This July public works are roaming the Kings Cross area on a converted milk float to collect tips and tricks on how to do your own regeneration - besides living in one of the biggest and ambitious inner city regeneration areas in Europe.

All advise is being collected in the form of a posters which are produced and displayed on site wherever the float is parked on the day. You can also view them on line at www.diyregeneration.net

On the 11th of July DIY REGENERATION will take part in the Somer’s Town Festival. Join us for a ride, a chat and a song together with the Musical Flying Squad. Click here for full programme of the day.

DIY REGENERATION is part of Junction, a series of artist’s projects for King’s Cross, commissioned by Camden Arts Centre and supported by Bloomberg and the Wellcome Trust.

The “Folk Float” (not just any old milk float) has been brought down from Egremont in Cumbria, where it was previously commissioned for Creative Egremont, a public art programme by Grizedale Arts.

public works has been working with staff from the Sports Technology Institute at Loughborough University and a group of sport enthusiastic teenagers from the near-by village of Barrow upon Soar to develop a new sports product.
“a ball is a ball is a ball” is the result of a series of joint workshops and prototyping which were centred around different ball games and the idea of a “multisport” - which can be played spontaneously with any kind of ball.

We will open an International Village Shop for the day, and be open between 12.00 and 17.00 in front of the School of Art and Design at Loughborough University.
The project had been commissioned by Radar for their “Group Process” series.

1940 - Stalin released 1.5 million polish citizens captive in Siberia. They were told to make their way to Iran some three and a half thousand miles. The project by 30 birdproductions tracks the herding of the polish citizens and their removal from their social and personal spaces into a mass taken to Iran as part of the polish festival.
public works is developing a polish club for the festival that runs over an 18 months period. The first part of the festival is in September 2009 and the main festival in September 2010. Work has started in establishing relationships with the orphans who made those trips and survived.
Below the group of ladies, part of the association of former people of Isfahan and Lebanon who went from Siberia to Isfahan, Lebanon and then the UK.

As part of the conference for sustainable urban development Torange from public works gave a paper on “urbanism within the everyday”, and did a 2 day workshop in Rafsanjan. Rafsanjan is a pilot city to implement such ideas in collaboration with Iran Art and Architecture Research Association (IAARA). This leads to a program for revising the existing Agenda 21 programme for the UN on sustainable cities development.

The Conference

You are invited to join:
DIY REGENERATION
a discussion hosted by public works as part of the
Ranters Cafe talk series at Camden Arts Centre

Wednesday 27th May 09 at 19.00
Ranter’s Cafe at Camden Arts Centre
Arkwright Road
London NW3 6DG
free entrance

Large regeneration projects are implemented across the country on a top to bottom principle while cultural projects have contributed on a range of levels often sketching out alternative approaches. public works is inviting individuals and organisations who have developed their own ways of working either as or with artists and cultural organisations in order to realise projects that set precedents for further steps.

Speakers include:
- Amy Plant, Artist and plot holder at Manor Garden Allotments
- Tak Hoshino, Architect, educator and member of lifeisland.org
- Angela Inglis, Photographer and resident of Somers Town, Kings Cross
- Simon Walker, Programme Manager of Egremont and Area Regeneration Partnership and commissioner of Creative Egremont
- others tbc

The evening at Ranters Cafe is the start of a 3 month residency by public works will begin a three month off site residency in King’s Cross commissioned by Camden Arts Centre.

The final day of the “somewhere” public mapping will finish with a conversation between Celine Condorelli and Kathrin at 18.00 at Wolverhampton Gallery. For more detail klick here

To mark the end of her AHRC research fellowship at the School of Art and Design at the University of Wolverhampton, Kathrin is currently doing the live public mapping project “yourwhere” at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, to coincide with the launch of the “Who is building what” publication, and an evening discussion together with Celine Condorelli at the Gallery.

Public mapping: 09 - 26 May 2009
Discussion: Tuesday 26 May at 18.00, both at Wolverhampton Art Gallery

The publication is available at the gallery or contact public works.

RHYZOM
collaborative network for local cultural production and trans-local dissemination

DESCRIPTION
RHYZOM will map emerging cultural productions related to local contexts (ie. eco-cultures, minorities’ skills and alternative economies, traditional practices and cultures of resilience, rural/urban exchanges), aiming to reinforcing them through an European interdisciplinary network which constitutes a cultural collaborative platform for reciprocal empowerment and trans-local dissemination.

PARTNERS
RHYZOM is initiated by five main partners/co-organisers:
atelier d’architecture autogérée (coordinator – Paris, FR), Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center (Istanbul, TR), AGENCY – The University of Sheffield (UK), Paragon Studios Ltd (Belfast, UK), public works (London, UK).
and associated local partners including: ISPARA - Institute for Strategies of Participative Architecture and Spatial Appropriation (DE), FCDL –Fondation for Local Communautary Development (RO), myvillages.org (DE, UK, NL), BLOK (HR), Isola Art Center (IT), Park Fiction (DE), The Dock - Arts Centre in Leitrim (IR), Oberliht (MD), PEPRAV - (European Platform for Alternative Practice and Research on the City), Observatorio Metropolitano (ES), SYN (Canada)

A fanzine to sketch and collect those moments that made a change -
to your work, to a project, to a relationship etc.

public works is publishing a fanzine on BIG MOMENTS as part of the
Le Corbusier exhibition and events programme at the Barbican Gallery in London.
Whatever the scale of the work, it is very often moments within projects that mark a turn, make a change or shift something important.
We want to start a collection of moments, to archive their existence and to position their importance within the context of cultural and architectural production.

Please send us an A4 portrait or A3 landscape document that captures such a moment. It can be anything from a quote, a photo, a drawing, a text, etc.
Please add a short description of the context/situation and the date and location.

The fanzine will be compiled and published during a public drop-in workshop at the Barbican on Thursday 30th April 2009
from 18.00 - 22.00.

For details and directions visit:
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=8682

From the 21st April to the 3rd of May, public works will be producing ad hoc bags from a stall on Petticoat Lane Market, using found and donated materials.
1000 BAGS HERE AND NOW will be given away as a farewell present to local users, as part of the Whitechapel Gallery’s year long The Street project.
The stall will be open and running daily (but Sat and Mon) from 10.00 to 17.00.