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: Spatial Practices in Art & Architecture for Empathetic Exchange, with SpaceX Researchers Alex Parry & Ryan Hughes

Panel: Touring Exhibitions, Itinerancy & The Regions, with Roger Malbert (former Head of Hayward Gallery Touring) & Gareth Bell-Jones (Director and Curator of Flat Time House) & Angelica Sule (Director of Programme Site Gallery)

Lunch and film screening, courtesy of Sébastien Thiéry (PEROU). Generously loaned by FRAC Franche-Comté.

Afternoon

Presentation & Conversation: Activism, Performance & Methods of Re-Defining Public Space with Dylan Fox (Artist) & Haley Morris-Cafiero (Artist and Researcher at the University of Northampton)

Images courtesy of Tara Florence.