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Connect. Explore. Create
What is it? A major eight-month project bringing together communities, artists, architects and urban planners. Your chance to engage with the development of your city - starting now!
Who is this for: You! Internationally-minded citizens, artists, city officials and planners, property developers and other corporations and enterprises, art lovers, young creative entrepreneurs, urban activists and everybody interested in the urban environment.
When and where is it?
Forum: 24–27 March 2009 at the prestigious Chongqing Urban Planning Exhibition Gallery
Online: launched on 27 March at http://cq.qq.com/tps/
Art Works: from September 2009
How to get involved?
Register your details here.
Two Day Conference:
Chinese speakers:
Feng Guochuan – artist and urban designer from Shenzhen
Wu Chao – Assistant Director of Benoy, member of ARB and RIBA
Zhou Yingzi - Chief Curator of the Shanghai eArts Festival, member of Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation.
UK speakers:
Tom Wexler – new media artist and producer
Stella Hall – international artistic director and producer Culture10
Joshua Bolchover – arts curator, urban researcher and architectural designer
Wiard Sterk – artist and Executive Director of Safle, a public art consultancy in Wales
Facilitator:
Richard Sobey – artist and CEO of IOU well known internationally for innovative collaborations in public spaces
Zhu Ye – Executive Editor of ‘Urban China’, Idie Artist, curator.
Discussion looked at a range of practice and issues surrounding the theme and aimed to identify ways to engage more people in the development of the spaces in which we live and work. This included: UK and Chinese examples of arts activity and festivals activity and impact on city spaces, economies and international profile; ways to involve communities and provide access to the way cities are shaped; an exploration of the practicalities of presenting arts in public spaces; and issues related to Chongqing itself.
A closed practical session saw UK and Chinese practitioners explore four public sites in Chongqing to demonstrate the potential arts activity and benefits that could be realised. The ideas were presented at the Forum for discussion.
Online Activities and Debate:
The urban evolution heads online. You can dive into the debate or upload your images of a city in transformation. Ask the experts or just let them know what you think.
Get involved now! Find out what happened at the Forum. Upload your images of city spaces in transformation! Engage in debate with international practitioners! A variety of activities are available to help you express your opinions and talk with others!
Presentation of art works:
A major art work will be presented in Chongqing in November 2009, launching a series of activities developed from the projects activities.
More Information:
Transforming Public Spaces (TPS) is a six-month collaborative programme bring together artists from both China and the UK with Chinese architects, urban planners and designers. The project aims to increase awareness of the issues and opportunities that exist in the development of public spaces and cities in general. A key element of this is the consideration of the role that art can play in shaping cities by transforming public spaces and thereby improving the quality of urban life.
This project aims is to:
- engage communities with the development of their cities
- build bridges between artists and creative entrepreneurs from the UK and China
- demonstrate the positive influence of the creative industries of the UK and China
- strengthen the engagement of creative entrepreneurs, artists and urban planners within the city.
Get involved! Click here for more.
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