Past Events

Building the Scottish Diaspora

Scots and the Colonial Built Environment, c.1700-1920

Edinburgh

November 17 2017 - November 18 2017

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The Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies (University of Edinburgh), in conjunction with the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, is to host a two-day symposium (17-18 November 2017) on Scottish contributions to the built environment of Britain’s empire.

 

This event will ask questions about Scottish involvement and agency in the creation of the buildings and infrastructure that both facilitated and maintained Britain’s global empire.

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digital cultural heritage symposium UCL November 2017

University College London, Stratford

November 13 2017 - November 15 2017

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digital cultural heritage: FUTURE VISIONS 2017 London Symposium, UCL November 13-15

We are pleased to announce digital cultural heritage: FUTURE VISIONS 2017 symposium to be held on November 13-15 2017, at University College London, hosted by the Bartlett Real Estate Institute and supported by the Architecture Theory Criticism History research centre and The University of Queensland. 

This symposium is designed to encourage critical debate across a wide range of heritage-related disciplines. We welcome papers from practitioners and academics working in cultural heritage and related fields such as architecture, anthropology, archaeology, geography, media studies, museum studies and tourism. We particularly encourage papers that explore the challenges of digitising tangible and intangible cultural heritage, those that identify issues with digitisation and digital interaction, and those that address the theoretical challenges posed by digital cultural heritage.

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Call for Expressions of Interest to Host the AHRA Research Student Symposium 2019. 2020, 2021

November 08 2017 - January 01 2018

The AHRA Steering Group is keen to receive Expressions of Interest to host the AHRA

Research Student Symposium, an annual event that usually takes place in Spring.

If you wish to apply, please respond to the following: 

1.      Name of your institution and contact person:

 
2.      Your proposed dates in Spring of 2019, 2020 and/or 2021:

3.      Name of an invited speaker (ideally the invited speaker should speak about Research Practice or Methods) and how this speech will help forward the intentions of the symposium):

 

4.      Proposed venue(s):

5.      Confirmation of IT support on the day:

6.      Confirmation that the symposium will be free of charge to delegates:

 

Notes to consider:

a)      This is our Research Student symposium not our International Conference (our International conference is held in November each year.) The Research Student Symposium is for the presentation of work by scholars in the early phase of their research careers, i.e., those undertaking postgraduate Masters and PhD research.

b)      Since AHRA is a non-profit making organisation we are unable to contribute money toward the organisation of the symposium.

c)      AHRA Steering Group and Advisory Board members are happy to help with reviewing abstracts.

d)      We are particularly interested in receiving calls from schools which have not hosted the event before.

 

Expressions of interest should be sent to the chair of the Architectural Humanities Research Association Conferences/ Symposia Working Group, Dr Juliet Odgers: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

 

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Building Beauty

Ecologic Design and Construction Process

Naples, Italy

October 16 2017 - May 05 2017

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Building Beauty is an intensive, memorable experience of studies team work and life in the heart of the city of Naples, Italy.

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Building Beauty. Ecologic Design and Construction Process

Naples, Italy

October 16 2017

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The program is practice-based, offering an immersive experience of hands-on construction that links together self development, ecological thinking and building skills: students learn low-tech construction and decoration techniques over an intensive, fully human, feeling-based building process. Learning is organized in three axis: 1. Construction and Cultivation; 2. Seminars: leading international scholars from a wide range of scientific fields explore with students the potential of a truly interdisciplinary approach to design and construction where complexity and uncertainty are the positive condition of beauty generation; speakers tackle important challenges in the current international agenda of sustainable architecture and resilient communities. 3. Self, Community and Space: practical movement/art/dance/therapy workshops aimed at recognizing and trust our feelings in relation to space. Feelings are referred to space, the body-mind, and the way they interact in hands-on physical work of making.

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The Open Hand 2: Orientalism in the Pacific

Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

September 09 2017

During The Open Hand 2: Orientalism in the Pacific, we want to resume the civic debate started during the first Open Hand symposium in 2014, about collaborative action in architecture, space, art and society, this time specifically in connection with community, geography, identity, displacement, migration, and history in the Pacific. Central to the symposium are the following questions: What are the opportunities, boundaries, and tensions experienced in diasporas here in the Pacific? Do we still view these phenomena through the lenses of the ‘Other,' or as exotic spaces of in-betweenness, or are we engaging with them differently now?

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