Event overview
This debate will examine whether London can sustain its reputation as a leader in business and enterprise as creative pioneers are squeezed out of the capital by the soaring cost of living.
If you’re young, creative or ambitious the case for living in London is becoming increasingly more tenuous. Once young people flocked to London where they made amazing things happen from art exhibitions in warehouses to new fashion boutiques, publishing houses and recording studios. Today scarcity of affordable housing and workspace and the exorbitant cost of living have led to a rapid exodus of artists from London.
Can London sustain its reputation as a leader in business and enterprise without the kudos it gains from its young creative pioneers?
Panel:
Zoe Williams is a London-based political commentator, columnist, journalist and author.
Emma Jackson, lecturer, Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Artist Adham Faramawy studied at the Slade and the Royal Academy and is based in east London.
Architect and head of the Cass Cities Masters course, Professor Mark Brearley
Politics and social affairs writer Dawn Foster.
Sam Aldenton co-founder of Second Home, a co-working space in London.
Part of the Panic! What Happened To Social Mobility in the Arts? festival.
Goldsmiths is working in partnership with arts organisation Create London, The Barbican, the Guardian and British Art Show 8.
Image: London skyline. Courtesy Mark Brearley.
Dates & times
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2 Dec 2015 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
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