Category: Workshop

Workshop: “Biodiversity Net Gain – Design and Delivery within development” | Tuesday, December 19, 2023, at 17:45 (GMT), The Alan Baxter Gallery + Online

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When: Tuesday, 19th of December 2023, from 5:45pm to 9:00pm

Where: The Alan Baxter Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ

To register for attendance in person, please visit here.

To register for online attendance, please visit here.

This event is organised by the Landscape Institute (London branch) in association with the Chartered Institute of Ecology & Environmental Management 

“The mandatory requirement of Biodiversity Net Gain introduced under The Environment Act 2021 finally comes into force in January 2024. New developments need to achieve a 10 percent increase in suitable habitat on site, or off-site if on site gain is not possible. This requirement opens new opportunities for closer collaboration between Landscape Architects and Ecologists on future projects.

This event is an opportunity for us to mark Xmas 2023 together and meet friends, old and new.

This initial workshop presents a networking space to share knowledge, form partnerships and build new relationships between ecology and landscape architecture professionals. We will look at practical case studies of projects where Landscape Architects and Ecologists worked together to achieve net gain in biodiversity. We expect a future series of workshops to develop out of this programme.

We will share experiences and knowledge of BNG delivery which balance amenity with biodiversity enhancement. We will discuss opportunities and challenges associated with habitat design, creation and management. We will present examples of projects that have navigated the relationship and balance between habitat for wildlife and habitat that also provide amenity and local access.

There will be an opportunity to explore how the two professions use terminology to reflect their differing priorities and perspectives, to help articulate where conflicts can arise.”

5.45pm Registration and drinks

6.30pm Welcome and Introductions

6.40pm Discussion: What is BNG (and UGF) Peter Massini (Director, Future Nature Consulting Ltd.) and Mark Fisk (Director of Landscape Architecture, LUC)

7.10pm Tanith Cook – Case studies (Senior Associate Ecologist, Mott MacDonald)

7.30pm Mark Fisk – Case studies (Director of Landscape Architecture, LUC)

7.50pm Discussion / Q and A’s / Conclusions / Next steps

8.30pm Drinks, Finish and tidy up

9.00pm Move onto ‘The Three Compasses’ Pub which is just nearby for more Xmas drinks

VR Design Summer School: “Re-Imagining Coral Reefs” run by John Zhang | June 19-28, 2023

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Re-Imagining Coral Reefs is a VR Design Summer School that invites student co-creators to contribute to an immersive VR installation that communicates the vital climate science of coral reef restoration to a wider audience. Working with marine biologists from ZSL London, students will explore the vital scientific research on coral reefs, an ecosystem that provides habitats to 25% of the world’s marine species. 

Using 3D scans and audio data of coral reefs collected from the field in Indonesia, students will create their own 3D VR interpretations of coral reef models that engage the public in a more empathic understanding of the climate science. They will also be re-designing new forms of reef restoration structures in collaboration with the scientists. Through these activities, students will be learning to use the Meta Quest VR headset as a design tool, as well as a range of digital tools typically deployed in spatial and game design, such as Grasshopper, Unity, Gravity Sketch, as well as fabricating their creation via 3D printing. The output from the summer school will be part of an London Festival of Architecture Exhibition/Event.

The Summer School is open to all students within the school, including final year students. Places are limited, so an interview process will be implemented. Once we have received your application, we will be in touch with further instructions. 

Briefing Session 1: 31st  March 1pm M327

Briefing Session 2: 27th of April 1pm M306

Apply at: https://tinyurl.com/yc5dtufy

Contact: John Zhang at zhangj@westminster.ac.uk

School of Architecture + Cities: Gender Ecologies Symposium | March 14-15, 2023

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When: Tuesday, 14th of March, 13:30 (GMT) – Wednesday, 15th March, 16:30 (GMT)

Where: School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS

Gender Ecologies is a programme of the British Council launched to support the development and delivery of projects that explore the intersection of women, climate change and arts, demonstrating how arts can be a catalyst for positive change, action and impact in environmental issues. The programme promotes collaboration and mutual exchange of crossdisciplinary knowledge and skills between Pakistan and the UK.

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Please note: when booking your tickets for the conference, please note you will need to reserve tickets for both days (14 and 15 March) if you intend to be present at both.  

Should you be interested in attending the Cody Dock event on 12th March, please contact Corinna

ITINERARY: OFF SITE/ON SITE WORKSHOP

Sunday 12 March 11 am – 4.30 pm

Location: Cody Dock, Lower Lea Valley

Grounding Landscapes: embodied mapping led by choreographers Claire Burrell and Carolyn Deby from Sirenscrossing with a response from Pakistani based Performance Artist Abuzar Madhu. The Cody Dock resident ecologist will draw observations of the local primary species as part of the workshop.

Tuesday 14 March 1.30 pm -4.30 pm

Location: University of Westminster, Marylebone Road, London, Room 204.

Roundtable symposium where Marvi Mazhar (architect) with Zohaib Kazi (filmmaker) and Abuzar Madhu (performance artist) will be discussing their recent filming of activist fisherwomen, around the Indus River, Pakistan. The documentary will be a visual investigation to open questions about the significance of land and water protection in times of climate crisis. Corinna Dean will respond with her research along the River Lea which looks at the role of contamination and remediation as agency.

Wednesday 15 March 1.30 pm – 4.30 pm

Location: University of Westminster, Marylebone Road, London, Room 204.

The Gender Ecologies team will be joined by Lindsay Bremner, (Professor, architect, writer, head of research UoW) Carolyn Deby, (Sirenscrossing), Claire Burrell (Choreographer) and Kate McMillan (artist, author, King’s College) to discuss how art and research methodologies can raise awareness of environmental issues and environmental justice.

Norman Foster Foundation: 2023 NFF Energy Workshop, supported by the GS Energy Corporation | Deadline for applications: Sunday, December 18 by 24:00 (CEST)

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The 2023 Energy Workshop will take place in Madrid, Spain, from 20-24 February 2023 and will gather a team of ten granted scholars drawn from diverse backgrounds to explore new opportunities that combine natural processes with emerging technologies.

Each grant will cover all transportation, accommodation and incurred costs related to the Workshop in Madrid. Students will be invited to engage with Norman Foster and an interdisciplinary Academic Body composed by researchers, industry practitioners and academicians.

For more information please find attached the Open Call Form: 

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MArch DS18 student, Georgios Malliaropoulos, reports on his experience from 2022 Sustainability Workshop by the Norman Foster Foundation

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The 2022 Sustainability Workshop organised by Norman Foster Foundation took place in Madrid, Spain, between 10th and 14th of October.

Georgios spoke about his experience to University of Westminster’s News:

“The Workshop aimed to explore the concept of sustainability at the intersection of natural and artificial. During the week-long programme, we aimed to generate projects and prototypes that demonstrated the transformative potential of combining different types of intelligence, namely ecological, human, and technological.”

To read more, please go here.  

Call for Participants: “Thinkers for Architecture – DIALOGUE 1: Foucault / Merleau – Ponty / Latour | Application deadline: Friday, January 6, 2023

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Research Workshop Convened by:

  • Gordana Fontana-Giusti (University of Kent)
  • Jonathan Hale (University of Nottingham)
  • Albena Yaneva (University of Manchester)

When: Monday, 24th of April —Thursday, 27th of April 2023

Where: Manchester, UK

The thought of Michel Foucault, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Bruno Latour has greatly contributed to the advance of research scholarship in the field of architecture. As part of a hugely influential strand of French intellectual history that spans Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Phenomenology and contemporary Actor-Network Theory, the links between these three thinkers are many and vital, and yet in detail remain largely unexplored. Their work has rarely been discussed together, ‘in dialogue’, or across empirical examples and case studies drawn from architectural and urban research. This workshop provides an opportunity for such a dialogue, convened by the authors of three volumes in the Thinkers for Architects book series published by Routledge/Taylor&Francis: Foucault for Architects (Gordana Fontana-Giusti); Merleau-Ponty for Architects (Jonathan Hale); and Latour for Architects (Albena Yaneva). It offers a unique opportunity for young researchers to ‘think with’ these leading theorists of the last 100 years and to harvest applied knowledge for their ongoing research projects.

For more information, please visit here.

MAKE FOR UKRAINE! An evening of robotics and ceramics to raise funds for Ukraine | Fabrication Lab | Thursday, June 9, 2022, 18:00 – 22:00 (BST)

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When: Thursday, 9th of June from 6pm to 10pm (BST)

Where: Fabrication Lab, University of Westminster, Marylebone Campus, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5SL

Make your own ceramic patisseries in the UoW’s Fabrication Lab. Assemble your cake with clay 3D printed by robots, decorate using digitally fabricated cutters & stamps, & paint it with a glaze. Yours to keep forever! All proceeds will be donated to humanitarian aid for Ukraine.

For more information please go here.

Performance Architecture: Body, Movement, Space | Online Summer School | Deadline for applications: June 22, 2022

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Course dates: 2nd, 3rd, 9th and 10th of July

Deadline for applications: 22nd of June 2022

Free webinar: 18th of June 2022 at 10am

Performance Architecture Online Summer School is an exciting learning journey designed to inspire, broaden, and challenge the possibilities of spatial representation and design.

Participants are invited to work on ways of designing that use the body as an instrument of thinking, sensing, drawing and sculpting space. It is designed to give an alternative, critical view to the study, use and production of space on both urban and architectural scales.

Architecture has for long been considered a static discipline. This course focuses on applying the toolbox of performance in architectural thinking, to the production of spatial actions and bodily geometries in space.

For more details and to apply please go here.

Norman Foster Foundation (NFF)’s Education + Research programme 2022 – NFF Shelters Workshop | Deadline for applications, May 1, 2022

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The workshop will take place from 6-10 June 2022 in Madrid, Spain and will bring together international experts and students to explore the development of tools, models and design methods to address the displacement crisis in the face of climate change, and the role of architecture and design in doing so.

To this end, the NFF will award ten scholarships to students from the diverse backgrounds of architecture, urbanism, design, arts and humanities, social sciences, engineering and environmental studies. Grants will cover all transportation and accommodation related to the week-long event in Madrid, Spain.

For more information and how to apply 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. 

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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.