Assemble : Workspace, Communities & Play

Cycle de conférences de l'ENSAB 2024/2025

Dernière conférence 2024 !
L’ENSAB vous donne RDV Jeudi 05/12/2024 à 18h _ Entrée libre _ En présence d'Owen LACEY and Lauren HARBORD _ General Manager and Workspace Director _ Assemble Design Ltd (Londres)

> conférence en anglais - suivie d'un pot organisé par l'association de l'ENSAB la K-fête

Assemble : Workspace, Communities & Play

Evénement inscrit dans le cadre de la Programmation culturelle de l'ENSAB 2024/2025
Thématique : par Julia TOURNAIRE [Maîtresse de conférences TPCAU et VT ENSA Bretagne]
https://www.rennes.archi.fr/culture-architecturale/conferences-2/

Owen LACEY, born and raised in Eastbourne, UK, is a Partner at Assemble, bringing a unique background that bridges the worlds of art and architecture. He studied fine art and has worked with multiple galleries and practices. With a foundation in fine art and experience across various galleries and practices, Owen now serves as Assemble General Manager. Owen’s work focuses on the inner workings of the collective and developing collaborative methods of practice. Through communal facilitation, Owen creates an environment that enables the collective ethos of Assemble to thrive.

Lauren HARBORD has always been interested in alternative spaces and how they can build community. As Workspace Director at Assemble, she advocates for inner-city maker spaces and the preservation of industrial lands, ensuring creative resources and shared spaces remain accessible within London. Her work spans innovative governance structures to establish equitable environments for individual and collective growth. Lauren is curious about how we can share our space, resources and time better, with a belief in the power of collaboration to empower communities. Previously, she managed community-centred projects at 3Space, Brixton Pound, and Crisis, each reinforcing her dedication to creating spaces that support local artists, charities, and small businesses

Presentation

Assemble is a multi-disciplinary collective working across built environment disciplines, including architecture, research, design and public art. Founded in 2010 to undertake a single self-built project, Assemble has since delivered a diverse and award-winning body of work, whilst retaining a democratic and cooperative working method that enables built, social and research-based work at a variety of scales, both making things and making things happen. Our projects range widely in scope and scale. We design cities, places, buildings and public spaces; we build buildings and bits of buildings; we make products, furniture and artworks; we write business plans, develop project strategies and create organisations; we curate and design exhibitions; we design and manage workspaces; we undertake research, write books, teach, give talks and organise events. As a practice, we have tried to champion a way of working which is local and committed, which positions the architect as part of an on-going local conversation. Economically and organisationally this is often a struggle, and we are most proud of the work where we have been able to use architectural intervention to contribute to the efforts of a community to push forward change themselves. These include the work in Walthamstow, with Blackhorse Workshop, in Glasgow, with Baltic Street Adventure Playground, and in Liverpool with Granby Workshop. These are all organisations started by Assemble, which now have an independent life of their own, and which continue to be agents of change around which communities can strengthen, and grow networks of meaningful mutual support.Alongside our design practice, we run a network of creative workspaces which we have founded, designed and built to support productive exchange through a cooperative use of resources. Across 3 sites in Central London, Sugarhouse Studios provides for a broad spectrum of independent creative and industrial businesses and cultural producers who enjoy shared access to generous spaces, professional equipment and diverse expertise. We provide secure, affordable space for people and industries who make things - from art, fashion and music to products and buildings - and promotes what is produced through public programmes, open-access workshops and by designing spaces that are civic and social, not simply industrial and utilitarian. More than simply providing space where people make things, we want to make a public building where things are produced and where production is experienced. Spaces that enable large scale, noisy and messy work is important because this kind of accommodation is in increasingly short supply.