13 May - 15 May 2010
10am - 6pm
Public Space
Manchester
13 May - 15 May 2010
10am - 6pm
Public Space
Manchester
Due to a touch of the unforeseens, The City Experiment Building has been replaced with Thinking Inside The Box, a Shipping Container in Piccadilly Gardens hosting conversations with some of the city’s key stakeholders in the arena of placemaking on the use of space and sense of place across the city.
If this hub of architectural energy had you excited, we highly suggest you also check out Agents of Change, a project where the soon to be stratospheric artists' collective take over a massive space at a secret location in Manchester. Check their viral videos at Contact and The Hive and clues online to their location before all is revealed on Saturday 15th May 2010.
We'd also like to direct you to our partner exhibition Unbuilt, curated by Blank Media Collective, which is currently running at the EASA HQ building, Hulme Street. Showcasing a series of designs from unemployed architects, the show imagines buildings that could have been.
And for those hungry for a dose of experimentality, get yourself to the FutureEverything conference, which includes a strand of talks expanding on The City Experiment theme.
Cancelled: The City Experiment Building
Constructed by a renegade team of architectural wunderkinds, this will be a temporary building in a visible public space. With Scene will be set as an ad hoc salon and meeting place for urbanists, flaneurs and interested public who fancy a conversation about the future of the cityscape.
In advance of their Summer assembly in Manchester, European Architecture Students Assembly (EASA) will build a new temporary structure that makes physical the themes within The City Experiment.
A group of leading urban thinkers including Ash Amin and Steven Smith have been commissioned by FutureEverything to devise a proposition on the future of Manchester as a networked city. The result of this process, 'Manchester: The Experimental City?' draws on the latest thinking in urban research to argue that city managers need to think about cities in a radically different way, nurturing spaces of experimentation and fostering a loosely-coupled, plural economy in order to create the conditions for sustainable innovation.
The European Architecture Students Assembly (EASA) have been commissioned to respond to this proposition by designing and creating a new temporary physical structure in a public space, The City Experiment Building. Leading city stakeholders will also respond to it in The City Debate.