Friday 6 July, 2012 - 6pm

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Until 6pm. What is at stake culturally, socially and physically in the staging of a modern Olympic Games? What does it mean for east London beyond the Games? On the day that marks seven years since London won the bid to host the 2012 Olympics, architects, artists, sociologists and urban theorists consider the transformation of an area into a centre of global attention. In association with the Centre for Urban and Community Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London,
public works and This is Not a Gateway.

Programme

10am: Registration

10.25-10.30am: Welcome and introduction

Governance and Spectacle

10.30-10.50am: Maurice Roche, Sheffield University: ‘Parking the Olympics: Mega-events, parks and leisure’
10.50-11.10am: Michael Keith, University of Oxford, ‘The Games and Municipal Governance’
11.10-11.30am: Katherine Clarke, muf architecture/art, in conversation with Anna Minton, author and journalist
11.30am-12pm: Conversation with all speakers chaired by Caroline Knowles, Goldsmiths

12-12.15: Break

Competing Spaces

12.15-12.35pm: Tim Edensor, Manchester Metropolitan University, ‘Urban Materiality and Architectures of Spectacle’
12.35-12.55pm: Michael Simpson, Goldsmiths, ‘Winged Words on Walls: the Public Property of Poetry at London 2012’
12.55-1.15pm: Noel Dyck, Simon Fraser University Canada, ‘Imagining and Reimagining Legacies: The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics’
1.15-1.45pm: Conversation with all speakers and Paul Halliday, Goldsmiths, chaired by Vered Amit, Concordia University, Montreal

1.45-2.45pm: Lunch break + screening of Neville Gabie’s film Twelve Seventy

Inside/Outside

2.45-4.15pm: Open roundtable chaired and organised by Deepa Naik and Trenton Oldfield, coordinators of This is Not a Gateway. Featuring contributions from Neville Gabie, former ODA Artist in Residence, Christina Mitrentse, artist and curator, Leah Borromeo on the Space Hijackers, Caroline Day from Save Leyton Marshes, Laura May Lewis and Simon White of Hackney Wicked Festival and others.

4.15-4.30pm: Break

Vacancy

4.30 - 4.40: Introduction by Mara Ferreri, School of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London
4.30 - 4.50pm: Paul Jones, University of Liverpool, ‘Making Olympic Architecture, Making Claims: Architecturing Legacies and ‘the Local’’
4.50 - 5.10pm: Andreas Lang, co-founder, public works, 'Beyond the Cliff Edge'
5.10 - 5.30pm:  Julie Sumner, former chair of the Manor garden allotment society, in conversation with Tak Hoshino, architect and lecturer.
5.30-6pm: Conversation with all speakers chaired by Alison Rooke, Goldsmiths

6-7pm: Drinks in the Creative Studio

Zilkha Auditorium foyer monitor: Looped throughout the day: Ideas into Actions: visual journeys and activism in the Lower Lea Valley, East London, Openvizor 2009 – 2010. Three films about self-initiated engagements with architecture as object and territory, common ground and neighbourhood.
A Line is There to be Broken (27 June 2009)
Hackney WickED Art Festival (30 July-1st August 2010)
East London Sukkah (20-29 September 2010)


Screenings for this event curated by: Abbas Nokhasteh (Director, Openvizor) and David Kendall (Visiting Fellow, CUCR, Goldsmiths, University of London)

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