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#thetestbed pop-up residency has now ended and the programme and various options on the future use and home of the containers are being assessed. For #UCLanStudentCentre and #UCLanUniversitySquare development updates in 2019, please follow @UCLanMasterplan

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Fantastic to be back in Preston and see my kinetic windmill sculpture in action. Created as part of my Testbed residency, each windmill was decorated by a pupil from English Martyrs… instagram.com/p/BuGhtQclokN/…

...and for all ongoing news on #UCLanStudentCentre and #UCLanUniversitySquare developments please also follow @UCLanMasterplan . Thanks #Preston , and Happy Holidays!

Happy Christmas from all at UCLan! 🎄 Please note, many University services will close today at 4pm, reopening at 9am on Wednesday 2 January. See you in 2019! 🎆

Thanks @uistkunstist . We are reviewing the #thetestbed programme early in the New Year so certainly we will report all feedback like yours. Our remit on this is specifically ideas for the #UCLanUniversitySquare but of course there is also cross-over into wider @UCLanMasterplan .

Good morning #Preston . Today is the final day of our @davidboultbee artist residency in #thetestbed so David will be consolidating things on site today prior to the Christmas break and our programme review early in the New Year.

21st December: What to celebrate or become better aware of today? Most importantly it is #DalekRemembranceDay in recognition of 1st time they appeared on Doctor Who in 1963. Oh and in the Northern Hemisphere it is also the day of the #WinterSolstice daysoftheyear.com/days/2018/12/2…

Friday’s Word-of-the-Day from #thetestbed is Dutch word ‘Uitwaaien’ (v.): To take a refreshing break & clear ones head in windy weather. To catch a breath of fresh air & literally ‘walk in the wind’. Reminds us of Dutch artist Theo Jansen’s #Strandbeests strandbeest.com

Doorbells installed and working! Phew! Well done Jen Kagan, lovely project. They are outside the Blackburn Cotton Exchange for three months. If you are about after dusk go press them and operate different sequences in the windows. @Superslowway

Lebanese architect and MIT dean, Hashim Sarkis, appointed to curate the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale. Interesting choice, hope he broadens the net news.mit.edu/2018/hashim-sa…

Great. Fabulous to explore these sort of ideas for all future plans. Tentatively suggest some form of creative event or symposium could be used to highlight case studies, and test and agree a forward plan...

Does the definition of our shared ‘public space‘ today only refer to things like the media, internet and other virtual communities, or can it still include the more traditional, literal sense of our physical public realm? link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

Last week, our very own Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid @1lubaina was awarded a CBE by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace. Check out the full story here: ow.ly/yMnw30n3EIz

The present Call for Papers is about Memory, Heritage and Narratives in Public Art.

New Blog Post! ❄️ Does public art have the power to inspire action against #climate change? Or is it a waste of energy? We take a closer look at @olafureliasson 's #IceWatchLondon 🌊Read more: bit.ly/2CqNowi

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CASE STUDY: Hardt & Negri’s ‘Multitude' is optimism about the ability of democratic global governance to end capitalist exploitation: opendemocracy.net/globalization-…

CASE STUDY: Activist Graduate School thetestbed.info/2018/12/20/cas…

David Harvey’s Rebel Cities says ‘Occupy’ movement not anti-capitalist fight but manifesto for urban struggle vs system such as Marxist geographer Neil Smith argued for cities. Draws on Hardt & Negri "multitude" theory building bridges to working class. socialistreview.org.uk/369/rebel-citi…