Events

• 23 February 2019 - 4 May 2019
  

• Tuesday - Friday, 10am - 5pm
  Saturday, 12pm - 5pm

• Talbot Rice Gallery, Old College
  South Bridge
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

Borderlines is a group exhibition that gives form to the conceptual, geo-political, economic and cultural impacts of borders. It draws attention to the ownership of the earth beneath our feet, underwater realms, the rules governing the international movement of goods, nation-states, the UK border in Ireland, financial sovereignty, tribal territories, anarchic polar exploration and the world-wide distribution of natural resources.

• 18 March 2019 - 22 March 2019
  

• 11am - 4pm

• Evolution House
  Tent Gallery
  78 West Port
  Edinburgh
  EH1 2LE

An exhibition of new works by Emelia Kerr Beale and Rachel Sved.

• 19 March 2019
  

• 2:00pm - 3:30pm

• Alison House, Lecture Room A
  12 Nicolson Street
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9DF

This session will focus on the experiences and perspectives of individuals who work across organisational boundaries in pursuit of shared research goals.

• 19 March 2019
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Spring-Summer 2019 series

• 20 March 2019
  

• 2pm and 3pm

• The Fire Station, Seminar Room C
  76-78 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DE

What are some of the ways you can revise for your exams? In this we’ll look at best practice revision strategies.

• 20 March 2019
  

• 1:00pm - 2:00pm

• Adam House, Adam House Lecture Theatre
  3 Chambers Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1HT

Tina di Carlo is an editor at Drawing Matter. She was formerly a curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Director of Lectures, Exhibitions and co-Curricular Activities at the Princeton University School of Architecture.

• 20 March 2019
  

• 11am - 7pm

• The Fire Station
  76-78 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DE

In its fifth year, BOOKMARKS artists’ book fair will again provide a stimulating platform for visitors to explore artists’ books and zines made by practitioners from across Scotland and further afield.

• 21 March 2019
  

• 4:00pm

• INSPACE
  The University of Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

Part of the Design Informatics Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 21 March 2019
  

• 5:15pm - 6:15pm

• Alison House, Lecture Room A
  12 Nicolson Street
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9DF

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 21 March 2019
  

• 5:15pm

• Hunter Building, Hunter Lecture Theatre (017)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

What does it mean to write a dictionary? Are dictionaries simply taxonomic repositories of meaning and compilations of knowledge, or can they involve other tasks and assume other functions? What might be the specific challenges and potentials raised by the task of writing a dictionary of the ideas of a thinker?

• 22 March 2019
  

• 11:30am - 1:00pm

• Edinburgh College of Art, Main Building, West Court
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Sharing images and film excerpts, this talk revolves around betrayal as a method in refusing abjectness. Alberta will present two key projects - performance workshop sorry, not sorry and her 2018/19 Margaret Tait commission between a whisper and a cry discussing how decolonial methods such as betrayal and refusal can create encounters, which encourage mutual empathy, healing and release.

• 22 March 2019
  

• 5pm

• 50 George Square, Screening Room G.05
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9LH

Dr Vinsova is a Czech scholar, currently on a Fellowship at the University of Bangor. She has conducted fieldwork in Colombian mythology.

• 22 March 2019
  

• 1.10pm

• McEwan Hall
  Teviot Place
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Spring-Summer 2019 series

• 26 March 2019
  

• 5:15pm - 6:30pm

• Minto House, Elliot Room
  20-22 Chambers Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1JZ

In this paper, Dr Tom Hulme focuses particularly on civic architecture and urban space in the 1920s and 1930s, and on the celebrations that took the city as their subject. City governors, he argues, had a historically-aware mindset that understood the city in terms of its long development, celebrating urban progress from humble origins and shocking growth right up to contemporary power and prestige.

• 27 March 2019 - 29 March 2019
  

ECA Wellbeing Week 2019 ECA MindSpa; Activities to relax and refresh your mind and improve wellbeing. Open to staff and students.

• 27 March 2019
  

• 2pm

• The Fire Station, Seminar Room C
  76-78 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DE

This class will offer you the chance to do exam revision.

• 27 March 2019
  

• 4:30pm - 6:00pm 

• The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
  The University of Edinburgh
  Hope Park Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9NW

The Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar series is an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate and early-career scholars working on any aspect of eighteenth-century history, literature and culture to share their research. The seminar is organised jointly by postgraduate students at the University of Edinburgh's School of History, Classics and Archaeology, and the College of Art.

• 28 March 2019
  

• 4:00pm

• INSPACE
  The University of Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

Part of the Design Informatics Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 28 March 2019
  

• 5:15pm - 6:15pm

• Alison House, Lecture Room A
  12 Nicolson Street
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9DF

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 28 March 2019
  

• 5:15pm

• Hunter Building, Hunter Lecture Theatre (017)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

The call for an Art Strike against Trump (2017), a National Artists’ Strike in Australia (2013), a Polish Day Without Art (2012), the Art Strike Biennial in Alytus (2009)… It appears that the idea of an art strike has not been abandoned to the problems presented by its historic instances, such as Lee Lozano’s ‘General Strike Piece’ (1969), the Art Workers’ Coalition Art Strike (1970) or Gustav Metgzer’s ‘Years Without Art’ (1977-80).

• 29 March 2019
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Spring - Summer 2019 series

• 23 February 2019 - 4 May 2019
  

• Tuesday - Friday, 10am - 5pm
  Saturday, 12pm - 5pm

• Talbot Rice Gallery, Old College
  South Bridge
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

Borderlines is a group exhibition that gives form to the conceptual, geo-political, economic and cultural impacts of borders. It draws attention to the ownership of the earth beneath our feet, underwater realms, the rules governing the international movement of goods, nation-states, the UK border in Ireland, financial sovereignty, tribal territories, anarchic polar exploration and the world-wide distribution of natural resources.

• 1 April 2019
  

• 12:30pm - 2:00pm

• Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Board Room (L05)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

This seminar is a discussion of the results obtained during the second part of Agnès’ PhD study, which generally explored the use of fractal characteristics of landscape photographs as predictors of landscape preference.

• 2 April 2019
  

• 5:15pm - 6:30pm

• Minto House, Elliot Room
  20-22 Chambers Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1JZ

Part of the Architectural History and Theory Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 3 April 2019
  

• 5.15pm - 7pm

• Evolution House, Room 5.21
  The University of Edinburgh
  78 West Port
  Edinburgh
  EH1 2LE

Games, chance, and techniques of surprise were fundamental to surrealist practice, disrupting logic, reason, and experiential norms to open up routes to ‘the marvelous.’

• 4 April 2019
  

• 4:00pm

• INSPACE
  The University of Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

Part of the Design Informatics Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 4 April 2019
  

• 5:15pm - 6:15pm

• Alison House, Lecture Room A
  12 Nicolson Street
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9DF

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 4 April 2019
  

• 5:15pm

• Hunter Building, Hunter Lecture Theatre (017)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Forget the study, the books, and the armchair. Thinking is not a lone, individual act but a social process, embedded in what I have called “the social buzz”: the constant implicit discussion – agreement, disagreement, qualification, passionate opining – of ideas by the people constituting the social environment of the thinker. Three aspects can be derived from that collective nature of thought.

• 10 April 2019
  

• 4:30pm - 6:00pm

• The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
  The University of Edinburgh
  Hope Park Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9NW

The Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar series is an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate and early-career scholars working on any aspect of eighteenth-century history, literature and culture to share their research. The seminar is organised jointly by postgraduate students at the University of Edinburgh's School of History, Classics and Archaeology, and the College of Art.

• 12 April 2019
  

• 6pm - 8pm

• Edinburgh College of Art, Main Building, West Court
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Art360 Foundation invites you to the launch of Art360 Scotland, an archiving and legacy programme for artists and artists’ estates, supported by Creative Scotland, The Henry Moore Foundation, the P F Charitable Trust and National Galleries Scotland.

• 15 April 2019
  

• 5.15pm - 6.15pm

• Hunter Building, Hunter Lecture Theatre (017)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Part of the Dada & Surrealism Public Talks Series 2018/19

• 25 April 2019
  

• 2:00pm - 3:30pm

• Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Board Room (L05)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

In this session, Kamini Vellodi will be in conversation with Michael Schwab, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for Artistic Research, to explore these and other questions.

• 29 April 2019
  

• 12:30pm - 2:00pm

• Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Board Room (L05)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Dr Jung-Hwa Kim will review recent master-plan projects of botanical gardens in the UK such as the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, and the National Botanic Garden of Wales.

• 23 February 2019 - 4 May 2019
  

• Tuesday - Friday, 10am - 5pm
  Saturday, 12pm - 5pm

• Talbot Rice Gallery, Old College
  South Bridge
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

Borderlines is a group exhibition that gives form to the conceptual, geo-political, economic and cultural impacts of borders. It draws attention to the ownership of the earth beneath our feet, underwater realms, the rules governing the international movement of goods, nation-states, the UK border in Ireland, financial sovereignty, tribal territories, anarchic polar exploration and the world-wide distribution of natural resources.

• 1 May 2019
  

• 2:00pm - 3:30pm

• Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Board Room (L05)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

This session will consider how research can be communicated beyond the academy. We'll hear about putting on public workshops and talks, and how to make public engagement a two-way process rather than a simple presentation of findings.

• 6 May 2019
  

• 5.15pm - 6.15pm

• Hunter Building, Hunter Lecture Theatre (017)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Part of the Dada & Surrealism Public Talks Series 2018/19

• 17 May 2019
  18 May 2019
  

• Schools show at 3pm, then main shows at 6pm and 8.30pm.

• Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Sculpture Court
  Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

The Performance Costume programme will stage the Performance Costume Show at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) for two nights in May.

• 23 May 2019
  

• 8pm and 10pm

• National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1JF

In a fresh take on the traditional fashion show, the catwalk will be designed so that every audience member will have a front row seat. The concept aims to make the event inclusive and accessible to all, eliminating the norms of fashion hierarchy.

• 1 June 2019 - 9 June 2019
  

• - Business opening Thu 30 May, 6-8pm
  - Friends and family opening Fri 31 May, 6-8pm
  - Late night opening Wed 5 and Thu 6 Jun until 8pm

• Edinburgh College of Art Main Building
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

For nine days in summer, Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) is transformed into a public showcase of the work of our graduating students, the majority of whom are completing undergraduate degrees.

• 1 June 2019
  

• 7.30pm

• Saint Cecilia's Hall
  50 Niddry Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1LG

Part of the Sypert Early Music Concert Series 2019

• 5 June 2019
  

• 2:00pm - 3:30pm

• Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Board Room (L05)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

We’ll look at the landscape and some examples of leadership, and hear from someone with large grant success on what it takes to join the big grant club.

• 15 June 2019
  

• 7.30pm

• Saint Cecilia's Hall
  50 Niddry Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1LG

Part of the Sypert Early Music Concert Series 2019

• 22 June 2019
  

• 7.30pm

• Saint Cecilia's Hall
  50 Niddry Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1LG

Part of the Sypert Early Music Concert Series 2019

• 29 October 2019
  

• 12:30pm - 2:00pm

• Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Board Room (L05)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Natalie’s research interests focus on healthy buildings and how the built environment impacts people’s health (physical, psychological and social). Nature has been shown to help work-related stress. But how can nature be efficiently incorporated inside and will it have the same positive impact?