Hidden in the Urban Fabric: Art + Architecture – a Case Study of Collaboration in interdisciplinary Contexts

This paper relates to the Conference’s theme of the Exploration of possible (interdisciplinary) worlds, where collaboration flows naturally and partnering delivers benefits for all participants. It contributes to the ongoing debate about installations / interventions in an urban context, and the potential that such new collaborative experiences and interdisciplinary models can present. It discusses the potential that partnering between architects and artists has for creative interaction with a city’s cultural (often derelict) fabric through ‘informal urban design’. It introduces and examines a selection of site-specific installation works in Brisbane (Australia) and Berlin (Germany), which were the results of collaborative practices initiated by the author. These temporary works provoke our comfortable notions o