CITY TO SEA SYMPOSIUM - AND WORKSHOPS IN COASTAL TOWNS

City to Sea Symposium

10th June 2011
Screening Room
New Academic Building
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
United Kingdom

City to Sea brings together artists, photographers and social scientists to present
visual projects and sociological research exploring how regeneration and planning processes, tourism, migration, collective memory, visual archives and arts interventions can transform social perceptions and geographical links between cities, coastal towns and surrounding regions worldwide.

Keynote:
Peter Marlow, Magnum Photos

Speakers include:
Sylvia Endacott, Anna Fox, Caroline Knowles, Paul Halliday, Rebecca Locke,
David Kendall, Lanis Levy, Ingrid Pollard and Isidro Ramirez.

Attendance at the symposium is free but spaces are limited and booking
is essential. To book your place, please email: cucr@gold.ac.uk

In addition, a series of photographic walks/workshops will take place in coastal
towns in South East England including Bognor Regis, 11.06.2011, Hastings,
23.07.2011, Margate, 06.08.2011 and Southend, 17.09.2011. There will be
a fee to attend workshops, please visit: http://www.citytosea.org/Workshops
for reservations.

City to Sea is hosted by the Centre for Urban and Community Research,
Goldsmiths, University of London: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cucr

Curated by Rebecca Locke and David Kendall, and supported
by Urban Encounters: http:// http://www.urbanencounters.org

http://www.citytosea.org

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Covering the Lecture W.Alsop

Here is a quick "report" of the lecture this thursday 24th Feb, 6pm with Will Alsop

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OMA – CRONOCAOS @ ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS

Preservation / Destruction: OMA – CRONOCAOS

In their 2010 Venice Biennale installation, Rem Koolhaas’ OMA addressed the growing concern for preservation and its consequences for how and what we remember. “Through our respect for the past, heritage is becoming more and more the dominant metaphor for our lives today – a situation we call cronocaos. We are trying to find what the future of our memory will look like”. Ippolito Pestellini and Kayoko Otaof OMA discuss the provocations and implications of preservation, exploring how “our obsession with heritage is creating an artificial re-engineered version of our memory…”

Respondents include Simon Thurley, Chief Executive of English Heritage, and the artists,Jane and Louise Wilson.

6.30–8pm; followed by a drink

Ticket Information

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WILL ALSOP @ CSA 24FEB

WORKING IN THE DARK
A multistory lecture by Prof Will Alsop OBE RA

6pm Thursday 24 February
Cragg Lecture Theatre. UCA Canterbury

Will Alsop is one of the UK’s most prominent architects and a recipient of the Stirling Prize who has applied his bold and colourful approach to award-winning projects internationally across all sectors.

Widely regarded as one of the leading lights in the profession, Will joined RMJM in 2009 as International Principal Europe and is Design Principal at RMJM’s flagship European office in London.

He has won many awards internationally, including the coveted Stirling Prize in 2000 for the Peckham Library in London and the Royal Fine Art Commission Building of the Year Special Award for Fawood Children’s Centre in London, which was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize in 2005.

Will is guided by the principle that architecture is both a vehicle and symbol of social change and renewal. This philosophy extends from the design of individual buildings to embracing broader principles of urbanism and city development. He has expertise across every sector, including transportation, health, education, retail, residential, office, public, hospitality, leisure and interiors.

Will has worked extensively across the UK and internationally, with major projects in cities such as Toronto, Marseilles, Hamburg, Shanghai, Singapore and New York. Recent projects in the UK include the Chips apartments in Manchester, The Public, an exhibition space in West Bromwich, and the Puddle Dock luxury hotel development on the north bank of the River Thames.

In addition to his design work, Will follows a parallel path as an artist. His stance is that art and architecture are inseparable disciplines and he actively promotes artistic contribution to the built environment. His paintings and sketches have been exhibited at Sir John Soane’s Museum, Milton Keynes Gallery, Cube Gallery, Manchester and the British Pavilion at Venice Biennale.

Will has held many academic posts around the world. He is currently a professor at the Technical University of Vienna. For several years he was a tutor of sculpture at Central St Martins College of Art & Design in London and was visiting professor at institutions including the University of Hanover, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and San Francisco Institute of Art.

Will is a Royal Academician and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada.

JUST TO REMEMBER LAST YEAR ISSUES , DONT TAKE IT PERSONAL , IT IS JUST 5MIN AWAY FROM COOPCOAST (MAIN) REALM

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The John K. Branner Traveling Fellowship, awarded each year to three masters of architecture students in their final year at the University of California, Berkeley, gives recipients the opportunity to travel the world for twelve months in pursuit of architectural inquiries that will later inform their theses.

This is one of many ways to ALSO promote the university. To be concerned

IS PRESERVATION, INERTIA?

Call to Account! A case for active preservation

An op-ed from Barcelona by Mario Ballesteros @ DOMUS magazine

Is preservation really inertia as Koolhaas maintains? Perhaps it's time that architects take on the task of giving life to innovative prospects for the reinterpretation of the past

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Metamorphosis

The architecture is that... a state of mind.

Christmas Holidays and the Productive Distraction

ARCHINECT - School Blog Project

Material Stacks

Walt Disney's Magic Highway, 1958

10 EU Countries Pledge to Create North Sea Renewable Energy Grid

The North Sea is already home to the world’s largest offshore wind farm, but its seems the sea is about to get even greener as ten EU countries have signed a memorandum to develop an international offshore energy grid. The memorandum saw Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom pledge to combine renewable wind energy sources in the sea. The grid, which would become fully operational in 2020, would allow the EU countries to share renewable electricity throughout the continent and the British Isles.

The ten countries have pledged to work together to identify and to overcome the regulatory, legal, market, planning, and technical issues that will come with creating the North Sea grid. At the center of the North Sea Grid is Scotland, whose experience with offshore grids and the award-winning ISLES project (Irish Scottish Links on Energy Study) makes it the ideal country to headline the grid project.

from inhabitat follow link for report

After looking at caravan sites I was intrigued
by the temporality of the sites. Each site has
its differences in terms of size and layout.
The differences in the number of permanent
caravans and temporary caravans also makes
each site unique.

After visiting a site I was also intrigued by the
the way that most caravan owners were keen
to make their caravans different to others by
changing some of the things on it.
This has lead me to want to explore the idea
of plug-in Architecture.

'Toy Town'

Port City

The UK is predominated by seaside.  It produces much of the country's wealth and in one way or another, affects every non-domestic relationship and transaction that takes place on the Islands that make it up...  Those areas which would appear to benefit most from the maritime necessities of such a place are often those most by-passed with regard the commerce of international trade and shipping.  The proximity of people to the coast often has a diametric effect to that which one might expect - coastal towns are frequently left below average for UK income and life-expectancy, especially with the reduction in industrial endeavours in such places.  Conversely, ports and their governing authorities (often in direct impingement of their 'namesakes') can have multi-million pound turnovers and incredibly high commercial value.

 

The below images are an exercise in mapping the energy production that affects the coastal towns in question.

My aims within the context of co-op coast are to investigate and discuss the relationship between ports, their authorities and needs, with those of the towns they are attached to.  Focussing on the 'Channel' ports, the investigation will produce mappings, diagrams and eventually a proposal in built form based on the relationship that is uncovered.

Dover Territorial Analysis

The borders and controllers of territories within dover harbour highlighted a series of boundaries that often resulted in blunt divides. These Divides were investigated through section and with photography to reveal their scale and materiality, can a port ever truly engage with other programmes or the public realm, or are the strict drawn territory lines paramount to its functioning and security?

The main port of dover or fortress of dover was photographed at night in a attempt to reveal its true nature, this being a regulated platform of intense movement.

Folkestone Harbour Regeneration

Inspired by the elegance and continuity of the railway line, where once there was life and movement, vital part in urban infrastructure, the project seeks to find a new place for industrial liaison transforming it into a moment of post-industrial laser.

A sequence of episodic and varied public spaces. Landscapes arranged along a single line but in the same way very consistent. The link between Folkestone town with the seafront, one of the richest region of Kent coast.