Exposition, « About Emergen/city »

“We are called on to be the architects of the future, not its victims”Richard Buckminster Fuller

Emergen/city is a series of four interlinking exhibitions at Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, that explore various ways in which we can approach life in the city. The overarching title, Emergen/city, invites a variety of readings – it can be read as a reference to emergence theory and the manner in which individual interactions contribute to an understanding of complex systems, or, as a reference to the notion of how our urban environment is shaped and continually reshaped by it inhabitants. Spoken out loud the title evokes the ecological emergency that confronts life in our cities.

The program is range of curated exhibitions, symposiums, publications, lecture and performances that explore the problematic of life in contemporary cities. Emergen/city will address this topic from a range of angles inviting the participation of a range of leading artists, architects, theorists and thinkers.This project expands on the research and thinking of an earlier project at Tin Sheds Gallery The Right to the City (2011) curated by Zanny Begg and Lee Stickells. This website contains an archive of The Right to the City (2011) and Emergen/City projects (2013),

Project Curator: Zanny Begg, Director Tin Sheds Gallery

Tin Sheds Gallery,  148 City Road

Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning
The University of Sydney
Darlington 2008
Sydney

Gallery open tuesday to friday, 11am – 5pm

emergencity.net