Touching a Nerve

Shaeron Averbuch and Ross McEwan - 18 February 2009
Art in Architecture/JUMP
Board Room, ground floor of the Crawford Building, 12:30-2:00pm. Please bring a sandwich, we will provide tea and coffee.

'Artists come in many guises, for example gardener, urban planner, events organiser and social worker. "What is it the artist wanted to say?"' Dr. Petra Lange-Berndt

Averbuch and McEwan, partners in AiA Art in Architecture, have used a variety of commissioned, self-instigated and collaborative projects dealing with place, environment, social conditions, and urban context, to engage communities in the urban design and planning process. AiA has recently completed JUMP: catalyst for change (Joined Up Master Planning), a community based planning project in response to the current Leith Docks Master Plan, Edinburgh