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The Fabrication Lab invites you to our unique Ceramic Patisserie: MAKE FOR UKRAINE! An Evening of Robotics + Ceramics to Raise Funds for Ukraine | Thursdays: March 31 and April 7, 2022

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We’d like to invite you to an evening workshop in the Fabrication Lab to raise funds for Ukraine.

The workshop is a one-off opportunity to try out the Lab, and to work with our robots and digitally fabricated tools to help you design and make your very own ceramic patisserie. We’ll provide all the materials, tools, and help you need to create your cake, and once it’s fired, it will be yours to keep forever.

MAKE FOR UKRAINE! is open to everyone, with reduced donations for students and Westminster colleagues. All proceeds, including profits from the Lab Bar, will be donated to humanitarian aid for the people of Ukraine.

Dates

Thursdays – 31st of March and 7th of April: 17:30, 18:00, 18:30 until 22:00

Minimum Donations
  • UoW Students – £20
  • UoW Staff + Alumni – £30
  • Visitors – £50
  • ViP – £100

To book tickets please go here.

The Landmark Student Art Prize | Deadline: April 19, 2022

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Art in Offices are running and organising The Landmark Student Art Prize on behalf of Landmark, one of the country’s biggest providers of flexible office space.

Landmark are about to launch a new space in King’s Cross at The Lighthouse. As a company they have a rich history of investing in and displaying art in their spaces, and this year they have decided to support the creatives of the future by launching this new prize.

As you’ll see from the images of the spaces, which you can see here there is a real mixture of spaces, which is why we want a wide variety of art students to submit their work. We are going to need artworks of all sizes, and we would love to see submissions from artists studying:

  • Painting
  • Illustration
  • Print making
  • Graphic design
  • Print design
  • Textiles
  • Photography
  • Fashion
  • Architecture
  • Ceramics
  • Industrial designers
  • And animation or film students

We are mostly in need of 2D artworks but there are going to be spaces for sculptures, ceramics, lighting design and other 3D practises as well. We encourage the students to submit more than one piece of artwork as well.

There are some great prizes on offer, but not only will there will be prize winners, everyone shortlisted will have their work on display for hundreds of people to see at Landmark Kings cross for 12 months.  PLUS everyone is represented by Art in Offices for 12 months. The prizes for the top 4 winners are:

  • 1. £5,000 Cash Prize
  • 2. £2,000 Cash Prize
  • 3. Art Materials and Tools to the value of £1,000
  • 4. Club Space for 3 months to the value of £400

For more information please go here.

2022 Innovation in Wool Awards

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The Worshipful Company of Woolmen Charitable Trust and The Company of Merchants of the Staple of England in conjunction with the Campaign for Wool are seeking submissions that showcase wool in new, inspirational applications which can be either apparel, interior, novel or other scientific wool applications.

For more information please go here.

Call for Applications: “Architecture for Peace” Summer School in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina [18th – 29th of July 2022] | Deadline for Submission of Applications: Tuesday, March 15, 2022

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Amidst political instability in Europe, this is a call for architecture students to come together in solidarity and across borders to show the world that sustainable architecture can be a framework for reconciliation! 

This summer school will centre around a 2-week on-site residency (July 18th-29th) in the war-torn Prijedor region in B&H, led by peacebuilding Charity Most Mira and Projekt V Arhitektura in collaboration with the Global Free Unit (GFU) and Umeå School of Architecture (UMA). This will run alongside the international award-winning Most Mira Peace Centre development and build on ten Most Mira architecture workshops, as well as past and current UMA and GFU courses in Russia, Lesvos, Colombia and Izmir. EU and International students will work closely with students from B&H to design and prototype innovative building components, materials and furniture for the Peace Centre. We will also work on a wider reconciliation strategy of small-scale architectural interventions throughout the disjointed rural landscape. 

Please see the attached pdf. or web link for full details about the summer school, eligibility and how to apply: http://projectv-arch.com/news-1#/architecture-for-peace-summer-school-2022-applications-now-open/

There are 10 places for students applying through Umea University, which must be filled. EU citizens tuition for this course is fully funded by the EU, while non-EU citizens pay tuition fees. These applicants must apply directly through Umea University as described in their application link: https://www.arch.umu.se/en/education/summer-course-architecture,-exploration-and-reflection/application-and-eligibility/ 

In addition to this, there are a limited number of subsidised places for independent non-EU citizens sponsored by our collaborators, who apply directly to Vernes Čaušević and Lucy Dinnen via this e-mail address: info@projectv-arch.com 

This includes: 

  • 2 x independent subsidised spaces for non-EU citizens – they will be partly subsidised and pay a lower tuition fee. 
  • 5 x independent subsidised spaces for B&H citizens – they will not pay tuition fees. 

The deadline and submission requirements are the same for all applicants – 15th March! – non-EU applicants please contact us directly. Please note – the independent subsidised spaces will be extremely competitive as we have had lots of enquiries. 

Architecture for Peace Summer SchoolDownload

Featured image: Architecture students from B&H, EU and the UK building rammed earth prototypes on the Most Mira Peace Centre site in Prijedor at a summer residency led by Project V Architecture and international rammed earth experts Lehm Ton Erde from Austria. Photo credit: Adriana Keast / Most Mira.

Announcing the new ArCCAT reading group

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The Architecture + Cities Climate Action Taskforce is starting a monthly online reading group. We will begin with Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency, by Sarah Ichioka and Michael Pawlyn. This will take place on 2nd March, 16.00 – 17.30. If you wish to join the reading group, please contact Ro Spankie at r.spankie@westminster.ac.uk and she will send you the Teams meeting link.  

The reading group is open to all staff, students and other university employees who are interested in engaging with debates around architecture’s response to the climate crisis.   

Readings will be short. For the first reading group meeting, all we ask you to read is the Introduction to Flourish (pp.1-19). The library holds an e-copy which you can access, or if you wish to purchase a copy, go here: https://www.triarchypress.net/flourish.html. In addition, Sarah and Michael have a wonderful podcast series in which they engage with a number of interesting people about the issues the book raises: https://www.flourish-book.com/flourishsystemschange-podcast 

We are aware that 02 March is a potential day of strike action, but we feel a reading group is not ‘work’ and are also hopeful the University and Union might reach an agreement. 

Congratulations to Peter Barber on becoming a Royal Academician!

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Many congratulations to Peter Barber, Reader in Architecture, MArch Design Studio 12 tutor, alumnus, and the UKs leading building and campaigning social housing architect who has been elected a Royal Academician.

For more information please go here.

Featured image: Peter Barber RA, Donnybrook Quarter, 2005 (via Royal Academy)

Archisource Drawing of the Year Competition | Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2022

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Archisource have just launched their third, annual, free-for-students, Drawing of the Year competition and would like to invite our students to enter!

Archisource instagram.com/archisource is an architecture and design platform for students and professionals with a growing creative community – now 230,000 on Instagram. Having published our students’ great work over the past year they would love to invite you to submit your best works into their annual, free-for-students, international Drawing of the Year competition! The competition celebrates the extensive variety of drawings and showcases the amazing array of talents around the world each year.

With £10,000 ($13,500) worth of prizes, international publication and extensive promotion to be won, there are four Award Categories and a variety of Commendations to win from, including: the Drawing of the Year Award, Architectural Award, Narrative Award and the Environmental Award. Archisource are proud to partner with Enscape this year who will also be awarding an ‘Enscape Commendation’ to the best drawing created with their software – which is also free for students!

Enter here!: archisource.org

The competition is now open and entry closes 31st January 2022!

Archisource truly believe in the power of drawings to communicate and represent more than what you see on the surface and they are excited to judge an array of high quality works. The competition is not just limited to architecture and very much welcome those from other arts and design industries.

This is a great opportunity to win some fantastic prizes but it’s also a great opportunity to be published and receive significant exposure for both the winners and their university to the architecture and design industry. 

Archisource look forward to your submissions and wish you luck!

ArCCAT flag flies outside Regent Street campus

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Thanks to the support of our VC Peter Bonfield, and the efforts of Dain Son Robinson and Matt and Jessica in the University’s design team, an ArCCAT flag has been produced and is hanging outside the Regent Street building this week. Once it is taken down, it will find a permanent home in the M416, the William Cullen Room. 

Congratulations to all involved and thank you for this endorsement of the work we are doing in the School of Architecture + Cities towards addressing climate change and wider sustainability goals.  

Asian Architects Association announces photography competition | Deadline: Thursday, January 13, 2022

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AAA are excited to be launching their first ever photography competition, which is free to enter and open to all.

AAA would love to have participants from all backgrounds (don’t have to be Asians only) participate in this exciting creative opportunity.  

The theme of the competition is ‘’Joy in Architecture’’ (which doesn’t have to be about Asian culture but could be a wider interpretation).

Excerpts from the website:

The pandemic has highlighted the importance of how we live, work and interact with one another; with the use of photography enabling us to relive memories and feel connected but most importantly capturing those special moments.

As we continue to adapt to the new normal, let us celebrate the joy that architecture brings to our daily lives.

AAA are interested to see what joy in Architecture means to you. It could be about buildings, people or capturing moments of the everyday; we are open to all interpretations of the theme.

Key dates

Competition opens: Sunday, 7th of November 2021, 9:00am

Closing date: Thursday, 13th of January 2022, 23:59pm

Announcement: Friday, 4th of February 2022

For more information, please go here.

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