Expanding Artists' Professional Practice
16th March 2007

What is the artist's role in the Built Environment?

The Panel featured: Adam Sutherland, Sans Façon, Alastair Snow and Charles Quick

This was an important event facilitated bt Kate Brundrette that brought together key speakers from across the UK to discuss issues around art in the built environment.

In a context where regeneration and new building play a large part of our lives, artistic intervention is still often seen as an afterthought. What happens when creative thinkers become part of the process in the early stages of planning urban spaces? How do collaborations between planners, architects, communities and artists work best to generate shared sense of space?

The symposium presented some key developments in the context of art and urban spaces, and some key debates. It was of particular interest to artists, public art officers, urban planners, architects, regeneration officers, developers, communities experiencing the regeneration process and students with an interest in working in the built environment.

 
A presentation by Alastair Snow

The panel featured:

Sans Façon: British Artist and French Architect partnership working on commissions in the public realm
Charles Quick: Artist, curator and lecturer of Fine Art at the University of Central Lancashire
Alastair Snow: Scheme Manager for Project – a national funding scheme to create a shared vision for public space

The panel presented recent projects followed by discussion and debate with questions from the audience.

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