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Utopias Talk Nov 2018 “Our whole environment can be a work of art - in theory at least; yet with nature, art, industry & people, as we all know, the true value lies beyond the aesthe=c”. Stuart Bas)k The following are extracts from a conversation I’ve been having with myself... And Art Gene For the past 25 years Mostly because no one else is prepared to listen to me rambling on for that long Art Gene A brief introduction Seeking out the good the bad & the ugly in order that we can have a full and frank discussion around sustainability Navigating the no man’s land which lies between different interests, agendas & demands on space... Industrial - Social - Environmental Stuart Bastik, ‘What a difference an ‘F’ Makes’, 2002 Or embracing the positives in the duality of things people and places The role of (Inter)National Artists, Architects, other Specialists & Communities in Re-Visioning the Social, Natural & Built environment An important part of readiness is opportunity... Art Gene - Design Cafe, ‘Street Training’ Workshop with artist Lottie Child The Social Mobilising & empowering people... Moving beyond passive entertainment... making and realising our own stories & not believing everything we are told. An important part of readiness is opportunity... Art Gene - Allotment Soup Community Growing Space Working with communities to make change Laying aside notions of the ‘unique genius’ - moving from populations of viewers or audience to participants & co-authors. The ‘Natural’ anything from NNR’s & SSSI’s to Brown-field sites, backyards & allotments derelict spaces, dumps & industrial wastelands Exploratory Drill Cores dumped at Sandscale Haws NNR View of Barrow Ironworks slag bank from Walney Island Valuing, protecting & making use of important local ‘resources’ the things which form vibrant & complex glocally distinctive places & those which tell stories. Shed built on squatted land within what is now a National Nature Reserve The Built including the unloved, the listed, vernacular, industrial, scheduled & the unsanctioned Developing locally defined hierarchies of value, quality, significance & importance. We are also interested in the collisions of Industry & Nature Drawing out and attaching value to unusual ‘hidden assets’ Searchlight Emplacement South Walney - structure at risk This is important if we want to preserve some of them Remembering to question ourselves Stuart Bastik, ‘The impossibility of reliable judgement in the mind of an aesthete’, Beautiful & Ugly Stones. North Walney NNR We all become the places we live This goes for ugly places as much as beautiful ones But ultimately the distinctions are meaningless beautiful places can be unproductive and barren and ugly places abundant... We can author ourselves through our places. Souvenir Vickers Ashtray celebrating polaris nuclear missile Astute Nuclear Submarine Launch 2007 The next stage in human evolution (if there is to be one) is, I believe, not about finding creative ways to maintain the status quo. It is about making creativity ubiquitous, powerful, purposeful and ultimately influential in that it should change the why and way we live. Unfortunately it seems to me that artists are set to become the wind turbines in the Tesco car park of regeneration. Servants of the imagination deficient- the authors of ‘Cultural Deprivation’ & ‘Social Exclusion’ at work - endlessly re-confirming their prejudices to each other & mistaking them for fact. Or worse… tourists - plundering & commodifying grass-roots riches & the realities of people & place - engineers of vicarious disconnected ‘experiences’ suiting the palate of a ‘superior' sometimes mocking orthodox elite who rarely give-back to the source. HMS Ambush Launch celebrated in pansies. Photo: Maddi Nicholson It seems to me that the impetus for rapid a radical change is staring us in the face but we choose to ignore it. SO WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA? ‘Sustainability lies in the actions of whole communities’ That means working with the folk you trust & especially the ones you don’t trust OUR TOP 10 for working collaboratively with communities, stakeholders and partners Barnes Wallis (later of Bouncing Bomb fame) was working as a draughtsman when he met H.B. Pratt. H.B. Pratt was working in Barrow & asked Wallis to join him. Together, they designed His Majesty’s Airship No.9: the frst rigid British Airship to fy successfully from her hangar on Walney Island. Later airships including the R26 class, were designed and built on Walney by Pratt & Wallis. Wallis went on to design the R80 built on Walney. The airships built in Barrow led to the development of the R100 for One of the group : Ormonde Wind Farm 2011 sited Vickers built in Howden Yorkshire with Neville Shute (later known as a 10km of Walney Island features 30 of the World’s novelist) who was the team’s Deputy Chief Engineer. Largest Wind Turbines - 156m High & 661 Tonnes ea. Roe Deer Blackpool Tower, which can be seen from the Barrow Cormorant Sea Holly R100 famously few to Canada in July 1930 in 78 hours. Covering the coast on a clear day, is only 2m taller than each of AY Buzzard AY 3300 mile journey at an average speed of 42 mph. Arguably the these massive turbines. AY Robb’s Water Fishermen’s Farm Sedge greatest (& last) British Airship of an age. Wrecked The rotors are 126m in diameter: larger than the Cabins Oak Lea Warbler 4-10 http://www.sirbarneswallis.com/Airships.htm 4x4’s London Eye. Together they are capable of providing Bass Curlew AY Farm Lowsy Point power for 100,000 homes. 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