On Thursday, December 14, 2023, the School of Architecture + Cities’ First Year students organised a spectacular ‘food future’ event A Feast, which took place in Ambika P3.
SA+C Year 1’s Spectacular Food Future Event “A Feast” in Ambika P3
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CREATECH ’23 | Friday, September 22, 2023 | Conference from 09.30 to 17:00 (BST) + Exhibition Private View / Arch-asino from 17:00 to 22:00 (BST) | Fabrication Lab + Ambika P3
When: Friday, September 22, 2023 | 9.30am-5pm & 5pm-10pm
Where: Fabrication Lab + Ambika P3, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
Please join us this Friday for a one-day international conference on creative technologies for the design, creative + digital industries. Following the conference, we invite you to attend a Private View in Ambika P3 of a new exhibition of work from contributors from the UK, Canada, and North America using creative technologies in a diverse range of built projects, installations, films, posters, and interactive workshops.
The Private View will also feature for one night only a unique Arch-asino designed and created by first-year MArch students from the School of Architecture + Cities. You’ll be able to play architecturally-inspired reinventions of classic Casino games between 18:00 – 20:00 (strictly no money involved!) with awards for the winning games and best players at 20:15. Dress code for the Arch-asino is Black Tie (creative interpretations allowed).
Admission to both the Conference + Exhibition Private View / Arch-asino is free but booking is essential to guarantee your place:
Conference – Friday 22 SEP – 09:30 – 17:00
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Exhibition Private View + Arch-Casino – Friday 22 SEP – 17:00 – 22:00
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Full conference and exhibition details on the CREATECH website: https://createch.london/about
SA+C + Ambika P3 + Fabrication Lab: “Createch ’23” | Deadline for submission of work: July 7, 2023
When: Thursday – Saturday, September 21st – 23rd, 2023
Where: Ambika P3 + Fabrication Lab, 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS
The School of Architecture + Cities is excited to invite you to join us for a new international conference and exhibition on creative technology. It will be held this September 21-23 jointly in Ambika P3 and the Fabrication Lab. The conference is multimedia and the call for work is now open. We welcome contributions of films, posters, exhibits, and hands-on workshops as well as short papers from both academic and technical staff, and students and professionals.
The conference coincides with the 10-year anniversary of the Fabrication Lab and themes include Learning Through Making and an exploration of makerspaces; Design Through Making and practice-based research; and Tomorrow’s Tech, looking particularly at the opportunities and issues raised by the latest developments in artificial intelligence.
In the spirit of design through making and practice-based research, we want the conference to be a forum for the discussion of current ideas and work in progress as much as the presentation of finalised projects. Please submit an abstract of 300 words and 3 images for non-text media before the deadline on July 7. You’ll find full details here:
The conference is free to attend for Westminster students and staff.
All welcome!
Falling Away: A one-day symposium held together with the exhibition of Catherine Yass’ film works in Ambika P3
The symposium will bring together researchers and practitioners from a diverse range of disciplines to discuss the agency of falling in contemporary culture. Metaphors of falling are often evoked to describe the current period of insecurity and instability. At the same time, the built environment reflects and in turns reproduces this state of suspension: while highrise construction reshapes the landscapes of cities around the world, including London, its impact on our perception of gravity is yet to be understood. Typically defined as ‘the force that makes objects fall toward the earth’, gravity is so pervasive that we may overlook the ways in which it conditions our daily lives, and how we abandon ourselves to its force – or resist it.
How do creative practices engage with the perception of gravity, balance and falling? Can they mediate our fears and desires to lose the ground? What links can be drawn between the vertiginous spaces of our cities and the conditions of social instability in which we live? These and other related issues will be addressed from a variety of perspectives drawing on art, architecture, design, geography, psychology, and dance. Structured around a series of conversations, the symposium will conclude with a panel discussion with the artist Catherine Yass.
The event is organised in conjunction with Falling Away, a major exhibition of Catherine Yass’s work in Ambika P3. Curated by Davide Deriu and Michael Mazière, the exhibition comprises seven vertiginous films of modern architectural structures that embody the institutions which built them. Spanning the past two decades, it is the first retrospective of the artist’s extensive body of film work in the UK. The joint events are aligned with the Vertigo in the City project based at the School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster.
Confirmed speakers
- Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond, Artists-Researchers and Professors of Artistic Research, University of Applied Arts Vienna
- Amy Butt, Practising Architect and Lecturer in Architecture, University of Reading
- Emilyn Claid, Dance artist, director, performer and educator
- John Golding, Professor of Applied Psychology, University of Westminster
- Andrew Harris, Associate Professor in Geography and Urban Studies, University College London
- Catherine James, Art Historian and Lecturer in Academic Practice, University of the Arts London
- Michael Mazière, Ambika P3 curator and Reader in Film and Video, University of Westminster
- Brendan Walker, Thrill Engineer and Professor of Creative Industries, Middlesex University
- Catherine Yass, London-based artist
- Convenor: Davide Deriu, School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster
View the Programme for the ‘Falling Away’ Symposium
View the Falling Away Exhibition Catalogue
Register for tickets for the Falling Away Symposium on 22nd October
Register for tickets for the private view of Falling Away on 21st October
View the Falling Away Exhibition Catalogue
Tickets
The event will be delivered as a webcast, with a limited number of tickets set aside for in person attendance in the Robin Evans Room – broken down into AM and PM slots.
Half of available tickets for in person attendance have been set aside for students, so we would much obliged if you could share details with them – and those who you think may find the event of interest. Those attending virtually are welcome to join the session at any point, and a link will be shared with registered attendees prior to the event.
A recording of each of the sessions will also be made available on the School of Architecture and Cities YouTube Channel shortly after the event.
LFA Digital Festival: Falling Away – a prelude, 01 June – 30 June
This event is organised by Dr Davide Deriu (School of Architecture + Cities) and Dr Michael Mazière (CREAM), under Ambika P3 as a London Festival of Architecture partner institution.
This online event is the prelude to an exhibition of Catherine Yass’s films at Ambika P3. The exhibition, titled Falling Away, showcases a selection of Yass’s vertiginous films of architectural structures from the past 20 years. Initially scheduled in the LFA 2020 ‘Power’ programme, it has been postponed to the summer of 2021. Seven films will be brought together for the most comprehensive show of Yass’s work to date. The buildings in her films are undergoing demolition or construction, some are falling into disrepair: as they crumble, so too do the powers behind them. The viewer is drawn into dizzying spaces as the camera is turned upside down, plunged into water, lowered from cranes, buried under falling rubble. The exhibition addresses our society’s ambivalent relationship with modernity and the material structures that give it form. By addressing urgent issues around architecture and the institutions it embodies, it will contribute to current debates about how built environments shape our lives. In anticipation of this Ambika P3 show, we present one of Yass’s films, Royal London (2018), together with an essay written for the upcoming exhibition catalogue by Christopher Kul-Want.
To view this event please visit here.
Featured image: Still from Royal London (2018). Copyrights: Catherine Yass.
MegaCrit + MegaParty: “Who has the right to the city?”, Monday, April 15, 10:00-22:30, Ambika P3, Marylebone Campus, NW1 5LS
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. – Jane Jacobs
OPEN TO ALL ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS AND RECENT GRADUATES
The University of Westminster and Westminster Architecture Society, in collaboration with the Architecture Foundation, invites all architecture students and recent graduates to the second edition of the Megacrit and inter-uni MegaParty!
MEGACRIT 10am-5pm
This year’s Megacrit asks the question: “Who has the right to the city?” and explores the theme of Architecture and Power.
Students will present throughout the day, exchanging ideas and engaging in a discussion with guest critics and visiting tutors from around the capital.
After presenting, students will exhibit their work around the space creating an inter-uni architectural exhibition of work for all to view! All students from any university and recent graduates are invited to come and watch the crits throughout the day, please sign up for a FREE ticket through eventbrite to confirm your attendance.
Last year, the Westminster Megacrit was a great success with 7 units, 40 students and 14 guest critics participating. With over 1700 people signing up for the event, it became one of the largest Megacrits hosted in London. We hope to have as much fun this year, and look forward to seeing you all there!
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MEGAPARTY 6pm-10:30pm
All students from any university and recent graduates are invited to celebrate at the MegaParty. Come along for a night of great music, student deals on drinks (£2.50 Peroni, £3 Wine, etc), explore the exhibition of work from the day and meet fellow architecture students from other universities! Please sign up for a FREE ticket via eventbrite to guarantee entry.
TIMETABLE FOR THE DAY
10:00 Megacrit – Morning Session
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Megacrit Afternoon Session
17:00 Panel Discussion
18:00 MegaParty starts
22:30 End
Additional Information
To access P3 please enter through University of Westminster main entrance reception on Marylebone Road. Please register for the MegaCrit and MegaParty through Eventbrite. We may contact you following the event to invite you to other similar inter-uni events run by the Westminster Architecture Society.
Please bring your student or alumni ID for entry.
By signing up you agree to receive emails regarding the MegaCrit and MegaParty and other events of relevance to the wider architecture student community.
Book tickets here.
Supercrit #8, Will Alsop “Le Grand Bleu”, December 5, 2018, 9:30-12:30am, Ambika P3
Supercrits are the brainchild, originally, of Cedric Price, but came to fruition through Professor Kester Rattenbury at the University of Westminster and EXP – the research centre for experimental practice. Supercrits take projects which ‘changed the weather’ of architectural practice, and bring them ‘back to school’ for crit by international experts and a student and public audience. It is a free and educational event aimed to critique the architectural process.
Supercrit #8 will be about Alsop’s ‘Big Blue’ project in Marseille, which opened a new kind possibility for radical architectural projects.
Tickets can be reserved here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/supercrit-8-will-alsop-le-grand-bleu-tickets-52303041806
FAB FEST 2018 “Digital City”
The next edition of FAB FEST will take place from 2nd to 10th July 2018 in Ambika P3.
The festival will broadly follow the same format as the previous two events, although some changes are to make it even bigger and better.
Notes from the organiser on the changes for FAB FEST ’18:
- We are making an open call to all interested students of architecture and are asking for submissions of Design Concepts this year for either pavilions or smaller installations. All the requirements for submission are on our website.
- Teams have a month from now to form a team and submit their applications. Successful teams will have a further two months to develop their ideas and produce, with our help, the fabrication information for their pavilion or installation. We’ll then manufacture the parts in the Lab and provide them flat-packed, ready for teams to assemble in P3 from the 2nd July.
- During the assembly week, we will now have use of the newly refurbished Fabrication Lab, and it will be open in the evening all week for participants in the festival to meet each other and unwind.
- As requested by previous participants, we are asking teams to keep more closely to the brief and to the rules this time, and so will be making the competition aspect of FAB FEST fairer and more prominent. Many teams have taken the competition seriously, and FAB FEST prizes are becoming prestigious for students to win. We will be making more of this aspect of FAB FEST this year, with more guest judges and a bigger judging and prize-giving event on the Friday night.
- The following events on the Saturday and afterwards are also differentiated more clearly this time. There are now three distinct events following the main week of pavilion assembly and competition:
- ‘Let’s Make!’ – We are working with a number of local schools over the coming months to develop the community outreach aspect of FAB FEST, and the Saturday afternoon will now be an opportunity to share the contribution from our local community, and to have a more family-oriented set of making and drawing workshops.
- ‘Music@ FAB FEST’ – For the Saturday evening, there will be a much higher profile musical performance, making use of the one-off artistic venue that P3 and the pavilions provide. We have some of London’s hottest bands in our sights to make the most of this unique opportunity. The event will be open to all FAB FEST participants, but strictly ticketed this year.
- FAB FEST Exhibition – Finally, we’re extending the exhibition element of the event, to give more people the opportunity to see the pavilions that everyone has worked so hard to produce, before it is recycled back into new card boards for next year’s event (98% of it!).
- We are also developing the underlying research interests we have been pursuing through FAB FEST. We’ll be building on papers presented last year both on the role of FAB FEST as an experiment in teaching digital design and fabrication, and as a transient intervention in the City. This year we’re working on links to industry, exploring its relevance to the trend towards offsite construction. Let us know if you might be interested in working with us on any of this research.
- Finally, we have new partners this year contributing to the events, including the Westminster Architecture Society and Digital Construction Week, with more joining over the coming months. Please refer back to the website for current developments.
For full details, please see the new website: fabfest.london, or pop down to the FabLab if you have any questions.