V&A Museum and other venues in London
17 – 25 September 2011
The London Design Festival is a city-wide celebration of design that takes place over nine days. There is a broad range of activities on offer, most of which are free to enter. Events taking place during the festival cover graphic design, furniture, interiors, fashion, and other design areas.
To find out more, please see the festival website.
Design Museum, London SE1 2YD
24 August 2011 – 22 January 2012
This is Design is a celebration of the Design Museum’s Collection, examining the impact of design on the modern world, exploring the consequences of design and how it shapes our lives and contemporary culture.
Prototypes, drawings, couture samples, models, first editions and finished industrial objects will be on display, including highlights such as the original Mini and the Moulton bicycle, large scale architectural models like Norman Foster’s HSBC Bank headquarters in Hong Kong, UK road signs and an Anglepoise lamp.
Find out more on the Design Museum website.
Close to the Edge: Strategies and Speculations for the South East Coast
We hope that you will be able to join us for our exhibition ‘Close to the Edge’ featuring design projects by Graduate Diploma Architecture students from UCA Canterbury.
The show is part of the Folkestone Triennial and occupies a shop space at 59 Tontine Street in Folkestone’s Creative Quarter.
Open to the Press: Friday 24th June from 10am
Open to the Public: Saturday 25th June from 11am
Exhibited work will continue to be displayed in the shop windows thereafter
The lecture will be held at the Cragg Lecture Theatre, UCA Canterbury on Thursday 24 February at 6pm
Will Alsop is one of the UK’s most prominent architects and a recipient of the Stirling Prize who has applied his bold and colourful approach to award-winning projects internationally across all sectors.
Will is guided by the principle that architecture is both a vehicle and symbol of social change and renewal. This philosophy extends from the design of individual buildings to embracing broader principles of urbanism and city development. He has expertise across every sector, including transportation, health, education, retail, residential, office, public, hospitality, leisure and interiors.
In addition to his design work, Will follows a parallel path as an artist. His stance is that art and architecture are inseparable disciplines and he actively promotes artistic contribution to the built environment. His paintings and sketches have been exhibited at Sir John Soane’s Museum, Milton Keynes Gallery, Cube Gallery, Manchester and the British Pavilion at Venice Biennale
Deadline: February 18, 2011
The competition is open to anyone who is currently studying communication design, product design, architecture, interaction design or film at a university or a college is eligible to participate. Students who have graduated within the last 12 months may also submit final degree works.
All projects submitted to the : output competition will be eligible for the : output Grand Prix of 3,000 Euro.
More information about the competition is available on the : output competition website.
Deadline: 5pm on Monday 11 October 2010
Click on image for competition photostream
There are 35 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England. But 90% of us live in towns and cities and most people rarely get out and visit them. So CABE is supporting a photo competition to find ‘Areas of Outstanding Urban Beauty’.
The idea is to focus attention on the quality of urban areas and to find out what people love about the places where they live. You’re invited to take a picture. Write a few lines. And submit an entry. It could be a single building, a cityscape, a park or a detail like a paving stone. It needs to be in an English town, city or village. It must be somewhere that is beautiful to you.
More information about the competition is available on CABE’s website.
Sat 11 Sep 2010, 10.00 – 17.30
A day of presentations, screenings and discussion exploring the contemporary cultural mapping of Britain by leading writers, artists and film-makers. Whether through actual cartographic documentation, associative topographic readings or layered excavations of the multiple realities of place, artists have been at the forefront of re-imagining the possibilities of the islands we inhabit. Through encounters with these visual / literary ‘mindmaps’, and the expanded territories they propose, imagined realities often equally as compelling as the sites they draw from, the power – and limits – of mapping will be proposed and celebrated.
Coming Out of the Woodwork
Thursday 2nd September 2010 6.30pm – 9.30pm
Exhibition Open : Fri-Sun / 1-5pm until Sunday 19th September
Artist Talk : Saturday 18th September 2pm
Coming Out of the Woodwork will bring together three artists who similarly identify with the exploration of architectural space in its formation and perception as a key component to their practice. The Nunnery, as a gallery space and its associated architecture, will be entirely reformed through a series of installations and constructions. Each artist approaches new ways of engaging the viewer beyond a ‘static’ looking experience; encouraging the physicality of experience through their work.
The Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust, 183 Bow Road , London , E3 2SJ
£500 prize!
Enter by 31st May 2010
The Art of Building photography competition is an international showcase for the very best digital photography of the built environment. It is open to both professional and amateur photographers. Entrants are encouraged to capture the built environment in a way not seen before, to inspire others and to challenge people’s perceptions. The imagery should be original and thought provoking.
To enter, please visit the Chartered Institute of Building website.
Wirksworth Festival 2010
10-26 Sept 2010
Proposal deadline 22 March, 2010
Thematically Wirksworth Festival will continue to explore the relationship between Art & Architecture, and over the next three years we want to explore the nature, meanings and uses (past, present, actual and potential) of buildings | indoor and outdoor space | public and private space in a number of ways:
1. Pavilion Programme. A call to architects and designers interested in proposing a temporary structure (a Pavilion) for Wirksworth.
2. [Im]Possible Wirksworth: An inventory of unrealised ideas. The Pavilion will contain concept designs, fly-through graphics, maquettes etc, from architects, designers, artists, proposing exciting and radical new buildings, remodelling of existing buildings, uses of unusual and problematic sites, etc…
Some of these projects may be realised as part of the commissioned programme.
3. Site-specific/Site-responsive commissions. This will be complemented by extending the site-specific and site-responsive art commissioning programme, so we are now seeking proposals for interventions in spaces in the town, whether sculptural, architectural, projected (including film, interactive work and 3D motion graphics) or performative.
4. Film and Moving Image. A new strand to the Festival is film/artists’ film and video, with an architecture themed short film salon for 2010, and the potential for projection works which interact with, intervene in or respond to architecture.
http://www.wirksworthfestival.co.uk/home/trails/proposals-2010/
Wirksworth Festival
39 St Johns St, Wirksworth
Derbyshire, DE4 4DS
