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THE GALLERY, 75 COWCROSS ST
LONDON, EC1M 6EJ
Review 15:00pm
Reception 18:00pm
Join the Academy to look back at the achievements of the last 6 months and help plan for the future.
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'The Layered City: City-Region-Neighbourhood'
MANCHESTER
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Join us for our fifth Annual Congress, taking place in Manchester. This challenging programme will bring together delegates from a wide variety of disciplines and locations to explore the relationships between city-regions and their constituent communities.
'Local Identity and Urbanism'
Beginning with an optional tour and film about the Tobacco factory, itself a local landmark, which kick-started a wave of neighbourhood regeneration and local identity. The focus of the evening will be a debate titled 'Local Identity if a thing of the Past', featuring key local Academicians who will argue whether identity is defined by history, or by actions we make today.
Curator George Ferguson
5.30pm - 8.30pm
Tobacco Factory
Bristol
'The Value of Resilient Places'
This event will bring Academicians and friends together to explore the challenges we face in enabling places to be more economically and socially resilient as places people and businesses want to be. In particular, we will consider the proactive role of positive urbanism in meeting these challenges in the current recessionary climate.
Curator Trevor Davies and Riccardo Marini
Co-Sponsored by Architecture + Design Scotland
1.30pm - 8.30pm
Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh
'Make Do and Mend - Remodelling the City Today'
Make Do and Mend' is an approach gathering momentum in a time where budgets have been reigned in. Nottingham Trent University will be presenting their very own make do and mend, while explaining how to make the most out of your city's existing fabric.
Curator Jon Phipps
3.00pm - 6.00pm
Co-Sponsored by Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
'Alternative Ways of Making Things Happen'
This event will focus on several key Dublin Stories, accounts of modest interverntions or projects that have been subversive system changers. The event will also run a workshop, where select questions will focus on how the Academy can help nurture initiatives in a time of economic downturn.
Curator Dick Gleeson
5.30pm - 8.30pm
Co-Sponsored by Dublin City Council
Civic Offices, Dublin City Council,
Wood Quay, Dublin
HAVANA, CUBA
An international delegation is invited to join Cuban experts and communinities to develop proposals for the regeneration and development of an area of Havana.
CUBA - HAVANA CIENFREGOS, TRINIDAD
Study Visit, Discussion & Reception
Explore the potential of social enterprise to achieve neighbourhood renewal.
LEEDS
4 speakers, 4 themes, 4 Thursdays
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ECOBUILD, LONDON
Free to attend (booking essential)
10:30-13:00 Learning from Place
14:00-16:30 The Academy Debate
We invite you to join us for two events at ecobuild, where in the
morning we will link up with The academy’s Great Places for 2010 to identify the lessons
learned and how these can be successfully transferred. In the afternoon, Localism: Reality
or Rhetoric - Who cares? will bring together an exciting and highly-regarded panel of
speakers to stimulate your thoughts and engage you in debate on the theme of localism
and whether, and in what form, this much vaunted topic can either help or hinder the
delivery of great places and vibrant communities.
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Visit the ecobuild website to register for free
COIN STREET, LONDON
13:00-14:00 Study Visit: Coin Street
14:00-17:45 Seminar: There is Another Way
17:45-19.00 Study Visit: Borough Market
19:00 Reception: The Banana Store
There is Another Way will look at Great Neighbourhood 2010 Coin Street and Great Place 2007 Borough Market as examples of the potential of social enterprise in the design, delivery and management of better places, and their impact on achieving neighbourhood renewal.
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