Mapping the Future: Public Art in Scotland comprises three symposia and an additional events programme that will look at the future of public art in Scotland.

This ambitious and wide-ranging event is co-developed by Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, and Public Art Scotland.

Mapping The Future

*Places are now fully booked, but we’ll be covering the event on PAR+RS as well as on the dedicated Mapping the Future website above. Following a sucessful Days 1 and 2, we are now looking forward to Day 3 (Wednesday 20th).

See info on the event below, and check the PAR+RS Editorial for recent coverage.

Mapping the Future: Public Art in Scotland comprises three symposia and an additional events programme that will look at the future of public art in Scotland.

Artists, designers, planners, commissioners, users and funders will present and debate good practice, and current issues. The outcomes will include an articulation of a way forward and a series of recommendations that will inform the development of imaginative and effective approaches to commissioning, policy-making, research and creative practice in Scotland.

Devised by Visual Research Centre (VRC), Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD), University of Dundee and Public Art Resource and Research Scotland (PAR+RS).
Generously supported by Creative Scotland.

Symposium 1
New Perspectives: Inspirational Approaches
6th October 2010
10am-5pm.

This event will bring together both national and international speakers focusing on examples of good practice.
A series of inspirational presentations of successful public art projects will set the broader context for ???Mapping the Future: Public Art in Scotland???.

Chair: Moira Jeffery – journalist and art critic

Con?rmed speakers:
Tom van Gestel – Deputy Director/Senior Curator SKOR
Jeanne van Heeswijk – Artist
Dr Judith Rugg – Reader in Fine Art Theory at University for the Creative Arts
Graham Fagen – Artist and Senior Lecturer, DJCAD

Symposium 2
Scotland Now
13 October 2010
10am-5pm.

Focusing on the state of public art in Scotland the programme will explore the experience, expectations and needs of commissioners,
local authority representatives, architects and planners. It will consider the impact of the current economic recession on the funding of public art projects.

Chair: Alastair Snow – Director Alastair Snow Associates + Projects

Con?rmed speakers:
Clive Gillman – Director of DCA
Peter McCaughey – Artist
Diarmaid Lawlor – Head of Urbanism at Architecture + Design
Scotland
Lucy Byatt – Head of National Programmes at the Contemporary Art
Society.

Symposium 3
Mapping the Future
20 October 2010
10am-5pm.

The ?nal symposium is a consolidation event where the results of the two previous symposia will be brought together and
discussed further.
This day will conclude with the articulation of a way
forward and a series of recommendations which will inform the development of imaginative and effective approaches to commissioning, policy-making, research and creative practice in Scotland.

Chair: Jason E Bowman, Cultural Theorist, Artist, Consultant, Curator and Educator.

Con?rmed speakers:
Claire Doherty – Director of Situations
Venu Dhupa – Director of Arts at Creative Scotland
Dr Ken Neil – Head of Historical and Critical Studies Glasgow
School of Art
Professor Tracy Mackenna – Artist and Chair of Contemporary Art
Practice DJCAD

Venue
Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) and DJCAD???s Visual Research Centre (VRC).

For programme information see
www.vrc.dundee.ac.uk