Concrete Dreams
A project exploring the ways Tyneside was transformed during 1960s and 1970s and how we might reimagine the city of today.
19 September 2024
The latest exhibition at the Farrell Centre opens this evening, Thursday 19 September. Concrete Dreams is a project exploring the ways Tyneside was transformed during 1960s and 1970s and how we might reimagine the city of today.
From the iconic architecture of the Civic Centre and vast infrastructure projects like Central Motorway, to the everyday world of new schools, libraries, civic amenities and housing – the urban transformations of the 1960s and 1970s have left an indelible, if much contested mark on Tyneside.
Running September 2024 to June 2025, Concrete Dreams combines exhibitions, events, teaching and research to explore the ideals and aspirations that drove these transformations and the ways they continue to shape how we use and understand the city of today. How can we build upon their legacies and remake Tyneside once again?
Brasília of the North 19 September 2024 - 1 June 2025
An evolving exhibition that explores the ideas, personalities and broader social, cultural and political climate that underpinned the aspirations to transform Newcastle into the ‘Brasília of the North’.
Alison's Room: an Extended Reality Archive 19 September - 20 December 2024
Artist and researcher, Paula Strunden, presents an immersive reality experience of the study of the architect, Alison Smithson (1928–93), who, with her husband Peter Smithson (1923-2003), became key figures in post-war British architecture, having studied at Newcastle University in the 1940s.