The Sensing Place symposium was a 3-day event launching our public realm programme, and brought together thinkers, collaborators, artists and members of the community to our new site to discuss and develop dialogue for the design brief and blueprint processes for 24 Guildhall Road. Contributors presented their projects, provocations and processes, in dialogue with our design team and partnership stakeholders.
This event was also an opportunity to view phase 1 capital works and opened up the design process for phase 2. More information about 24 Guildhall Road can be found here.
Morning
Tour of 24 Guildhall Road
Talk: Sean Griffiths: designing public spaces as an independent artist and the founder of FAT Architecture. As the architect advisor for the 24 Guildhall Road capital project, Sean spoke about the vision for the new NN location.
Panel: Community Building and Public Realm with Akil Scafe-Smith (Resolve), Nephertiti Oboshie Schandorf (Peckham Platform) & Moira Lascelles (Up Projects)
Lunch and film screening, courtesy of Sébastien Thiéry (PEROU). Generously loaned by FRAC Franche-Comté.
Afternoon
Talk: Marie Bak Mortensen (Create London)
Panel: Food, Soil, Sustainability & Art Organisations with Grand Union, Colaboratory Kitchen, & Pollinaria
Panel on Food, Soil, Sustainability & Art Organisations
Panel on Community Building & Public Realm
Images courtesy of Tara Florence.