Threshold at myhotel, Brighton, 25th to 28th June

10 Jun

We are delighted to announce our contributors to this year’s pop up architecture centre at myhotel, Brighton – as ever it’s an eclectic, creative, fun and provocative mix of architects, artists and built environment types, supported by a wonderful team of volunteers, sponsors and funders.

The event is free, and open daily from 12 pm to 9 pm, until 10 pm on the closing Friday night party. There will be a café open in the day and bar in the evening.

All programme and installation information can be found here; and details of our funders, sponsors and volunteers, without whom this event would not be possible, can be found here.

Highlights of events include:

  • a film night on Wednesday 25th, a playlist from BDonline;
  • two lunchtime talks, from DMH Stallard on Wednesday 26th, and from Duncan Baker-Brown, director, BBM Sustainable Design and Cat Fletcher, Freegle co-founder on Thursday 27th;
  • pecha kucha on Thursday 27th, a standing room only event last year, this line up is just as compelling, including Abigail Freeman, Ben Hollands, Claire Potter, Elly Ward, Grant Shepherd, Paul Nicholson, Richard Rowland…and more to be added;
  • panel debate on the the post consumerist city – how our urban centres are evolving with keynote from Empty Shops Network and Revolutionary Arts founder and High Street expert, Dan Thompson, ‘What if the high street isn’t dead?’ and  three 3 short presentations followed by a cross discipline panel discussion, chaired by Oliver Heath, with an open question & debate session;
  • which will lead into a closing party until 10 pm.
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myhotel 2013 event

3 Jun

Threshold Love Architecture 2013 poster A3

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

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