Created by Claire Tindale, The Expanded City map was designed to accompany the 'Lie of the Land' symposium in 2018, as part of the second stage of The Expanded City project. It geographically [...]
Designed by Claire Tindale and written by Lauren Velvick, this small publication introduces The Expanded City project and gives details of the initial research undertaken by artists Gavin Renshaw, Olivia Keith, Ian Nesbitt & Ruth [...]
As part of The Expanded City project, Gavin Renshaw researched the aesthetics of newspapers associated with bicycle [...]
March 2018 Writer and artist Lauren Velvick on the informal discussion around spaces for play between Emily Speed and architect Lee Ivett, in the recently Grade II listed ‘bubble’ classroom at Kennington Primary School. [...]
Stephanie Cottle introduces Precarious Landscape, an excursion with artists Ian Nesbitt and Ruth Levene to the western bounds of Preston on 8th December 2017. Participant and writer Lauren Velvick reflects on the experience. Continuing [...]
July 2017 Lauren Velvick discusses her research for The Expanded City. Ever since the Expanded City Symposium, I’ve been thinking about demographics with regards to housing. It seemed to me that the way people [...]
Writer and artist Lauren Velvick reflects on the second Expanded City Network event, Routes In, Routes Out, held at Avenham Park Pavilion in Preston on 27 July 2017. Gavin Renshaw’s Expanded City research and [...]
The first Expanded City Network event, Traces of Place, was held at the Final Whistle café in Preston on 4 July 2017, and considered the question ‘What makes us feel at home?’. Writer and [...]
May 2017 Lauren Velvick reports on an artists’ meeting for The Expanded City project. Having previously considered the city specifically in terms of its edges and boundaries, for the forthcoming critical exploration of Preston’s [...]
October 2016 Artist Lauren Velvick discusses Olivia Keith's research for The Expanded City project. There are elements of Olivia Keith's work for The Expanded City that are familiar within socially engaged practices, such as [...]
