What does it take to turn a dream into reality? HEL/LO – Let’s Talk About Dreams explores the various methods designers and architects are using to realise unique projects that shape our cities.
The Gopher Hole is proud to present an evening of video-art installations by Cristina Zabalaga.
An investigation into the territory of Luanda shown through artefacts, research and interviews with urban migrants and former Portuguese colonisers. A pop-up show by Paulo Moreira.
The Gopher Hole, London’s independent space for emerging architecture and design, has been in operation for just over a year. To celebrate and say thank you to everyone that made our first year such a success, we invited illustrator Shin-Hye Lee to commemorate 2011 with a new work.
To see a world in a grain of sand is curated by emerging artists from Chelsea College of Art & Design that brings together different media within the context of everyday life.
The Gopher Hole is proud to present a launch party for the fourth issue of P.E.A.R. (Paper for Emerging Architectural Research)
A discussion about design futures with Maurice Barnwell curated by the Chartered Society of Designers.
Some Think FunkyA pop up event curated by the design collective ‘Create’, some think funky brings together up and coming designers and artists from a multitude of backgrounds to exhibit work based around a singular concept.
Emerging Group presents MistakesA series of short talks on the brilliance of failure curated by Emerging group.
An evening of 10min talks about the near-future of software, culture, networks and things curated by BERG.
Alex Schweder La’s “performance architecture” is based on the notion that relationships between occupied spaces and occupying subjects are permeable.
Presenting the open source design project WikiHouse, the new Archive of Spatial Aesthetics, the best projects of the year by London’s young designers and the launch of Go West Project’s first book.
Shanghai-based multidisciplinary think Go West Project will be in London to discuss their new book How the City Moved to Mr Sun in conversation with Beatrice Galilee.
Young London: The Best of 2011The best projects of 2011 will be presented in an all-night extravaganza by a score of London design studios, curated by Anna Bates & The Gopher Hole.
Archive of Spatial AestheticsCurator Tina Di Carlo presents the ASAP. This aims to be the foremost collection of spatial practice today, linking architecture to a broader discourse.
WikiHouse & Other StoriesThe first event of The Gopher Gala will be the story of WikiHouse, one of the most innovative open source architecture projects in the UK today. rsvp@holygopher.com for tickets
Project Heracles OpeningThe opening night of Project Heracles, a call for ideas to design a EuroAfrican connection which attracted over 300 responses.
Gwangju Design Biennale BanquetA banquet for 50 people was conceived without the use of any traditional eating or drinking implements. The meal was designed by Caroline Hobkinson with Blanch & Shock and is part of the 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale.
Domus Mixtape Live #6The Domus Mixtapes series is an ongoing project that brings together musicians, writers, artists and designers to create live sound-based portraits of cities around the world. ‘The Sound of London’ mixtape was created by Scanner + Allard van Hoorn and Beatrice Galilee.
TEDx RamallahTEDx Ramallah – a unique one day event – aimed to transform perceptions of Palestine by sharing stories and ideas from remarkable people in various fields. The event was beamed live to venues such as The Gopher Hole in cities across the globe.
Pretty—UglyA series of events – curated by the second year students of MA Communication Design students at Central Saint Martins – revolving around explorations of the paradox of “designing the undesigned”.
Building Futures DiscussionA RIBA organised discussion exploring the ideas, visions and services of young architectural practitioners in the context of a rapidly changing profession.
Rip It Up: PechaKucha NightThe Gopher Hole hosted Rip It Up and Start Again’s PechaKucha Night. PechaKucha 20×20, an innovative yet simple presentation format, prescribes each participant to show 20 images for 20 seconds each.
Artist Talk #1As part of the exhibition, ‘About a Minute’, The Gopher Hole provided a platform for four designers, architects and artists from the show to discuss their own work and practice.
Critical Futures Debate #1Responding to the enumerable technological advances that have profoundly reshaped the context within which architecture is conceived and debated over the past decade, The Gopher Hole played host to the first in a series of debates on the future of architecture criticism organised by Domus.
About a Minute OpeningThe opening party of ‘About a Minute’, the Gopher Hole’s inaugural exhibition. 15 artists, architects, designers, poets and writers were invited to interpret the potential of a minute.