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City Centre South redevelopment, Coventry: The Potential of Urban Mining to support place-making, community and sustainability

Coventry is at a pivotal moment. The imminent ÂŁ450 million redevelopment of City Centre South, and ten-year meanwhile use placemaking strategy, invites a conversation about the benefits of a systems-driven,...

Urban Mining Art & Design Test Lab – Harnessing the Potential in the City Centre South Redevelopment

Underpinned by the Urban Mining Design Philosophy, this R&D explores the extraction of materials and components from the existing built environment of City Centre South, transforming them to propose dramatic...

Urban Mining Test Lab Showcase

Exploring City Centre South, Coventry, prior to its demolition for redevelopment, selected students from across the University’s postgraduate Design and Architecture courses have been working in interdisciplinary teams to undertake...

Futures Coventry Urban Mining x Public Art @ Parkgate School

Exploring the redevelopment of City Centre South and using Urban Mining design principles, this six week programme takes the students on the development journey to research, design and create a...

Tell Us Your Stories About City Centre South In Coventry.

We would like to hear from you if you have lived and worked in City Centre South in Coventry. Earmarked for redevelopment, we want to capture your stories and connections...

Futures Coventry Urban Mining Programme

In collaboration with The Futures Trust we are running an Urban Mining x Public Art Coventry schools programme exploring the redevelopment of City Centre South with President Kennedy, Park Gate...

Meltdown Aluminium Casting Micro Residency in Coventry & Warwickshire

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre. To mark this milestone, Pangaea invited three local/Midlands artists via open call and three nationally-based artists via invitation, to...

Community Collection Of Waste Aluminium for New Collaborative Sculpture

The community came out in force to donate their unwanted aluminium for 'Meltdown: From Trash to Treasure'....

Collaboratively Crafting a Future

Talk by Nandita Palchoudhuri, Kolkata-based Consultant-Curator within Indian Folk Practices in the Visual Arts, Crafts and Performance....

Cultural Place-making, Warwickshire

R&D into the activation of public spaces in Warwickshire with sculpture programming to support place-making....

Chapter 5: Erosion Performance

The finale of Hand Earth Gesture Return beginning the erosion of the art work and its return to the earth....

Chapter 5: Gesture

This fifth chapter saw the last year’s growing, sourcing and creation activity brought together in this site-specific public art installation, designed for Coventry Canal Basin and inspired by the surrounding...

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