Architecture and Planning — A Hustings for Glasgow’s Built Environment
Organised by New Glasgow Society
Supported by Built Environment Forum Scotland
Venue: The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow, G1 3NU
Orangebox Gallery
Wednesday 12th April 2017
Doors 6.30pm for a prompt 6.45pm start
Free but ticketed. To book a ticket, go to: ngshustings2017.eventbrite.co.uk
In advance of local elections in May 2017, New Glasgow Society is hosting a hustings event focused on the built environment in Glasgow. Representatives of main parties will be attending and fielding questions from you, the general public, about their plans for the city – its architecture, places and spaces.
What are the various parties’ plans for the city? What are the key infrastructure challenges facing Glasgow? Where do you think its priorities should lie?
Join the debate! Come along, have your say, and put your questions to Glasgow’s politicians. The event will run to a ‘question time’ format.
Chair: Karen Anderson,
Chair of Architecture and Design Scotland
Panel:
Scottish Green Party - Christy Mearns
Liberal Democrats - Carole Ford
Scottish National Party - David McDonald or Susan Aitken
plus other panellists t.b.c.
Transience: Glasgow School of Art, MRes Creative Practices interim show
The Glasgow School of Art's Masters of Research in Creative Practices interim show Transience will open on Wed 26th April at the New Glasgow Society.
Not heavy, just awkward
‘Not heavy just awkward’ is composed of a new body of sculptural works by three final year GSA sculpture students Amy Grogan, Millie Layton and Oona Wilkinson.
Felix Bucklow: Playtime_
Illusion and mimicry are devices which painting has always found too comfortable. When Felix began painting at the Royal Opera House it was still the medium of choice to trick and wow the audience. Yet at the same time it manages to fall so short within the gallery space and often isolates rather than allures.
Alfonso Ramundo: Derelict Decadence
Alfonso Ramundo is an Italian photographer who has lived in Glasgow for almost two decades. Throughout his career, he has focused on different areas of photography but there has always been a constant theme in his work - decadent structures of any kind. As a child, he had a fascination for abandoned houses in the countryside near his hometown. Since then, Alfonso has spent his life photographing old buildings, showing them in their present form - often neglected and forgotten but with a story to tell.
Hiding in the light
This exhibition guides the viewer on a journey through human civilization, and examines the traces we leave behind either as a group or as an individual when a change in patterns, movements or power occurs.
SEDA Green Drinks - Spaces Matter with Veronica Low
A look through the prism of Georg Simmel’s essay "The Metropolis & Mental Life" at how the creation of urban green space and empowered communities influence human experience in 21st century Glasgow.