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 places.
We are inviting [...]
January 19, 2010 – 1:04 pm
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
December 14, 2009 – 4:37 pm
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 places through the speakers’ [...]
December 7, 2009 – 8:23 pm
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 from across the [...]
October 15, 2009 – 7:36 pm
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. The *Stadtkolloquium* aims [...]
October 7, 2009 – 9:39 am
Friday, 23 October 2009, 10am–8pm. (Registration opens 9:30am). All welcome.
part of: Bartlett Architecture &: Interdisciplinary Seminars
Room G02, Wates House, The Bartlett School of Architecture, 22 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0QB.
Organisers: Anne Hultzsch, Barbara Penner, Nina Vollenbröker
Participants: Stephen Bann (University of Bristol), Jan Birksted (The Bartlett, UCL), Simon Bradley (Yale University Press), Chloe Chard (Independent), [...]
October 6, 2009 – 6:56 pm
Living Landscapes Lecture Series
curated by Stephanie Brandt and Carol Mancke
Autumn 2009
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Session 2 [2 November 2009]: Art and agency: formal and informal approaches to art in the public realm
Speakers: Vivien Lovell, Founder-Director of Modus Operandi Art Consultants, London and Jean-François Prost, artist and architect, Montreal. Jean-François is the co-founder of SYN and initiator of the collaborative research platform [...]
September 3, 2009 – 11:03 pm
Radical Nature Study Day
Art, Nature and the Environment
12 September 2009
Redgrave Suite, Level 4
Tickets: £20/£15 Concs
Time: 10.30am–4.30pm
subject to availability
What is the relationship between contemporary art and climate change? What are scientists doing? How are artists responding to the urgency of the issue? This study day maps the possible collaboration between creative thinking and problem solving. Join [...]
August 27, 2009 – 11:32 am
SENSESCAPES – Live event! at The O2, London
Thursday 1st of October 2009
Workshops and live events: 14.00 – 18.00
Talks and Discussion: 19.00
Organized and curated by SPACEPILOTS [www.spacepilots.net] in association with BME [www.britishmusicexperience.com]
Paulo Barbaresi and Stephanie Brandt [SPACEPILOTS] in collaboration with the British Music Experience Exhibition [BME] are setting up a day of talks, workshops, live demonstrations [...]
August 27, 2009 – 11:26 am
Living Landscapes Lecture Series*
Autumn 2009
Session 1 (5 October 2009): Public space and politics
Session 2 (2 November 2009): Art and agency: art and the creative city
Session 3 (7 December 2009): Alternative/subversive urban practices
Time: 18:30 – 20:30
Location: The Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT, (http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk)
Free admission
*Sponsored by the AIA UK and hosted [...]