Placemaking: Public Sculpture and Urban Regeneration Past, Present, Future

This one-day academic symposium brings together new research from some of the leading voices in the history of public sculpture and its role in energising community-formation, urban regeneration, and civic pride.

Placemaking gives new emphasis to public sculpture used to create distinctive, much-loved and used civic spaces such as market-squares and transport hubs.

There is a well-developed scholarly and public appreciation of public sculpture in domestic settings, principally in the context of post-war social housing. This symposium extends these debates into other spaces where architecture and sculpture collide – such as shopping centres, peripheral landscapes, interventions in brownfield sites, informal memorials, and ecclesiastical and civic buildings.

This event has been organised in partnership with the 20th Century Society.

Image: Tonkin Liu, Singing Ringing Tree 2007. Image courtesy Ian Lawson / Mid Pennine Arts.