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Common Grounds: Skateboarding, Learning, and The Built Environment
17 May 2024, 9:30 am–7:00 pm
This one-day conference will explore how creative and participatory approaches to community engagement can influence the design and use of public spaces, and how skate communities then form around them.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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City Mill Skate
Location
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UCL East One Pool Street1 Pool StreetLondonE20 2AFUnited Kingdom
This is a free event that will open the City Mill Skateboarding Festival.
The conference will include keynote presentations, panel discussions, a film screening and a tour of City Mill Pool Street skate park.
This is the plan for the day in terms of timings:
09.30 Coffee
10-10.30 Welcome and keynote
10.30-12 Panel 1
12-13 Lunch/Skate
13.30-15.00 Panel 2
15.30-17.00 Panel 3 + screening
17.30 - 19.00 Drinks and pizza at City Mill Pool Street skate space
Our City Mill Pool Street skate park is a temporary community facility created by UCL and partners on undeveloped land on our new UCL East campus on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park at East Bank, the UK’s newest cultural quarter.
The skate park was borne out of UCL's City Mill Skate research project and designed by and with the local skateboard community. The temporary facility opened in the summer of 2022 and has hosted a series of events and learning opportunities for skaters of all abilities and ages and their families.