Friday Event
25th November 2011
Masterplan Announced for Kilmahew / St Peter’s
NVA’s hopes to restore one of Scotland’s greatest modern buildings are a step closer to fruition with the release of a new MASTERPLAN for the site.
Led by ERZ landscape architects, the document sets out a 20 year vision for the development of St Peter’s Seminary - the buildings, landscape and site infrastructure - in a series of phases and highlights how the site…
Friday Event
25th November 2011
Masterplan Announced for Kilmahew / St Peter’s
NVA’s hopes to restore one of Scotland’s greatest modern buildings are a step closer to fruition with the release of a new MASTERPLAN for the site.
Led by ERZ landscape architects, the document sets out a 20 year vision for the development of St Peter’s Seminary - the buildings, landscape and site infrastructure - in a series of phases and highlights how the site…
Steven Holl
Urbanisms: Working With Doubt
15 Jan 2010
Friday Event Lecture
Steven Holl will discuss five projects from 2009, the Knut Hamsun Center in Norway, Linked Hybrid in China, Horizontal Skyscraper in China, the Herning Museum of Art in Denmark.
Steven Holl Architects have been appointed to design the new GSA estate opposite the Mackintosh Building. This design development process has started but is at an early stage. This presentation therefore…
Sonia Boyce
LEAP into uncertainty
19 Nov 2010
Friday Event Lecture
Talking, singing, gathering folk - and the popular, the recent practice of Sonia Boyce has involved the participation of others in what she likes to call ‘improvised’ collaborations. Improvisation automatically means to be unsure what will come next. Boyce will discuss recent works that foreground this sense of uncertainty whilst looking at the past.
Sonia Boyce came into prominence…
Silvia Ziranek
The Z of How
Silvia Ziranek has had an extensive career that has embraced performance, installation, photography, textiles, and sculpture, often combined in the one situation. Central to her work is personal experience. Her "perfs," in essence an animated monologue ("visual speech") with equipment (often of seemingly playful and domestic origin) will generally involve geography, food, politics, scale, environment, feminism, femininity,…
Susumu Shingu
How should we live tomorrow?
8 January 2010
Friday Event Lecture
Making sculptures that move with natural energies for more than 40 years, Susumu Shingu feels that he should make use of his unique experience and knowledge to create something useful for our future. That is, the idea of a self-sustainable community, Breathing Earth: a place of inspiration, a place for artists, scientists and children; a place to learn, discuss, try out…
The Friday Event lecture series at The Glasgow School of Art has been running since the early 1990s and is our flagship public lecture programme. Comprising a series of approximately twelve lectures over the academic year, it brings major international speakers - artists, architects, designers, historians, and cultural theorists - to the City of Glasgow. These lectures open to a wider audience debates that are central to the
The Friday Event lecture series at The Glasgow School of Art has been running since the early 1990s and is our flagship public lecture programme. Comprising a series of approximately twelve lectures over the academic year, it brings major international speakers - artists, architects, designers, historians, and cultural theorists - to the City of Glasgow. These lectures open to a wider audience debates that are central to the research and study within the School, and are part of our growing programme of cultural engagement events.
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