European Prize for Urban Public Space

Empty Shops Network - artistsandmakers.com ‘There are so many strange places I’d like to be/ but none of them permanently’ Ernie, singing in Sesame Street The Empty Shops Network is a project from Revolutionary Arts, and has encouraged prototyping, testing and reinvention of the redundant spaces in the UK’s town centres. It’s done that by providing: Advice; delivering workshops, seminars and masterclasses across the UK Advocacy; in the national media, with specialist organisations and to government; producing reports like Pop Up People; and delivering keynote speeches at conferences Easing administration; by giving away free resources, planning guidance and documents to make the empty shops movement ‘open source’ All of that work is based on real experience, understanding and analysis.

Netherlands Architecture Institute ABOUT THE PROJECT Changing Spaces is an artist-run project that negotiates the use of empty commercial property as a resource for exhibitions and creative development. To date over 400 artists have exhibited in properties administered by Changing Spaces. This includes shop window exhibitions and pop up galleries. Changing Spaces was originally developed in conjunction with Cambridge City Council and Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University in 2009. In February 2011 Changing Spaces was registered as a Company Limited by Guarantee, and is currently administered by a team of volunteers, including its three directors. The project may best be described as a nomadic, city-wide installation deployed across multiple locations on a pop-up basis. Changing Spaces is committed to impact, innovation and accessibility.

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