Over the coming weeks we will be bringing you select footage of the best of our Spaces for Creation talks series.
The talks took place at Site Gallery between 2019 and 2020 as part of our City of Ideas programme. We brought together leading artists, architects, urbanists and public designers to discuss the relationship between public and creative space.
Here is Professor Iain Borden (UCL / Bartlett School of Architecture) and Dr. Dani Abulhawa (senior lecturer in Performance at Sheffield Hallam) examining skateboarding as a tool for better understanding the urban environment, particularly if we want our cities to offer more than just the flow of capital:
