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University of Westminster Exhibition 2010
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OPEN2010: University of Westminster Department of Architecture
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[Un]Representative House
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University of Westminster, Architecture Exhibition, 2009 – extended opening
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University of Westminster, Architecture Exhibition, 2009 – extended opening
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PCL: Building Architectural education in the 1960s
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Iannis Xenakis: composing with graphs
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Featured posts by The Polytechnic
University of Westminster, Architecture Exhibition, 2009 – extended opening
Post by The Polytechnic originally posted about 1 year ago.
By popular demand, the University of Westminster, Architecture Department’s annual exhibition will now remain open until the 10th July 2009.
Architecture Studios, 35 Marylebone Road
London NW1 5LS
10am to 9pm everyday
http://openstudiowestminster.org/
Will McLean and Pete Silver - Introduction to Architectural Technology
Post by The Polytechnic originally posted about 1 year ago.
The forthcoming RAE and general publishing phenomenon known as Will McLean and Pete Silver are releasing yet another book, this one is an ‘Introduction to Architectural Technology.’
Check out the fantastic photo of their living model of the Forth Rail Bridge featuring Yonca Ersen.
Other recent works by The Polytechnic
FABRICATE: Conference and Call for Work
Post by The Polytechnic originally posted 1 day ago.
Looks like it should be an interesting event.. note that call for work has been extended to 20 September 2010..
Conference and Call for Work
FABRICATE
International Peer Reviewed
Conference and Publication
London 15–16 April 2011
The Bartlett School of Architecture announces FABRICATE. A London Conference to assess the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century. Discussion on key themes will include: digital craft, representation and realization, material performance...
Camp for Climate Action 2010: RBS-Break the Bank! in Edinburgh
Post by The Polytechnic originally posted 16 days ago.
**Camp for Climate Action 2010**
*RBS-Break the Bank! in Edinburgh*
Four days of training and direct action: 21st-24th August
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-md598WLIL4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MusyfeMcnVw
The Camp for Climate Action is a grassroots movement taking direct action
against the root causes of climate change. We’ve already had major
successes with Heathrow’s third runway and E.ON’s plans for a new coal
fired power station at Kingsnorth.
*This year we’re targeting the Royal Bank of Scotland, one of the world’s
l...
David Harvey RSA Crises of Capitalism Talk: Animated!
Post by The Polytechnic originally posted about 1 month ago.
This is a great ten minute animation of a recent David Harvey lecture at the RSA, London.
Scarcity and Creativity in the Built Environment: Research Fellow post available
Post by The Polytechnic originally posted 3 months ago.
The University of Westminster invites applications for a Research Fellow to work on an EU funded project-SCIBE (Scarcity and Creativity in the Built Environment).
The aim of research is to explore the relationship between scarcity and creativity of the built environment by investigating how conditions of scarcity might affect the creativity of the different actors involved in the production of architecture and urban design.
You will be responsible for conducting surveys, observations, literature reviews, organising meetings and preparing written reports/proposals to external ...
Closure of Philosophy at Middlesex University
Post by The Polytechnic originally posted 4 months ago.
Late on Monday 26 April, staff in Philosophy at Middlesex University
in London were informed that the University executive are to close all
Philosophy programmes: undergraduate, postgraduate and MPhil/PhD.
Philosophy is the highest research-rated subject at Middlesex
University, with 65% of its research activity judged ‘world-leading’
or ‘internationally excellent’ in the UK government’s recent Research
Assessment Exercise. It is now widely recognised as one of the most
important centres for the study of modern European philosophy anywhere
...
Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture
Post by The Polytechnic originally posted 5 months ago.
The fantastic Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture has recently announced a series of great events, including a new Whitechapel Salon season, ‘Matter Matters’, at the Whitechapel Gallery, the final event in the 21st Century London series -Rachel Lichtenstein - at the University of Westminster, and a major conference, the 2010 Visual Culture Studies conference, to be held at the University of Westminster: Thursday 27th May 2010 – Saturday 29th May 2010.
See Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture for more details and booking information on all of these events.
T...
RADICAL PHILOSOPHY 160, March/April 2010 OUT NOW
Post by The Polytechnic originally posted 6 months ago.
I have a review of Adrian Parr’s Hijacking Sustainability in the new issue of Radical Philosophy. Unfortunately I forgot that the journal does not use footnotes, and I submitted my text very late!! They inserted the footnotes into the text, which makes the beginning of the article slightly strange reading - sorry!
RADICAL PHILOSOPHY 160, March/April 2010 OUT NOW
Mandy Merck, The Question of Caster Semenya
Etienne Balibar, Marxism and War
Peter Osborne, Marx, Nietzsche and the Politics of Crisis
Howard Caygill, Levinas’s Prison Notebooks
Babette Babich,...
TAKE BACK EDUCATION: A TEACH-IN TO BUILD THE RESISTANCE
Post by The Polytechnic originally posted 6 months ago.
TAKE BACK EDUCATION: A TEACH-IN TO BUILD THE RESISTANCE:
THIS SATURDAY 27 FEBRUARY 11AM-4PM, KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
http://educationactionlondon.blogspot.com/
There is an unprecedented attack on tertiary education with cuts estimated as high as £2.5bn - or 1/3 of total HE funding. Upwards of 14,000 jobs could be in the firing line and many institutions could close altogether. We need a united campaign, not just to save jobs but also to defend education.
The No Cuts @ King’s campaign and King’s UCU are hosting a mass teach-in this Saturday. The event is aimed at both...
Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition, by David Harvey
Post by The Polytechnic originally posted 7 months ago.
David Harvey has recent posted the paper ‘Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition’ on his webssite. It is one of the most interesting of recent attempts by a left wing academic today to think through the implications of the financial and ecological crises, and the potential (and need) for transforming neoliberal capitalism into something less environmentally catastrophic and more socially progressive. Harvey’s work has been consistently insightful in emphasising that the necessity of compound growth for a working capitalism is incompatible not only with a healthy relation to the re...
PUBLIC LECTURE: Professor Allan Stoekl (Penn State University), ‘The Drift: Surrealism, Situationism and Postsustainable Strategies of Gleaning’
Post by The Polytechnic originally posted 9 months ago.
Professor Allan Stoekl (Penn State University), ‘The Drift: Surrealism, Situationism and Postsustainable Strategies of Gleaning’
Friday 27 November, 17.30-19.00, followed by reception
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R
Free Admission
ALL WELCOME!
Organised in association with the conference Surrealism, Post-War Theory and the Avant-Garde
Saturday 28 November 2009, 10.00 – 18.30 (registration from 9.30)
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Tickets: £10
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