On the 28th August at 3.30pm performance artist Lottie Child and a group of people, mostly children, who live and work around Via Garibaldi in Venice, will lead a Street Training session for architects and planners. The session will invert educational hierarchies, with adult professionals being trained by children in imaginative responses to the built environment. We will explore the relations between the built infrastructure and the social infrastructure in terms of safety and joy.

Walking with Venetians

I met with a group of Venetian teachers in June to explore ways in which drawing and close looking can be applied in new ways in their teaching. I wanted to provide an opportunity for them to look again at the area around Via Garibaldi, introduce them to the British pavilion and the work of muf for the architecture Biennale. We worked with the Biennale education department to enable these links with local schools. This is the first time an architecture practice, exhibiting at the Biennale, has worked with local schools.

Are there things about the design of a public space, street, square or alley that encourage certain behaviours? How do the built infrastructure and the social infrastructure relate?

Ten years of research into people’s approaches to safety and joy in city streets is now applied in Venice, Italy in collaboration with muf architecture\art as part of the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Part of the Street Training course on Wednesdays this Summer, all are invited and welcome to enjoy the long balmy evenings by the fire in Spitalfields. A series of conversations on aspects of the city will take place 6pm-8pm at Spitalfields City Farm. The topics are:
7th July Community and the city
21st July Growing and the city (growing plants, people, food, culture)
4th August Play and the city
18th August Economies and the city
8th September Art/Activism in the city
15th September Animals and the city

We have made a few changes to the web site to make it easier for Street Trainers to find and talk to each other. Check the Groups section in the Main Menu to find your group or a group near you.

If you have already made an account, please check the section "My account" and edit your information to include your group (and any other information about yourself that you want to add), so that other Street Trainers can find you. If you haven't made an account yet, why don't you do that right now? Interested Onlookers are also welcome!

Street Training Course
To explore and connect with place, self and others through Street Training. The course is based at Spitalfields City Farm and invites us to think about how we effect our environment (in many senses of the word) with the ways we move, think and behave.

Wednesdays, 6-8.00pm,

16th June to 10th September,2010

Spitalfields City Farm, Buxton Street,London, E1 5AR
http://www.spitalfieldscityfarm.org/about-us/about-us.html

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