Thanks to Ben Sweeting, PhD candidate in Architectural Design at the Bartlett, for his input on this post.
Saturday 6th June 2011 saw the launch of the post-exhibition catalogue following up last December’s ‘Invisible Machines’ exhibition, held at Grand Parade in Brighton, which investigated the various relations between machines and architecture. Although the invocation [...]
By external contributor Deepa Ramaswamy.
A lot has been already said about the slums of Mumbai and their role within the city’s memory and identity. Dharavi, which is supposedly the largest of Mumbai’s slums, figures very prominently in most of these discourses. Dharavi has developed and expanded over the last few decades [...]
By external contributor Miguel Torres-Garcia.
Today we conceive urban space to have a substance of itself. Architectural proposals take part in it, and produce it to a certain extent, but I wonder if there are still areas beyond the discipline’s reach. In this text I will use a few samples across time, starting by a comparison [...]
The editors of the Bartlett Think-Tank would like to express their support for the current UCL occupation opposing the cuts in education and rise in tuition fees. We agree that the present crisis in education calls for critical and open dialogue and that it is more than appropriate that it should manifest itself in the [...]
Sent by Stephanie Brandt:
The Urban Islands Project – reviving places:
www.urbanislandsproject.net
The Urban Islands Project is part of an ongoing project SPACEPILOTS introduced in 2009 under the title of Unlocking the City, aiming to excite young people about their city, engage them with their environment, and to empower them to get involved in the actual shaping of [...]
Sent by Diego García Mejuto:
The Bartlett Planning informal talks on places and cultures are back with ‘Galicia: (re)presenting a Spanish regional space’, by Diego García Mejuto, research student at the Bartlett School of Planning.
When: Wednesday 20th January at 4:30pm
Where: Room 5.17b, Wates House, 22 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0QB
All welcome
Contact information: Amparo Tarazona Vento, a.vento@ucl.ac.uk
Sent by Diego Garcia Mejuto:
This month a new initiative was launched at the Bartlett School of Planning. The ‘Lonely Planner’ series consist of informal talks given by Bartlett Planning PhD students on places they are very familiar with, followed by questions and discussion. The aim of these talks is to learn and discuss about certain [...]
Sent by Anne Hultzsch:
Now in it’s 7th year, Writing-PAD – ‘Writing Purposefully in Art and Design’ – offers art and design institutions an arena in which to explore and develop the notion of ‘thinking through writing’ as a parallel to visual discourse in art and design practice. Writing PAD has not only brought together tutors [...]
Sent by Sandra Jasper:
The UCL Urban Laboratory is organising an interdisciplinary work-in-progress workshop for PhD students, who would like to present and discuss their research projects. The workshop will provide an open and informal space to discuss your work with regards to theoretical, practical or methodological questions and problems at any stage of your research. [...]
In the Distance
Research in Progress 2010: February 27, 2010
Graduate Student Conference
History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture @ MIT
Cambridge, MA
Call for Papers
The general perception is that intellectual and creative production outside of major cultural centers necessarily defines itself in relationship to these centers. Moreover, the relative paucity of material resources and opportunities available in [...]
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