Visions, dreams and realities in the modern city.
2nd December 2008, PAST EVENT, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
In December 2008 Northern Architecture and the Laing Art Gallery held an event asking these questions: Can you have a vision for the future of a city, or do visions build nightmares and ignore day-to-day needs and realities? How has Newcastle been shaped by previous generations of visionaries? Does the city have a vision for its future, and if so who made this and who shares this?
TW Museums have now produced an audio file of the evening's talk/debate as part of their CultureCast Talks; so you can now listen to how our speakers David Slater (Newcastle City Council) – the city regeneration director; Paul Noble (from the exhibition Elevation) – the artist; Brian Ham (Metnor Property Group) - the developer and Graeme Rigby, the cutural commentator, all gave there responses to these questions and how the public responded.
To go to the CultureCast Talks page to download this audio file (also available as a transcript), click here.
In partnership with the Laing Art Gallery and Tyne and Wear Museums, Northern Architecture held a debate about visions, dreams and realities in the modern city – with particular reference to the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. The debate was held in conjunction with two exhibitions at the Laing Art Gallery from 1 November 2008 to 11 January 2009 – ‘High Wire’ Catherine Yass, and ‘Elevation: Visions and Realities of Modern Architecture’.
Speakers were– David Slater (Newcastle City Council) – the city regeneration director; Paul Noble (from the exhibition Elevation) – the artist; Brian Ham (Metnor Property Group) - the developer; Graeme Rigby (Amber Films) - the cultural commentator.
This was a free event open to all.
For further information about the Laing and these two exhibitions go to www.twmuseums.org.uk/laing.
