The June People’s Salon is in partnership with the London Festival of Architecture.

With Carl Turner Architects and the Cabinet Member for regeneration and new homes in Southwark, Cllr Mark Williams.

This will be a highly interactive discussion with members of the public, developers, policy makers, architects and planners discussing the role and experience of the public in helping shape spaces and places.

With speakers from architectural practices particularly committed to collaborative engagement as well as residents and city dwellers who have recently helped shape this city, we expect a vibrant discussion.

Carl Turner architects – winners of Architects of the year award 2013 – One off house for slip house (also featured on Grand Designs in 2012) at the heart of ‘pop Brixton’ – a community campus for start ups currently under construction and running a community co-design process in Peckham Square at the moment will be sharing their approach to co-design and community engagement – a portfolio of projects that respond to and are shaped by the communities that they are bourne out of.

Cllr Mark Williams is responsible for Regeneration and New homes in Southwark, and with large projects across the borough he has a commitment to create large scale interventions that also respond to what local people need and want.

Not just a ‘talk’, but a ‘listen’, a ‘think’ and a ‘develop new ideas’ – Architecture the People’s Salon way will be live, dynamic and energetic.

We will be exploring how we as members of the public can have a meaningful impact on the built environment, and how we can ensure that our voice is constructive, important and useful to the process of design and development.

“Work in progress” relates most specifically to the ways that we as a public want to engage with the physical world around us – ensuring that it works for us, ensuring that it feels like progress and drawing out the role that we can play in helping to shape the work in progress into a work of progress…

 

Some of the questions that we expect to be exploring include;

– How do we manage peoples paradoxical need for real porous involvement and total definitive clarity?

– Who has found a way of making consultation a genuinely positive and creative process?

– What innovations and sublime refinements have people witnessed that been down to the involvement of the public in the design process?

“Last years LFA/People’s Salon event with Richard Sennett and Charles Holland was a highlight of the festival for me” 2014 London festival of architecture attendee.

 

1st June 2015

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