myhotel, Brighton 2013 – call for expressions of interest

2 Apr

Threshold is pleased to announce that it will return to the carpark at myhotel, Brighton, for Love Architecture in June. We are seeking people to contribute to the exhibition and event, the call for expressions of interest below:

 

1 – Premise

Architecture, built environment and arts collective Threshold will be taking over the space at myhotel, Brighton, for the second year as part of Love Architecture festival.

The space will be curated to include work and activity inspired by the theme of ‘future city working’. The space will be designated into office, High Street, manufacturing and home working areas for exhibition and installation and have a daily programme of workshops, film, talks and events.

The 2012 myhotel, Brighton, event attracted over 500 members of the public and arts and architecture community over four days, attracted media coverage and further collaborations and commissions for the participating artists.

2 – Project brief

Threshold is seeking architects, artists, designers, heritage and creative professionals to contribute to the installation and programme. All submissions to this open call should be inspired by the theme, in relation to any city but in particular to the city of Brighton and Hove, and use architecture and the built environment as its starting point.

The opening theme is ‘future city working’ and the space will be divided into the following responses:

  • office – what will the future city office look like? How will it need to function?
  • High Street – what will the retail of the city look like? Will there be a central High Street? What retail will feature on this?
  • manufacturing – Brighton and Hove is known especially as a centre for digital and media sectors, but what of its manufacturing base, past, present and future? How do we define manufacturing now?
  • home working – the city also known for its high numbers of those that work from home, how does the city meet these needs? Does it? What does this need to look like in the future?

These are just indicative suggestions and respondents are welcome to interpret the theme(s) as they wish.

We welcome submissions from any art form, including visual art, film/moving image/projection, spoken and written word, performance and dance, music, digital and virtual work. We of course consider architecture an art form and also welcome submissions from any architecture, built environment and heritage organisation or project.

Activity may include workshops, talks/lectures/debates, tours (using the building as its base), site specific installation, performance and live events and any other activity that could be reasonably facilitated within the car park space. Art work can be wall-mounted, free standing or projected.

All exhibition or installation work must be able to fit a standard car parking space or multiples thereof.

A specific response is also required for the dressing of the car park entrance. This needs to attract the public into the space by acting as a signpost to the space and event. The design needs to accommodate the opening and closing of the entrance gate at the start and end of the day.

3 – Further requirements/notes

All submissions must be financially self-sufficient as there is no budget available for materials or fees.

Invigilators will be present in the space but no other staff will be present. The site will be partially secure during closure so any and all equipment left on-site this will need to be secured (and details of this should be mentioned in the response) and if additional staffing is required for events etc, these will have to be provided by those commissioned.

The car park will be closed to cars for the duration.

All those commissioned will be required to attend an on-site meeting to discuss project logistics and specifics and must be available for all on-site meetings, installation and take down.

4 – Timeline

  • Deadline for submission:             5 pm, 1 May
  • Commissioning decision:             w/b 13th May
  • On-site meeting:                              Date(s) TBC from 20th May
  • Install:                                                  24th June, from 12.20 pm
  • Festival dates:                                  25th  – 28th June
  • Take down:                                        29th June, out by 2 pm

 

Deadline for submission is 5 pm, 1 May.

 

5 – How to respond

Please submit an expression of interest to Cara Courage, via cara@caracourage.net, by 5 pm, 1 May, which should include the following:

  • Contact details of lead contact person
  • Submission response to include as relevant:
  • activity leaders/team (ie artists/speakers etc involved) and biography information
  • detail of activity proposed
  • relevance to theme
  • participant numbers/age
  • timing of activity (morning/afternoon/evening, length)
  • any other explanatory information (such as security measures, staffing)
    • CV and supporting information and images (or links to this)

 

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Threshold at TEDxBrighton – blogs

5 Nov Threshold TEDx. Architecture and Interior Photography by Jim Stephenson

Our day at TEDxBrighton was a great success; over 300 people through the doors and lovely and engaged conversation and debate throughout the day.

Team members have blogged on their thoughts on the day: Cara Courage includes some of the audience comments on how they live and how they want to live, here; Richard Wolströme gives his reflections on the day, here, and Jim Stephenson created a time-lapse of the build of the Pavilion and photographed its life throughout the day, here.

The Pavilion itself would not have come to life without the hard work and dedicated of its design and builders, Un[Lab], United Atelier, Gem Barton and Oli Hester. Thanks as ever to my Threshold co-founding team of abir architects, Chalk Architecture, Jim Stephenson, Richard Wolfströme and Yelo Architects and RIBA Sussex for its funding.

 

Images by Jim Stephenson.

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Threshold Pavilion at TEDxBrighton – your invitation

21 Oct

The way we live in Brighton and Hove under the spotlight

12 Oct

Pop up architecture centre, Threshold, at TEDxBrighton, 26 October 2012

How will you be living in twenty-years time? What type of house will you live in and whom might you be living with – your parents, your grandchildren, friends? These are some of the questions that we have been asking architects and the public as part of our Pavilion at TEDxBrighton on 26th October at Brighton Dome and Corn Exchange.

The Pavilion, designed as a one-storey house, looks at issues surrounding housing and the way we live in response to the TEDxBrighton theme of the Generation Gap. Situated in the Dome’s Founders Room the Pavilion will feature films of people’s responses to these questions and more and will invite the public to get involved in the city housing debate by filming their own responses or posting a written response through the Pavilion’s letterboxes.

A map of Brighton and Hove will also feature, showing what types of housing are where in the city and the walls depict various styles of living, from traditional to concept homes.

Content created on the day will go into an online and exhibited library of talking heads that will grow over time, discussing a variety of topics in relation to the built environment.

Olli Blair, co-founder of Threshold, comments: ‘Housing is a pressing issue for Brighton and Hove and for the western world as we experience an ageing population. Threshold is using the opportunity of TEDxBrighton to get the people of our city to think about how they live now and how they want to in the future and to feed into the debate and solution-finding with architects’.

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soapbox for TEDxBrighton

4 Oct

Threshold at TEDxBrighton

20 Aug

We are pleased to announce our involvement in TEDxBrighton, being held at the Brighton Dome and Corn Exchange on 26 October 2012.

Lori Pinkerton-Rolet (PPBIID, FRSA, past President of The British Institute of Interior Design) and part of the Threshold family will be talking on ‘Colour for the Seven Ages of Man’…

Do you see what I see? Unless we are the same age and even the same sex the answer is emphatically no. In his comedy As You Like It Shakespeare outlines the key stages of human development from birth to extreme old age. Using these milestones as a framework the talk explores how colour is perceived physically and emotionally throughout our lifetime. The content is research-based and visual, demonstrating how we see with our brains rather than with our eyes and reviewing colour preferences across our lifetime and some of the reasons why. It concludes with current theories on the effect of colour on the elderly and in particular those suffering from dementia.

An interior design professional since 1992, Lori’s work has taken her from North America to Europe and Africa. She’s director of Park Grove Design specialising in hotels through the Rooms-Service® Design brand and residential care homes. Her professional passion is to raise the design criteria within the care home sector. A self-confessed colour nerd she begins each day taking a colour reference of the sea at Brighton.

Lori is a Past President of the British Institute of Interior Design and is the recipient its 2012 Award of Merit for outstanding contribution to the field of interior design. Her frequent speaking engagements perhaps harken back to her earlier career in the US where she hosted nationally syndicated radio programs and produced and directed the Grammy Awards™ for international radio.

Threshold / Miniclick Talk by Jim Stephenson. Weds, 8th Aug

3 Aug

For our first interim Threshold event, we’ve teamed up with the miniclick photography talks to help put on a talk by Architectural Photographer, and one of the Threshold founders, Jim Stephenson.

Jim will be talking about his work as an architectural photographer but also about how people are portrayed in architectural images, talking about how architecture can be photographed to portray the built environment in use and how in the past this hasn’t always been the way.

Wednesday, August 08th at The Old Market in Brighton & Hove (11a Upper Market St, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 1AS). It will kickoff at around 7:30pm (doors at 6:30pm). Get there early as the seats get snapped up quick! Entry is free, but there is a bar there that stays open after the talk, so bring some cash and support the venue by having a drink or two.

“Jim Stephenson is a contemporary photographer concerned with the documentation of architecture, interiors and the built environment.

With a lifelong love of architecture, Jim trained as an architectural technologist and after graduation he worked in the industry for a number of years, on both sides of the Atlantic. During this time he began to take photographs for architectural practices, eventually setting down his pen to photograph buildings full time. In the past few years, Jim has introduced a documentary-style approach to some areas of his work, studying and depicting how people interact with buildings and spaces.

Jim’s images have featured in a number of publications including The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Observer, The Evening Standard, The Financial Times, The New York Times, Icon, Architecture Today, The Architect’s Journal (AJ), Building Design (BD), Dezeen, WAN, Arch Daily, Sleeper Magazine, Building Magazine and Inside Building.

Despite working as a full-time photographer, Jim’s first love is architecture: every once in a while he ditches the camera and picks up his sketchbook. He is also the founder of the Brighton-based MiniClick phototalks.”

- Eleanor O’Kane, 2012

Hope to see you down there!

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