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ENGAGING THE CITY PRESENTS a lecture by NILS NORMAN Tuesday, June 21st,7:00 pm at The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South Please join us at the National Arts Club bar on the mezzanine level before the lecture. RSVP: info@interboropartners.com Seating is limited. Nils Norman works across the disciplines of public art, architecture and urban planning. His projects challenge notions of the function of public art and the efficacy of much urban planning and large-scale regeneration. His work is informed by local politics and ideas on alternative economic and ecological systems, merging utopian alternatives with current urban design to create a humorous critique of the discrete histories and functions of public art and urban planning. He exhibits and generates projects and collaborations in museums and galleries internationally. In recent years he has participated in the Venice Biennale, the Havanna Biennale, and has completed an artist residency at the Camden Arts Centre in London. He is the author of three publications: Thurrock 2015, a comic commissioned by the General Public Agency, London, UK, 2004; An Architecture of Play: A Survey of London’s Adventure Playgrounds, Four Corners, London, UK, 2004; and The Contemporary Picturesque, Book Works, London, UK, 2000. He lives and works in London. His most recent exhibition: The Homerton Playscape Multiple Struggle Niche at City Projects, Homerton, East London, proposes a sprawling extension to the Homerton Grove Adventure Playground, encompassing the space surrounding the playground. The proposal takes the form of a drawing depicting an expansive network of play areas, connected by an intricate system of towers and walkways. Also on show at the gallery is the ‘Play/Regeneration Library', a specially researched collection of books on radical urban [?-this is how the email reads.] Engaging the City is a monthly lecture series that serves as a venue for individuals in a variety of professions who engage the extraordinary and exciting complexity of contemporary cities in novel ways. Lecturers are from the fields of architecture, urban planning, and urban design, but also public policy, public art, philosophy, film, and journalism. "Engaging the City" is organized by CUP, Interboro,Daniela Fabricius and Jacqueline Miro-Abreu.