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Perspectives on Public Space in the City-centre

8 April, 2010

According to Jan Gehl, Danish architect and urban design guru, public spaces have always functioned in three ways that are vital to the life of cities – as  meeting places, market places, and connections. The north end of Belfast’s city-centre has struggled for years to establish meaningful public spaces, several on WWII bomb sites. Why is it that some of these spaces work and others don’t? What can we learn from Belfast’s experience over the past two decades as well as from initiatives in other cities? 

Belfast City Centre Management’s Character and Style Action Group is coordinating this forum to look at how Writer’s Square, Buoy’s Park (Cathedral Gardens) and Bank Square are currently being used and the emerging vision for the future.

Chair: Michael Hegarty, PLACE director
Panelists will include architects, designers, planners, conservationists and local developers

Date: 11.00am - 2.00pm
Time: Thursday 8th April 2010
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The Spaces In Between

8 April, 2010

In the interests of a ‘safer’ urban space, we are expected to behave in ways that are publicly acceptable or risk public opprobrium or even institutional intervention. No chewing, no smoking, no drinking, no photography, no acting suspiciously, and no assuming that you will not be challenged and stopped.

Are architects and urban policy works becoming complicit in managing our private selves in civic space?

With Austin Williams (Future Cities Project), Mark Hackett (Forum for Alternative Belfast) and Darryl Chen (Tomorrows Thoughts Today)

Time: 7.00pm - 9.00pm
Date: Thursday 8th April 2010

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