URBAN ROOM BLYTH
Welcome to the URB – the Urban Room Blyth.
We are proud to be a part of the Urban Rooms Network, please click here to find out more.
The URB shares the space with the rePUBlic Gallery in the Kings Head former pub. Originally built as a pub and hotel in 1890, the Kings Head has a long tradition of been a place where people could meet, talk and socialise. We are very keen to continue the tradition of being a PUBlic house.
With new local artists exhibiting their work in the gallery every month, this provides an exciting and diverse space for meetings, events and gatherings. Many of the artists that exhibit in the rePUBlic Gallery, explore themes around place and locality, sharing and encouraging these discussions as part of the URB.
Talk organised by James Longfield of Northern Bureau for Architecture (June 2024)
The rePUBlic Gallery also shares the Kings Head with EDable Architecture, who believe passionately in inclusive and participatory design processes, and whilst they are keen to support and promote the URB, the Urban Room is fundamentally an independent and neutral space for anyone to use.
What is an Urban Room?
An Urban Room is a space where people can come together to help create a future for their local area.
Are you…
- A Community Activist supporting people to have their say in local issues
- A Council Officer hoping to engage communities in conversations about local development?
- A Creative Practitioner commissioned to co-design the future of a place with local people?
- A University Lecturer working in architecture or planning and seeking opportunities to partner with local people to share knowledge and ideas?
… then Urban Room could help you develop those creative, meaningful conversations in the places that matter to people.
Urban Rooms share these principles…
- A focus on our shared built environment – streets, neighbourhoods and public spaces.
- An open door – all welcome, especially those who are traditionally underrepresented is decision making about the future of our towns and cities.
- Exploration through creative activities – to prompt curiosity and fresh thinking.
- To be ‘on-site’, that is, located in the places that are being discussed.
We would very much like to offer the space in the rePUBlic Gallery to anyone – public or private sector, organisation or individual as a space to meet and discuss the past, present and future of Blyth.
Please get in touch if you have any ideas or suggestions via the rePUBlic email.