WICK CURIOSITY
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www.WICKCURIOSITYSHOP.NET
The Wick Common Shop is open Saturdays from 11am-5pm
A free ‘Shed Tour’ takes place Sturdays at 1pm.
Additional events are advertised inside this leaflet, at the
shed and via our website: www.wickcuriosityshop.net
COMING UP IN APRIL
NarratTves ofF THe WICk
THE SHED SCREENINGS PART ONE:
‘THe FaCToryY STORYy’
The Common Shop presents The Shed
Screenings: ‘Narratives of the Wick’ as part
of the Open Saturdays programme. During
the three-hour programme a wide variety of
independent productions will tell stories about
and from Hackney Wick.
The short films and videos take a closer look
at the district’s history, creative industry and
legacy after the London 2012 Games. An open
discussion about each theme will follow after
the screenings.
WHEN:
WHERE: 18th April, 2pm-5pm
Wick Common Shop,
Fountain Area
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
WICK SESSION
HACKNEY WICK AND FISH ISLAND:
FUTURE(S) PERFECT
The Hackney Wick And Fish Island: Future(S)
Perfect Wick Sessions is a workshop exploring
the PAST and FUTURE imaginings of Hackney
Wick and Fish Island. Sandwiched between a
dual carriageway and Queen Elizabeth Olympic
Park, Hackney Wick and Fish Island have for
some time been bastions of alternative living
and working in the capital.
WICK SESSIONS are a series of talks, walks and
workshops dedicated to Hackney Wick and its
surrounding area, bringing together a wide range
of voices and expertise.
WHEN: WHERE: MORE INFO:
2-5pm Saturday 25th April 2015
Stour Space,
7 Roach Road
London, E3 2PA
www.wicksessions.net
LINES OF FLIGHT:
RESEARCH GROUP SEMINAR
Lines of Flight is an architectural research group
within the PhD programme of the University
of Sheffield, which focuses on Transformative
Research into Architectural Practice and
Education. The seminar is open for public but
booking is recommended while spaces are
limited. RSVP: [email protected]
WHEN: WHERE: 2-5pm 24th of April
Wick Common Shop,
Fountain Area
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
THE COMMUNITY SHED
In 2007 Thomas Pausz met a group of allotment
plot holders and initiated a dialogue about their life
at Manor Gardens - the allotments formerly sited in
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. He created a
book-archive of the interviews, where they would
describe the dismantled”community shed”.
Collectively built, the shed was a place of
democratic dialogue, parties, barbecues and
afternoon naps. It was also a prime example of
vernacular East London allotment architecture.
Based on the description of the techniques and
materials given by the original users of the shed,
and using salvaged architectural parts as well as
materials recycled from Art exhibitions, Thomas
re-built the shed, this time outside the Royal
Albert Hall and The Royal College of Arts. There
the allotment gardeners (the original shed makers)
joined him in dialogue with architects, planners and
the public in the reconstructed shed. This piece is
a transitory building. It is a celebration of memory,
the transmission of design know-how between
generations and cultures and of community spirit.
The building was dismantled and the materials
transformed into functional shelters in the new
allotment site: a kitchen, a porch, and a kiosk.
SHED OF THE WEEK: Every two weeks the large
billboard on the shed features a reference to
other small, local spaces that facilitate cultures of
sharing and enable communities to come together.
Open Gates II
The Shed Workshop
The Shed Workshop aims to think the
importance of independent spaces and to build
a communal shed structure with recycled
materials.
The workshop starts at the Common Shop at
5pm with an introduction to different local and
global shed examples. At 6pm the workshop
continues to Vittoria Wharf, Hackney Wick where
the participants will build their own common
structure with recycled materials.
Note: bring your scrap wood and tools!
WHEN: Saturday 2 May 2015, 5pm –10pm
WHERE: 5pm
The Wick Common Shop
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
6pm
Unit 17 / Yard,
10 Stour Road
Hackney Wick
E3 2NT
The Wick Common Shop hosts two
researcherS in RESIDENCE:
Mara Ferreri is an urban researcher interested in
the potential of temporary art/activist practices
in spaces of contested urban transformation.
Mara is shadowing the Common Shop as
part of a Queen Mary University funded
research entitled: Temporary Use in the PostOlympic Landscape: Between Architectures of
Commoning and Spectacle. The research is a
collaborationbetween the School of Geography
at Queen Mary University and public works and
will contribute to the ongoing programme of the
Wick Common Shop.
Kim Trogal is a research fellow at Central Saint
Martins School of art and explores issues around
‘Common Products’, objects which are not
conceived for monitory gain but help sustain a
variety of alternative economies and exchanges.
Kim Trogal is running two sets of workshops
with students from Central Saint Martins which
stretch over several sessions to be held at the
‘Common Shop’ some of the events are public
and will be advertised on the Shed and on our
web sites and social media.
About The Wick Common Shop
The Wick Common Shop is not a shop. It is an
archive, a billboard, a venue for discussion, a
studio and sometimes a shop.
The Shop documents the areas unofficial and
“minor” history through an eclectic collection
of memories, local produce, memorabilia, oral
history, songs and stories. It doesn’t provide
an overarching narrative, but a tapestry of
mostly disregarded facts and experiences one
can navigate in various ways creating as many
narratives. For a six month period from February
to July it will take up residency in Queen
Elizabeth Olympic Park where it will host events,
workshops and exhibitions around the idea of
the ‘Common Object’, artefacts which are not
conceived for individual gain but which express
ideas of a common good while at the same time
unearthing and revealing hidden relationships or
narratives about the locality.
The Wick Common Shop is a project by public works and has
been commissioned as part of the Park’s Local Programme.
Find out more at: www.QueenElizabethOlympicPark.co.uk