Tilt
Enabling spaces
Thanks to all who came on Saturday. We had a full house with an amazing range of input and experience. Jude Kelly, Artistic Director of the Southbank Centre came by and was impressed with the atmosphere and energy of the room. It’s worth hearing her talk about the Festival of the World.
A sneak image preview of some data from Ask the Space, as always working brilliantly. On Thursday we’ll be looking at the rhythms of the space and exploring the day in the life. The event is full now but join the Facebook group and email us at festivalvillage@southbankcentre.co.uk if you’d like to get involved. There a lot more to come!
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For saturday’s design event at the Southbank we’ll do the activity Blind Lead amongst many others. A team directs a blindfolded participant through a scenario in the space via walkie talkie, leaving a trace of coloured string. Great at exploring spatial narrative, areas of congestion and understanding flow without the visual. It’s also great fun. Here’s a workshop we did in Sicily at the end of last summer.
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We launched the Festival Village on Wednesday with over 120 people attending. A diverse range attended, from architects and stencil artists to Southbank Volunteers and staff. If you couldn’t make it, please go here to look at the Give Get activity we did, to see what the project can offer you and what you could do in return. We’re preparing for the Co-design Day on February 18th and we’re looking forward to seeing you there. We’ll begin designing the space, looking at amongst other things the aspirations of the space, spatial narrative, and look and feel. We’ll be prototyping directly in the space too, modelling and testing activity and location. It’ll be a lot of fun.
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As London celebrates the 2012 Olympics, TILT, LYN and the Southbank Centre are inviting artists from around the UK and the world to participate and collaborate. Our new space, the Festival Village, will be at the heart of the festival. An experimental social space for the Festival of the World created through co-design and co-making. It will be a place where artists, partners, participants and staff can socialise, connect, and relax.
Please come along to the launch on the 25th January to find out how to get involved. Please follow the project on Facebook and Twitter
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To begin with, and part of the need to present an intentional space to the community we chose a series of tables to use for the workshop. A cheap foldable table, a standing table, a door on two low trestles, an old ‘executive’ desk, a table needing to be made (two old crates and a piece of plywood) and two vintage tables from the furniture workshop next door. We hoped that these choices would prompt conversations about aesthetics, procurement and working styles. It’s essential to design the setting of the workshop itself, to think intentionally through all choices, so that a community will register, even implicitly, the context of the work to come. They were asked on entry to pick a chair, then find a table to work on.
Object Call with the community in LA. The range, depth and creative thought of the choice of objects made for a elegant scene. Interesting insights for the LA context included the flat sprawling nature of the city and how this impacts the opportunities for chance encounters, or ways to incorporate both the inside and outside as working environments. The weather is of course spectacular. We’ll hopefully post video excerpts of the sessions soon. It was beautifully shot by a local filmmaker.
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It seems incredible but this is the LA river. Built like this is to help manage floods, it is none the less a very peculiar thing. It is directly behind the Hub LA and often came up in the Design Day: a simple suggestion, ‘Walk the river’. There have been plans since 2005 around revitalisation, including ‘de-paving’ the river, but as yet no action from the City. The Hub hopes to help mobilise these plans and incorporate the new spaces into the growing re-purposing of the Arts District. It is of course the place where Danny Zuko raced Grease Lightning, which is the main reason I took a picture.
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A statue on the waterside in front of the Ferry Terminal, a banal office block behind and a conflation of American ideals in one picture: the Occupy protesters were just behind the Terminal and within earshot of Ghandi, while the Terminal itself and surrounding piers are undergoing massive re-appropriation as a destination beyond transport. An project down the waterside on Pier 70 is a case in point. A way to bring life and hope to an area without succumbing to the fast buck and building faceless architecture. Ghandi says hi.
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Just back from a trip to California. Working in San Francisco and Los Angeles, with a trip down the coast on the Coast Starlight Amtrak. Of course nobody in the US takes the train, or at least not many, so the train is pleasant and easy going. Takes awhile but the views are incredible, from the mountains around the Bay Area, through Big Sur and down to the deserts around LA. After I’ve posted one or two tourist snaps I’ll show some of the work we did!
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Very honoured to deliver a keynote at the second coworking conference. In just the last year the number of coworking spaces has doubled, and the trend looks set to continue. We’ve been lucky to be a part of it from the beginning and were hugely impressed with everyone at the conference, 250 people from 27 countries, all with amazing stories to tell. We ran a design workshop too and the results will be up on the blog and also as an article to download at Deskmag. Will let everyone know when that happens. That’s a few of us below the Brandenburg Gate on our last night in Berlin.
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The recent TEDx EastEnd event was titled ‘Society without Borders’ and we had the honour of taking part. The scope of co-design is ever growing and being a part of an event like this is exciting. We’re real believers in the need to cross disciplines and approaches to solve the issues of our day. Would be very interested to hear what people think.
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