Making Cultural Infrastructure: Glasgow workshop

Theatrum Mundi is undertaking research on the infrastructures for cultural production – focusing away from the display spaces in which culture meets a public and instead on the backstage settings that are home to writing, making, rehearsing, developing and so on. We’re interested in the way different kinds of workspaces for cultural production are designed, and how this design shapes the kinds of cultural practices they support. Throughout 2019 we’ll be looking at case studies in London, Glasgow, Paris, and Marseille to compare the way that cultural production is being planned for in these cities.

On this informal workshop in partnership with TAKTAL, we are meeting performers, designers, writers, craftspeople, and urbanists to understand the conditions for artists in Glasgow, what kinds of cultures it is supporting, and the approaches being taken to provide new workspaces. As Glasgow develops new artistic workspaces as part of a strategy to open up its ex-industrial areas to new activities and visitors, we aim to learn more about how cultural production relates to other activities in the city: tourism, light industry, commerce.