Corinna Dean architect gives a lecture with the title: Establishing Tate Modern cultural quarter | regeneration through art and architecture, at the The Open Art Academy, Skipholt 1, Reykjavík, Wednesday 27th of January at 12:10. The lecture is in english and is open to the public.

"The use of cultural institutions as regeneration tools within the wider agenda to promote cities of culture is wide spread,  Corinna will examine the effect of Tate Modern as an urban catalyst on the Bankside area of London, and how the institution  has  been used to promote London as a world class city. She will also discuss  how a new form of public space has been created as mediated through an art institution and what this  means in terms of a new definition of public space for London."

Name: Corinna Dean
PHD @ Cities programme at the London School of Economics
Title/Topic: Establishing Tate Modern cultural quarter: regeneration through art and architecture

Research interests: architecture, urbanism, cultural studies, visual studies

Funder: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award

Background: Corinna obtained a Degree in History of Design and then went on to do a BA Hons in Architecture at The University of Westminster and a postgraduate diploma at the Bartlett School of Arch, UCL. She practiced in Berlin and the South of Germany working on various scales of architectural projects. Corinna has contributed to a number of exhibitions exploring ideas of authorship and institutions of display such as, Open Urban Picnic, Outpost and Roadworks curated by Fat and she curated and designed, The Interchange Experience, an exhibition that explored future modes of integrated transport and urbanism with Emap. She worked at the Architecture Foundation (1997 -1999) on various projects and publications such as the Roadshow, a project to regenerate interstitial urban sites. Corinna has been a visiting lecturer to the Critical and Historical Studies Department at the Royal College of Arts and held the position as Programme Director of the Interior Architecture Department at the University of Kent, Kent School of Architecture, until 2007.

The lecture is in english and is open to the public.

The Open Art Academy is an independent institution within the Iceland Academy of the Arts. Its role is to educate and inform the general public about the arts and to give working artists the opportunity to expand their knowledge and renew their education.