The Oikos Project was developed with support of the National Theatre Studio, the New Economics Foundation, UCL Environment Institute, WebPlay, M3 Consulting, AKT part of WYG Engineering Ltd, Tipping Point, and Southwark Council. We acknowledge funding from Arts Council England and Unity Theatre Trust.
The Red Room is a Theatre and Film Company that seeks to free the imagination and challenge the status quo. We aim to create theatre, film, debates, forums, and web-based events that challenge social injustice and promote human rights. We aim to create work that is original, daring, provocative and inspiring for audiences who question the changing world. The Red Room specialises in new writing and site specific work that is supported by documentary. Led by dynamic artistic director Topher Campbell, The Red Room in association with The Junction, Cambridge has this year commissioned two stage plays alongside its commission of The Jellyfish Theatre. The two world premieres have been written by Simon Wu and Kay Adshead and will focus on Human Rights and responsibilities and climate change. Through our work we hope to give voice to those under represented in society in a form that is accessible in style and challenging in content. The Red Room believes that theatre should be a genuinely public art form.
Founded in 1991 as the UK’s first independent architecture centre, The Architecture Foundation is a non-profit agency for contemporary architecture, urbanism and culture. We cultivate new talent and new ideas. Through our diverse programmes we facilitate international and interdisciplinary exchange, stimulate critical engagement amongst professionals, policy makers and a broad public, and shape the quality of the built environment. We are independent, agile, inclusive and influential. Central to our activities is the belief that architecture enriches lives.
The public space is under siege – the compulsion to consume, increased monitoring, and continuously expanding traffic threaten to fundamentally change the appearance of our cities. Since 1998, the two artists Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser have been implementing their concept of an artistic and architectural aesthetic of resistance to this appropriation. Their work presents alternatives to this consumer ideology – through structural interventions, artistic statements, actions, and theories. The artists use streets, squares, bridges, parks and interior spaces as their areas of operation. The materials applied by them always consist of “urban resources” – such as litter, trash, and donations. As a result, each work is based on communicative and social moments. Their strategies encourage emulation, distribution, and multiplication, as they can be implemented with very simple materials. Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser live and work in Berlin/Germany and Los Angeles/USA.
The London Festival of Architecture 2010
The Festival will take place from 19 June to 4 July 2010, encompassing three weekends and two intervening weeks. Each weekend has a different geographic focus: Central: Nash Ramblas, East : High Street 2012 and South: Bankside Urban Forest . The Festival will incorporate complementary initiatives the International Architecture Student Festival, the International Architecture Showcase, Love Your Street and Open Studios. The London Festival of Architecture is produced collaboratively by London’s leading architectural organisations The Architecture Foundation (AF), New London Architecture (NLA) and the Royal Institute of British Architects London (RIBA) in coordination with a broad range of cultural and professional partners. The London Festival of Architecture 2010 is sponsored by Arts Council England, Land Securities and the London Development Agency.
The Junction is one of the most diverse cultural venues in the UK, a vibrant centre of youth culture and registered charity with a uniquely varied programme. Born in 1990 as a place for the young people of Cambridge, those aged up to 30 continue to be the primary audience. Presenting 100’s of performances each year to over 100 000 customers, The Junctioncovers clubs, comedy, dance, live music, theatre and events for young people. Operating over three spaces, The Junction is committed to developing new artists and providing cutting-edge performances.
WebPlay is an arts education charity that combines technology and drama to create inspirational, cross-curricular projects for schools that raise children’s aspirations, skills, creativity and cross-cultural awareness. Since 2000, WebPlay has worked with over 25,000 children from across the UK, USA, India and China. We run our own projects as well as create and run projects for partner theatre companies and performing arts organizations. In September of 2010, WebPlay will launch Page to Stage, a secure online platform where theatre companies can create collaborative online projects with their school audiences.
M3 Consulting is a property solutions and development management consultancy. We are the client’s right hand. We work closely with our clients delivering property solutions. We create and protect value, finding added advantage at every stage in the property lifecycle. Clients trust us to deliver projects on time and to budget. From cradle to cradle, our hands on, innovative approach is to embrace each project commercially and technically with the highest level of political sensitivity and personal commitment.
Adams Kara Taylor are a progressive design-led firm of Consulting Structural and Civil Engineers. We at AKT have reached our position as one of the foremost ‘design-led’ structural and civil engineering practices in the UK by applying creative thinking to every aspect of our practice. We are aware that the innovative design solutions demanded in the real world can only be achieved by maintaining an open mind to the issue of problem solving through imaginative input and judgement beyond engineering science. To date, we have won over 100 design awards, including the Stirling Prize for Peckham Library designed with Will Alsop, many Structural Steel Design and Concrete Society Awards, 25 Civic Trust Awards, Building’s Housing Project of the Year in 2009 and the prestigious Building Award for most Sustainable Building of the Year in 2006.
Core Team
For the Red Room
Artistic Director Topher Campbell
Producer Bryan Savery
Project Manager Ben Melchiors
Project Management Intern Victoria Gill
Project Management Intern Maja Mysliborska
Project Intern Dani Ellis
For the Architecture Foundation
Director Sarah Ichioka
Consulting Curator Moira Lascelles
Intern Tom Kendall
For the Junction
CEO Richard Oyarzable
For the Build
Artist and Architect Martin Kaltwasser
Deputy Project Manager Robin Turner
Site Manager Elsa Galvez
Lead Carpenter George Cienciaza
M3 Consulting (Building and Construction Planning)
Jonathan Raynes
Oikos Consultant Richard Hollingworth
Oikos Consultant Polly Davies
AKT (Structural Engineer Consulting)
Andrew Ruck
Hanif Kara
Marco Vanucci
Structured-Environment
Lead Structural Engineer Alan Burden
Structural Engineer Kayoko Machida
For the Waterbottle Project
WebPlay (School Projects)
Co-Director Sydney Thornbury
Co-Director Jon Williams
For Postcode Films
Ed Owles
Jaime
Natasha
And a huge thank you to the volunteers who built The Jellyfish Theatre:
Alberto Ibanez
Alex Bradshaw
Alex Lemon
Amy Nicholls
Anna Holden
Anne Graessner
Ashley Howell
Babak Karami
Ben French
Bojana Zimonic
Cai Draper
Cherng-Min Teong
Christina Williams
Clara Bagenal George
Claudia Barros Alves
Dani Ellis
Daniella Stanford
Daphne Kuo
Dave O’Rourke
Dave Parry
Dipendra Gurung
Douglas Walker
Ed Fyfe
Edith Fung
Elsa Galvez
Emanuel Farris-Hue
Erica Jong
Francis Agnew
Fyne Chuku
George Cienciala
Hannah Wardle
Harry Reynolds
Jamie Keats
Jared Stevens
Jazmin Charalambous
Jonathan Robson
Josh Broomer
Josh Cottrill
Kansas Casey
Kate Marrinan
Katherine Waller
Kingsley Russell
Lauren Shallice
Lelia Ku
M. Brown
Maja Mysliborska
Maliona Adisi Matho
Maria Adebowale
Mark Phillips
Martin Allen
Minna Tsvetanova
Naert Eugenie
Nathalis G. P. Lomones
Nic Vincett
Nicholas Constantinou
Oliver Grimaldi
Oliver Harman
Olivier Frayssineau
Pam Williams
Patrick Fryer
Paul Harvey
Peter McCarthy
Robert Sedgwick
Rupia Aktar
Samuel Darkins
Sara Sabet
Sarah Syed
Sebastian Shaw
Seung-Hwan Kim
Simon Arnold
Simon Hannabuss
Stephanie Miller
Stephen Ware
Sylvia Iranzo
Tabitha Pope
Tarik Hyatt-Khan
Tiago Carvalho Costa
Timothy Tsung
Tom Harris
Trudy McGregor
Victor Favo
Zoe Lafferty
Zoe Watson
And a thank you to the individuals and organisations that have given direct support for the build and presentation of the plays
Price Waterhouse Cooper
Southwark Council – Events, Building Control, Health and Safety and Planning
St Josephs’ Primary School
Cathedral Primary school
Andrew Richardson and the Bankside Residents Forum
Valarie Beirne and all at Better Bankside
Dennis and The whole Football Team
BRF
BOST
Blackfriars Settlement
Borough and Bankside Community Council
Theatre is
New Covent Garden Market
The Union Street Urban Orchard
Travis Perkins
BigHand Software
London Fire Brigade Southwark Station
We Clear Junk, Inc.
Eden Springs Water Cooler Bottles
Royal Institute of British Architects
Arcola Theatre
National Theatre
Southwark Playhouse
Battersea Arts Centre
Royal Festival Hall
The Albany
Tamasha Theatre Company
Nash Ramblas Exhibition
Blackfriars Scenery
Balfour Beatty
Carillion PLC
Neo Bankside
Skyline Roofing Supplies
Roger Woods: Vitpol Building Services
Loop Recycling
Riverside Business Centre
Garrett Business Park
Roger Lascelles: Clockprops
Palmer Joinery
Northwoods Taxi Spares
HippoBag Waste
345 Interiors
The Water Delivery Company
Water for Work and Home
Henry in Maida Vale
Yvonne DeCoteau in Barnet
Marks & Spencer Southwark Street
Rock PR
Buro Happold FEDRA
And a thank you to those who have supported the project
Board of the Red Room
Liz Sutton
Corrina Cordon
Purni Morell for the National Theatre Studio
Sarah Nicholson for the National Theatre Studio
Caitriona Hinds
Rajneet Sidhu
John Benton
Miranda Clarke
Coral Flood
Kristie Ashenden
Samantha Coe
Malcolm Watford
Alan Blissett
Councillor Adele Morris
Councillor David Noakes
Councillor Geoffrey Thornton
Jonathan Raynes
Alistair Huggett
Peter Williams
Becky Baker
Laura Davies
Gary Stent/Carillion
The rest of The Architecture Foundation team
Sylvia Harris
Sue Barber
Ron Adams
Stan Johnson
Judith Schulz
Laura Davies
Gary Stent and Carillion
Balfour Beatty
Simon Mitchell
Steve Sullivan
Tim Lyall
David Clarke
Chris Payton
Mark Allison
