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I’m interested in doing something around Taggart, as a (relatively) accessible visual archive of how Glasgow changed (socially as well as its built environment) over 25 years. The form that takes and how it relates to 2021’s theme, I’m not sure. But I can work that out.

What would be useful is if someone was up for a longer chat about the wider subject matter Taggart/urbanism in film/Glasgow 1985-2010.

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We're working on the regeneration of Govanhill Picture House, and are hoping to create an outdoor cinema there next year for the Govanhill Festival in August. We're hoping it will already be up and running by May/June, so thinking about how it might be appropriate to work with AF. We have some ideas of our own, but also welcome input from others, so fee free to get in touch.

Shireen
hello@glasgowamis.org

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The Inhabiting Infrastructure exhibition is proposed as part of Architecture Fringe 2021, and responds to the festival theme of (Un)Learning. The exhibition presents research developed by students and staff from the Interior Design department at Glasgow School of Art. In presenting a variety of modes and strategies for the inhabitation of infrastructure, the research proposes an un-learning of the structural conditions of modernity, colonialism and anthropocentrism.

Infrastructure is all around us, embedded in the ground, the buildings and even the air. A dense stratification of process, systems and mechanisms fundamental to everyday life, yet largely un-seen and overlooked. In the modern developed world, the essential condition of infrastructure means that it is paradoxically only revealed when its mechanisms cease to function normally.

Our modern lived experience is co-constituted with infrastructure. It used to colonise the world and shape the world to our demands, yet infrastructure shapes us through doing so; infrastructure conditions us. Yet spaces of infrastructure are not designed for inhabitation by the human, we are alienated from them. These nonhuman spaces and structures constitute our modern human condition, but we are placed apart from them, through circumstances that include scale, distance and codification.

The Inhabiting Infrastructure exhibition will investigate a range of existing infrastructural artefacts of the City of Glasgow, and propose strategies of inhabitation for these more-than-human environments. These speculative proposals with be sited within an expanded discourse of decoloniality and anthropocentrism, framing the various modes of inhabitation to expound a critical discourse of un-learning and contribute to contemporary discussions of climate crisis, the Anthropocene and other concealed conditions that structure modern society. The research project will draw attention to the un-seen spaces of infrastructure that exist in the everyday around us, and award these artefacts of Glasgow with an urgent significance.

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A possible interaction and discussion process about the current situation. Perhaps a link up between Scotland and Montenegro on this (two beautiful and slightly similar countries)? Finding new ways through in terms of living and working and impacts on cities, environments, communities and work practices globally. Environmental collapse, the corona dystopia and societal degradation is happening all around us as we speak. This is due to failed environmental and banking systems that are tied to each other and a rather broken, corporate/corrupt, way of doing things. Unlearn. How do we do that and what happens next? Survival, community, society, buildings, workplaces, cities, online/offline, human interactions, spaces, places, travel, connectedness, balance. Distil down and talk about routes through to a brighter future. Maybe a discussion event, maybe even over a few days. Possible link ups and collaborations? Just an idea at present.

Andy

andy@lucidarchitecture.co.uk

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We are keen to lead a walk around the key buildings in Inverness associated with the Highlands involvement in the slave trade - predominately in Guyana. The walk is based on the historic research of David Alston but will incorporate site specific artistic responses (i.e. projection, audio, performance).

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Make Works Scotland (more news on that to follow) are proposing to host a 'Measuring Circularity' discussion / event. The intention is to share information about accessible and relevant tools for manufacturers, makers and designers to measure circularity in their businesses and understand / learn from those who've used them how the evidence they gathered  informed shifts in their operations and practices. We have compiled a short list of speakers / contributors from Make Works networks, however we'd be keen to hear about other examples, those who'd be interested in contributing or willing to steer ideas / shape the event.

Thanks

Helen - hvoce@hotmail.com