When: Thursday, 4th of April 2024, 13:00-14:00
Where: Online
Urna Sodnomjamts will present the next Architecture + Cities Research Seminar titled “ger means home” on Thursday 4 April, from 13.00 – 14.00 online.
The link to the seminar is here.
Author: Mirna Pedalo
University of Westminster Sustainability Festival | Tuesday, April 2 to Friday, April 5, 2024 across UoW’s West End campuses
When: Tuesday, April 2 to Friday, April 5, 2024
Where: Across University of Westminster’s West End campuses
The Sustainability Festival of the University of Westminster has been created in 2021. The aim is to promote the University’s sustainable goals and the 17 sustainable development United Nations goals.
The MA Event Design and Management students organise entirely the festival. The students create and think about everything from the sponsorships to the marketing, including the programme.
This year, 6 teams are creating 6 different events. There are also 2 festival coordinators linking together all of the events to make the essence of the festival.
MArch History and Theory Guest Lecture Series: “The Future of the Already Built” by Sally Stone | Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 18:00 in M416 (Robin Evans Room)
When: Thursday, 21st of March 2024 at 6pm
Where: M416, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS
“For such a long established and deeply entrenched subject, adaptive reuse has a remarkably short history. It is a practice that stretches back to almost the first constructed buildings themselves; for structures have perpetually been altered to accommodate the needs of their different occupants, and yet until recently has lacked the professional, theoretical, and historical recognition of new-build architecture. However, 21st century issues of culture, heritage, and sustainability have pushed adaptive reuse from the periphery into the forefront of architectural debate. Adaptive reuse is a young subject, and as such, is not burdened with the weight of history that architecture carries. It has the freedom to collect influences from a wide range of sources that allows for a transgressive, pluralistic approach. This discussion will examine the evolution of adaptive reuse into the subversive force that it assumes today.”
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Architecture + Cities Research Seminar: Chiara Orefice “Events as Prototyping Opportunities for Sustainable Innovation” | Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 1pm (GMT) | Online
When: Thursday, 28th of March 2024, 13:00-14:00
Where: Online
Chiara Orefice will present the next Architecture + Cities Research Seminar on Thursday 28 March, 13.00 – 14.00, online. The seminar is titled ‘Events as Prototyping Opportunities for Sustainable Innovation.’
The link to the seminar is here.
MArch History and Theory Guest Lecture Series: “History in the Making” by Amy Kulper | Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 18:00 in M416 (Robin Evans Room)
When: Thursday, 21st of March 2024 at 6pm
Where: M416, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS
“On January 6, 2021, supporters of then President, Donald Trump, stormed the U.S. Capitol Building. In a stunning display of a historiographical phenomenon known as ‘presentism,’ insurrectionists desecrated the seat of American democracy, while simultaneously recording and archiving their illegal conduct. In the aftermath of the insurrection, everyday citizens, museum curators, and criminologists bagged, tagged, and collected memorabilia, artefacts for accession, and legal evidence, attesting to the day’s violent and unprecedented activities. This lecture examines the roles that architecture, and more broadly the politics of space, played in the events that unfolded that day.”
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The Engineering Club Screening: “The Bamboo Dialogues” | Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 18:00 at Price and Myers, 37 Alfred Place, London WC1E 7PD
When: Thursday, 21st of March 2024 at 6pm
Where: Price and Myers, 37 Alfred Place, London WC1E 7PD
The Bamboo Dialogues is a feature-length documentary exploring the nature of the material and asking why are we not using more of it in contemporary design, engineering, and architecture? The film shows the possibilities and challenges for this miracle plant. Best bamboo practices are mostly found: off the beaten track; away from trendsetting metropolises; in remote, and peripheral locations.
The film’s narrative is told by “bamboo whisperers”: engineers, artisans, architects, designers, historians, biologists span five continents. Shot on location in Sweden, Italy, Indonesia, China, USA, Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea, Costa Rica, Taiwan, The Philippines, Uganda, Kenya, Qatar and the UK. The production of the film took more than three years and contains material that is contributed from a number of different sources.
Producer / Director: Johan Granberg will attend the screening introduce the film and answer questions about the production.
Free to Engineering Club members.
Book tickets here.
Unsettled Subjects: “Cultivating Hope 1: Palestine Regeneration Team x Adam Khan” | Monday, March 25, 2024 at 18:00 in M416 (Robin Evans Room)
When: Monday, 25th of March 2024 at 6pm
Where: M416, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS
Cultivating Hope: Conversations on Palestinian art and architecture is a series of talks, gatherings and discussions — convened by Unsettled Subjects — aimed at developing an understanding of cultural production and reflection from Palestinian practitioners.
The first event in the series features architects and educators Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari, founding members of Palestine Regeneration Team and more recently, Architects for Gaza, in conversation with Adam Khan, principal at Adam Khan Architects.
Join a community of artists, architects and thinkers committed to dismantling the systemic and structural legacies of imperialism, colonialism and slavery within and beyond the built environment; together, we cultivate hope.
Feel free to bring dates/ snacks/ water for Iftar which will be at 6.24pm
Book tickets here.
Urban Radicals (Era Savvides and Nasios Varnavas), Millimetre and AKTII selected for “Navigating Change: Reimagining the Square Mile”
Congratulations to Urban Radicals with Millimetre and AKTII who have been selected by LFA and City of London BIDs as winners of the “Navigating Change: Reimagining the Square Mile” competition to design a trail of architectural interventions across the City of London.
Urban Radicals is a collaborative studio run by Era Savvides (Level 5 Year Lead for BA Interior Architecture at School of Architecture + Cities) and Nasios Varnavas (Tutor BA Architecture at School of Architecture + Cities) with an interesting take on regenerative use of materials – their proposal requires them to deliver four public pavilions across the City this summer which will be activated by public events run by various institutions, schools and stakeholders.
More details can be found here.
Featured image: Era Savvides (left) and Nasios Varnavas (right), LFA website
Architecture + Cities Research Seminar: Ilaria Pappalepore “Mega Events and the Development of Emerging Tourist Destinations” on Monday, March 11, 2024 at 1pm (GMT) | Online
When: Monday, 11th of March 2024 at 13:00 (GMT)
Where: Online
Ilaria Pappalepore will present the next Architecture + Cities Research Seminar on Monday 11 March, 13.00 – 14.00 online. The seminar is titled Mega Events and the Development of Emerging Tourist Destinations.
The link to the seminar is here.
MArch History and Theory Guest Lecture Series: “Vermeer, Canaletto, and Making Pictures with the Camera Obscura” by Philip Steadman | Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 18:00 (GMT) in M416 (Robin Evans Room)
When: Thursday, 7th of March 2024 at 6pm
Where: M416, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS
Prof. Philip Steadman’s methodology combines meticulous scholarly research with geometrical analysis, and physical experiments. Bringing together history, theory and empirical evidence he is able to provide new insights into the way artists, such as Johannes Vermeer, employed the camera obscura to produce accurate and seemingly luminous painted images. Steadman’s book, ‘Vermeer’s Camera’ has been featured in numerous television programmes, as well as in the full-length film ‘Tim’s Vermeer’, released in 2013. This lecture will also include his recent research on the painting techniques of the eighteenth-century Venetian artist, Giovanni Antonio Canal (known as Canaletto).
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