Presented by Hart House Hancock Lecture Series

Engaging Our Urban Environments
With Sean Martindale

Who shapes your community?
Do conscious public interventions equal public good?
What insights can be gained through interventionist art and design?

Details: The Hancock Lecture Series was launched in 2001, with the aim of establishing an annual public lecture in Hart House. Organized by students, the Hancock Lecture Series aspires to ignite public conversation and debate. The Lecture takes issues identified by youth to a national audience.

This year’s lecturer is none other than Sean Martindale, a prolific interdisciplinary artist and designer whose propositions and provisional solutions encourage people to reinterpret their surroundings. Sean’s interventions, primarily sculptural, engage people in their own environments showing that we do not have to accept the status quo; things can change. There is potential for us all to more consciously, and creatively, influence how our societies and shared spaces are shaped. These ideas can be accepted, rejected or adapted in other ways - they are yours to evolve.

Be part of the discussion.

What: Hancock Lecture Series Decennial
When: October 27, 7pm – Reception to follow
Where: Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle
Cost: FREE! Reserve your seating at www.uofttix.ca or by phone at 416-978-8849. Rush seats available at the door on a first come, first served basis.

Hancock Lecture Co-Programming: Join Sean Martindale for a workshop!

About Sean Martindale

Sean Martindale is an interdisciplinary artist and designer currently residing in Toronto, Canada.His interventions activate public and semi-public spaces to encourage engagement, often focused on ecological and social issues. His playful works question and suggest alternate possibilities for existing spaces, infrastructures and materials found in the urban environment.

See Sean's work at www.seanmartindale.com

Hancock Lecture Series Vision

It is our hope that the Hancock Lecture Series, will create a public conversation with young people. We hope to disseminate the ideas of original thinkers, encouraging public discussion and analysis of these ideas.  Part of the dream is that the Lecture will expand to bridge the interests of students with the public good and to enhance the capacity of Canadians to create a vibrant, supple and imaginative nation.  We hope to make an important intellectual and cultural contribution to the University and surrounding community.

Hancock Lecture Co-Programming:

Methods and Motivations in Interventionist Art

On October 20th, hundreds of oversized paper airplanes flew across Hart House Quad.

Sean and a revolving drop-in group of students spent the afternoon folding paper airplanes and discussing interventionist art. Participants heard about Sean’s experiences creating art across Toronto, and discovered some of the themes he will cover during his October 27th lecture.