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6/4/2011

The Right to The City

Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney

Curated by Lee Stickells and Zanny Begg.
DIY Urbanism curated by Joni Taylor.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them
Henry David Thoreau, Walden

The Right to The City is an exhibition, symposium and publishing project that brings together a series of artistic, theoretical and philosophical escape plans. These escape plans range from the whimsical to the more serious, and present real or imagined ways of reinventing life in our cities. The project will explore the challenge of "putting foundations" under these "castles in the air"—seeking connections between art, architecture, philosophy and action.

In thinking through those connections, The Right to the City takes as its starting point David Harvey's influential article, of the same name, that redefined urban existence as a contested part of modern democracy: "The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights." Given the perilous environmental predicament we find ourselves in, coupled with our intensifying urbanisation, many artists, activists, planners and architects are seeking ways to "remake" the city in more socially connected and sustainable ways.

Participating artists: Atelier d'architecture autogérée (Studio for Self-managed Architecture, Paris), Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro (Australia), Milkcrate Urbanism (Australia), D.V. Rogers (NZ/Australia), Marjetica Potrč (Slovenia), Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley (UK), BaBaBa International (Australia), Temporary Services (USA), SquatSpace (Australia) and Tessa Rapaport and Karl Logge (Australia)

Tin Sheds Gallery, in conjunction with volunteers and architecture students from the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning are building a small edible garden as part of the exhibition.

With thanks to NSW Ministry of Arts, Australia Council for the Arts and Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney.

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Keynote Lecture: 6.30pm, April 8th, Rethinking Rights, Rethinking Cities
Margaret Crawford
At the Faculty of Architecture Design and Planning
University of Sydney

Margaret Crawford will deliver a keynote lecture, bridging between the exhibition opening and the symposium. Margaret Crawford is Professor of Architecture in the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the evolution, uses and meanings of urban space. Her book, Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns, examines the rise and fall of professionally designed industrial environments. She edited The Car and the City: The Automobile, the Built Environment and Daily Urban Life and Everyday Urbanism, and has published numerous articles on shopping malls, public space, and other issues in the American built environment. Her recent book Nansha Coastal City: Landscape and Urbanism in the Pearl River Delta was published in early 2006 and co-edited by Alan Berger.

Symposium: 10am–6pm, April 9th, 2011, The Right to the City
At the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning
University of Sydney

Speakers include: Mimi Zeiger, New York, Marjetica Potrč, Ljubljana, Ann Deslandes, Sydney, Kurt Iveson, University of Sydney, Sarah Barns, University of Technology, Sydney, Josh Harle, University of NSW, Cathy Smith, University of Queensland, Charles Walker, Auckland University of Technology, Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, Berlin/Sydney and atelier d'architecture autogérée, Paris.

Free food by BaBaBa International

For full program please check the website www.therighttothecity.com.

Register: contactrighttothecity@gmail.com

Exhibition open: 6pm, April 7th

Tin Sheds Gallery
148 City Road, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning (University of Sydney) - Sydney

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