Tag: MArch History and Theory

MArch History and Theory Guest Lecture Series: “The Future of the Already Built” by Sally Stone | Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 18:00 in M416 (Robin Evans Room)

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When: Thursday, 21st of March 2024 at 6pm

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

“For such a long established and deeply entrenched subject, adaptive reuse has a remarkably short history. It is a practice that stretches back to almost the first constructed buildings themselves; for structures have perpetually been altered to accommodate the needs of their different occupants, and yet until recently has lacked the professional, theoretical, and historical recognition of new-build architecture. However, 21st century issues of culture, heritage, and sustainability have pushed adaptive reuse from the periphery into the forefront of architectural debate. Adaptive reuse is a young subject, and as such, is not burdened with the weight of history that architecture carries. It has the freedom to collect influences from a wide range of sources that allows for a transgressive, pluralistic approach. This discussion will examine the evolution of adaptive reuse into the subversive force that it assumes today.”

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MArch History and Theory Guest Lecture Series: “History in the Making” by Amy Kulper | Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 18:00 in M416 (Robin Evans Room)

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When: Thursday, 21st of March 2024 at 6pm

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

“On January 6, 2021, supporters of then President, Donald Trump, stormed the U.S. Capitol Building. In a stunning display of a historiographical phenomenon known as ‘presentism,’ insurrectionists desecrated the seat of American democracy, while simultaneously recording and archiving their illegal conduct. In the aftermath of the insurrection, everyday citizens, museum curators, and criminologists bagged, tagged, and collected memorabilia, artefacts for accession, and legal evidence, attesting to the day’s violent and unprecedented activities. This lecture examines the roles that architecture, and more broadly the politics of space, played in the events that unfolded that day.”

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MArch History and Theory Guest Lecture Series: “Vermeer, Canaletto, and Making Pictures with the Camera Obscura” by Philip Steadman | Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 18:00 (GMT) in M416 (Robin Evans Room)

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When: Thursday, 7th of March 2024 at 6pm

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

Prof. Philip Steadman’s methodology combines meticulous scholarly research with geometrical analysis, and physical experiments. Bringing together history, theory and empirical evidence he is able to provide new insights into the way artists, such as Johannes Vermeer, employed the camera obscura to produce accurate and seemingly luminous painted images. Steadman’s book, ‘Vermeer’s Camera’ has been featured in numerous television programmes, as well as in the full-length film ‘Tim’s Vermeer’, released in 2013. This lecture will also include his recent research on the painting techniques of the eighteenth-century Venetian artist, Giovanni Antonio Canal (known as Canaletto).

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MArch History and Theory Guest Lecture Series: “Extractivism as Aesthetics” by Prof Eray Çaylı | Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 18:00 (GMT) in M416 (Robin Evans Room)

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When: Thursday, 29th of February 2024 at 6pm

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

“Since colonialism’s outset as a modern political project, images have been central to extractivism, a racial practice that reduces parts of the Earth and its inhabitants to exploitable and marketable resources. How does this centrality operate in a context where visual culture itself has become an extractive industry with images as its raw material, many of them documenting extractivist violence? The question is nowhere more salient today than in Turkey’s Kurdistan where both conventional resource extraction and the extractive industrialization of visual culture have continued apace and loomed large during the rapid shift in 2015-16 from peace talks to all-out war. In this talk (and his forthcoming book of the same title), Eray Çaylı discusses visual culture’s role in waging, making sense of, and contesting environmental violence. Informed by collaboration-driven research, he analyses images produced and circulated across contemporary art, photojournalism, and social media, charting the visual ecologies involved in this production and circulation.”

Prof Dr Eray Çaylı is a Professor of Human Geography with a focus on violence and security in the Anthropocene at the University of Hamburg, Germany.