Demos

Theme : publicrealm

Waiting for Panto... The new extension to Coventry's Belgrade Theatre was opened in September of this year. It was designed by the architectural practise, Stanton Williams, the firm behind Compton Verney, the refurbishment of the RSA, the Tower Environs Scheme at Tower Hill and several other major projects of recent years.We have just published a review of the theatre in this week's Architectural Journal. It's registration only site I'm afraid. However, very briefly, we examined the theatre from... from : samjones 17th December 2007
Talk Us Into It at the Festival of Ideas Last year, we published Talk Us Into It, which examined the role of conversation in the public realm. I'll be talking about it at the Sedbergh Festival of Ideas at the end of this month from : samjones 6th July 2007
de Tocqueville, de Schmocqueville - conversation's not declining Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote of the 'strange unsociability and reserved and taciturn disposition of the English'. There's an article in this week's Economist looking at conversation in history that makes for interesting reading. from : samjones 20th December 2006