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In Certain Places: Discussion And Debate

Quick sets out to lead and contribute to discourses and debates which examine particular aspects of the city of Preston within a wider international context of art, architecture and place. His tested formats to create a public accessible programme of symposiums have a direct relationship to current debates in the city; audiences consist of city stakeholders, academics, students and interested parties. These symposiums have a physical juxtaposition between the academic lecture and public discourse on the related city site.

ICP events, such as Revisiting Utopia: Modernist Architecture in the Post-regenerate City, enabled presentations by the international writer Owen Hatherley and architect Irena Bauman to coincide with tours of Preston Bus Station, informing debates about its future. Speakers at other events have included Lorraine Leeson, Dr. Paul Gough, Paul Goodwin and Becky Shaw. All events are recorded and posted as a downloadable podcasts on the ICP website which attracts an international audience.

Quick is routinely invited to present papers at national and international events, placing his research in a wider context. For example, in November 2012 he gave a Keynote paper Agenda’s and relationships in certain places at Desvios/Detours IV (Portugal).

Further strategies for engagement, and debate, have included collaborations on publications, such as John Newling’s ICP commission work, ‘Preston Market Mystery Project’. Quick has also co-authored (with Elaine Speight) a critical essay In Certain Places for Shezad Dawood’s monograph Piercing Brightness published by Modern Art Oxford.