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DIYIC - The Do-It-Yourself Integrated CityLiverpool Architectural Society Project 2009-2010 On the evening of the 28th October 2010, the DIYIC exhibition will be opened by the RIBA President, Ruth Reed, at the Daily Post’s Exchange Building on Old Hall Street. It will be open until the 19th November. It is the culmination of a year's activities, led by the Liverpool Architectural Society, which have focussed on the inner-city. In June 2009, the DIYIC project was launched by the Liverpool Architectural Society President, Dr Rob MacDonald, with the words: “Just imagine a ‘do it yourself’ city. Crises in government organisation and financial development are leading towards the self-organisation of people in urban situations…” The centre of Liverpool has been transformed in recent years, through a series of billion-pound investments and a regular cultural events. However, we recognise that many parts of the city region, on both sides of the river, remain untouched by these developments.
The Liverpool Architectural Society initiated the DIYIC project to demonstrate how architects and architecture can benefit local communities through close collaboration and direct involvement. A series of discussions, lectures and group activities have formed the preparatory work for the exhibition, which coincides with the later stages of the established Liverpool Biennial art festival. A long-term ambition is to develop an architectural biennial, parallel to the art festival, as in comparable European events, such as Venice. The large existing model of the City Centre will form a centrepiece - a foil - around which the DIYIC exhibition will be arranged. The exhibition will bring together a sample of twenty-four varied ideas and proposals, with a geographic spread around the built-up area on both sides of the river. These are to be held together by an overall narrative, which explores the twin advantages of: [a] bringing the disparate parts of the City Region closer together, integrated with each other and with the centre, and [b] the potential for the many communities of the Liverpool City Region to initiate such developments themselves, to do-it-yourself. For further information on DIYIC, |
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