4 x 4: The Human City Event Series

4x4 Manchesterhappens every Wednesday in March. On each evening there will be 4 talks looking at various aspects of urban life, each lasting 15 minutes, with time for a lively audience debate afterwards.

The series is being hosted by Manchester-based artist Mike Mayhew.

The talks are not just an opportunity for an architect to promote their new building or an author to talk about their latest book but to stimulate debate and discourse and to allow people to think differently about their discipline (be that architecture, art, planning, urbanism, music etc etc).

The overall theme for the event isA Human City,with the thought being that the human experience of the city is an overarching, never-ending, ordinary, every-day, every-person thing that has become overshadowed in recent times by thesmartcity, thesustainablecity, thetechnologicalcity, theconnectedcity, thelivingcity etc etc. To counter this, the thought that we will always be humans experiencing the city and responding to the changing conditions of the city seems poetic.

With the overall theme of Human City, there are then 4 sub-themes for each Wednesday:

The third event (19 March 2014) isPLAYfeaturingJohn Bishop(Education & Play) andAndrew Crompton(Playing with Scale) amongst others.

Check out all the speakers online:www.4x4manchester.com

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Or if you have an enquiry, contact4x4manchester@gmail.com/ 0161 200 5500

4 x 4 is a collaborative series of events brought to you by the Academy of Urbanism, Urban Design Group, RTPI and RIBA, in association with People Staring and Cornerhouse and supported by BDP, URBED, Taylor Young and Turley Associates.