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PLAYweek Workshop Proposal: Let us take you by the hand….

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Let us take you by the hand … : Feeling anxious or stressed? We can help.

The Architects Benevolent Society will talk about AnxietyArch – a free, quick, and confidential mental health support service for architects and students.

Sign up to AnxietyArch and you also get a free subscription to Headspace.

Organised by Westminster Architecture Society.

PLAYweek Event: John Spittle – Wiehag “Engineered Timber” – Friday 16th February, 1pm, Robin Evans Room M416

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PLAYweek Event

Talk by John Spittle – Wiehag

Title: Engineered Timber

When: Friday 16th February, 1pm

Where: Room M416

Wiehag is a family-owned company in its fifth generation, with 160 years of experience in manufactured, timber products. John has worked in the offsite industry for over 30 years, the last five of which have been with Wiehag. John has been involved in some of the largest timber engineering projects ever carried out in the UK, and has experience in all forms of timber engineering.

In 1999, Wiehag opened Europe’s largest plant for glued laminated timber construction in Altheim Austria, in whose forests a cubic meter of wood grows every second. It is estimated that one third of the annual growth of Austrian wood would already suffice to build all buildings with this material.

For details contact Pete Silver/Will McLean – w.f.mclean@westminster.ac.uk
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PLAYweek Workshop Proposal: AIR GRID – PLAYDAYsew

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AIR GRID – PLAYDAYsew

An intensive one day workshop run by Doctor Watson & Samir Pandya for the Department’s PLAYWeek.

AIR GRID is a kinaesthetic structure responsive to light and vision.

We will be working with line colour and thread in an experimental workshop designed to test the possibilities of team-work in air grid production and documentation. The aim is to colour-mix and sew a complex air grid in a single day!

When: Friday 16th February, 11am – Party,

Team Size: 5-11 persons

Please Support Galaxia the Temple for Burning Man 2018 Campaign

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In December 2017 it was announced that Arthur Mamou-Mani’s project Galaxia won the Burning Man 2018 Temple Design Competition.

Galaxia is the temple for Burning Man 2018. It celebrates hope in the unknown, stars, planets, black holes, the movement uniting us in swirling galaxies of dreams. A superior form of Gaia in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, Galaxia is the ultimate network, the fabric of the universe connecting living beings into one entity. Galaxia is shaped of 20 timber trusses converging as a spiral towards one point in the sky.

The triangular trusses form different paths towards a central space holding a giant 3D printed mandala, the heart of Galaxia. The timber modules start large enough to hold small alcoves in which people can write in peace. As participants walk through the path, the timber modules lift up and become thinner and thinner towards the sky as people reach the central mandala.

Currently, Arthur and the team are trying to raise funds to complete this amazing project. You can help by donating, and, of course, by sharing and promoting their campaign.

To donate, please go to: https://connect.clickandpledge.com/Organization/burningmanproject/campaign/temple2018

Arthur Mamou-Mani is a MArch DS10 studio leader and tutor (alongside Toby Burgess) and the director of architecture practice Mamou-Mani Ltd. He is also a lecturer at the UCL-Bartlett and owns a digital fabrication laboratory called Fab.Pub.

In November he was selected as one of RIBA J’s Rising Stars for 2017.

Call for Participation: Symposium ENABLE, KU Leuven, April 2018 – Deadline 16th February

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Call symposium ‘ENABLE’

A tribute to Prof. Johan Verbeke

The Faculty of Architecture KU Leuven proudly announces the symposium ENABLE on April 20-22 2018 in association with EAAE, ARENA, EURICUR, eCAADe and ELIA

The European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE), the Architectural Research European Network Association (ARENA), the European Institute for Comparative Urban Research (EURICUR), the association for Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe) and the European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA) continue to dedicate themselves to the development of research in all fields of architecture, technology, design and arts. This also includes subjects such as environmental design, sustainable development, interior design, landscape architecture, urban design/urbanism, music, performing arts, visual arts, product design, social design, interaction design, etc.

Together they are organising a symposium as a tribute to Professor Johan Verbeke. The symposium is building further on Johan’s critical approach, his advocacy for designerly thinking in research, his plea for research through design, based on the insights as they emerge during design practice. It is also building further on Johan’s vision to bring together arts and architecture, design and performance, from product design to landscape.

This symposium is called ‘ENABLE’, because we want to discuss the deployability and impact of design thinking, research and practice. This discussion and the cross-over with stakeholders outside the design world, governments, private companies, management thinking, … can be combined in notions such as ‘activating’ and ‘enabling’. Enable means to make able; give power, means, competence, or ability to; to authorise to give (someone) the authority or means to do something; to make it possible for to empower, to facilitate, to implement.

How does the research field of practices reaches out towards building developers, city policy, city planning? And how is the design world reacting to questions and challenges generated from these ‘external’ stakeholders?

Design researchers and PhD students will be able to participate in an environment dealing with research outside the architectural or artistic discipline and research within design studios.

The symposium is structured around three half days with three themes derived from the ‘Enable’-concept:

  • ‘Slow modelling’
  • ‘Impurity’
  • ‘Form influence’

Each theme will include discussants from within and outside academia. Students, end-users and policy makers will be welcomed in each panel.

Rapporteurs will have the responsibility to report back at the end of the symposium. Several rapporteurs are needed for each theme, the results of this report will be used for a journal publication or other publication afterwards.

On both locations of the symposium the exhibition ‘a tribute to Johan’ will be visible. For this exhibition, we invite participants to provide 1 object or poster to be exhibited during the symposium.

Important dates:

  • Submission of abstracts for peer review (discussants, rapporteurs and exhibition) at enable.architecture@kuleuven.be by 16th February 2018
  • Notification of acceptance: 26th February 2018
  • Registration: from 26th February 2018 onwards
  • Conference dates: 20th – 22nd April 2018

For further information, please visit the conference website.

Call for Participation: The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, 2018 Architectural History Workshop – Deadline 16th February

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Call for Participation

The Society invites proposals for the 2018 Architectural History Workshop, hosted on Saturday 17 March at The Gallery, 70, Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6EL.

This is the SAHGB’s annual event for Postgraduate Students and Early Career Scholars to share and develop their ideas through ‘lightning’ rounds, where contributors are invited to speak for ten minutes either as a short developed paper, discursive ramble, thematic exploration, or any format that explores and presents their PhD research.

The Workshop will also include a session on “Careers in Architectural History”—presented by a panel of invited speakers from museums, heritage bodies, architectural practices, and more.

The event is limited to PhD students (full-time or part-time) and Early Career Scholars (those who have recently completed their PhDs). We also welcome proposals from anyone currently planning PhD applications.

If you are interested in making a contribution, please see the submission form on the website.

The closing date for applications is Friday 16 February 2018.