Building Cultures: Can Artists Make Great Places?

Building Cultures: Can Artists Make Great Places?

Thursday, 20th September 2007, Official London Design Festival and Urban Design Week 2007 event.

Venue: Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1

Further information http://www.artandarchitecturejournal.com/

Online Booking www.lcace.org.uk/events/

Bookings: £135 Professional Delegate Rate (includes annual subscription to the Art&Architecture Journal) £95 Concessions 9.30am-5pm

Creativity, Culture and Change are the themes of a one-day conference on leading regeneration projects through art and creativity with a focus on the mega-development at Kings Cross. The event will include presentations of Artists for Places - a partnership between CABE, A&B and Arts Council England; an evaluation by Comedia on the PROJECT scheme to support public art strategies embedded within the planning system; an open forum with key speakers on art, architecture, landscape and planning, debating the role of art and cultural activity within the design of the built environment.

The conference is targeted at public art officers, artists, community development officers, urban designers, property developers, planners, architects, town centre managers, economic development officers, regeneration managers and policy makers. The event is being organised with the supported of Arts and Business, Create KX, London Borough of Camden, Art in the Open, LCACE (London Centre for Arts and Cultural Enterprise), Axis, IXIA (Public Art Think Tank), PASW (Public Art South West) and RUDI (Resource for Urban Design Information).

Friday, 21st September 2007, 10am to 4pm: GUIDED TOUR: Building Cultures Urban Walkabout. Venue: Camden Centre, Bidborough Street, London WC1 Bookings: £15 includes the walkabout, seminar and lunch developing out of Building Cultures: Can Artists Make Great Places?

Create KX and LCACE with the support of London Borough of Camden, invite you to explore the past present and future of public art strategies for Central London's biggest redevelopment in over a hundred years. Make a choice of two guided tours around Kings's Cross or along the Euston Road charting previous public realm commissions and interventions and revealing the physical and social landscape within which the new art and cultural activity will be sited. Followed by lunch, discussion and debate drawing together the themes of the conference with the issues and opportunities arising in King's Cross.