Where: M321, Marylebone Campus, 35 Marylebone Rd, NW1 5LS
When: Tuesday, 21st June 2022 at 2pm
To join online please go here: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/a8b04a2558aa464a8d91ad23c4e4189d
Tag: University of Westminster
MAKE FOR UKRAINE! An evening of robotics and ceramics to raise funds for Ukraine | Fabrication Lab | Thursday, June 9, 2022, 18:00 – 22:00 (BST)
When: Thursday, 9th of June from 6pm to 10pm (BST)
Where: Fabrication Lab, University of Westminster, Marylebone Campus, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5SL
Make your own ceramic patisseries in the UoW’s Fabrication Lab. Assemble your cake with clay 3D printed by robots, decorate using digitally fabricated cutters & stamps, & paint it with a glaze. Yours to keep forever! All proceeds will be donated to humanitarian aid for Ukraine.
For more information please go here.
The Westminster Hydro Green Wall Installed in Marylebone Campus
This academic year, several of the BSc Architecture and Environmental Design students [who are part of the Westminster Environmental Society] and academics have been collaborating with Square Mile Farms in the creation of a hydroponic green wall for the production of food.
This project is the result of the successful application to the Westminster Green Fund.
The wall was installed in the entrance of Marylebone campus on Thursday, May 26th and will be ready for the first harvest after 4 weeks. The installation process was lead by students and Square Mile Farms team. The Vice Chancellor Peter Bonfield also visited the site and chatted to the team.
The official launch and the first harvest are scheduled for June 24th. To attend, please register here.
From September, the BSc Architecture and Environmental Design students will take charge of the maintenance and harvesting of the wall.
Congratulations to all involved!
College of Design, Creative & Digital Industries, University of Westminster: Summer Party | Harrow Campus
Registration for your college’s Summer Party is now open!
As a final year or postgraduate student at the College of Design, Creative and Digital Industries, your Summer Party will take place at Harrow Campus on Wednesday 15 June, 12–4pm.
If you’d like to attend this free event, please sign up here.
Please bear in mind that attendance is limited, and places will be offered on a first come, first served basis. Also, please bring your University of Westminster ID pass or proof of ID to the event.
The party will provide a fantastic opportunity for you to get together with your college community, enjoy delicious food and drink, and have fun with a range of outdoor activities.
A variety of food options will be available, including a Lebanese salad bar, kebab stall and pie and mash stand – with vegetarian, vegan and halal options. Party goers will also be treated to a free alcoholic or non-alcoholic drink, with a paid bar on hand too.
A host of optional fun activities are planned for the afternoon. If you’ve got energy to burn, why not play some volleyball or take part in our egg and spoon race?
There’ll also be a variety of funfair-style games for you to enjoy. Good accuracy? Test your mettle with the coconut shy, tin can alley or giant football darts.
And if all of this sounds exhausting, the option to simply chill and chat is open to all.
Please take this opportunity to celebrate the end of the year with fellow students, lecturers and other colleagues who have supported your journey at Westminster.
OPEN2022 | Thursday, June 16, 17:30-20:30 (BST) at Marylebone Campus
The University of Westminster’s School of Architecture and Cities invites you to OPEN2022
When: Thursday, 16th of June 2022 from 5.30pm to 8.30pm
Where: Marylebone Studios, Marylebone Campus, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
Head of School Harry Charrington cordially invites you to attend the opening of the graduating students’ degree show, OPEN 2022, featuring work from
- Architecture BA
- Architecture and Environmental Design BSc
- Architectural Technology BSc
- Designing Cities BA
- Interior Architecture BA
- MArch
Preview
Thursday 16 June, 5.30pm
Show opened by Kate Macintosh MBE, 6pm
Exhibition continues
Friday 17 June – Monday 11 July
PLEASE SEE ATTACHED INVITATION FOR DETAILS AND TO [open2022.eventbrite.co.uk]REGISTER VIA EVENTBRITE.
You can also RSVP to DCDI-Events@westminster.ac.uk
Emerging Territories Symposium: London Lab / Global Hub | Friday, May 13, 2022 from 10:00 to 18:00 (BST) in M416, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster
When: Friday, 13th of May 2022 from 10am to 6pm (BST)
Where: M416, University of Westminster, Marylebone campus, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
Register via Eventbrite.
Background
The ‘Emerging Territories’ research group hosts a one-day symposium on current research initiatives of the School of Architecture and Cities, which contributes to the global agenda of sustainability of the University of Westminster. We work at the interface between London-based explorative practices, and globally-relevant projects, with the aim to promote and design more resilient and inclusive communities, places, and territories, around the following priority emerging areas: Climate Urbanism; Health & Wellbeing; Urban-Rural Interfaces; Anthropocene Territories; Public Space and Diversity.
Concept
Urban and Architectural research, in recent years, is confronted with new challenges affecting cities and the built environment: the unexpected outbreak of the COVID19 pandemic, the increasing evidence of the tangible impact of climate change, and the rising tensions among nation states in a changing global scenario. This has resulted in unprecedented social and environmental vulnerabilities, and new rapidly evolving phenomena, such as the digital transition of the way of living, residing and working.
Taken together, these challenges pose serious questions that scholars in the field of architecture and planning should face, in primis the redefinition of the notion of local vs global, and the very idea of scholarly engagement across different places in the new normal. On the other hand, this can be taken as an opportunity to define new ‘emerging territories’ of research where problems can be captured, solutions can be tested, and ideas can be shared more effectively across multiple scales and contexts.
The aim of the symposium is therefore to bring together interdisciplinary research between architecture and planning, based at the School of Architecture and Cities and to share new ideas and approaches to tackle city problems and their vulnerabilities in the new global context.
Contributors
Krystallia Kamvasinou, Giulio Verdini (Co-Chairs), with Roudaina Alkhani, Lindsay Bremner, Sabina Cioboata, Corinna Dean, Shengkang Fu, Ripin Kalra, Kon Kim, Tony Lloyd Jones, David W. Mathewson, Michael Neuman, Mai Sairafi, Ben Stringer, and others to be confirmed.
For queries on the symposium, please contact:
Giulio Verdini G.Verdini@westminster.ac.uk or Krystallia Kamvasinou K.Kamvasinou01@westminster.ac.uk
ClimateDemonstrator 2022 – Live Build Summer School | From 23rd of May to 24th of June 2022
Julian Williams, Principal Lecturer at the School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster is pleased to invite you to join ClimateDemonstrator 2022: A free live-build summer school involving students from across the School of Architecture and Cities, other Schools in the University and primary school pupils in Camden and Westminster.
The brief is to design and build interactive instruments or installations to demonstrate the science of buildings and their interaction with climate and biodiversity. The project will run from 23rd May to 24th June. You will be working in teams supported by mentors from design and architectural practices, presenting your ideas to 9-10 year olds, then fabricating the works for installation in the partner primary schools.
All the details including dates and how to sign-up are on the website: climatedemonstrator.org.uk
AHRA Research Student Symposium 2022 | University of Westminster, Marylebone Campus + Online, April 20 and 21, 2022
When: Wednesday, 21st of April (from 10am BST) – Thursday, 21st of April (to 7pm BST)
Where: University of Westminster, Marylebone campus, Room MG14, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
Register via Eventbrite.
The AHRA Research Student Symposium 2022, “Voices in Architecture”, considers voices in architectural research, posing the critical questions: who speaks and for whom? How do we give voice without assuming authority? How do we listen without judgment? How do we adjust the volume of our own voices?
A key objective of the symposium will be to connect architectural research with wider political concerns around democracy, protest and populism and we are particularly attentive to processes of public engagement and empowerment, social stratification and elitism. The symposium also seeks to investigate diverse modes of production and their social worlds, explorations of vernacular traditions, informal settlements, transient and temporary architectures.
All activities are offered in blended (hybrid) form. Links to live streams (via Zoom) will be communicated before the symposium. Please indicate whether you will attend as a physical or remote guest.
Westminster Transport Group – 1971, 2021, 2071 | Online and at Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster on Friday, April 29, 2022
When: Friday, 29th of April 2022, 15:00 – 21:00 BST
Where: Online and at University of Westminster, Marylebone Campus, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
To register via Eventbrite please go here.
Join us for a celebratory event, marking 50 (+) years of the Transport Studies Group (TSG) at Marylebone, reflecting on teaching and research, past, present and future.
The event will comprise two distinct segments, the first being an afternoon session with speakers on past development, and current roles, of teaching and research in the Group, together with contributions from alumni who have attained important positions in the transport sector.
This will be followed in the evening by an informal reception for past staff colleagues, alumni and others connected with TSG’s work over the years (such as research collaborators in other institutions, external examiners) and presentations ceremony.
The event will take place in person at the Marylebone Campus, and delivered in tandem online, with a joining link to be shared with registered attendees ahead of the event. Tickets are available for in person attendance at the first session and/or reception, and for online attendees, for the first session and/or the Presentations segment of the Reception.
The Fabrication Lab invites you to our unique Ceramic Patisserie: MAKE FOR UKRAINE! An Evening of Robotics + Ceramics to Raise Funds for Ukraine | Thursdays: March 31 and April 7, 2022
We’d like to invite you to an evening workshop in the Fabrication Lab to raise funds for Ukraine.
The workshop is a one-off opportunity to try out the Lab, and to work with our robots and digitally fabricated tools to help you design and make your very own ceramic patisserie. We’ll provide all the materials, tools, and help you need to create your cake, and once it’s fired, it will be yours to keep forever.
MAKE FOR UKRAINE! is open to everyone, with reduced donations for students and Westminster colleagues. All proceeds, including profits from the Lab Bar, will be donated to humanitarian aid for the people of Ukraine.
Dates
Thursdays – 31st of March and 7th of April: 17:30, 18:00, 18:30 until 22:00
Minimum Donations
- UoW Students – £20
- UoW Staff + Alumni – £30
- Visitors – £50
- ViP – £100
To book tickets please go here.