Tag: Anthropology

Architecture History + Theory Guest Lecture: Joseph Cook, “Ethnography and Architecture” | Thursday, March 16 at 6pm (GMT) in Robin Evans Room (M416) + online

Posted on by Mirna Pedalo

When: Thursday, 16th of March at 18:00 (GMT)

Where: Robin Evans Room (M416), University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Rd, NW1 5LS + online

Due to the rail strike this lecture will also be live streamed via MS Teams:

Click here to join the lecture online via MS Teams

In this lecture, Joseph Cook (UCL Anthropology) will introduce links between anthropology and architectural practice going back to the turn of the 20th century, from studying lighting levels in Chicago, to turning the tables on Margaret Mead to design the office of the future. The second half of the lecture will focus on ways in which taking a more ethnographic approach to design could lead to both an improved built environment, and a more considerate culture of design education.

Joseph Cook is a former BA Architecture student at Westminster, currently completing his PhD at UCL Anthropology, having undertaken an ethnography within a multinational design firm. He also works with UCL Urban Laboratory and is a Research Assistant with the School of Population Health at Queen Mary University of London.

Featured image: Participant testing a Herman Miller Office Nap Pad in 1964.

Monsoon [+other] Grounds Symposium, Thursday 21st, 16:00 – Friday 22nd of March, 18:00, M416, Marylebone Campus

Posted on by Mirna Pedalo

When: Thursday, 21st of March 2019, 16:00 – Friday, 22nd of March 2019, 18:00

Where: Room M416, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS

Monsoon [+ other] Grounds is the third in a series of symposia convened by the Monsoon Assemblages project. It will comprise a key-note address, inter-disciplinary panels, and an exhibition. The event will bring together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines to engage in conversations about geologies, soils, histories, spatialities, and modifications of monsoon [+ other] grounds.

The confirmed keynote speaker is:

Tim Ingold, Professor and Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. His early work involved ethnographic research amongst the Skolt Saami of northeast Finland. This led to a more general concern with human-animal relations. Most recently, he has been working on the connections between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture, conceived as ways of exploring the relations between human beings and the environments they inhabit, as mutually enhancing ways of engaging with our surroundings. Ingold is author of numerous books, anthologies and essays, including, most recently, The Life of Lines (Routledge, 2015) and Anthropology: Why it Matters (Polity Press, 2018).

The event programme will be released shortly.

To book tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/monsoon-other-grounds-symposium-tickets-53177045976