Sam Fairbanks, SHU M.Arch 2017-2020
Recently, I was accepted onto a summer school run by Public Works, an architecture practice based in London, called Temporary Commons. It was based at Roskilde festival, Denmark’s largest music festival, which became the fifth largest city in the country when three hundred thousand people gather for eight days. The festival is built and run by thirty thousand volunteers that run everything from security to sound engineering over the week before the festival as the summer school was taking place. Participants from a variety of disciplines including geography, art, sociology hair dressing, fashion design as well as architecture that enabled students to exchange knowledge from each others fields. The summer school was specifically based at FLOKKR, a stage for arts and activism, that was designed by Public Works a few years ago and led to them running the summer school in partnership with the festival.
SHU_Architecture / Exchange 