All Outputs (9)

Let’s play together (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Lovesmith, G., & Rasbash, Z. (2023, November). Let’s play together. Presented at Sustainability and health: the nexus of carbon-neutral architecture and well-being. The 56th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia

Throughout 2022-23 Watershed (cultural cinema & creative technology centre) have been working with an architect & socially-engaged artist on plans to adapt their building for the Climate Emergency. Watershed leads within its communities with a proud... Read More about Let’s play together.

Belonging in place/-making tools to creatively cultivate belonging in processes of public placemaking (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Lovesmith, G. (2023, November). Belonging in place/-making tools to creatively cultivate belonging in processes of public placemaking. Paper presented at Architecture 101: Questioning the Fundamentals, Newcastle

Beyond our most basic needs, Maslow, posited belonging (alongside love) as our most significant psychological need. Belonging noun “the feeling of being comfortable and happy in a particular situation or with a particular group of people, and bein... Read More about Belonging in place/-making tools to creatively cultivate belonging in processes of public placemaking.

Co-creating green a strategic public art vision for Lyngford Park, Taunton (2023)
Report
Lovesmith, G. (2023). Co-creating green a strategic public art vision for Lyngford Park, Taunton. https://somersetartworks.org.uk: Somerset Art Works

Understandings of Lyngford Park and proposals for the space have been developed through a series of creative engagement activities held throughout the summer of 2022 as part of the Pride in Priorswood Family Fun Days in the park. This builds on deep... Read More about Co-creating green a strategic public art vision for Lyngford Park, Taunton.

Beyond lending - A case study (2022)
Book Chapter
Lovesmith, G., Miah, M. F., & Singleton, A. (2023). Beyond lending - A case study. In M. McVicar, S. Kite, & C. Drozynski (Eds.), Generosity and Architecture (252-261). Abingdon: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Maindee Library+ , Newport, is a volunteer-run, community initiated, piece of social infrastructure. Through a co-produced, socially engaged art programme, Maindee Unlimited appointed architects George Lovesmith (Integrated Workshop) & Sarah Hollingw... Read More about Beyond lending - A case study.

Let’s play together: The role of positive, creative & collective practices towards climate emergency retrofit in a context of technocratic domination (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Lovesmith, G., & Rasbash, Z. (2022, November). Let’s play together: The role of positive, creative & collective practices towards climate emergency retrofit in a context of technocratic domination. Paper presented at Radical Architecture Practices for Sustainability, 2022, TU Eindhoven

Throughout 2022 & 2023 Watershed Bristol (cultural cinema, talent development & creative technology centre) will be working with George Lovesmith, architect & socially-engaged artist on plans to adapt their grade II listed (UK heritage status) buildi... Read More about Let’s play together: The role of positive, creative & collective practices towards climate emergency retrofit in a context of technocratic domination.

Neighbourhood play initiatives on central Bristol estates (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Lovesmith, G., Ferguson, A., & Pinkowska, P. (2019, November). Neighbourhood play initiatives on central Bristol estates. Poster presented at Towards the Child Friendly City International Conference. Chiuldren's Rights in the Built Environment, Bristol City Hall

From 2016-2018 Playing Out, Up Our Street and residents of Twinnell House & Wills Drive (Lawrence Hill) and the vicinity of Somerset Square (Redcliffe) have endeavoued to bring about change for neighbourhood play on these estates. This was rooted in... Read More about Neighbourhood play initiatives on central Bristol estates.

Beyond Lending (2018)
Digital Artefact
Lovesmith, G. (2018). Beyond Lending. [Video]

Maindee Library, Newport, was closed by the local authority in 2015. It was soon reopened by a determined volunteer collective called Maindee Unlimited, delivering more public services than ever before. Following a socially engaged art programme, Mai... Read More about Beyond Lending.

Photographed space and the (no)body (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Lovett, G. (2013, September). Photographed space and the (no)body. Paper presented at Interior 2013, Slovakia, Bratislava

Architecture journals present to us new buildings, pioneering ideas and triumphs of creative innovation... yet they are largely deserted. This paper argues against the negative impact of this on design culture and a resultant aspiration to design spa... Read More about Photographed space and the (no)body.

Beyond Lending
Conference Proceeding
Lovesmith, G. (2018). Beyond Lending.