Call for Abstracts: RAPS Radicality 2021 Conference | Deadline: Friday, April 30, 2021

RAPS Radicality 2021 Conference is pleased to invite extended abstract submissions for 30th April 2021. We invite submissions from architects, academics, artists, environmental scientists, engineers, activists, sociologists and visionaries amongst others to submit 300word abstracts in link below. The Conference will explore radical visions  of  architecture practice for sustainability through six themes: Architect as Activist; Green Dream; NOT building; Ecological Entanglements; Utopian Realism; Beyond Disruptive Events – Post Pandemic Practices (https://www.rapsresearch.com/services). We are excited to be joined by radical visionaries including Etienne Turpin (ANEXACT), Malene Natascha Ratcliffe (CEO, SUPERFLEX) and Maarten Gielen (ROTOR) in the keynote and debate panel sessions in Sept 2021. The keynote sessions will be reflecting upon human and non-human multi spatial modalities and radical environmental approaches to design as well as modes of cooperative design practice for a radical organisation of the material ‘designed’ and not only ‘built’ environment.

Radical Architecture Practice for Sustainability

For more information please go here.

Expanded Territories Reading Group: “Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy”_Wednesday 6th June, 17:30, M330

The second Expanded Territories reading group will meet in M330 on Wednesday 06 June at 17.30.

Christina Geros will introduce:

Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy, edited by Etienne Turpin.

The book is available for download or purchase here:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/architecture-in-the-anthropocene/

Discussion will be accompanied by wine and nibbles.

All are welcome.

Symposium: Monsoon [+other] Airs, 20-21 April, University of Westminster, Marylebone Campus, M416

Monsoon [+ other] Airs is the first of three annual symposia that will be convened by the ERC funded Monsoon Assemblages project at the University of Westminster. It will interrogate questions of monsoon atmospheres, politics and media and comprise a keynote lecture (Thursday 20th April) followed by a one-day long symposium (Friday 21st April). It will be accompanied by an exhibition of graphic, audio and video works.

The keynote lecture will be given by architect Sean Lally of Weathers. Symposium speakers will include meteorologist Andrew Turner (University of Reading) and philosopher Etienne Turpin (MIT Urban Risk Lab). The exhibition will include work by students of DS18 and Victoria Watson (University of Westminster).

Keynote Lecture – Thursday 20th April 18:30 : Sean Lally (Architect, Weathers)

Symposium – Friday 21st April, 9:30-17:00 :

Andrew Turner (Department of Meteorology, University of Reading)

Nerea Calvillo (Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick)

Victoria Watson (Department of Architecture, University of Westminster)

Anasuya Basu (The Telegraph, Kolkata)

Rifat Islam Esha (Dhaka Tribune)

Neha Lalchandani (Times of India, Delhi)

Hannah Swee (Disaster Risk Reduction, Copenhagen, Denmark)

Cleo Roberts (PhD Candidate, Art History, University of Cambridge)

Etienne Turpin (Research Scientist, MIT Urban Risk Lab)

Stine Simonsen Puri (Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen)

Harshavardhan Bhat (PhD Candidate, University of Westminster)

Exhibition – Friday 21st April 18:30 : Sean Lally, Nere Calvillo, Victoria Watson, Vishal Gowtham B, Vinusha Keshav, Koushik Krishna N, Aishwarya KV, Keerthana Muralidharan, Tom Benson, Cid Schuler, Calvin Sin

This event is FREE, but please register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/monsoon-other-airs-tickets-32121558446