Public Lecture Series 2012-13
The School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape launched its Public Lecture Series in 2011, showcasing inspiring speakers currently researching, writing or practicing within the built environment and related fields.
All lectures are free, open to all and will be held in Culture Lab at 5.30pm unless otherwise stated. If you would like to join our mailing list, require any further information, or to book a place for our lectures please contact anne.fry@ncl.ac.uk
Recordings of past lectures can be viewed via Vimeo.
Thursday 11 October 2012
Mark Tewdwr-Jones - Fearful Symmetries: How film offers a narrative of place, planning and change
Mark Tewdwr-Jones is Professor of Town Planning, School of Architecture Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, and was previously Professor at the Bartlett School, University College London. Born in Wales and educated at Cardiff and London Universities, Mark has worked previously in local government in Devon and at Cardiff and Aberdeen Universities. He possesses 20 years experience of teaching and writing about urban and regional planning, housing, local communities, public participation, and the history of places, and has produced 12 books and given over 200 speeches in 25 different countries. He has previously advised ministers in UK Government, the Welsh and Scottish Governments, on aspects of planning, served on the NHS NICE panel on health and planning, the RTPI General Assembly, and was recently a lead expert for the Government Chief Scientist's Foresight project on Land Use Futures. He has advised governments and presented key papers in Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, South Korea and China. A 13th book, The Collaborating Planner, is currently in press. He is currently looking at research on planning and place making, how we perceive change in our environments, and how environmental capacity of land can contribute towards local economic development.
Thursday 18 October 2012 **Thomas Sharpe biennial memorial lecture**
Gillian Darley - Ian Nairn: Inspired by Newcastle. Thomas Sharp Memorial Lecture 2012
Curtis Auditorium 5:30pm
Gillian Darley is a writer, biographer and broadcaster. Her first book was Villages of Vision, revised and republished in 2007. In the early 1990s she was architectural correspondent for the Observer. Among her current journalism, reviewing and blogs, she contributes a monthly column to Building Design. With David McKie, she is working on a celebration of Ian Nairn’s writing and broadcasting, to be published by Five Leaves Publications in 2013. She has published two essays on Nairn, one on his time in America in the late 1950s, ‘Ian Nairn and Jack Kerouac: On the Road’ in Maps (ed. Ross Bradshaw, 2011) and, concentrating on his writings on London, ‘Looking for Ian Nairn’ in AA Files 64 (2012).
Ian Nairn (1930-1983) was a maverick with a passion for place. He celebrated fine architecture but was not an historian, nor a critic, but an inspired topographer who could, on form, write like an angel. Gillian's talk will concentrate on Nairn’s love of this city, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to which he returned time and again, noting the changes that were taking place during the 1960s and ‘70s. He berated those, whom he held responsible for failures, yet he also gave praise where it was due (and, we might think now, even where it wasn’t). Nairn had joined the Architectural Review in 1954 and his first review there was Thomas Sharp’s book on Oxford. Soon after, his polemic on sprawl (or subtopia) was published as Outrage. Later, he worked for the BBC, wrote several books and was architectural correspondent for the Telegraph, the Observer and finally the Sunday Times. Using this material, Gillian's lecture will concentrate on Nairn’s voice, and opinions, set against other contemporary responses. The lecture will include clips from his 1970 BBC TV film, comparing Newcastle to Aarhus in Denmark.
John Mappleback producer of the 1970's film has confirmed his intention to attend this event!
Thursday 15 November 2012 ** GURU 10th Anniversary celebration lecture**
Don Mitchell - “Broken Windows is Actually Not the Panacea”: Community Policing and Community Cohesion in a Time of Turmoil
Don Mitchell is a Distinguished Professor of Geography in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. He is the author of The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape (1996); Cultural Geography: A Critical Introduction (2000); and The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space (2003), The People’s Property: Power, Politics, and the Public (with Lynn Staeheli, 2008), and They Saved the Crops: Landscape, Labor, and the Struggle for Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California (2012), as well as more than 100 articles and book chapters on the geography of homelessness, labor, landscape, urban public space, contemporary theories of culture, and the changing political economy of the university. He is currently at work on an NSF-sponsored project (with Lynn Staeheli) called Public Life and Democracy in the United States and United Kingdom. Mitchell is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and has held a Fulbright Fellowship in the Institutt for Sociologi og Samfunnsgeografi at the Universitetet i Oslo, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Most recently he was named the 2012 recipient of the Retzius Medal in Gold, one of the Vega Awards given by the King of Sweden on Vega Day, April 24, 2012.
Thursday 13 December 2012 *APL Annual Lecture 2012 *
Richard Sennett - The Architecture of Cooperation
Curtis Auditorium 5:30pm
Richard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
Richard Sennett has explored how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. His research entails ethnography, history, and social theory. As a social analyst he continues the pragmatist tradition begun by William James and John Dewey.
His first book, The Uses of Disorder, [1970] looked at how personal identity takes form in the modern city. He then studied how working-class identities are shaped in modern society, in The Hidden Injuries of Class, written with Jonathan Cobb. [1972] A study of the public realm of cities, The Fall of Public Man, appeared in 1977; at the end of this decade of writing, Mr. Sennett sought to account the philosophic implications of this work in Authority [1980].
At this point he took a break from sociology, composing three novels: The Frog who Dared to Croak [1982], An Evening of Brahms [1984] and Palais Royal [1987]. He then returned to urban studies with two books, The Conscience of the Eye, [1990], a work focusing on urban design, and Flesh and Stone [1992], a general historical study of how bodily experience has been shaped by the evolution of cities.
In the mid 1990s, as the work-world of modern capitalism began to alter quickly and radically, Professor Sennett began a project charting its personal consequences for workers, a project which has carried him up to the present day. The first of these studies, The Corrosion of Character, [1998] is an ethnographic account of how middle-level employees make sense of the “new economy.” The second in the series, Respect in a World of Inequality, [2002} charts the effects of new ways of working on the welfare state; a third, The Culture of the New Capitalism, [2006] provides an over-view of change. Most recently, Mr. Sennett has explored more positive aspects of labor in The Craftsman [2008], and in Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation [2012].
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Thursday 17 January 2013
Peter Salter - Title TBC
Peter Salter set up private practice in 1982 after gaining experience in a number of prestigious London firms. His architectural work has focused on cultural, residential and leisure projects, including several projects in Japan.
His teaching career began in the 1980s when he joined the AA School of Architecture as a technical tutor in the diploma school. Here he coordinated the teaching of architecture technology as well as leading design teaching units at intermediate and diploma levels to develop a rigorous diploma course. In 1995 he was appointed successor to Ron Herron as Head of School and Professor of Architecture at the University of East London. His focus here was to develop a school with a specialism in exploring architecture through construction with an emphasis on materials as a way of engaging with issues of sustainability and low energy construction. As a result, three new masters programmes were established during his tenure. In 2006, he was appointed Professor of Architectural Design at the Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff.
He has over twenty years experience as a visiting critic and lecturer to UK schools of architecture and as a guest speaker at architectural organisations in America, Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and South Africa. A widely published author, he has contributed essays to several AA publications and written three AA files.
He is the recipient of the Annie Spink Award (2004) and the AJ/Boris Royal Academy Main Award for an Architectural Project for his Thai Fish Restaurant, Tokyo (1991).
Thursday 7 February 2013
Tim Waterman - Toposophy: The Power of the Landscape Idea
Tim Waterman lectures in landscape architecture at the Writtle School of Design in Essex. He is the author of Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture and co-author, with Ed Wall, of Basics Landscape Architecture: Urban Design. Since 2010 he has been the honorary editor for Landscape, the journal of the Landscape Institute, for which he writes the iconoclastic column ‘A Word …’. Tim’s research interests are wide-ranging, rooted in the study of people’s perceptions and conceptions of place and landscape in everyday life. This forms the basis for explorations of power and democracy and their shaping of public space and public life; taste, etiquette, belief and ritual; and foodways in community and civic life and landscape. Further, the complex network of processes and systems in lived landscape has led Tim to interrogate traditional modes of representation in landscape design process in search of further models. He calls the philosophical and ethical framework for his ideas 'toposophy'.
Thursday 14 March 2013
Harriet A. Bulkeley - 'Climate Changed Cities: exporing the urban politics of climate response'
Harriet Bulkeley is Professor of Geography, Energy, and Environment at the Department of Geography, and a Deputy Director of the Durham Energy Institute, Durham University. Her research interests are in the nature and politics of environmental governance and focuses on climate change, energy and urban sustainability. She is co-author (with Michele Betsill) of Cities and Climate Change (Routledge 2003) and (with Peter Newell) of Governing Climate Change (Routledge 2010), and (with Vanesa Castan-Broto, Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin) co-editor of Cities and Low Carbon Transitions (Routledge, 2011), and a new textbook, Climate Change and the City will be published by Routledge in 2012. Harriet is an editor of Environment and Planning C and from 2008 – 2011 was editor of ‘Policy and Governance’ for WIREs Climate Change. She has recently completed an ESRC Climate Change Leadership Fellowship, Urban Transitions: climate change, global cities and the transformation of socio-technical systems and a Philip Leverhulme Prize examining the governing of climate change beyond the state. She is a co-investigator on several different projects examining the relationship between energy use and the dynamics of socio-technical systems, including the EPSRC-EoN Carbon, Control and Comfort and the Ofgen funded Customer Led Network Revolution project on smart electricity grids. In 2012, she will begin work on a project led by Marcus Power to examine the role of China and Brazil in low carbon transitions in Southern Africa together with colleagues at SPRU. Harriet was appointed to the DECC Defra Social Science Advisory Group in 2012, and she has undertaken commissioned research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, UN-Habitat and the World Bank.
Thursday 16 May 2013 **APL Annual Lecture 2013**
Eyal Weizman - Forensic Architecture
Eyal Weizman is the Director of the Centre for Research Architecture (Department of Visual Cultures – Goldsmiths, University of London). Since 2007 he is a founding member of the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine. Weizman has been a professor of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and has also taught at the Bartlett (UCL) in London and the Staedel School in Frankfurt. He lectured, curated and organised conferences in many institutions worldwide. His books include Mengele’s Skull (with Thomas Keenan at Sterenberg Press, 2012), Forensic Architecture (dOCUMENTA13 notebook, 2012), The Least of all Possible Evils (Nottetempo 2009, Verso 2011), Hollow Land (Verso, 2007), A Civilian Occupation (Verso, 2003), the series Territories 1,2 and 3, Yellow Rhythmsand many articles in journals, magazines and edited books. Weizman is a regular contributor and an editorial board member for several journals and magazines including Humanity, Inflexions and Cabinet where he has edited a special issue on forensics (issue 43, 2011). He has worked with a variety of NGOs worldwide and was member of B’Tselem board of directors. He is currently on the advisory boards of the Institue of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, the Human Rights Project at Bard College in New York, and of other academic and cultural institutions. Weizman is the recipient of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture Prize for 2006-2007, a co-recipient of the 2010 Prince Claus Prize for Architecture (for DAAR) and was invited to deliver the Rusty Bernstein, Paul Hirst, Nelson Mandela, Mansour Armaly and the Edward Said Memorial Lectures amongst others. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London and completed his PhD at the London Consortium/Birkbeck College.