Art
and Mind
In
association with The University of Winchester
with
the support of
Arts
Council England, The
Royal Academy, Royal
Institute of British Architects, Winchester
City Council, University
College London, Artakt, The
Arts Catalyst, Studio
E Architects
Present
Space,
Architecture and the Brain
Where
am I? The
attempt to answer this question marks the beginning of an
extraordinary quest. The revelatory relationship between
architecture and the brain sciences leads us to explore in
new ways our immediate surroundings and the spaces we build
for ourselves to live, work and play in. It leads on outwards
into the local and then distant environments of the
planet and on to the furthest reaches of the universe.
We
believe that you will emerge from this event with a fresh
perception of where and how we find ourselves.
ART
AND MIND is an arts-science partnership
that brings together eminent artists, scientists and thinkers
in live performance and discussion to examine the way we experience
and create contemporary culture.
Theatre
Royal Winchester
Jewry
Street, Winchester SO23 8SB
Box
Office tel: 01962 840 440
Saturday
4 March 2006
Art
and Mind in association with Church
Colleges Choirs Festival 2006 present
7.30pm
Winchester Cathedral
PEACESONG
This
large scale concert involving some dramatic elements
will explore the magnificent acoustic space of the cathedral
in new and exciting ways. It will use a choir of over
200 singers and include music by John Tavener, a new commission
by June Boyce-Tillman (University of Winchester) exploring
peace-making and music and a wide variety of other sacred
music performed by the choirs of Church Colleges, Universities
from across the UK and local school children.
Friday
10 March
ARCHITECTURE
AND THE UNIVERSE
7.30
– 10pm Session One (£12/£10 con)
The
Garden of Cosmic Speculation
How
a new marriage of science, metaphor and design inspired one
of the most original and important gardens of
the 21st century.
Charles
Jencks, internationally renowned architectural writer and
landscape designer.
Zero
Gravity
Artists
and the experience of weightlessness
Films
and presentation by Nicola Triscott, Director of the science-art
agency The Arts Catalyst.
Saturday
11 March
THE
SPACES WE CREATE
11am
– 1.30pm Session Two (£10/£8 con)
From
there to here
Extended
mind
Evolution
of Intelligence and the navigation of our environment.
Dr
Mike Wheeler, Philosophy, Stirling
Break
Social
evolution
How
societies shape and are shaped by space.
Alan
Penn, Professor of Architectural and Urban Computing, The
Bartlett, UCL
2.30
– 5pm Session
Three (£10/£8 con)
Building
the future
How
new materials and a culture of impermanence are re-shaping
the way we live.
There’s
no such thing as a free lunch
Keynote
presentation by John Allen, internationally renowned inventor
of Biosphere II and ecosystems engineer.
Break
Sustainable
architecture
David
Lloyd Jones, acknowledged expert and innovator in energy
conscious and sustainable architecture; he designed the first
commercial zero-emissions building in the world.
Material
future
Iain
Borden, Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture, Bartlett,
UCL
Panel
discussion
Building
the Future: how new materials and a culture of impermanence
are re-shaping the way we live.
John
Allen, David Lloyd Jones, Iain Borden
Chair:
Dr Dylan Evans, Lecturer, Intelligent Autonomous Systems,
University of the West of England
7
- 10pm Session
Four (£12/£10 con)
 ARCADIA
by
Tom Stoppard
A
full performance by the acclaimed Hampstead Players of Stoppard’s
ground breaking play. Against the background of changing
garden design and a 180 year leap in time, Arcadia deals with
science, art, places and people and how our attitudes to them
are changed by history, ambition and sex.
Sunday
12 March
THE
SPACES WE LIVE IN
11am
- 1.30pm
Session Five (£10/£8 con)
Function
and dysfunction
Mind
space - The
architecture of wellbeing
Dr
John Zeisal, Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture
Break
Home
space
Re-inventing
Kitchen Culture
Johnny
Grey, architect and internationally renowned kitchen designer
2.30
- 5pm Session Six (£10/£8
con)
Where
and how we find ourselves
The
space between our ears
How
our brain interprets what we see
Michael
Morgan, Applied Vision Research Centre, City University, London
Break
Royal
Academy Forum
Does
architecture oppress or liberate?
A
debate on the power of design to engage or dictate
Will
Alsop RA (architect) Bryan Appleyard (cultural
critic)
John
Zeisal (psychologist) Michael Morgan (scientist)
Chair:
Royal Academy
Art
and Mind
In
association with the Winchester Year of Sculpture
Present
WE
ARE WHERE WE ARE
An
exhibition of work by
Andrew
Carnie
the
first floor of the City Church at 30-31 Jewry Street, Winchester
Friday
10th - Saturday 18 March, Daily
11am - 6pm (Sunday 12, 1 - 6 pm)
Andrew
Carnie will be speaking about his work (1
- 2pm on Saturday 11 and Saturday 18 March)
Andrew
Carnie has worked with scientists from many different fields.
Questions raised by his work include ‘how do we see ourselves
through science and scientific image making?’, and ‘what is
the ‘place’ or ‘space’ where the ‘self’ is created.
Andrew has a particular interest in the architecture of the
body and the brain. The exhibition offers a chance to
see a number of works relating to these themes.
Andrew
has had recent shows in the Science Museum, London. the Design
Museum Zurich, and the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam
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