Friday Sessions are informal talks and presentations hosted by public works on Friday evenings with invited guests and friends.
This Friday Session will be about shops.
Shops/Stalls as a format are increasingly used by artists/activists/architects/neighbourhood initiatives etc. to circulate products with a particular locality and the knowledge attached.
More information on contributors to be published soon.
The Friday Session coincides with a number of launch events to mark the new International Village Shop website.
Friday Session will return after the summer break when everyone is back from the beach.
Lise Autogena has been involved in setting up a new new mooring on the Thames in London, then refurbished a boat in Rotterdam to bring it over to London, and she is back now. We are looking forward seeing Lise again and listening to a truely amazing story.
Join us for food and drinks from 19.00 at our studio on 1-5 Vyner Street.
From an e mail from Lise recently:
Dear all
I have now finally arrived at Tower Bridge with Zeldenrust III, after the most fantastic journey through Holland, Belgium and finally across the sea and into the Thames Estuary, to my new mooring right in front of Tower Bridge. We left Rotterdam on the 21st March and arrived in London early Saturday morning on the 10th April, having waited for a quiet sea in Belgium for two weeks. A huge rainbow saluted us before leaving Belgium, and a group of dolphins accompanied us the whole way across the sea. Apart from Martin's jokes, it was a truly magical crossing across a calm sun-filled sea, and we sailed into London as the morning haze lifted from the Thames and daylight broke over London. It was a truly magical climax after three years of ship building and six years of dreaming of a new mooring in London.
Lise
With presentations by
Nina Pope from Somewhere on What Will the Harvest Be? at Abbey Gardens in Stratford
Celine Condorelli talking about Commons and things in common
Cristina Cerulli, University of Sheffield and Studio Polpo, about the Crookes-Walkley Transition Group in Sheffield
Nolwenn Marchand from aaa on Le 56 ECOintersice in Paris
Followed by discussion, food and drinks.
On Friday 16th March at 19.00
public works studio
1-5 Vyner Street
London E2 9DG
The Friday Session takes place alongside a RHYZOM workshop organised by public works and Somewhere for Abbey Gardens. The idea for the workshop is to brainstorm and develop new objects/items/goods that derive from the context of Abbey Gardens a collective urban food growing site. The brief is open and will be developed collectively and in reference to specific aspects of Abbey Gardens, such as collective gardening and harvesting, urban food production, social and historical aspects of the site, etc. The aim for the two day workshop is to develop a brief for one or a number of new products, and if possible, to assemble first prototypes. The new items can be anything: from food or tools to plants or processes and of a real or digital nature.
The products may later be used at Abbey Gardens and distributed locally through the Abbey Gardens' new honesty box and mobile stall. The honesty box is part of a wider network of cultural trading activities called the International Village Shop, where the new products for Abbey Gardens can become part of a growing collection of locally informed and produced goods.
Join Polly Brannan from public works and members of the Kings Cross community in a local group walk around King's Cross on SUNDAY 14TH MARCH AT 2PM. The walk will revisit areas of Kings Cross (mainly Somerstown) which feature in the DIY REGENERATION project by public works which took place over the Summer of 2009 as part of the 'Junction' programme at Camden Arts Centre.
Visiting local cafes for tea stops, local initiatives and
meeting residents who run the Somerstown Festival will give you the
opportunity to find out what is going on in the area from a local
perspective. As we walk we will fly poster the DIY tips which were
collected during the summer residency in and around Kings Cross.
Get your blu-tac ready and eyes open!
We will meet outside the café 'Albertini's' on 20 Chalton
Street, NW1 1JH
(5 mins from British Library)
To reserve a place email POLLY polly@publicworksgroup.net
MAP FOR MEETING SPOT: http://www.qype.co.uk/place/399299-Albertini-London
We've moved into our new studio more than a year ago.
We finally will go live with our new public works
website.
The year is still young enough to have new year's
drinks!
Join us for a get-together on Friday 5th February from
19.00 at our studio
at 1-5 Vyner Street, London E2 9DG
We started to organise Friday Sessions in our former studio on Scrutton Street in March 2006.
Since 2009 we have moved the sessions out of the studio and into spaces and situations where we work/want to visit/collaborate with.
Friday Sessions have been started by Anne and Thorsten from 2610 South Architects in Johannesburg, where public works was invited in 2005 to give a Friday Session.
Drawing by Thorsten Deckler of a typical Friday Session in Johannesburg
Join us on a visit to Department 21 for a roundtable discussion about cross-disciplinary practice led by public works with guests Celine Condorelli (London-based architect and author of 'support structures'), Richard Wentworth (Head of Sculpture, RCA) and Sarah Teasley (design historian and RCA History of Design)
Department 21 is a temporary, physical space established by students of the RCA as an experiment in interdisciplinary practice.
Temporarily taking over a vacated space in the Royal College of Art, Department 21 seeks to explore whether this territory, freed by the departure of one department and the anticipation of another, can become a new kind of conceptual, physical and social space which test the possibilities of a cross-disciplinary initiative.
For one month only, students from all departments of the College are invited to use this platform to develop independent work and cultivate collaborative projects in a multi-purpose environment.
The Round table discussion will look at the nature of initiatives originating from within institutional settings and the potential of cross-disciplinarity within educational institutions such as the RCA.
The event will run from 1pm this Friday the 4th of December 2009
in Lecture Theater 2 at the
RCA. Visitors to the RCA can enter from the main entrance,
which looks onto the Royal Albert Hall and follow the signs guiding
visitors to Lecture Theater 2.
Click here to find the location on google maps
The next Friday Session will take place at Coniston Sports and
Social Centre
Shepherds Bridge, Coniston, Cumbria.
As part of a fieldtrip to Grizedale Arts/Lawson Park which is
organised in conjunction with a new pan-european collective
research project, RHYZOM.
With short presentations by the different RHYZOM partners and guests, to introduce themselves and showing work related to local production.
Sarah Hunt from atelier d'archicture
autogérée, Paris
Wapke Feenstra and Antje Schiffers from myvillages.org, Rotterdam/Berlin
Kathrin Böhm from public works, London
Tatjana Schneider and Florian Kossak from Agency, Sheffield
Bryony Reid and Fiona Woods from PS2, Belfast
Craig Sands, Belfast
Celine Condorelli, support structure, London
Dorian Moore, London
With pies from Pott's Pies in Lancaster and drinks at the bar.
Please join us for a FRIDAY SESSION on
Friday 18th Sep from 19.00 to 20.30 at the
South London
Gallery (SLG), 65 Peckham Road, London SE5.
As part of our current project "today's extension" for SLG's "Beyond These Walls" exhibition, public works is running a Friday Session on the subject of gallery extensions.
While the past decade has seen a marked increase in off-site, community-based and outreach projects - the non-gallery based work of art galleries - numerous building projects have enlarged the architectural space of the galleries themselves. This Friday Session looks at the current and possible relationship between those two forms of extension.
The panel includes Margot Heller and Frances Williams, SLG, Andrea Philips, Goldsmiths College, Natasha Vicars, Whitechapel Gallery, Kathrin Böhm and Andreas Lang from public works.
public works will continue their mapping of SLG's various extensions in 2010, alongside public events and debates to frame the concept of such extended extensions.
