Sunday, 23 September 2012 -
Sunday, 23 September 2012
11.30 - 13.00
Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square
London
WC1R 4RL
www.theschooloflife.com
Are you becoming bored, or worse, boring? Do you need more space to create and think? Has overwork made the architecture of your mind dull and suffocating as a UPVC conservatory in a Crawley cul-de-sac?
Help is at hand! The School of Life has invited Will Alsop, Britain's most playful architect, to show even the busiest of us how to build a room of our own, an annexe of freedom, inside our own heads. Come and find out why his blueprint for a less boring life is to embrace boredom itself.
Will Alsop paints to think – and he'll be bringing his brushes, tubes of colour and a canvas. He says there's a pause in the process of painting a picture, where you're left watching the paint dry. And if you keep painting over wet gloss before it sets, you make a mess. But when you're forced like this just to sit and look, you settle into a kind of boredom that pushes you back on your own resources, lets your thoughts meander unforced, and leaves space for new possibilities to appear. Without that space, he will explain, we risk the dullness of an uncreative life.
These days we ricochet between wanting space to think, and fearing empty time. We leap to fill the holiday void with excitement and entertainment rather than fall back on our imagination. At work we rush ahead with action rather than reflecting on the thing we're creating. Alsop will show us how we can revamp our own heads to build a space where embracing boredom has glorious creative potential. And you won't even notice the paint drying.
Also appearing will be drummers Chris and Ben Brannick, who'll beat the life into a load of boring household stuff.
Will Alsop OBE is best known internationally for his architectural designs for Peckham Library in London, Glenwood Power Plant in Yonkers, New York, and the Sharp Centre for Design at the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto. He is a Professor at the University of Technology in Vienna.
Book online
http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/will-alsop-on-boredom-23-september-2012/
25 Red Lion Square
London
WC1R 4RL
www.theschooloflife.com
Are you becoming bored, or worse, boring? Do you need more space to create and think? Has overwork made the architecture of your mind dull and suffocating as a UPVC conservatory in a Crawley cul-de-sac?
Help is at hand! The School of Life has invited Will Alsop, Britain's most playful architect, to show even the busiest of us how to build a room of our own, an annexe of freedom, inside our own heads. Come and find out why his blueprint for a less boring life is to embrace boredom itself.
Will Alsop paints to think – and he'll be bringing his brushes, tubes of colour and a canvas. He says there's a pause in the process of painting a picture, where you're left watching the paint dry. And if you keep painting over wet gloss before it sets, you make a mess. But when you're forced like this just to sit and look, you settle into a kind of boredom that pushes you back on your own resources, lets your thoughts meander unforced, and leaves space for new possibilities to appear. Without that space, he will explain, we risk the dullness of an uncreative life.
These days we ricochet between wanting space to think, and fearing empty time. We leap to fill the holiday void with excitement and entertainment rather than fall back on our imagination. At work we rush ahead with action rather than reflecting on the thing we're creating. Alsop will show us how we can revamp our own heads to build a space where embracing boredom has glorious creative potential. And you won't even notice the paint drying.
Also appearing will be drummers Chris and Ben Brannick, who'll beat the life into a load of boring household stuff.
Will Alsop OBE is best known internationally for his architectural designs for Peckham Library in London, Glenwood Power Plant in Yonkers, New York, and the Sharp Centre for Design at the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto. He is a Professor at the University of Technology in Vienna.
Book online
http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/will-alsop-on-boredom-23-september-2012/