How to Play the Environment Game

Yat Shun Kei

How to Play the Environment Game

Yat Shun Kei

School of Art and Design

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Abstract

This paper looks at a 1973 exhibition, How to Play the Environment Game, as a rare collaboration between the Arts Council, the architectural profession and community groups. Curated by the architect Theo Crosby, the exhibition capitalised on the contemporaneous debates on preservation and the ecological
crisis, in order to launch fervent attacks on large-scale speculative real-estate development. This paper will examine how the curator negotiated with the interests of the various parties involved in the exhibition and created a temporary space for an antagonistic cooperation. Looking at a moment when the concern for architectural preservation and environmentalism overcame political divides, this paper will investigate the problem of consensus in the production of architectural discourse.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Mediations
Subtitle of host publication	International Conference Proceedings
Editors	Adrien Friend, Cathy Jones, Karolina Raczynska, Saba Golchehr, Rosa Ainley
Publisher	Royal College of Art
Pages	258-269
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	978-1-910642-18-4
Publication status	Published - 21 Nov 2016
Event	Mediations: Art & Design Agency and Participation in Public Space - Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom Duration: 21 Nov 2016 → 22 Nov 2016 https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/mediations-art-design-agency-and-participation-public-space/

Conference

Conference	Mediations
Country	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	21/11/16 → 22/11/16
Internet address	https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/mediations-art-design-agency-and-participation-public-space/

Keywords

preservation

Access to Document

MEDIATIONS2016-Conference-ProceedingsFinal published version, 7.63 MBLicence: CC BY-NC

Research Output

2 Article

New Brutalism, Again

Kei, Y. S., 2019, In : Architecture and Culture. 7, 2, p. 271-290 20 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

On the Crossroads: Inter-Action Bus Tours 1973

Kei, J., 2018, In : Thresholds. 46, p. 172-183 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Cite this

Kei, Y. S. (2016). How to Play the Environment Game. In A. Friend, C. Jones, K. Raczynska, S. Golchehr, & R. Ainley (Eds.), Mediations : International Conference Proceedings (pp. 258-269). Royal College of Art.

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