Pour ce faire, ils se glissent dans des interstices spatiaux, réglementaires, administratifs, économiques, ils inventent des tactiques multiples et annoncent des modalités alternatives de fabrication de l’espace architectural et urbain.
Stalker propose des marches collectives dans la banlieue de Rome.L’Atelier d’architecture autogérée organise un système d’éco-interstices dans l’Est parisien pour contrecarrer la crise de la ville capitaliste.Raumlabor imagine des ateliers collectifs pour construire et tester du mobilier à Berlin, à Saint-Nazaire et dans d’autres villes. Recetas Urbanasfait une animation vidéo avec des Playmobil pour décrire le procédé constructif d’un abri sur les toits de Séville. CoLoCo imagine dans les cours anglaises du 104, centre culturel à Paris, un jardin participatif planté de graines et boutures collectées dans le quartier. Rotor développe une base de données sur les matériaux mis au rebut par plus de 200 entreprises belges.
Autant d’actions qui font d’un projet sur l’espace, le lieu d’un acte politique et qui engagent une pratique esthétique profondément démocratique. Autant d’œuvres collectives qui rejettent toutes méthodes académiques et privilégient avant tout l’expérience du terrain, l’implication dans la fabrication et l’exécution en favorisant la relation à autrui. Autant de bricolages savants qui questionnent, et enfin critiquent, l’élaboration de la ville libérale et de la société de consommation tout en envisageant des propositions éthiques relatives à l’habitation, l’écologie.
Comment interpréter ces productions à première vue insaisissables ? Se réfèrent-elles à l’art, à l’architecture, à l’activisme social des années 1960? D’où vient leur passion pour l’interactivité et les réseaux? De quels imaginaires politiques et esthétiques sont-ils porteurs ?
La journée d’études du département Art/Architecture/Politique-ENSA Paris-Malaquais veut interroger ces démarches nouvelles qui invitent les citoyens à la transformation de leurs cadres de vie.
Elle constitue le deuxième volet d’un projet démarré au printemps 2011 avec l’exposition « Urbanités inattendues » (ENSA Toulouse/AERA) et la journée d’études tenue à Toulouse à cette occasion.
Département AAP : Clotilde Barto, Anne Debarre, Xavier Dousson, Catherine Clarisse, Xavier Fabre, Jac Fol, Bertrand Lamarche, Thierry Mandoul, Caroline Maniaque, Caroline de Saint Pierre, Emmanuel Pinard, Yann Rocher, Jean-François Roullin
ARCHITECTURE OF MULTIPLE AUTHORSHIP
Opening: Thursday 1st December 2011,
Talk at 6:30pm - in Main Forum
40-44 Spring House,
Holloway Road
London N7 8JL
A collaborative project between London Metropolitan Univeristy
and public works presents a programme of events and workshops
on how architecture can become part of a progressive process of
social change and exchange, rather than an end product. We will
pose questions about where the architecture lies within this
context and our shifting roles as architects in the development of
spatial production.
Exhibition open: 1 – 9 December 2011
The exhibition illustrates the process of the development and
construction of three cultural in villages in the Indian state of
West Bengal, with each one reflection the particular local cultural
traditions and skills. The project was led by Indian NGO
Banglanatak.com, and aims to develop the unique folk art and
culture based creative industry in a way that benefits poor and
marginalised rural and tribal communities in West Bengal.
The programme of events to considers the position of architecture
in socially driven projects, and how buildings become part of the
process of cultural and educational production.
01 Dec 6:30pm, Lecture and exhibition opening - with a one evening
International Village Shop
06 Dec 1pm-2pm, “Moving In” workshop, a workshop to frame different
possibilities for the appropriation of the buildings, to host
existing needs and develop possible new programmes and activities
All students welcome, see leaflet in shop for signing in
07 Dec 10am – 1pm, Seminar: Peter Carl, Maurice Mitchell, Bo Tang,
Torange Khonsari, Julie Scott, Jonathan Karkut
09 Dec 1pm-2pm, “Moving In” workshop
The two mobile exhibition cases which normally tour with the mobile Folk Float, are currently in an exhibition on architecture and mobility in Glasgow. "Mobile Solutions" runs until the 17th December at the Mackintosh Museum at the School of Art and Design in Glasgow. That's a lot of mobility. The vitrines will come back to the Florence Mine Creative Centre in Egremont afterwards, where the Float is now at home and has its own special socket.
Installation shot by Janet Wilson.