2018/19
Details of these talks will follow soon.
Previous series
2017/2018
Series organisers:
- Pablo Jiménez-Moreno | View profile >
- Athina Georgiou Shippi | View profile >
- Hafsa Olcay | View profile >
- Delia Murguía Gutiérrez | View profile >
26 Sep | Samuel Gonçalves | SUMMARY: Infrastructure-Structure-Architecture
10 Oct | Tolulope Onabolu | Talk title TBC
24 Oct | Maria Fusco | The Legend of Necessary Dreamer
14 Nov | Speaker TBC | Talk title TBC
28 Nov | Speaker TBC | Talk title TBC
12 Dec | Sophia Banou | Talk title TBC
10 Feb | Kengo Kuma | Lab for future material
20 Feb | Pedro Aibéo | Architectural Democracy
27 Feb | Laura Bowie | 1968 in West Berlin: Space, Place and Identity
13 Mar | Robert Hairstrains | Off-site and modern methods of timber construction
27 Mar | Sam Booth | Unique Small Buildings
24 Apr | Pecha Kucha ESALA
8 May | Maria Mitsoula and Dorian Wiszniewski | Talk title TBC
22 May | Es Tresidder | Low-energy building design optimisation
2016/2017
Series organisers, 2016-2017:
- Roxana Bakhshayesh
- Laura Bowie
- Rebecca Crowther
27 Sep | Rough and Ready Research Share
11 Oct | Rebecca Crowther and Laura Bowie | Researchers Anonymous
25 Oct | Vrej Haroutounian, Roxana Bakhshayesh Karam and Matluba Khan with special guest Professor Billie Giles-Corti | Rough and Ready Research Share
8 Nov | Xi Chen (Newcastle University) and Justin Chung (The University of Edinburgh) | Public Spaces, Mapping, Participatory Design
22 Nov | Global Forces, Landscape and Wellbeing, and Environmental Attitudes
24 Jan | Juan Hevia (San Pablo CEA University Madrid | Shrinkage vs Growth
7 Feb | Pecha Kucha
2015/2016
27 Oct | Dr Jim Lawson (Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art) | A Theory of History and a Fifteenth century Building Programme: Alberti and Sant’Andre in Mantua
10 Nov | Piotr Lesniak (PhD Candidate in Architecture by Design, Edinburgh College of Art) | Archive of the Future: An Architectural Imaginary of Reconstructed Warsaw
24 Nov | Paul Guzzardo (Fellow ar Geddes Institute for Urban Reseach, University of Dundee) | A Septic Turn in the Space of Appearance: A Brief for a City with Elites in Decline
8 Dec | Prof Richard Coyne (Professor of Architectural Computing, Edinburgh College of Art) | Blook! How to Leverage a Book out of a Blog
19 Jan | Dr Tahl Kaminer (Lecturer in Architectural Design and Theory, Edinburgh College of Art) | Critique and co-optation
2 Feb | John Barber (PhD Candidate in Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art) | Statics and Dynamics in the Conservation of Drystone Buildings
16 Feb | Prof Jilly Traganou (Associate Professor in Spatial Design, Parsons School for Design - The New School) | Insurgent and Radical Forms of Dissent: Resisting the Olympic City
23 Feb | Dr Patrik Schumacher (Partner at Zaha Hadid Architects and Founding Director at the AA Design Research Lab) | Agent Based Parametric Semiology
1 Mar | Dr Richard Anderson (Lecturer in Architectural History, Edinburgh College of Art) | A Second-World Empire: Soviet Architecture, Socialism and Globalization
22 Mar | Alex Collins (PhD Candidate in History of Art, Edinburgh College of Art) | Micro-architecture and Macro-landscapes: Space and Authorship in Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid Franchise (1998–2015)
29 Mar | Vasileios Kitsos (PhD Candidate at the School of Social Sciences, Södertörns University Stockholm) | Urban pratices and concensus in a time of crisis
19 Apr | Dr Richard Milgrom (Associate Professor of City Planning, University of Manitoba) | Age-Friendly Regions? Supporting uneven growth and decline
3 Mar | Tiago Torres Campos (Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art) | Encounters with Manhattan's Geologic: On Landscape, Time and the Anthropocene
17 May | Ernesto Valero Thomas (PhD Candidate in Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art) | Energy and Space: Mapping Networks of Gasoline Stations in the Dispersed City
2014/2015
4 Nov | Dr Penny Travlou (Lecturer in Cultural Geography & Theory, University of Edinburgh) | A Guidebook to Berlin: Excavating Voids, Ruins and Flows
18 Nov | Prof Sandra Kaji-O'Grady (Dean & Head of Architecture, University of Queensland) | Privatised Atmosphere, Personal Bubbles
2 Dec | Richard McClary (PhD Candidate in History of Art, University of Edinburgh) | Medieval Islamic Architecture of Central Asia: The development of Qarakhānid tombs in the Ferghāna Valley
20 Jan | Dr Aikaterini Antonopoulou (Teaching Fellow, Newcastle University) | Homelessness in the Digital Age through the example of the Banoptikon Videogame Project
5 Feb | Prof Perry Kulper (Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Michigan) | Estranged Fluctuations
3 Mar | Liam Ross (Lecturer in Architectural Design, University of Edinburgh) | Regulatory Spaces, Literal and Metaphorical: On the Material and Discursive Formation of Edinburgh’s Fire-Safety Legislation
17 Mar | Dorothea Kalogianni (PhD Candidate in Architecture, University of Edinburgh) | Affective Immersion and Virtual Spaces: Incorporating Virtual Reality, EEG and Sound
31 Mar | Tarek Teba (PhD Candidate in Architecture, University of Edinburgh) | Domestic Architecture in Ugarit: Conservation Proposal
28 April | Fabrizio Gesuelli (PhD Candidate in Architecture, University of Edinburgh) | Remediating the Social through Protest Architecture: Tait and St Peter's Square in Rome
12 May | Dr Yeoryia Manolopoulou (Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design, University College London) | Dialogue with Chance
26 May | Dr Katherine Brookfield (Research Fellow at OpenSpace, University of Edinburgh) | The role of the home in the active and sedentary behaviours of older people