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January 20, 2006
Rural design
What are the key design tasks facing the new post-agricultural rural economies and settlements? A conference in the UK in September will map out a new role for the arts and design in response to new social, environmental and economic regeneration priorities. Among the strands and seminar topics currently being developed are:
• Arts and agri-tourism, artists projects in B+Bs, farm barns and cattle marts
• New rural media, digital art, design and the new rural knowledge economy
• Rural arts and design festivals, rural performing arts and touring projects
• Rural community broadcasting, convergence and cultural applications of ICT
• New urban-rural business partnerships, and arts-led rural cultural diversity
• Future farms, art-farms, rural art workshops and agri-design industry clusters
• Rural Biennales, proposal for a European Region of Rural Culture & Design
• Designing the new rural settlements; rural housing and architectural initiatives
• Investing in rural community-led design, crafts and arts as cultural capital
• Designing alternative land uses, renewables and new energy & fibre crops
• Food as cultural economy, urban agriculture and urban-rural foods initiatives
• Contemporary rural, innovative crafts and design-led rural regeneration
• Rural textile/fashion design and smart clothing interfaces with agriculture.
The conference is being developed by the Rural Cultural Forum, Arts Council England, LEADER+ UK, Culture NW, LITTORAL Arts, and the Lancashire Economic Partnership. 10 – 13 September 2006 at the University of Lancashire. The event is listed here along with other events to do with the changing rural economy and land use.
Posted by John Thackara at January 20, 2006 09:59 AM
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Here's the famous 10 theses by land/plant artist herman de vries (no-caps is his decision). Here's a permalink in culiblog him.
http://www.culiblog.org/archives/2006/01/vegetation_and
vegetation and art
10 theses
* living things should be treated with repsect for their own message.
* nature is our primary reality. the experience of nature is a universal human value. vegetation is the basis of our existence.
*in art, nature becomes revolution.
* bonsai, constricted and malformed trees or plants are not art. they are perversion.
* in dealing wtih vegetation of plants in art, the artist needs in-depth knowledge about what he is working with.
* to bring plants and art together is a challenge for art.
* art in nature is totally superfluous. art can add nothing of significance to nature. the statements of nature are perfect.
* the restoration of natural relationships can be an artistic act.
* in view of what we imagine nature would do without human intervention, a park is, generally speaking, culturally impoverished nature.
* the ideals of the zen garden - asymmetry, simplicity, spontaneity, the absence of formalism - are nowhere as clearly accessible to visual experience as in naturally flourishing vegetation.
what wonderful things are "abandoned lots", terrain vague, where mugwort, blackberries, thistles and wasteland take over.
- herman de vries
(used without permission from the publication; Transplant, Living Vegetation in Contemporary Art, edited by Barbara Nemitz / Hatje Cantz Publishers, ISBN 3-89322-971-X)
Posted by: debra at January 21, 2006 10:44 AM
