Brutalist Speculations and Flights of Fancy
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Walks, Symposium and Book Launch
Tickets £20/£10 (concessions) - Book your place now as space is limited.
Keynote speakers: Owen Hatherley, Steve Pile, Jane Rendell
Brutalist Speculations and Flights of Fancy is a publication plus a day of exploration of six of Sheffield’s Brutalist buildings. Starting with guided walks to some of the buildings, followed by a book launch and symposium, the day will explore proposals and enquiries, speculations, and flights of fancy based around the position that these six Brutalist building hold in Sheffield today.
Twenty artists and writers from Sheffield and Berlin have been invited to contribute to the publication, to consider the position that these buildings hold now (part of a much loved landscape or irrelevant, robbed of their utopian ideals) and speculate on their possible futures (for this project budgets are without ceiling, building regulations hold no barriers).
10.30 registration
11am – 12.30 Guided walks to Park Hill Flats and some of the city centre buildings
12.30 – 2.00 Book launch – Brutalist Speculations and Flights of Fancy
2pm – 6.00. Symposium – Three consecutive panels led by Professor Steve Pile, Professor Jane Rendell, and Owen Hatherley
2.00 Professor Steve Pile, with Sharon Kivland, Michelle Atherton, Hester Reeve
3.00 Professor Jane Rendell with Jaspar Joseph–Lester, Andrew Sneddon, Chloë Brown
4.00 break
4.15 Owen Hatherley with T.C McCormack, Penny McCarthy, Gary Simmonds
5.15 Plenary session
6.30pm – 8.30. Optional dinner to continue the days discussion (additional cost).
See the website for full details and how to book your place.
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