Discuss and redraw the possible futures of Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station's 118-metre tall cooling towers, potentially reshaping Nottingham's skyline.
One of the last remaining active coal-fired power stations in the UK is on Nottingham's doorstep at nearby Ratcliffe-on-Soar. Join Architectural Designer William Harvey and artist Ryan Boultbee, two creatives obsessed with the built environment, to explore its uncertain future.
Become urban designers and join us in Broadway Gallery to suggest creative and imaginative proposals for the iconic cooling towers.
In this drawing workshop you'll be given a tiny version of one of the Power Station's eight cooling towers to reimagine. Draw your vision of a new use for the space — it could be anything you like, for example, an environmental library, a winter garden, an enormous circus, a wall of death for motorcycle stunts, or how about all of the above! As you draw, think about who—or what—is this place for? What activities will happen here? Will it be a space for people to use, or also animals and plants? How do you get in and out? What will it feel, sounds, taste and smell like?
People vs Power workshop: a reimagining of Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, by Will Harvey
Will and Ryan have been bringing people together to share their thoughts on the future of the power station. As a piece of major infrastructure which supports the national grid, public participation involving the future of sites like Ratcliffe-on-Soar usually remains tokenistic. They want to raise awareness of this and also offer a different method of engagement, which they hope would generate unseen and alternative solutions to the current demolish and develop cycle.
Take part in this workshop at Broadway Gallery on Sunday 21 August from 5:30PM–6:45PM.
Find out more about Will and Ryan's People vs Power project at weareprimary.org/research.
Framework for Practice is a project led by visual artist/curator Ryan Boultbee and architectural designer/artist Will Harvey. It represents the creation of a space to support the growth of new ideas.
Framework for Practice is a temporary scaffolding structure modifying Broadway Gallery into a space for supporting and inspiring sustainable creative research. The framework adapts to host a series of events, with the aim of supporting creatives to generate new ideas and starting points to research.
