Tuesday 21 December 2010

Public Realm projects

Collaborative working, with other artists and architects for joint tendering, for public space design including heritage and other environmentally sensitive sites: Jenny Exley Associates, Urban Designers and Chartered Landscape Architects, are looking for creative individuals or companies.

email: jenny@jennyexley.com
initial contact please do not forward images
or call 0845 347 9351

Thursday 9 December 2010

Documenting Fictions

Documenting Fictions Conference

Tuesday 5th April 2011
Lister Lecture Theatre
Bradford School of Arts and Media

Wednesday 6th April 2011
Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Bradford Media Museum

This conference, hosted by the MA Visual Arts at Bradford School of Arts and Media, is concerned with visual representation in all its forms. Abstracts are invited from academics, visual artists, photographers and film makers to contribute to this vibrant and exciting opportunity for discursive discussion. Any subject or topic can be addressed although an understanding of the politics and social responsibility of representation is assumed.

The National Portfolio Funding Programme - ACE

Launch of Programme
The National Portfolio Funding Programme aims to contribution to the creation of conditions in which great art can be made, experienced and appreciated by everyone.

The minimum annual award available is £40,000. There is no upper limit on the level of assistance provided. Supported activities could include attending an arts event, taking part in an arts activity, or creating a work of art.

Assistance is available to support a range of artforms and a range of artistic practice. Artists and arts organisations often work across and between different artform areas. The funding provider groups the organisations it funds into six artfrom areas in order to help consider its investing in different parts of the arts sector. These are: combined arts (which use multiple artforms to achieve their aims), dance, literature, music, theatre and visual arts.

Socially Responsive Design

CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts

Understanding the differences between service design, social
design and social innovation and identifying tools and methods
for designing and evaluating social change

CALL FOR PAPERS

Tuesday 7 December 2010

Cabinet: Connection and Collection: Architecture, Design and Education

17 May 2011: Cabinet: Connection and Collection: Architecture,
Design and Education
School of Architecture, Design and Environment, University of
Plymouth and Plymouth City Museum and Archives: Tuesday 17th May
2011

This event, hosted by University Plymouth, and the Design
Knowledge Research Group in partnership with Plymouth City Museum
and Archives is a one-day conference to coincide with an
exhibition in Peninsula Arts Gallery. The symposium will detail
notions of heritage, place-making, museum and university
connections.

Introduction
Is the best defence to funding cuts to accelerate the drive to
think less about museums as places where things are kept, and
more about them as places where interactive learning takes place,
playing a role in a wider civic, social and economic context? Are
we now shifting into an era where we move away from designing for
people and towards designing with people, through active
co-creation, where people are active participants in the process
rather than passive test subjects or observers? And can we go
further towards the emerging practice, towards designing by
people? How can our museums and universities facilitate this?
What can be the radical, contemporary strategies that release the
historical perspectives of the architectures of the museum and
refocus them towards different connections and how can the design
of museums and the design of experiences contribute to this?