Concrete Communities | Panel Debate + Drinks | Hawkins\Brown HQ. London

Concrete Communities | Panel Debate + Drinks | Hawkins\Brown HQ. London

By Concrete Communities

Concrete Communities opens up conversations about inclusivity, equality, modernity and community with design industry professionals.

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Hawkins\Brown

30 Clerkenwell Road London EC1M 5PG United Kingdom

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  • 3 hours
  • In person

About this event

Community • City & Town

Event 011 explores the complex relationship between skateboarders and urban public space. In collaboration with Hawkins\Brown, it will examine how architecture in cities is appropriated, adapted and (occasionally) contested by skaters in pursuit of their sport.

Fundamentally a spatial activity, skateboarding is rooted in movement, flow and improvisation. What begins as public infrastructure, intended for sitting, walking or gathering, becomes terrain to be interpreted, challenged and reimagined. Benches, ledges, handrails and pavements are temporarily transformed, which generates a push-pull dynamic between skateboarders and local councils.

Skateboarders read architecture differently from other city users. The event aims to provoke discussion about whether skateboarding can coexist with urban design in a mutually beneficial way. The debate will uncover what it means to claim space in a city – and ask, who gets to decide how that space is used? As skateboarding gains recognition through Olympic sport status and increased mainstream visibility, the conversation about its place in the public realm has never been more relevant.

Panel 01

Leanne Cloudsdale • Host | Concrete Communities

Seth Curtis • Skateboarder

Yẹmí Aládérun • Architect | Head of Develoment

Dr Iain Borden • Historian | UCL

Wig Worland • Photographer | Archivist

Panel 02

Leanne Cloudsdale • Host | Concrete Communities

Agnieszka Wood • Everyone on Boards

Stuart Maclure • Dev. Manager | Betong Park

Jeremy Donaldson • Architect | Skateboarder

Ed Jarvis • Design Lead | Camden Council

We look forward to welcoming you!

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Credit | Wig Worland @wigworland

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Oct 2 · 18:00 GMT+1