Monday 25 October: 6.00pm to 8.00pm
Opening Talk: A Miserable Disappointment No More?
John Punter, Professor of Urban Design at Cardiff University, examines the impact of urban design on the regeneration of Sheffield City Centre and the other seven English ‘Core Cities’ since the publication of the Urban Task Force report (1999). He will draw on ‘Urban Design and the British Urban Renaissance’, a major research project he has recently overseen. With contributions from Philip Booth, local academic and author of the Sheffield chapter of the study.
Tuesday 26 October: 4.00pm to 6.00pm
Public and Private Open Spaces - Innovative Solutions
A talk on Making Places Profitable: Public and Private Open Spaces - an EU funded project concentrating on transnational solutions for place making and long-term place keeping.
Wednesday 27 October: 1.00pm to 2.00pm Lunchtime Talk
Sustainable Neighbourhoods and Urban Waterfronts.
With David Rudlin of URBED.
Thursday 28 October: 6.00pm for 6.15pm start
Does Beauty Matter?
Philosopher & author Julian Baggini will be talking about beauty, the subject of new research for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) conducted by Ipsos MORI in Sheffield.
Booking: required
Friday 29 October
‘Like it or Loathe it’ 6.45pm for a 6.50pm.
View the official switch on of the Illumination of the giant electricity substation, landmark on the Inner Ring Road.
‘Marmite Buildings’ 7.45pm to 9.00pm.
Following the switch on, an evening of lively entertainment and informal debate on Sheffield Architecture past and present.
