Marcia Farquhar’s The Open University – An Event Score and Short History (booklet)

“Turn an empty skip into a street-side lecture theatre, with rows of seats and a lectern.”

The Open University, Toynbee Studios, London

The Open University is a functioning outdoor lecture theatre constructed in a roadside refuse skip, as well as an ad hoc lecture series of variable proportions, presented in situ therein, on the subject of what is and what is not trash.

The Open University, at the ‘Polytechnical Institute for the Study of the Expanding Field of Radical Urban Life’, Archway, London.

Each of the invited speakers prepared a short lecture on the what should or should not be trashed theme