SITUATED PRACTICE
Situated Practice is a platform for exploring art, architecture and the political. We are committed to the idea of practice as a political operation within the public realm. We bring together artists, architects, ethnographers, curators and academics to re-imagine the role of the public practitioner in the 21st Century.
Our first vehicle for exploring Situated Practice is a new Masters programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Here we focus on the fertile territories where the discipline of architecture cross-pollinates with the other creative arts, addressing key emerging issues in contemporary culture and exploring the sites where these issues are made manifest.
Placeholder caption. This method introduces students to the main types of research methods adopted in situated practice.
NEW FORMS OF PRACTICE
Recent shifts in contemporary culture have produced an increasing overlap of practices, methods and approaches from the worlds of art and architecture. We are interested in supporting new forms of practice that explore this evolving terrain, particularly work that is situated physically and engages with contemporary social, cultural and political conditions. Outcomes combine media and include site-specific and performative installations, interventions, designs and events that question, provoke, critique and otherwise engage with their contexts and particular publics.
PUBLIC DISSEMINATION
Situated Practice is discursive. The programme is committed to presenting some of the worlds most creative thinking and projects from across disciplinary fields, through our lectures, conferences and events programmes.
International practitioners and theorists lead workshops and contribute to roundtables and talks programmes. This year's speakers have included: Assemble, Oreet Ashery, Victor Burgin, Jeremy Deller, Samson Kambalu, Jill Magid, Marjetica Potrč, OOZE, Stelarc, transparadiso and Do Ho Suh.