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Saturday Table TalksOwen Griffiths & Andrew Nixon (Powell Dobson)

03 May - 03 May 2014

Artists & Architects as Social Engineers

From 12pm

Join Owen Griffiths, artist, and Andrew Nixon, architect, at Mission Gallery as they discuss their work with panel members David Chambers, Catrin James, Catrina Stewart, Nathalie Camus and chair Bella Kerr, Curator of CIVIC.

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David Chambers | Co-founder & director, aberrant architecture

David Chambers is a director and co-founder of aberrant architecture, a multi-disciplinary design studio and think tank. aberrant has established a reputation for playful, provocative and interactive projects which use architecture and design to introduce new and unexpected ways of experiencing the world.

Last year aberrant won a D&AD award for the second year in a row. In 2012 aberrant was selected to exhibit in the British Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2010, aberrant won a prestigious ‘Designer in Residence’ position at the Victoria and Albert Museum – the first architecture practice ever to be given that honour.  In the same year the practice co-founded The Gopher Hole, a gallery in London.

David studied architecture at Bath University, where he was awarded the Barton Willmore Prize for Innovative Design; at T.U. Delft; and at the Royal College of Art. David is currently an associate lecturer in Spatial Practices at Central St Martins.

Catrina Stewart | Lecturer, writer and architectural designer

Catrina is a cofounder and partner at Office S&M, and an active member of the collective of artists and architects STORE. Catrina graduated in 2011, receiving a Masters in Architecture with Distinction from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. She runs Unit F at Oxford Brookes University, having previously taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture, Brighton University and at ESA in Paris, teaching along side the esteemed Sir Peter Cook.

Catrina’s work explores the social, cultural and architectural implications of existing and new technologies, and the increasing need for cities to find alternative ways of expanding. Her projects are designed to challenge accepted customs and attitudes towards the way we build and power our cities, driven by the need to express the materiality, colour and richness in the details of the everyday. 

Nathalie Camus | Portfolio Manager for Architecture & the Built Environment ACW

Catrin James | Artist 

Catrin James graduated from Cardiff school of art in 2002 as a painter.  Swansea's post war architectural optimism had always been at the core of her work, depicting Dyfatty flats and the David Evans building as iconic landmarks.
Catrin contributed to the Cultural Olympiad for Wales exhibition Adain Avion in 2012 with the film 'Guerilla Restoration'. She was filmed cleaning neglected architectural design features found on many of the city center's 1950s & 1960s buildings.

Bella Kerr | Curator of CIVIC & Programme Director Foundation Studies (Art and Design) Swansea Metropoliatn UWTSD

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