incertainplaces

This podcast features video footage from 30 November 2005.

“The public spaces of the city should bring together the micro and the macro, the everyday and the spectacular, the inside and the outside, work and leisure, the durable and the ephemeral . . . they should be situated between the practised, the conceived and the imagined. In this kind of city, not knowing allows the city to become familiar yet strange, comforting yet challenging, safe yet exhilarating, a catalyst to thoughts and actions.”

Iain Borden is Head of the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he is Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture. An architectural historian and urban commentator, his wide-ranging interests have lead to publications on critical theory and architectural historical methodology, boundaries and surveillance, Henri Lefebvre and Georg Simmel, film and architecture, gender and architecture, body spaces and the experience of space. His books include Manual: the Architecture and Office of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (2003), Skateboarding Space and the City (2001) and The Unknown City (2001). Iain has also been working on a history of automobile driving and urban experience.

Credits: Prof. Iain Borden

This talk was commissioned by Preston’s public art initiative In Certain Places. For more information please visit www.incertainplaces.org