London studio Assemble and experience designer Nelly Ben Hayoun are among ten teams commissioned to create "ground-breaking" large-scale public projects for the UK event that?s been dubbed the Festival of Brexit.
The event, which has the working title of Festival UK* 2022, is pitched as a celebration of UK creativity. It became known as the Festival of Brexit because it was conceived while the UK government was negotiating its withdrawal from the European Union and was timed to take place a few years after the UK left.
Originally commissioned by Teresa May's government in 2018, and since backed by current UK prime minister Boris Johnson, the event will receive £120 million of funding from the UK government.
Assemble to create "immersive experience" Thirty teams consisting of scientists, artists, engineers, technologists and mathematicians from all over the UK were invited to come up with ideas for festival projects, with more than 500 people in total initially taking part.
Today, the ten teams chosen to take their designs into production for the 2022 festival were announced.
Top: Stock image of fireworks over the Thames. Photo by Mark Taylor. Above: Architecture studio Assemble
Among these are Assemble, the Turner Prize-winning London architecture studio, which is participating as part of the Assemble + 8 collective.
The collective also includes scientists and philosophers from the Universities of Sussex and Glasgow, Grammy-nominated Composer Jon Hopkin...