Unasscociated Writers Conference
In 2005, One Architecture did a small temporary project at the Western Front’s Lux ballroom in Vancouver. The project, an installation to house the Unassociated Writers Conference and Dance Party, was made of a ghostly linen cube with a rented bouncy castle inside it.
Around it there was a makeshift café, as well as different spaces for readings. On the cube, various simultaneous readings (some of them without a live audience) were projected; the sound was adjusted so that, together with the sound of laugher of the bouncing public, the space became “an experiment in information sharing and a place in which writers and artists could commingle, display their books, read, listen, and drink champagne.”
The value of small-scale, non-institutional, bottom-up creative practices for the city and, by extension, the economy, is generally understood, especially since Richard Florida’s books.
