Public Art In The City is a three-part workshop and lecture program that examines the relationship between designers and visual artists and the politics of intervening in the city. The series will offer students and the public hands-on engagement with methods of intervention and critical debates about how the agency to transform the public realm is seized by artists, architects, curators, critics, and public sector actors. Through two workshops led by Assemble Studio of London and Flint Public Art Project, and a lecture by Nato Thompson, Artistic Director of Creative Time, this program offers a laboratory to ask how are agendas set within public art practice and how these agendas influence competing visions of the contemporary city.
Workshop: Intervening – Register here
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Room 122
Anthony Engi Meacock and Paloma Strelitz of Assemble Studio, London, UK
Introduction by Geeta Pradhan, President of the Cambridge Community Foundation and GSD Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design
Engage with Assemble Studio in a place-making experiment that will examine the users and uses of Harvard Square.
Limited to 25 participants
Talk-shop: Agendas Register here
Thursday, April 20, 2017
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Stubbins Room
Anthony Engi Meacock and Paloma Strelitz of Assemble Studio, London, UK
Stephen Zacks and Sandra Branch of Flint Public Art Project, Flint, Michigan
Faculty Moderators: Max Kuo, Design Critic in Architecture, and Sergio Lopez Pineiro, Lecturer in Landscape Architecture
Participate in a case-study discussion with Assemble Studio and the Flint Public Art Project – who will take us behind the scenes of their design processes and introduce the communities with whom they work.
Limited to 25 participants
Lecture: Nato Thompson
Thursday, April 20, 2017
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Piper Auditorium, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Nato Thompson, Artistic Director of Creative Time, New York, NY
With a response by Stephen Zacks of Flint Public Art Project and Anthony Engi Meacock and Paloma Strelitz of Assemble Studio
Nato Thompson will present a decade of curated projects, exhibitions, writing, and public interventions with the New York City arts organization Creative Time.
Free and open to the public.
LOCATION:10am - 12 noon, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20170419T040000Z DTEND:20170419T040000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR