Who: Jonathan Adams, Jonathan Adams + Partners
When: Thursday, 15th of November, 18:00
Where: Room M416, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
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Architecture Research Forum: “A Few People, a Brief Moment in Time: Architectural Education Experiments, 1987-91” Jane Tankard, Thursday November 15, 13:00-14:00, Erskine Room, 5th Floor
When: 13:00-14:00, Thursday, 15th of November
Where: Erskine Room (M523), 5th Floor, Marylebone Campus
Jane Tankard (ARB/RIBA) teaches full-time in the School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster.
Supercrit #8, Will Alsop “Le Grand Bleu”, December 5, 2018, 9:30-12:30am, Ambika P3
Supercrits are the brainchild, originally, of Cedric Price, but came to fruition through Professor Kester Rattenbury at the University of Westminster and EXP – the research centre for experimental practice. Supercrits take projects which ‘changed the weather’ of architectural practice, and bring them ‘back to school’ for crit by international experts and a student and public audience. It is a free and educational event aimed to critique the architectural process.
Supercrit #8 will be about Alsop’s ‘Big Blue’ project in Marseille, which opened a new kind possibility for radical architectural projects.
Tickets can be reserved here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/supercrit-8-will-alsop-le-grand-bleu-tickets-52303041806
Landscape Citizenship Symposium, Friday 16th of November, 09:00 – 17:00, Conway Hall, WC1R 4RL
When: Friday, 16th of November 2018, 09:00 – 17:00
Where: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL
Landscape Citizenships: Grounded in the discourses of ecological, watershed, and bioregional citizenships, this symposium seeks to evaluate belonging through the idea of landscape as landship. This describes substantive, mutually constitutive relations between people and place. The emerging fields of landscape justice and landscape democracy form a background against which to examine issues from folkways to the virtual, migration and inhabitation, nationalism, and speculative futures.
The symposium is being organised by Tim Waterman, Ed Wall and Jane Wolff. It is supported by the University of Greenwich, University of Toronto, Centre for Landscape Democracy (NMBU) and the Landscape Research Group.
For more information and bookings please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/landscape-citizenships-symposium-tickets-49041312887
Technical Studies Lecture Series: Esther Rivas-Adrover, University of Cambridge “A new technology of transforming architecture: Origami-Scissor Hinged Deployable Structures”, Thursday November 8, 18:00, Room M416
Who: Esther Rivas-Adrover, University of Cambridge
When: Thursday, 8th of November, 18:00
Where: Room M416, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
Open Call: “The Digital X Workshop” by Norman Foster Foundation; Deadline: 4th of November
The Norman Foster Foundation is awarding ten scholarships to participate in the upcoming Digital X workshop to be held at the Norman Foster Foundation headquarters in Madrid, Spain, 18–22 February 2019.
The Digital X workshop, mentored by Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder and former director of MIT Media Lab, will comprise a team of granted scholars drawn from the diverse backgrounds of the digital world, design and architecture.
What happens when the natural world and the artificial world become one and the same? What societal and anthropological changes are triggered when direct brain communications occur among humans, and between humans and machines? The Digital X workshop will focus on this kinship, that of architecture and the digital world, how the two play together now, and how they will change the world together, going forward, discussing things that, outrageous today, will be commonplace tomorrow.
Grants will cover all transportation, accommodation and meals related to the week-long event in Madrid. Scholars will engage with an interdisciplinary Academic Body formed by mentors ranging from the fields of electronics and software engineering to social sciences and art.
Those interested in applying please download the application form here.
Deadline is November 4, 2018 24:00 CET.
Architecture Research Forum: “100 Mile City and Other Stories” Peter Barber, Thursday November 1, 13:00-14:00, Erskine Room, 5th Floor
When: 13:00-14:00, Thursday, 1st of November
Where: Erskine Room (M523), 5th Floor, Marylebone Campus
Peter Barber is a founding director of Peter Barber Architects. He is a Reader and MArch Studio tutor at the University of Westminster. In 2017 he won the Royal Academy Grand Prize for Architecture.
Technical Studies Lecture Series: Catherine Ramsden from Useful Studio, “Chiswick Bridge”, Thursday October 25, 18:00, Room M416
Who: Catherine Ramsden, Useful Studio
When: Thursday, 25th of October, 18:00
Where: Room M416, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
Design Agency within Earth Systems Symposium, Architectural Association, Friday 26th of October, 9:30-18:00
When: Friday, 26th of October 2018, 9:30 – 18:00
Where: AA Lecture Hall, Architectural Association, 36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES
8,000 meters above sea level exists what climbers call the ‘death zone’. This altitude marks the limit for human habitation, above which our species cannot survive. We thrive in the ‘life zone’ – the earth’s land surfaces and oceans, its geological layers beneath, the dynamic atmosphere above – all affected by gravitational and magnetic forces beyond. This living world is constantly being transformed by our social, economic and political interactions revealing our intricate dependencies on the the earth and its systems.Terms such as ‘Anthropocene’ and ‘Capitalocene’ have drawn attention to the role of political economy in transforming these earth systems and positioned design as a major geological force shaping the planet.
The ‘Design Agency within Earth Systems’ symposium invites participants to look through these planetary lenses to reflect upon the complicity of design in the destruction of the planet; to question the two dimensional, land based political technologies, by which we order our lives and our relations to the earth; to explore the material dimensions of air, ground and ocean as inter-twinings of socio-political and earth systems; and to imagine relations between socio-political and earth systems differently through design.
RIBA Student Support Fund open for applications! Deadline: Friday, 9th of November, 12pm
The RIBA Student Support Fund is now open for the Autumn application cycle.
The purpose of the RIBA Student Support Fund is to alleviate financial hardship for students of architecture enrolled in RIBA Part 1 and 2 courses in the UK.
Applications are welcomed from students who have encountered recent financial barriers during their studies, and would benefit from assistance in order to successfully complete their course.
The fund runs in the Autumn and Spring term, and applicants can apply for up to £3,000 in each application cycle.
The deadline for receipt of applications in this Autumn application cycle is 12pm Friday 9 November 2018.
More information about the fund and details of how to apply are available here.