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PARKED ART: DESIGNING ART FOR COMMON SPACE
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 Parked Art Seminar held at The Design Museum, London | Parked Art: Designing Art for Common Space
July 18, 2008 Design Museum, London
Parked Art was a one day discussion forum exploring the possibilities for temporary public art projects, the relationship between art and architecture, and the social and environmental value that art can create for public spaces. It generated inclusive dialogue and discussion from an interdisciplinary audience who share the responsibilities for shaping our public realm as physical and social spaces. Speakers and audience included artists; curators and commissioners; local authority officers from parks & green spaces, culture & arts, and planning & regeneration; biodiversity specialists and ecologists; anthropologists; students; funders; the press & media.
Parked Art was chaired by Fred Manson OBE, Associate Director of Thomas Heatherwick Studio, and an expert in urban regeneration known for his rigorous and challenging views on the cultural, social and economic impact art can bring to public spaces. Speakers included Emma Underhill, UP Projects Director and Curator of Portavilion, Amanda Smethurst, Arts Service Manager Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Nick Biddle, Head of Regents Park, Louise Trodden, Head of Art in the Open, artist and architect collective publicworks, Jes Fernie, writer and curator, Tony Beckwith, Creative Development Director for Gunpowder Park and Tracey McNulty, Arts and Culture Development for Barking and Dagenham.
Parked Art was produced by UP Projects in partnership with the Design Museum, The Art of Common Space, a Gunpowder Park project and is hosted by London Parks and Green Spaces Forum at City Hall. |
For further details of the Symposium:
Agenda July 18 2008, Design Museum, London
|  Download |  Fred Mason, chairing the Parked Art Symposium.
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