2nd Cedric Price Day

This year’s edition will focus on The legacy of the Fun Palaces: the performative architectures of Cedric Price and Joan Littlewood.

The architect Cedric Price was a visionary concerned not only with design but also with current issues such as sustainability or the adaptability of the buildings. This year’s edition will focus on The legacy of the Fun Palaces: the performative architectures of Cedric Price and Joan Littlewood and will present the legacy and relevance of the Fun Palace in the UK.

The Fun Palace was an unbuilt project in London that challenged the way architecture engages with society and its cultural context. The Fun Palace was an interdisciplinary project developed by an architect (Price) and a Theatre director (Littlewood) in collaboration with the cybernetician Gordon Pask. In this second edition, we will review the project and its legacy from a contemporary lens, identifying and proposing opportunities for community engagement, place-making and regeneration.

During the day there will be a number of sessions:

9:30 Welcome.

10: 00 Keynote: Sufficiently incomplete: Observations on the work of Cedric Price

Samantha Hardingham | Academic Director | The London School of Architecture

11:30 Keynote: Future Fun-Palaces: The Science Fictions of Cedric Price

Prof. Nic Clear | Dean School of Arts & Humanities | Huddersfield University

12:45 Opening exhibition: The legacies of the Fun Palace: The performative architectures of Cedric Price and Joan Littlewood.

14:00 Round Table: The university of the streets. Interdisciplinary strategies for civic education

15:30 Workshop: Fictional Architectures

17:00 Close

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