Connecting Principle is an art centred international multi-disciplinary research forum at Newcastle University instigating a dialogue between art and other disciplines. The aim of the forum is to increase opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration within academia and independently. Connecting Principle sees itself as an international network of artists, theorists and researchers.
Our current activities feature a series of presentations, round table discussions and an annual two-day event that showcases the recent projects and collaborations of our members.
Recent:
Connecting Principle Event 09: The Shift
Thursday November 19th, Culture Lab
Community, Creativity and Sustainability: Three challenging terms with high currency that permeate our contemporary practices. The Connecting Principle event aims at unravelling, unveiling, revealing and maybe denouncing the ambiguities of these terms.
Who is the community? What is creativity? What is to be sustained? What might constitute a sustainable, creative community? What might be its remit, its agency and its practices?
Artists, architects, urban designers, planners, students, academics as well as the wider community and professionals of the built environment are invited to stir and shift conceptions and preconceptions of these terms and help raise new questions.
Programme:
10:00 Arrival, coffee and tea
10:15 Introduction by Lowri Bond, Wolfgang Weileder, Michael Tawa, Daniel Mallo, Armelle Tardiveau
10:30 Milan Jaros (download handout)
10:55 Hermann Pitz
11:20 Augustin Berque
11:45 Break, coffee and tea
12:00 – 12:20 Group discussions
12:20 – 12:45 Groups concluding thoughts
12:45 – 13:00 Michael Tawa summary
13:00 – 14:00 End of event, finger buffet
Acknowledgments
The images for the animation were generously provided by Lucy Bedford, Alistair Bonnett, Ele Carpenter, Alain Chiaradia, Ciron Edwards, Joel Fisher, Claudia v. Funke, Vicente García, Jose Ruiz Gonzalez, Jaime Hernandez, Rachel Holland, Louise Izod, Milan Jaros, Key Portilla-Kawamura, Peter Kellett, Marie Kirbyshaw, Miranda Lawry, M+M, Andrea Macdonald, Aurélie Monsaingeon, Chi Park, Doina Petrescu, Hermann Pitz, Albrecht Schäfer, Claudia Straub, T. G. Townshend, Gabrielle Wambaugh and Trevor Weekes.
With Special thanks to the following partners
who enabled this project to take place: Northern Architecture, Culture
Lab, School of Arts
and Cultures, School of Architecture,
Planning and Landscape and Newcastle
Institute for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (NIASSH).
