2 April 2011, 1.30-5pm, FREE

Mobile Conference 2 provokes discussion on the theme of urban environments and changing social histories. Join the debate: bring your questions and discuss your responses to the artists’ off-site projects with other delegates and invited speakers.

South London Gallery
Registration and Coffee
65 Peckham Road
London SE5 8UH
1.30-2pm

Join us for registration and coffee and you will be guided to your first session of the day. 

Sceaux Gardens
Febrik
4 Sceaux Gardens
London SE5
2.15-3pm & 3.15-4pm

How can play help us to re-imagine place?

The Lebanon-based artist/architectural group Febrik works in the Middle East and the UK. Febrik members Reem Charif and Mohamad Hafeda have been in residence working with children on Sceaux Gardens estate for the last six months as part of the South London Gallery’s education project, Making Play, the final artists to do so as part of this three-year programme.

Their residency aims to evaluate the series of six artists’ residencies that have taken place with participating children and build on possibilities for the future. In particular they have been exploring ideas of the familiar and unfamiliar, enabling children to generate ‘curious objects’ as a means of re-imagining the estate and its playful possibilities.

Peckham Space
Camberwell College of Arts
David Cotterrell
89 Peckham High Street
London SE15 5RS
2.15-3pm & 3.15-4pm

Can residents’ memories define a sense of place? 

Peckham Space has commissioned artist David Cotterrell to produce new work Slipstream, a film which maps social, geographical and personal histories of north Peckham through an investigation of the area’s changing landscape.

David Cotterrell is a London-based artist whose work addresses political and social issues relating to the environments which his work inhabits. His work has been extensively commissioned and exhibited in North America, Europe and the Far East, in gallery spaces, museums and within the public realm. He holds a Professorship of Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University and has been a consultant to strategic master plans, cultural and public art policy for urban regeneration, healthcare and growth.

Tenants and Residents Association Hall
Lottie Child
TRA Hall
Marie Curie House
Sceaux Gardens estate
London SE5 8UH
4.15-5pm

How can we feel safer and more joyful on estates?

Lottie Child is an artist who has spent the last ten years developing her practice of Street Training: “constructing situations that defy the traditional context of museum and gallery environments, focusing on behaviour in public places”. 

The South London Gallery commissioned Lottie to work with young people as part of Southwark Council’s Joint Security Initiative, designed to improve community safety on estates. Together they have explored the difference between creative and anti-social behaviour and devised a series of training courses for professionals who make decisions about young people’s lives, including the local Safer Neighbourhood Police. A film by Ed Webb-Ingall is shown as part of the final discussion in the Tenants and Residents Hall on Sceaux Gardens estate.