HOXTON PARK PICNIC- Agents of Change

25.7.08 Picnic Hoxton Park




debating/exploring issues relating to practice in the public realm




with Geof, Tom and Daisy from AOC (Agents of Change) architects, urbanists and interpreters..

and Lucy also an architect with an interest in environment and sustainability... Artful Ecologies

HASTINGS - Claremont Studios

Elise then took us to Claremont Studios where we met artists Sharan Haward and Esther Appleyard .

An warm and friendly space with a mix artists, illustrators and others that feels independent and experimental.

We finished the day with a quick visit to the sea for the inland dwellers. edges and centres.

HASTINGS - onetwoone

22.7.08 We met Elise Liversedge and Mary Hooper from ONE TWO ONE. They combine disciplines of architecture, site-specific art, urban and landscape design to develop projects and interventions within the built environment and have an extended members network.

One of the projects that really interested us was Ore Valley . Elise and Mary shared the experiences - benefits and challenges - of working really long term, of developing projects with a community.

manifesto of possibilities

Last week (13.6.08) we met Cameron Cartiere at Birkbeck College. A fascinating room of books, birds and conversation, on a shelf the words = There is no place like here = The chrome letters on black, 2.5" x 6" by Seyed Alavi (1997) close by the tube timetables.

manifesto of possibilities

first meeting

On Wednesday 28th May we had our first meeting at the Royal Festival Hall, London.

some words from conversation:

expectations of art created - interventions environment place

mixing up architects artists – subtle things

ways to get outside .

temporary, game of processes turning the processes on the commissioners

diversity of people working, concerns of formula

conceptual intervention artist
people have to be looking, how people interact with space
re: engaging with environment
ground/standing apart

figure ground - seen unseen - lines as landscape interface - intersection

humanising non place – touch lived in
people play dream engage consciousness
perception shifting

humanity in public
feeling your way through work with environment

rules embedded in commissioning structures.
Intuiting the environment

Indepth relation with place

Can things be overcurated – how to find the art