Discuss and debate the ethics of contemporary Architectural Practice with others, in this interactive and immersive adventure.

Archifringe TV: How Clean is your Practise?
by Architecture Fringe, with Rebecca Davies and Anna Francis

Day-time TV for architects. Get your archi-fix with presenters Hayley and Bill – getting to the crux of development issues and shining a spotlight on all things health, lifestyle, bricks, mortar and concrete. If it’s relevant - it’s on there.

Each day during the first week of the Fringe, guests (that’s you!) are invited to respond, unpick and importantly get to the heart of situations commonly experienced by architects and communities across the country.

These stories will be delivered via daily News Reports on 'How Clean is your Practice?'. Your challenge is to navigate the story, get to its crux and explore methods and approaches that could be employed by stakeholders to improve the circumstances and alter the status quo.

“Like Part-3, but more fun” The Radio Times

How to take part:

Every morning, across five days of the Fringe (7–11 June), a new episode of Archifringe TV will arrive on your smart-phone. In the evening (at either 5:30 or 9pm - you decide, when registering for this event), you will gather for 45 minutes with your group of co-investigators to navigate, discuss and debate the quandaries and questions posed by that morning's edition. This will take place via a text messaging app group, set up especially for this project. You will work in small groups of 5 or 6 people, allocated at random, and anonymous (unless you wish to be identified). These groups are unfacilitated and autonomous.

Participants would require a phone or other device which can operate messenger apps such as WhatsApp/Telegram. Full details, guidance, and joining instructions will be sent out a few days before the event.

We are running two sessions every night, and when booking you choose whether you're more a 5:30pm kind of person or a 9pm kind of person. Event takes place via smart-phone and instant messenger.

If signing up we’d ask participants to commit to taking part in at least 3 of the 5 discussion sessions (hopefully more!), to ensure a good experience for everyone. Stay tuned for booking details!

Bios:

Rebecca Davies is from London and lives in Stoke On Trent. She has a deeply embedded and collaborative practice that crosses illustration, design, performance and event.Her work explores the role of art in making change, as a device and platform, to represent and communicate complex stories and politics.

She studied illustration at Glasgow School of Art and graduated from the RCA Communication Art & Design course in 2010, receiving the Sheila Robinson Prize for Drawing. In 2013 she was made an Artsadmin Associate Artist. She has run participation projects with Turner Contemporary, Tate, South London Gallery, and was lead artist of the Whitechapel Gallery Community Workshops for 3 years. Her project, The Oasis Social Club, represented Great Britain at the 2015 Mons European Capital of Culture before completing a UK tour. Rebecca set up Peoples' Bureau with Eva Sajovic, an associate of Tate Exchange. Their film Unearthing Elephant received the AHRC award for Research in film, 2017.

Rebecca and artist Anna Francis set up The Portland Inn Project CIC in 2016 in a residential area of Stoke on Trent, working in collaboration with other artists, arts organisations and residents to improve their community and renovate an old pub building. The project advocates for people led change, and champions the importance of art in leading that change, and in cooperation with public services.
W: rebeccadaviesartist.co.uk
W: www.theportlandinnproject.com
IG: @rebeccamariadavies

Anna Francis is an artist and researcher whose work aims to create space to discuss and reframe city resources, through participatory art interventions. She creates situations for herself, the public and other artists to explore places differently. In recent years the interventions which Anna has worked on focus on the city of Stoke-on-Trent, and use an action research process to recognise untapped resources, plan responses to disused sites in the city, take action to change the way these sites are viewed, and potentially, make changes, which can be temporary and sometimes permanent. Through this, Anna aims to gain an understanding of the role of artists, arts organisations and communities in the development of places.

Anna leads The Portland Inn project with artist Rebecca Davies, and is Associate Professor of Fine Art and Social Practice at Staffordshire University. She is also co-director of AirSpace Gallery.
W: annafrancis.blogspot.com/
W: www.theportlandinnproject.com
IG: @annafrancisart

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