EVENTS
Upcoming events
Monday 23rd November: Woolwich Film Premiere and Photographic Exhibition.
4-5.30pm.
Greenwich Inclusion Project
2nd Floor Royal Sovereign House
Beresford Street
Woolwich, London
SE18 6BF
Tuesday 24th November: Benches for Everyone: Solitude in Public, Sociability for Free
The Young Foundation lunchtime seminar.
1-2pm.
The Young Foundation, 18 Victoria Park Square, E2 9PF
More information and booking
Tuesday 8th December: Research Seminar 'Benches for Social Inclusion'.
1-2pm.
Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield.
Floor 11, Arts Tower, Sheffield.
Recent Events
Friday 6th November: In Place of Architecture Symposium
To coincide with the In Place of Architecture exhibition at Bonington Gallery from the 6 November - 11 December, this symposium brings together photographers, filmmakers, and writers on photography and architecture to examine the role that photography and moving image play in our contemporary interpretation, perception and understanding of the architectural environment.
Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University.
Tues 10th November: Sutton Film Premiere
6.00 – 7.30 pm
Green Wrythe Primary
Wed 11th November: Michael Young Centenary Conference
Social Innovation: Tackling Inequality in the 21st Century
The day will bring together insights and ideas from thinkers and doers from across the social innovation and equality movements. We will launch our policy report: "Benches for Everyone: solitude in public, sociability for free"
10am - 5pm. Barbican Conference Centre, 1 Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS.
Monday 16th November: Bench-space: The delicate art of sitting outside
Landscape Institute free evening event.
The Landscape Institute is delighted to be co-hosting a seminar with the University of Sheffield presenting findings from a research project into urban benches. 'The Bench Project' explores who actually uses them and why, the relationship between the design and sitting of benches and the sociability of outdoor spaces. Includes film screening.
6:30 to 8:30pm
At Marshalls: Marshalls Design Space, Unit 4 Compton Courtyard, EC1V 0BD.
4-5.30pm.
Greenwich Inclusion Project
2nd Floor Royal Sovereign House
Beresford Street
Woolwich, London
SE18 6BF
Tuesday 24th November: Benches for Everyone: Solitude in Public, Sociability for Free
The Young Foundation lunchtime seminar.
1-2pm.
The Young Foundation, 18 Victoria Park Square, E2 9PF
More information and booking
Tuesday 8th December: Research Seminar 'Benches for Social Inclusion'.
1-2pm.
Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield.
Floor 11, Arts Tower, Sheffield.
Recent Events
Friday 6th November: In Place of Architecture Symposium
To coincide with the In Place of Architecture exhibition at Bonington Gallery from the 6 November - 11 December, this symposium brings together photographers, filmmakers, and writers on photography and architecture to examine the role that photography and moving image play in our contemporary interpretation, perception and understanding of the architectural environment.
Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University.
Tues 10th November: Sutton Film Premiere
6.00 – 7.30 pm
Green Wrythe Primary
Wed 11th November: Michael Young Centenary Conference
Social Innovation: Tackling Inequality in the 21st Century
The day will bring together insights and ideas from thinkers and doers from across the social innovation and equality movements. We will launch our policy report: "Benches for Everyone: solitude in public, sociability for free"
10am - 5pm. Barbican Conference Centre, 1 Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS.
Monday 16th November: Bench-space: The delicate art of sitting outside
Landscape Institute free evening event.
The Landscape Institute is delighted to be co-hosting a seminar with the University of Sheffield presenting findings from a research project into urban benches. 'The Bench Project' explores who actually uses them and why, the relationship between the design and sitting of benches and the sociability of outdoor spaces. Includes film screening.
6:30 to 8:30pm
At Marshalls: Marshalls Design Space, Unit 4 Compton Courtyard, EC1V 0BD.
Saturday 19th September:
Bench Viewing in Open House London
Please join us for our Open House London event on Saturday 19th September. We will be meeting in General Gordon Square in Woolwich at 10.30am and looking at the design and social uses of the square.
Multiple perspectives of the square will be given by members of The Bench Project team. Jasber Singh, Greenwich Inclusion Project, will give an overview of civic spaces in Woolwich and dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in this part of London. Clare Rishbeth (University of Sheffield) will discuss the design of the square, talking through the importance of affordances and visual permeability, reflecting both on the design intentions of the Landscape Architects, Gustafson Porter, and how these have been adapted and subject to different management actions. Samprada Mukhia, fieldworker on The Bench Project will share what she has learnt about patterns of sitting and moving in this place, and in particular the experience of elder Nepali residents, mostly recent migrants, who enjoy using the square.
The tour will conclude with a 'pre-launch' showing of the 10 minute film made by documentary filmmaker Esther Johnson within The Bench Project, reflecting the pleasures, interactions and memories of sitting outside in General Gordon Square and an Open Space in St Helier, Sutton. This will take place in the nearby offices of Greenwich Inclusion Project, with time for further discussion on the importance and challenges of sitting outside in London, and the relationship between design, management and social wellbeing. The event will be finished by 12.00... in time for Woolwich Carnival!
No booking required. More details on the Open House London website.
Multiple perspectives of the square will be given by members of The Bench Project team. Jasber Singh, Greenwich Inclusion Project, will give an overview of civic spaces in Woolwich and dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in this part of London. Clare Rishbeth (University of Sheffield) will discuss the design of the square, talking through the importance of affordances and visual permeability, reflecting both on the design intentions of the Landscape Architects, Gustafson Porter, and how these have been adapted and subject to different management actions. Samprada Mukhia, fieldworker on The Bench Project will share what she has learnt about patterns of sitting and moving in this place, and in particular the experience of elder Nepali residents, mostly recent migrants, who enjoy using the square.
The tour will conclude with a 'pre-launch' showing of the 10 minute film made by documentary filmmaker Esther Johnson within The Bench Project, reflecting the pleasures, interactions and memories of sitting outside in General Gordon Square and an Open Space in St Helier, Sutton. This will take place in the nearby offices of Greenwich Inclusion Project, with time for further discussion on the importance and challenges of sitting outside in London, and the relationship between design, management and social wellbeing. The event will be finished by 12.00... in time for Woolwich Carnival!
No booking required. More details on the Open House London website.
Saturday 13th June: St Helier Festival
Come and meet our bench project fieldworkers at the St Helier Festival, Saturday 13th June, 12 - 5pm.
It takes place in the open space next to Sutton Arena. http://www.sftra.org |
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An evening walk in Woolwich and Plumstead
We are running a walk in Woolwich related to our research project as part of the London Festival of Architecture. We will be joined by Donncha O Shea from Landscape Architecture practice Gustafson-Porter who was the lead designer on the square.
It’s on Thursday 18th June at 6.30pm, meeting at Gordon Square (next to Woolwich Arsenal DLR station).
Cost £8, more info and booking here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-walk-through-throwntogetherness-in-woolwich-stories-of-migration-and-changing-local-places-tickets-16629147227?aff=estw
www.architecturediary.org/london/events/4916
“A walk through ‘throwntogetherness’ in Woolwich: stories of migration and changing local places.”
This walk explores issues of changing populations and changing places, and how the dynamics of international migration impact locally on social patterns in public places. The geographer Doreen Massey coined the term ‘throwntogetherness’ – expressing the multitude of stories and relationships, and continual ‘work in progress’, of all places. The complex dynamics and social histories of Woolwich offer many points of discussion to connect these ideas to designed landscapes. We will link two key typologies of outdoor space, the park and the square, and examine how the civic nature of these places is expressed and experienced by communal identities shaped by ethnicity, gender, age and class. Who has a sense of ownership of these places, and is the use of them perceived as equitable? What is the relationship between sociability, safety and wellbeing in urban landscapes? We will trace how communal spaces may evolve in times of population fluidity, and discuss the ways that social activities adapt to the affordances of individual places.
This walk will take place in Woolwich, taking in Gordon Square (Gustafson Porter, 2008) and Plumstead Common.
It will be led by Jasber Singh (Greenwich Inclusion Project) and Clare Rishbeth (Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, University of Sheffield) who are collaborating on a research project in Woolwich exploring the social dynamics of benches, and the problems and pleasures of hanging around outside”.
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