This arrived in my e mail but I'm not an artist whereas some of you are.
URBAN OASIS
Call for expressions of interest.
Urban Vision
Architecture Week is the national campaign celebrating contemporary architecture, initiated by Arts Council England in partnership with the Architecture Centre Network and RIBA.
Urban Vision North Staffordshire is an architecture and urban design centre whose aim is to promote the value of high quality environmental design as a vital factor in achieving successful regeneration and an improved quality of life for all. Further details of Urban Vision and its work are available from our web site -
Urban Vision.
The Project:
URBAN OASIS is a exciting project that is a collaboration between artists, architects and local youth groups. The programme will create architectural/landscape interventions to be a catalyst for greater engagement in building process, public realm space, art and architecture.
There will be a series of 3 co-ordinated projects each led by a team of 4 professionals (artists, architects, landscape architects and urban designers). Each group will be working with a local youth group to develop and construct an intervention to be installed/displayed in an area of open space in the city centre.
We will be developing a brief which asks the groups to create a piece that makes people look at and/or use the city centre space differently. These features/interventions could, for example be a green lawn, temporary shelter or water feature and they will be constructed in Hanley City Centre for one day during Architecture Week.
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