London Festival of Architecture 2014: Rise of the Smart City

The long-mooted arrival of the Internet of Things, along with the possibilities afforded by Big Data, stands to transform the way in which we engage with our civic environment. The world’s urban agglomerations, for the most part, have developed organically, but as the global population becomes increasingly urbanised, to what degree should technology play a role in helping to facilitate new models of city dwelling? Join our panel of thought-leaders to debate the good, the bad and the ugly of smart cities. 

• Kathryn Firth, Chief of Design, London Legacy Development Corporation
• Adam Greenfield, Senior Urban Fellow at LSE Cities and Founder/MD of Urbanscale
• Leo Hollis, Writer, Historian and Urbanist, Author of Cities Are Good For You
• Andrew Hudson-Smith, Director and Deputy Chair of the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at UCL and Member of the GLA Smart London Board

Free, registration required, please bring your paper ticket with you.
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/rise-of-the-smart-city-tickets-11583156533?utm_campaign=new_eventv2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb_email&utm_term=eventname_text

A therein. event in association with the London Legacy Development Corporation

London Festival of Architecture 2014: The Great London Architecture Pub Quiz

Do you know your cheese graters from your gherkins, your Goldfingers from your Gehrys? 
Then why not have a go at the greatest pub quiz to hit London? Part of London Festival of Architecture 2014.

The Great London Architecture Pub Quiz will act as a tonic to the festival’s more weighty events. In the grand tradition of pub quizzes, it will be fuelled by alcohol and raw knowledge. Categories will relate to this year’s theme, ‘Capital’. The quiz is open to everyone and aimed at urbanists, architectural enthusiasts and Londonophiles. Architectural practices are encouraged to enter as teams, capitalising on the friendly rivalries between their respective houses. 

Maximum team size is five. Entry fee £3 per person. Prizes to be won. Limited number of places.
Book now. http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-great-london-architecture-pub-quiz-tickets-11544348457

A therein event.

P.E.A.R. at the Stour Space

we'll be in Hackney Wick on the 3rd of May - selling our wares at the Stour Space as part of the new M_DASH ART BOOK FAIR.  Come and join us!

Stour Space
7 Roach Road
London E3 2PA

Issue No. 6 - Launch Event!

We will be launching Issue no. 6 of P.E.A.R. on Thursday 20 February at the British Council in London and it would be great to see you there. R.S.V.P. is essential as the capacity at the British Council is limited. Please R.S.V.P. by 17 February 2014 to:

info@pearmagazine.eu

P.E.A.R.  Issue no. 6 launch event

Thursday 20 February 2014, 18.30–21.00

British Council, Spring Gardens, London, SW1A 2BN

R.S.V.P. info@pearmagazine.eu

Lutz Bacher

In Lutz Bacher's current exhibition, Black Beauty, the ground floor galleries of the ICA in London are filled with the textures and sounds of blackness. Coal dust crunches under foot and, through a curtain darkly, vibrations of the unknown oscillate in our reality. A fractured mirror reflects a self shattered by darkness and all is framed by the repetition of the final lines from A Midsummer's Night's Dream '...if by chance we shadows have offended...'

Upstairs, all is golden. A horse spins on its plinth as at a fairground carousel, while, next door, an elaborate game of chess is set up with Elvis countering a camel.  It turns out that heaven is easily accessed by a flight of stairs.  We have passed through the black skin of night to a new and brighter reality as the camel passes through the eye of a needle.

Installation shots Lutz Bacher: Black Beauty

25 September - 17 November 2013

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Photographs: Mark Blower

Stephen Lawrence Prize Winners in P.E.A.R.

many congratulations to AY Architects who have won the 2013 Stephen Lawrence Prize for their Montpelier Community Nursery in Camden.  AY Architects will be contributing to the forthcoming issue of P.E.A.R., which is coming soon...
In the meantime, here are a few images of the nursery, which sits so happily in its garden context, facilitating the indoor-outdoor play that is central to children's learning.
Lucky kids.

all photographs: Nick Kane

photograph: Daniel Stier

 drawing: AY Architects in collaboration with Michiko Sumi 

RIBA Journal

P.E.A.R. was very happy to be asked to contribute to the current guest-edited issue of RIBA Journal on 'Other Architectures', and even more thrilled to get the cover spot!  Here is Avni's final design.  The issue is out now in all good book shops.

Publish And Be Damned

 

On Saturday P.E.A.R. will be at the ICA in London for Publish And Be Damned Fair 2013.  We'll have back copies of old issues as well as a good stock of the new issue...

Hopefully we'll see you there.  Here are all the details:

PABD 2013

ICA

Saturday 2 March 2013

Publish And Be Damned Fair 2013

11am - 7pm

Join us for the usual mayhem and over 50 PABD Members including, The Block, OEI magazine / OEI Editor, Happy Sick Idle, Copy, Picpus, Limner Journal and Studio Operative, FUN Magazine / Ditto Press, Duke Press, The Grantchester Free Press, Mark Pawson, Wysing Arts Centre, Café Royal Books, X marks the Bökship, Daniel James Wilkinson, The Coelacanth Press, P.A.S.T. Projects, covered in toner, Nieves, P.E.A.R., Fillip, New Documents, Allotrope Press, MUTE, AND, Schizm, Art Licks, ESP/Eastside Projects, Michalis Pichler, Hard Mag, Onomatopee, The Everyday Press, T-R-E-M-O-R-S,  Clod Magazine, Infinite Greyscale, [RHP] CDRs, Decadence Comics, Garageland/ Arty, Occasional Papers, Performance as Publishing, AMBruno, Sara MacKillop, LemonMelon, David Osbaldeston, The London Bookshop Map, Banner Repeater, SALT., fourteen-nineteen,  Arcadia Missa, oomk zine, I am Dora. I am Dora, The Gym and The Alarmist.

Instant Publishing/Automatic Writing

New videos by Fiona James, Clunie Reid, Erica Scourti, Anne Tallentire, Duncan White and Camilla Wills will be installed throughout the fair.

'I Don't Want to Write a PhD' panel discussion

11am - 12.30pm

Anat Ben-David, Sean Dockray and John Russell in a panel discussion in the ICA Cinema. Chaired by Alison Green and Jo Morra

Tickets £5 (free to ICA Members) Book a place

'I Don't Want to Write a PhD' workshop

1.30 - 6pm

A workshop following the talk led by Alison Green and Rebecca Harris. Participants will produce a publication that extends the mornings discussion and documents the events of the day.

Tickets £5 (free to ICA Members) Book a place

LOVE PABD

 7pm-late

launches, readings and DJ-ing in the ICA Bar

ICA

The Mall

London

SW1Y 5AH

Organised by Louise O'Hare and Kate Phillimore as PABD in association with the ICA. Videos curated by Three Letter Words and Duncan White. Special thanks to The Block. 'I don't want to write a PhD' talk and workshop organised by PABD/Three Letter Words in collaboration with the Practices of Writing and Publishing research group at Central Saint Martins  and in association with the ICA.

Rosa Barba at Turner Contemporary

Carl Andre might be luring the crowds to Turner Contemporary this winter but the concurrent exhibition of work by Rosa Barba is worth much more than a glance.  Barba presents film as sculpture, with visual equipment used to produce an absence of image.

Color Clocks: Verticals Lean Occasionally Consistently Away from Viewpoints, 2012

3 filmic sculptures, 3 x 35mm film, motors

Space-Length Thought, 2012

16mm film, projector, typewriter,

 installation view: Kunsthaus Zurich, 2012

On a grey day it was impossible to see the white space Barba is projecting on the sea outside the gallery, but this perhaps made the attempt to frame a small section of the limitless more moving.  Her film, Subconscious Society, similarly ties land and water, tracing the marks left by industrial heritage on the landscape around Margate and also Manchester, where a parallel exhibition runs at The Cornerhouse.

Subconscious Society, 2013 

film stills 35mm

all images © Rosa Barba

P.E.A.R. 5 launch

Thanks to everyone who came to the Architecture Foundation last week.  Luckily we just about managed to squeeze in the launch before the snow arrived!  If you weren't able to join us and are worried that you might have missed your chance to get your hands on a copy of the fantastic new issue, fear not.  It is now available from all (very) good bookshops, as detailed to the right...