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Talks and Poster Presentations (without Proceedings-Entry):

Will Alsop:
"Housing the Workers";
Talk: ICA - Institut of Comtemporary Arts, London, Nash Room (invited); 03-11-2006.



English abstract:
Will Alsop - Housing the Workers - ICA, London, 4.30pm Sat 11 March OpenPublishing | Calendar

Submitted by Ben on Friday, 3 March, 2006 - 14:12
Start: 11/03/2006 - 4:30pm
Timezone: Etc/GMT

Worth going to if only to make sure the new paradigm in community architecture and social housing Alsop puts forward is subject to proper critical scrutiny and attack. Obviously the people on the receiving end of current social housing policy are unlikely to make it to theICA - as the ICA's director himself recently admitted in the FT, it is the state and PPP institutions like the ICA that now feel a need for the working class (if only as subject matter)in a way that the working class do not reciprocate. Nevertheless, if anyone can be arsed to go along and remind those present how unimpressed the current social housing regime has left its involuntary victims (increasingly solicited to become its voluntary servants), it might restore some reality to this particular outbreak of 'discussion'. Maybe...Will Alsop on housing the workersTalks:Sat 11 Mar 2006.If the working class doesn't exist, how do we house what's left? [NB THIS QUESTIONBEGS THE REAL QUESTIONS: HOW COME 'WE' ARE THE ONES DECIDING HOW THE WORKING CLASS ARE HOUSED? HOW AND WHY DID WE COME TO DECIDE THE WORKING CLASS NO LONGER EXISTS? WHO THE HELL DO WE THINK WE ARE? ETC ETC]If the working class doesn´t exist, how do we house what´s left?, asks Will Alsop, Britain´s favourite outspoken architect. In today´s lecture, Alsop will examine the state of current regeneration policies and ask whether we instead need an overhaul of our understanding of community architecture and social housing, particularly at a time when traditional social categories are in flux. How can we build the most inspiring and imaginative solutions to these issues? Alsop won the prestigious Stirling Prize in 2000 for his much-praised Peckham library, south London. He has recently worked on a host of urban masterplans, from New Islington, a Millennium Village in Manchester, to projects in Barnsley, Bradford and Walsall.Sat 11 Mar 16:30 Nash Room*Full Price : *£8.*Concession : *£7.*ICA Members : *£6.

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