Inside Out Festival 2015 – Only a week to go!

The Culture Capital Exchange is delighted to announce that the Inside Out Festival is returning for its sixth year with an erudite and eclectic mix of debates, performances, walks, screenings, exhibitions and workshops. Showcasing the extraordinary contribution made by the TCCE member universities to the capital’s vibrant cultural life, from Monday 19^th – Saturday 24^th October 2015, the Inside Out Festival in association with Times Higher Education, invites inquiring minds to participate in a wealth of inspiring and diverse events held across a range of London venues with most completely free to enter.

We are delighted that several of this year’s festival’s highlights include contributions from individuals who have been supported through Creativeworks London’s Knowledge Exchange Programme in different ways. These include co-curated activities with The Freud Museum, following from Dr Benjamin Poore’s researcher-in-residency there earlier this year and in ‘On Public Space Now’, in association with Design Exchange’ BOOST awardee Lydia Fraser-Ward and Cyril Shing, the academic partner on one of our Creative Entrepreneur-in-Residence awards join other panellists to discuss topics investigating our diverse and complex relationships to the topics of public space. Events include:

Inside Out Festival in association with Design Exchange present: Design Salon: On Public Space Now – Tuesday 20th October
Inside Out Festival sees the first of a series of salons co-curated by TCCE and Design Exchange magazine that are being developed to explore our relationship to design in a variety of contemporary contexts and to encourage discussion and debate on key issues relating to our current relationship to and perceptions about public space. Even a cursory glance of today’s urban landscape reveals signs that suggest that the ways in which places were originally designed to perform their ‘place’ are evolving in response to new needs, desires, opportunities and technologies.

Inside Out Festival in association with The Freud Museum London present: Freud and His Legacy – Wednesday 21st October 
Freud and His Legacy is a timely discussion in which we will discuss the implications of Freud’s thought for twentieth century art, culture and psychotherapy. As Freud suggested, the repressed always returns. Our speakers will discuss the political, cultural, and clinical relevance of psychoanalysis, and psychoanalytic ways of thinking, for a world that is much transformed when compared to Freud’s (this event is partly supported by Creativeworks London).

Philosophy and Contemporary Visual Art: Sacha Golob with artist Nadège Mériau – Wednesday 21st October
Philosopher Sacha Golob and artist Nadège Mériau discuss the concept and development of contemporary artistic practice, and some of the central themes of her work, including the idea of dwelling, the nature of claustrophobia and the dynamics of nurture.

Superpiano: The Piano “Inside Out” – Wednesday 21st October
Kate Ryder, a pianist renowned for pushing the boundaries of her instrument, performs recent music which explores the sound world of the piano in new and exciting ways.

Climate Change – Designing for a new Reality – Friday 23rd October – Saturday 24th October
Working to a design brief devised with Helen Storey Foundation, students from MA Sustainable Design at Kingston University will be running an open pop-up studio and exhibition to visualise what sustainability in the face of climate change looks like, and to test ways of recording the public responses to the issues we face around climate and sustainability.

Click here for information about other events happening as part of the Inside Out Festival 2015.

The Inside Out Festival will take place from 19^th – 24^th October 2015.

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