Nils Norman
A short film about a poster/leaflet project the artist Nils Norman produced in 2006 about Adventure Playgrounds and their importance within urban planning and gentrification mechanisms.
Location:
Homerton and Hackney, East London
He has completed major public art projects including pedestrian bridges, bird screens and playgrounds. He has developed a play strategy for Mereside, Blackpool; designed a playground for the St Fagans Museum of National History, Cardiff, created a new library for the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam; and has created two theatre curtains in Bristol. For the City of Cambridge he has made 4 pedestrian bridges, 2 bird screens and has completed the redesign of MK Gallery Milton Keynes, UK. Designing the building's interior and exterior spaces, facade and landscaping in collaboration with Gareth Jones and 6a Architects.
He has participated in various biennials worldwide and has developed commissions for SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY; London Underground, UK; Tate Modern, Tate Britain, UK; Loughborough University, UK; Creative Time, NYC and the Centre d’ Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland.
He is the author of five publications: Propuestas Para Una Plaza. Proposals For A Plaza; Edible Park, Nils Norman; Thurrock 2015; An Architecture of Play: A Survey of London’s Adventure Playgrounds and The Contemporary Picturesque.
He is a professor at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany.