London Festival of Architecture 2016
Jo Townshend Architects are always keen to make positive connections and contributions within our local community, and The London Festival of Architecture provides a great opportunity to do so.
Connecting the Creative Community
A panel discussion focussing on current issues and future visions for providing places where communities can participate, appreciate and develop in the creative arts.
The discussion will be hosted in the Recital Room of Blackheath Halls, one of three buildings on a site in SE London purpose-built for the arts. Blackheath Halls and the Conservatoire have a symbiotic relationship with its immediate and larger communities, surviving for them but also because of their investment in them as valuable local resources. Objectives of the discussion will be for each organisation to identify their communities and how they cater for them as well as to share some of their individual successes and challenges.
£10/£5 concs. with free glass of wine included.
Family Modelmaking Workshop
Kirsten Lyle is a London based Sculptor. She studied BA Fine Art at Canterbury College of Art and MA Fine Art at Goldsmith’s College London. Her work relates to architectural structures and design. She works in a variety of media with a particular interest in colour and light. ‘ I think of my sculptures as three dimensional painting’.
To celebrate the architecture of Blackheath, as part of the London Festival of Architecture come to our family day and contribute to a new large-scale artwork that takes it's inspiration from historic buildings and the ornamental detail of the Blackheath Concert Halls, Conservatoire and Art Studios. In a studio workshop led by artist Kirsten Lyle and architects from Jo Townshend Architects, each family will create their own unique part of this 3D installation which will be displayed in the Blackheath Concert Halls.
Architectural Model Making Workshop - FREE - 10am - 12.30pm
Jack Jelfs Installation
Ma-Loop will use microphones and speakers located in the corridors, hallways and connecting spaces of the Conservatoire reception and art studio, and the cafe in Blackheath Halls, to transplant the aural background from one building into the next, so that three spaces become interlinked, their distinct ambiences allowed to blend and interact. The signals from small contact microphones attached to doors, floors and other surfaces will be mixed with this ambient sound, revealing the secret sounds and vibrations that form an invisible part of the lives of the three buildings.
