Jes Fernie, Lee Ivett, (Baxendale), and Alexander Römer, (ConstructLab), for conversation about working in the public realm and mixed disciplinary practice. Understanding how to make things happen, by what means to creatively respond, and if/when it is suitable to deploy guerrilla tactics.

Thursday 26th November at 7:30pm
via zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85887945920?pwd=OXYyYnI5T0kyR1htN2Z6UDFlWVNYdz09

Hosted by Niall Maxwell, Rural Office for Architecture 

Jes Fernie is an independent curator and writer based in Essex, UK. She works with galleries, architectural practices and public realm organisations on public programmes, commissioning schemes, exhibitions and residency projects across the UK and abroad. Working primarily beyond gallery walls, she is interested in an expansive idea of contemporary artistic practice, which encompasses dialogue, research and engagement. She writes and lectures widely and has worked with a broad range of organisations including Tate, Manchester International Festival, Serpentine Gallery, Flat Time House, RIBA, Skissernas Museum, Arts Council England, Central St Martins, Milton Keynes Gallery, Lund Cathedral, St Paul’s Cathedral and the RCA.

Lee Ivett is an architect and designer and founder of Baxendale Studio. His mode of practice is intensely generative, developing low-budget socially-focused projects that test and establish changes in behavior and circumstance within marginalised communities of people and place. Lee has been recognized internationally for the impact and quality of his work and was selected for inclusion in New Architects 3 - a survey of the best British architects to have set up practice since 2005 and has recently produced critically acclaimed work representing Scotland at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. Lee is also under-graduate programme leader at the Grenfell-Baines Institute of Architecture in his home city of Preston.

Alexander Römer studied carpentry and architecture. He founded ConstructLab as a forum for participative design-build projects in 1998. In 2005 he joined the Parisian collective EXYZT and worked on many projects among others the French contribution to the 10th architecture biennial in Venice 2006. With the idea of ConstructLab and its network of designers, builders, architects, photographs, graphic designers, gardeners or cooks he initiated and designed numerous projects internationally.

Part 3 off 5 a series of conversations where creative practitioners are invited to discuss their own practice and engagement strategies to inform how Galway may host its own summer school in 2021.

In case you've missed it see; https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCepd5O8ObFQAu2FCYpipeuw?view_as=subscriber