EDGE: Border

Join UCL's Urban Laboratory and the Folkestone Triennial 2017 for a one-day event exploring situated practice, contemporary art, architecture and urbanism on the southwestern littoral edge of England.
Saturday 4 November, 9:00am-5:30pm

Friedrich Ludewig, The Decorators, Diane Dever, Stroom, and Charles Quick are among the speakers at this event exploring situated practice, contemporary art, architecture and urbanism.

'Border' is the final event in the three-part EDGE series with Folkestone Triennial 2017 to bring together practitioners and thinkers at three 'edge' locations connected by the High Speed 1 railway, to consider creative place-making, arts-led urbanism, and the use of interstitial spaces in the city.

For the third and final event, we consider Folkestone. At the littoral edge of southeast England, its urbanism connect equally with water and land. From 1842 to 1992 it was the main pivot for passenger transport between France and England, and with the more recent construction of HS1, Folkestone has been gifted the questionable status of dormitory suburb to the Capital.

You can view the full programme here (pdf).

Keynote: Friedrich Ludewig

Other speakers: Lewis Biggs, Lesley Hardy, Darrell Rohl, The Decorators, Diane Dever, Stroom, Charles Quick, Jonathan Ward, JJ Charlesworth, Princess Marilyn Douala Manga Bell, Sorcha Carey and Anthony Downey.

The series is organised by the UCL Urban Laboratory and Folkestone Triennial 2017, with additional support from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL and The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. 

Purchase tickets here.

EDGE- FILM SCREENING on 3 November 2017

In collaboration with the Open City Documentary Festival and The Bartlett's Film+Place+Architecture Doctoral network, Urban Lab Films present an EDGE  lm screening on the evening proceeding the BORDER symposium.

CALAIS: THE LAST BORDER MARC ISAACS / 2003 / UNITED KINGDOM / 59"

+ SELECTED SHORTS

For the English, the French port town of Calais is the gateway to Europe or a place to buy cheap alcohol. But for hundreds of migrants

it is the  nal barrier in the desperate search for a new life in England. For the inhabitants of Calais life can be very hard. Filmmaker Marc Isaacs carefully juxtaposes the lives of refugees, migrants and English expatriates, prompting each to re ect on life in their home country and their dreams for a better future. Calais: The Last Border is an intimate  lm about life in a transient town.

The  lm will be accompanied by a curated selection of shorts.

Further screenings in the EDGE  lm series are held on Friday 8 September in central London and Friday 6 October in east London.

Tickets are sold separately. Visit opencitylondon.com