Cityscapers: Cardiff Chimera
For two weeks in March/April 2009 more than 60 outstanding designers, planners, artists, architects and engineers from Australia, Japan, China, India, Singapore, Vietnam, Korea and Wales will work on a live design brief in an intensive two week studio in Cardiff. This is a partnership between the British Council and Professor Richard Goodwin’s Porosity Studio (College of Fine Arts UNSW) in collaboration with Cardiff University, the University of Glamorgan, and University Wales Institute Cardiff. This studio is generously supported by the Welsh Assembly Government, Cardiff Council, Design Commission for Wales, Safle, RSAW and Design Circle.
The concept behind this multi-disciplinary design studio is to juxtapose a suite of strategies and visions for Cardiff as a city thinking as far ahead as the year 2020. The central focus for this studio is small cities/big neighbourhoods. Talk about cities usually focuses on our larger metropolises as their problems remain so vast. However as cities around the world merge and spread with explosions of the suburban, solutions need to be sought which address the old island-like centres with their rich cultures and the rural landscapes they are progressively consuming. Smaller cities generally are growing faster than larger ones across Europe and are having to think carefully about appropriate urban forms, housing types, neighbourhood facilities, transport systems, green space and, of course, jobs.
Organised by: British Council, Porosity Studio (College of Fine Arts, UNSW), in collaboration with Cardiff University, the University of Glamorgan and University Wales Institute Cardiff.
This studio is generously supported by the International Relations Programme of the Welsh Assembly Government, Cardiff Council, Design Commission for Wales, Safle, RSAW and Design Circle.
Project Partners
Links:
British Council
Contact: Grainne [dot] Brunsdon [at] britishcouncil [dot] org [dot] au
