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Conference: “Spiritual, Sacred, Secular: the architecture of faith in modern Britain” _ Thursday, June 20, 9:00 – Friday, June 21, 19:00,

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When: From Thursday 20th of June, 9:00 to Friday, 21st of June, 19:00

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

The University of Westminster in partnership with the Royal Institute of British Architects is hosting a groundbreaking two-day conference to explore the boundaries between the sacred, spiritual and secular in modern British architecture. By bringing together some of the most significant and interesting design practices in the country today, the event will explore contemporary approaches to the design, use, stewardship and conservation of buildings across diverse faiths, and will feature presentations from leading architects, academics, heritage professionals, commissioners and clients.

The conference will include panel discussions and presentations, with contributions from key figures including Niall McLaughlin; John McAslan and Partners; Peter Clegg; Julia Barfield; Roz Barr, Patrick Lynch, Biba Dow, Andy Groarke and Waugh Thistleton.

The conference will conclude with two days of architectural tours in collaboration with the Twentieth Century Society which will look at contemporary approaches to faith buildings. You can book the 22nd and 23rd June tours here. The first day, led by the architectural writer Kenneth Powell, will explore recent examples of repurposing, restoration and renewal of churches in London. The second day will look at new faith architecture in and around the capital.

For full programme and to book tickets please visit here.

aae2019: “Learning through Practice”_ Wednesday 24th – Friday 26th of April, Hogg Lecture Theatre Marylebone Campus

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The fifth international peer reviewed conference of the UK association of architectural educators, aae2019 Learning through Practice, will be hosted by the University of Westminster.

The conference aims to invite contributions from educators, researchers and architectural practitioners on the theme of contexts for learning architectural practice, and how the nature of these contexts shape the nature and form of the learning itself.

The conference will be a place to reflect on the value of studio-based practice for both student and professional practitioner, to examine the role of workplace located learning, to share knowledge of current and past radical or alternative models, and to speculate on future forms of architectural education.

Click here for the conference website.

Tickets cover entry to the main keynote lecture plus the preceding debate(s). You are welcome to come along to the debate at 16:00 or 16:30 or just head to the lecture at 18:00 or 18:30.

  • Professor Ray Land Wed 24 April 18:30 plus 16:30 debate on ‘Architecture and Professionalism’ (organised by Standing Conference of Heads of Schools of Architecture)
  • Liza Fior and Professor Clare Twomey In Conversation Wed 25 April 18:00 plus debates starting at 16:00 on ‘Partnership Studios: Conflicts and Expectations’ (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) and 17:00 on ‘Archi-Culture: Is Studio Culture Dead’ (London School of Architecture)
  • Meejin Yoon Fri 26 April 18:00 plus debates starting at 16:00 on ‘Ethics and Sustainability in Architectural Education’ (Cardiff/Sheffield Hallam University) and ‘Models for Shared Learning’ (Architecture Foundation UK)

Book tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aae2019-debates-and-evening-lecture-tickets-tickets-59154989165

Call for abstracts: RIBA Research Matters 2018, Sheffield, October 18th-19th_Deadline 31st July

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Plans are currently underway for the 2018 RIBA Research Matters conference, with this year’s event to run over two days in Sheffield, co-hosted by the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University.

As you may already be aware, the Research Matters conference has been developed to provide early career stage researchers an opportunity to present their work in a format similar to that of a peer-refereed conference, but without the usual preparatory processes of submission, selection, and rewriting. Research Matters aims to support PhD students and early career researchers in the development of their work. The event adopts the rigour of an academic conference but with papers to be presented in a constructive, supportive and non-confrontational atmosphere.

This year, we have decided to include shorter, PechaKucha-style sessions in the programme to encourage those with less developed research work to present. We intend to open these sessions up to local practices and more established researchers to present their work. We see this as a good opportunity to facilitate potential collaborations between practice and academia, and to support the development of relationships with the practice research community.

We kindly ask you to promote this event to your post-graduate students and staff, as well as to any practices who you think may be interested. Please encourage submissions for both the paper and the pecha kucha presentation slots.

At this stage, applicants for the paper presentation will need to submit:

  1. their contact details
  2. a paper title
  3. an abstract of no more than 500 words, covering:
  • what the research is seeking to find
  • why the research is being conducted
  • what the current stage of work is
  • what the research methods being employed are
  • any findings to date

For the PechaKucha slots, simply a name and a theme will suffice for now. Booking and venue information will follow shortly and attendance at the event is free.

Please email your submissions or any queries to research@riba.org by 31st July, 2018.

 

Featured image Sheffield Hallam Students Union, credit Ken Kay / RIBA Collections via RIBA

Call for Papers: “CFP Land, Air, Sea: Environment during the Early Modern Period”, 72nd Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, April 24 – 28, 2019_Deadline 5th June 2018

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CFP Land, Air, Sea: Environment during the Early Modern Period

72nd Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians

Where: Providence, Rhode Island, USA

When: April 24 – 28, 2019

Deadline for abstracts: Jun 5, 2018

Contrary to certain strands of scholarship, environmental thinking about ideas of climate, energy, and habitat were at stake several hundred years before the start of the twentieth century. This panel aims to explore how earlier practices concerning architecture and the environment preceded more modern concepts of environmental exploitation and the consequences of man-made interventions. We intend to understand how architectural practices were stoked by the extraction of natural resources during the early modern era. Construction in Venice, for example, meant the state was preoccupied with managing timber resources in the terra firma. During the Age of Exploration, European shipbuilding likewise led to the depletion of timber reserves in places including present-day Iceland, Portugal, and areas located along the Mediterranean. Such deforestation is also evident in practices in sixteenth-century New England by British and French pioneers and seventeenth-century Dutch East Indies traders, who ravaged the northern trees of Java.

Recent concepts of the Anthropocene have centered mainly on questions of sustainable design and technologies from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. However, ideas of the environment originating within the early modern period provide important markers of the pre-history of many of these developments in architecture and urbanism, both within Europe and in its colonial territories. We welcome papers from the late medieval period to the eighteenth century which outline how architectural practices in diverse habitats began to forecast some of the contemporary problems addressed today by environmentalists. How did the micro-climates in Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania affect the architectural and urban development of settlements and coastal cities? Or how did industry drive the construction of buildings and infrastructure including factories, ports, shipyards, and trading depots? How was architecture impacted by state policies towards forest conservation and land management?

Session co-chairs: Jennifer Ferng, University of Sydney, and Lauren Jacobi, MIT

The 72nd Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians will take place on April 24-28, 2019 in Providence, Rhode Island.

Applicants must submit a 300-word abstract and CV through the online portal of the Society of Architectural Historians.

Further details of the submission guidelines are available at www.sah.org.

Please do not send materials directly to the panel co-chairs.

Submission of proposals to the SAH online portal closes at 11:59 on June 5, 2018 (Central Daylight Time).

“Cleveland – Alternatives to the Present” Conference on Architecture, Urbanism, Sociology, Development & Planning_Deadline for Abstracts: 5th June 2018

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Where: Kent State University, Cleveland

When: 01-02 November 2018

Deadline for abstracts: 05 June 2018.

To download form and more info: http://architecturemps.com/cleveland/ 

Context:

Alternatives to the Present…… The New Urban Agenda of the United Nations presents itself as a blueprint for governments globally. Through it, UN-Habitat seeks to combine the material, social and environmental agendas molding the urban world. The American Planning Association reflects this, advocating for planning that promotes social equity, inclusive communities, and expanded opportunities for all. The International Union of Architects speaks of revolutionizing design to ensure sustainable human settlement, while the AIA champions liveable communities. In the UK, the RIBA links housing design and social inclusion and the National Housing Federation connects the provision of homes to public health. All this reflects the field of sociology and geography with the ISA identifying cites as the principle site of social conflict and political contestation and the American Association of Geographers linking the notions of resilience and urban justice.

This apparently holistic view suggests that 20th Century top-down and disciplinary reductive understandings of the urban condition, such as those attributed to the Athens Charter, are a thing of the past. It also suggests a scenario in which social equity is fully integrated into notions of development. However, even a cursory glance at the reality of early 21st Century urbanism shows this is clearly not the case. On the one hand, individual disciplines still tend to work in isolation and even in competition, while on the other, Neoliberal agendas still represent the raison d’être of most development projects. The Alternatives to the Present conference seeks to critique the dichotomies involved in this increasingly confused scenario by bringing together various disciplines to interrogate the diversity of factors either limiting or activating the possibilities of an equitable urban future.

Key Dates:

Abstracts: 05 June 2018 | Abstract Feedback: 25 June 2017 | Registration opens: 01 July 2018

Conference: 01-02 Nov 2018

Full Paper Submission (where applicable): 10 Jan 2019 | Feedback for publication: 10 March 2019 | Full Publication: 10 July 2019

Nb. There will be a second round of late abstract submissions on 01 September 2018.

Featured image from Amps web-site.

Call for Papers: Monsoon Waters _ Deadline 8th January 2018

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Monsoon Waters

Call for Papers

Deadline: 08 January 2018

Symposium Dates: 12-13 April 2018

Venue: University of Westminster, London, UK

Proposals for papers are invited for Monsoon Waters, the second in a series of symposia convened by Monsoon Assemblages, a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

We live in a world where political geography and spatial planning have assumed permanent and easily observable divides between land, sea and air. Land is understood as solid, stable, divisible and the basis of human habitation; the sea is understood as liquid, mobile, indivisible, and hostile to human settlement; air is understood as gaseous, mobile, invisible and indispensable to human life. The monsoon cuts across these divisions. It inundates lived environments every year, connecting land with sea and sky. It is a spatial practice that reorganises air, water, land, settlements, cities, buildings and bodies through heat, wind, rain, inundation, saturation and flow. It unites science with politics and policy with affect. Today climate change is disrupting its cycles and explosive social and economic growth and rapid urbanisation are increasing the uncertainty of its effects. How can spatial design and the environmental humanities respond to these conditions by drawing on the monsoon as a template for spatial theory, analysis and design practice?

In order to deepen its responses to these questions Monsoon Assemblages is convening three symposia between 2017 and 2019 framed by the states of matter connected by the monsoon – air, water and ground. Monsoon [+ other] Airs took place in April 2017. The second symposium, Monsoon Waters will take place on 12-13 April 2018. It will comprise inter-disciplinary panels, key-note addresses and an exhibition and aims to bring together established and young scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines, literatures, knowledge systems and practices (theoretical, empirical, political, aesthetic, everyday) to engage in conversations about the ontologies, epistemologies, histories, politics and practices of monsoon waters. We are particularly interested in contributions that investigate

1. Wet monsoon ontologies

Following Mathur and da Cunha we are interested in contributions that explore wetness (in the air, on the earth, under the earth) as a way of being, cultures of wetness, and the urban, environmental and political consequences of attitudes towards being wet.

2. Late-modern monsoon waters

We are interested in contributions that explore attitudes towards water in south Asia since the mid 1980’s, their history, their urban, environmental and political consequences and the ways-of-being-monsoon-water that these attitudes have produced, such as flood-water, deficient-water, toxic-water, beautified-water, bottled-water etc.

3. Monsoon waters in a changing climate

We are interested in contributions that explore monsoonal cycles of wetness and dryness from the perspective of climate change, any changes in political, social or economic behaviour these might be catalysing and in new or invigorated social movements these changes might be inspiring.

4. Visualising monsoon waters

We are interested in contributions that explore ways of visualising monsoon cycles of wetness and dryness, (in the air, on the earth, under the earth) and their consequences for spatial design practice.

Confirmed key note speakers at the symposium are:

Anuradha Mathur Dilip da Cunha: architects, planners and landscape architects based in Philadelphia, USA and Bangalore, India, whose work is focused on how water is conceptualised and visualised in ways that lead to conditions of its excess and scarcity, and the opportunities that its ubiquity offers for new visualizations of terrain, and resilience through design.

Kirsten Blinkenberg Hastrup: environmental anthropologist based in Copenhagen, Denmark, whose work deals with social responses to climate change across the globe, currently centered in the Thule Area, NW Greenland.

Contributions are invited in response to these provocations. They should take the form of 150 – 250 word abstracts for either papers or creative, practice based contributions such as drawings, photographs, videos, performances, musical compositions etc. Enquiries or abstracts should be sent to Lindsay Bremner at l.bremner@westminster.ac.uk by 08 January 2018. Abstracts will be reviewed by the Monsoon Assemblages team and authors will be notified by 29 January 2018 whether their contributions have been accepted or not. There is no registration fee for the symposium, but participants will be required to secure their own funding to attend it. Participants will be requested to submit their contributions for publication in the symposium proceedings, or, potentially, a special journal issue.

Monsoon Assemblages, a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 679873).

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Harry Charrington and Julia Dwyer to speak at the AA XX 100: AA Women and Architecture in Context 1917-2017_ November 2nd-4th, Architectural Association

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AA XX 100: AA WOMEN AND ARCHITECTURE IN CONTEXT 1917-2017

The Head of the Department Prof Harry Charrington and Senior Lecturer Julia Dwyer are to participate in AA XX 100: AA Women in Architecture in Context 1917-2017, an international conference convened by the Architectural Association and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art with a rich programme of presentations, panel discussions, distinguished keynotes, and an open jury to celebrate the centenary of women at the AA.

Where: Architectural Association and Paul Mellon Centre, Bedford Sq, London WC1

When: 2nd – 4th November 2017

Tickets (for 3 day event): Full Price £60, Student £30

Book tickets: https://xx.aaschool.ac.uk/conference/ 

View the conference schedule: https://xx.aaschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/aaxx_conference_program_3.pdf

As for University of Westminster‘s own history of women in architecture, our first female graduate, Beatrice Pritchard, graduated from, what was then known as, The Regent Street Polytechnic in 1903!

Today our Computer Lab is officially named Beatrice Pritchard Laboratory.

Call for Papers- Industrial Heritage in the UK: Mutations, Conversions and Representations – Deadline 15th June

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Industrial Heritage in the UK: Mutations, Conversions & Representations is a one-day conference organised by the University of Rennes 2 in France and will take place on Tuesday 10th October 2017.

The ambition of this one-day conference is to explore changes in the field of industrial heritage, its instrumental role in the provision of spaces for tourism, culture, and urban regeneration in general, and potential conflicts arising from the relationship between those various processes. Yet it will also be crucial to examine representations of industrial society and the tangible traces of industry in order to foreground mutations in terms of how industrial heritage has been depicted and perceived ever since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Thus it will offer a more comprehensive picture of the contrasting visions of a once neglected heritage.

Keynote speakers:

Tim Edensor is a Reader in Cultural Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University, and his research revolves around spaces of tourism, national identities, industrial ruins and wasteland, urban materiality, geographies of rhythm and rhythm analysis, and landscapes of illumination.

Ian Beesley is an award winning and internationally acclaimed artist and photographer. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at Milan Photo festival, Italy, the International Industrial Photography festival, Shengyang China, The National Media Museum, Bradford and the Peoples History Museum Manchester.

Proposals to be sent to Aurore Caignet (aurore.caignet@univ-rennes2.fr or aurorecaignet@gmail.com) by June 15th 2017.

For more info on please see:  https://indusheritage17.sciencesconf.org/