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Test Unit: art, design, architecture summer school and events

17 Jun 2018 – 23 Jun 2018

Event times

17th - 23rd June

Cost of entry

Full bursary
Student / recent graduate - £195
General - £350

Fees includes:
– week-long workshop led by facilitator
– access to a workshop with a technician, tools and materials
– access to all the Test Unit public events
– lunch and dinner Monday – Friday

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​Test Unit is a summer school exploring cross-disciplinary approaches to city development. Through an intensive week we aim to turn talk into action by testing ideas in public space. Each year we inhabit a building or site and learn through engaging with ideas, materials, people and place.

About

Test Unit 2018
Art, Design & Architecture Summer School
17th - 23rd June

Applications now open!

DEADLINE Monday 10am - Mon 21 May

APPLY NOW

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Test Unit is a summer school and events programme exploring cross-disciplinary approaches to city development.

Throughout the intensive week-long programme four facilitators will each lead a group of participants exploring the themes of:

SOURCE MATERIAL with BAXENDALE

How can the act of site responsive making be used as a tool for engagement?

Through sourcing local material we will use this as a tool to map/register the social, cultural and economic condition of the area and construct a new scenario for the occupation and use of the Phoenix Nursery site. The methodology will consist of 4 stages – Observe – React – Gather – Make.

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LEARNING PLATFORMS with A Feral Studio

The designer Paul Elliman said "a school is a building with a school in it".

Do we agree? Where next for creative education? What would independent creative learning, embedded in place and context, look, act and feel like?"

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THE CO-OP PROTOCOL with STEALTH.unlimited

Glasgow’s canal area is bringing its future into collective hands. But how to enact something that is yet to be imagined?

Over the next 10 years the Glasgow Canal Co-op is expected to bring a much needed impact to Glasgow’s canal area. At its start, today, it is a coalition of 12 small and larger actors. What are the most challenging changes to take on? And how will the decisions on these be made?

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THE SEVERED HAND with Assemble

A week long experiment in thinking through building, without models or drawings. How do mainstream cultures of construction impact on our shared experience of the city, and day-to-day possibilities of urban life? What might building together offer as way of thinking differently in or about our environment?

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EVENTS

Running in parallel to the summer school is a public events programme. Entry to all events is included as part of summer school participation and also open to the public.

TEST UNIT 2018 OPENING SYMPOSIUM
Monday 18th June @ 10am
Civic House

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PECHA KUCHA - COMMUNITY CONSULTATION FATIGUE?
Tuesday 19th @ 7pm
at The Whisky Bond

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TALK: DESIGNING AGENCY
Wednesday 20th @ 7pm
at the CCA

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TURNCOATS DEBATE: ART SCHOOL IS DEAD
Thursday 21st @ 8pm
at The Glue Factory

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SATURDAY SCHOOL + TEST UNIT AFTERPARTY
Saturday 23rd from 2pm - late
at Civic House

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Want to know more?

www.agile-city.com/Test-Unit or email hello@agile-city.com

Join the Facebook event here

Exhibiting artistsToggle

A Feral Studio

Assemble

Baxendale

STEALTH.unlimited

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