#assemblestudio

Assemble Talk - Steamhouse 15/3/2019

Attended a really inspiring talk from Joe Halligan from multidisciplinary studio Assemble last night. Perfect primary research for my essay and practice based work. It’s affirmed that I’m back on track with looking at responsible design. Much of the talk was centred around the regeneration in Liverpool and the Granby workshops. It’s a fantastic model of how to engage communities and regenerate cities. I’ve seen them talk previously at Offsite Design conference in Dublin, but that was on the back of their Turner Prize nomination and win. Joe’s talk was much more grass roots on their Granby Four Streets project, their co-operative working methods and finding solutions to practical problems through the act of making.  

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Visited the 100% Design Exhibition yesterday and had the pleasure of listening to a talk with Paloma from Assemble Studio.

She has a very similar way of talking to many young practices I have heard speak, forwarding the importance of incremental design and making disused spaces functional. Seems like a lovely well spoken lady who definitely had that artistic flair, which inspires me to perhaps think about a masters at RCA.

My question to Paloma ‘What advice would you give to a recent graduate for possibly setting up a practice/collective’

Together, Lina Bo Bardi

Lina Bo Bardi: Together is a travelling exhibition celebrating the work of the radical Brazilian architect, Lina Bo Bardi. Assemble designed and built a flexible enclosure, a set of display furniture and a technical system.

The exhibition was curated by Noemi Blager and combines a multiple-screen film installation by Tapio Snellman and a collection of objects and sculptures by artist Madelon Vriesendorp.

The exhibition furniture can adapt to a range of gallery situations and presents the diverse content within one space, without hierarchy. The furniture was cast using snowcrete with vermiculite aggregate, which was then hand-hammered to make a rough, gold-flecked surface. The material palette and construction methodology learn directly from Lina Bo Bardi’s approach to making buildings, and the display of exhibition contents, without hierarchy, follows many of Lina’s own curatorial practices.

Starting in London, the installation has travelled to Vienna, Basel, Paris, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Berlin, Milan, Treviso, Chicago. Assemble re-design and install the exhibition at every venue.