What can we learn about engagement and new thinking from Assemble as they prepare for their Turner Prize Show?
Following our London Festival of Architecture event, we welcome Turner Prize nominees Assemble Studios.
Monday 12th October 2015
Will Assemble be the next winners of the Turner Prize? Will you be able to catch up with them and chat with them over a glass of wine for a tenner if they do (we are sure you still will… but anyway – come to this discussion… it’ll be fantastic!)
Their Turner competition exhibition will have opened the proceeding week and so there will no doubt be a huge amount of focus and debate happening about their work and practice, so come and hear from them, debate with them and hear about the Turner Prize from the inside!
Assemble have been nominated for projects including the ongoing collaboration with local residents and others in the Granby Four Streets, Liverpool. They are an exciting London-based collective who work across the fields of art, design and architecture to create projects in tandem with the communities who use and inhabit them. Their architectural spaces and environments promote direct action and embrace a DIY sensibility.
There has been tons of press about their nomination – take a look at your preferred media outlet!
http://www.dezeen.com/2015/05/12/assemble-turner-prize-shortlist-2015-first-design-studio/
The nomination of an architecture practice has caused quite a lot of debate, but the Royal Academy has shown architecture in its galleries for many years, so is this really such a surprise?
The team at Assemble have said that they will be able to talk about their Turner Exhibition entry, their practice, how they work with the public on their projects and how they build ownership and engagement whilst also creating extraordinary spaces!
Some of the questions we might be asking could include;
* What can we learn for our own lives and work from the way that Assemble lives and works?
* How does Assemble’s practice shape what we expect from artists and architects?
* What would we like to see Assemble doing in our communities?
* What other innovations are we excited about seeing in the near future?