Lottie Childs

Lottie Child's work often takes the form of Interventions, she is currently engaging in action research into play and risk and uses urban climbing as investigation into multiple possible modes of engaging with the built environment and other people through the Integration of intellectual and physical activities. She has made Interventions in to the fields of higher education, educational theories, free education and City finance with an interest in risk management and counter culture. Her projects include:

Guerrilla gardening- Investigations into the politics of green spaces in hyper urban places. Risk Conference- A recorded conference call that took place on May 1st 2005. The agenda, which was texted to delegates beforehand, equated financial risk with physical risk, some delegates were climbing on financial institutions in the City of London, talking on their mobile phones with hands free devices during the conference.
Climbing Club - Regular group outings in the City of London engaging with street furniture and architectural features.
Urban Climbing for Higher Education- With Kate Rich this approach skews higher educational hierarchies by suggesting experimental teaching and learning methodologies. Building an alternate reality out of cardboard - with artists and children in a European free universities context.
HI5 - Game for cyclists, played out on the streets and online; occasional fleeting interactions between cyclists and people hailing cabs, users of City Streets inhabiting differing realities.
Critical Mapping - Spatialising institutional micro politics.
Urban street training- How to play on the streets for adults who have forgotten