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Text-Space-Writing

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‘Flair’ (2004) was a new artwork by artist Sharon Kivland specially produced for the foyer gallery space of the Bartlett School of Architecture. This work made explicit an on-going series of unofficial exchanges between art, architecture and writing, and between the Slade School of Fine Art and The Bartlett. The work was accompanied by an artist’s book, published in collaboration with Domo Baal Editions and a seminar, ‘Text-Space-Architecture’, (April 2004), with seven presentations from artists, architects, writers, poets and theorists, investigating the relationship between text, space and writing: Dr Sharon Kivland (artist), Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University, Brigid Mcleer (artist), Lecturer at the Bartlett, UCL, Dr. Sharon Morris (artist/poet), Senior Lecturer at the Slade, UCL, Dr. Jane Rendell (architect/writer), Reader in Architectue and Art, The Bartlett, UCL, Kristen Krieder, (poet), PhD Student at the Bartlett, Lucy Leonard (architect), former Architecture Diploma Student, Sophie Handler (cultural theorist), MSc Architectural History.

http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/research/architecture

Taking Place

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‘taking place’ evolved from a conversation between two, five then ten artists, architects and writers. ‘taking place’ is an ongoing space of discussion, investigation and exchange in which to look to imagine and speculate on new directions and strategies in feminine politics and architectural/art practice.

The first event took place at the University of North London, 22/24 November 2001.

Strangely Familiar

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Strangely Familiar was a cultural and educational initiative which aimed to explore, understand and communicate the complex intersection of architecture, cities and urban living. It did so in three ways:

•Publicly, by presenting and promoting new ideas about architecture and cities to the general public.
•Professionally, by presenting to architects and other urban design professionals new ideas about cities and urban living.
•Academically, through interdisciplinary enquires involving architectural history, art history, cultural studies, feminism, planning, sociology and urban geography.

Strangely Familiar was an affiliation of academics, journalists, designers, policy makers and other urbanists formed in 1994 by Iain Borden, Joe Kerr, Alicia Pivaro and Jane Rendell. Its programme of events occurred 1995-97.

The initial Strangely Familiar programme consisted of a touring multimedia exhibition, four symposia and three publications on the subject of architecture, urban space and urban narratives.

PROGRAMME SUMMARY

Exhibition London (RIBA Architecture Centre), Manchester (Cornerhouse), Birmingham (The Angle Gallery), Edinburgh (Matthew Gallery), Naples (Istituto Universitario Orientale).

Symposia RIBA Architecture Centre, London, 27 January 1996, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 20 May 1996, The Angle, Birmingham, 6 and 13 July 1996.

Publications Iain Borden, Joe Kerr, Alicia Pivaro & Jane Rendell (eds.), Strangely Familiar, 100pp exhibition catalogue, (Routledge, December 1995).

‘Talking Space with Strangely Familiar’, special issue of Scan (Photographers’ Gallery, London), n.1 (May 1996).

Iain Borden, Joe Kerr & Jane Rendell with Alicia Pivaro (eds.), The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space, (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2001).Organisers: Iain Borden (University College London)

Joe Kerr (University of North London)Alicia Pivaro (Arts Council)Jane Rendell (Birkbeck College)

Designers: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Architects (exhibition design), Artec (multimedia)

Strangely Familiar:
Studio Myerscough (graphic/exhibition design)

Spatial Imagination in Design

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‘Spatial Imagination in Design’ examined imagination as a key ‘creative driver’ in the development of innovative and qualitative spatial design processes. It brought together an international group of academics and design professionals from 11 disciplines (architecture, computer sciences, creative arts, electronics, engineering design, environmental consultants, graphic and communication design, history of design, product design, psychology and urban design). The cluster focused on cross-sector and multi-disciplinary research and collaboration. Its activities were structured around 5 workshops which examined the relationship between imagination and the design processes of writing, drawing and modeling.

Spatial Imagination in Design produced a catalogue, Peg Rawes and Jane Rendell (eds), Spatial Imagination, (London, 2005), an exhibition, ‘Spatial Imagination’, curated by Penelope Haralambidou, the Domo Baal Gallery, London, (January 2005), a website www.spatialimagination.org/ designed by Stuart Munro, and a symposium, ‘Spaces of Exchange’, CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment), (January 2006).

PI: Dr Jane Rendell, CI: Dr Peg Rawes, RA: Dr Penelope Haralambidou; TA: Stuart Munro.

Images:
‘Spatial Imagination’, the Domo Baal Gallery, London, (January 2005),
‘Spatial Imagination’, the Domo Baal Gallery, London, (January 2005),
Yeoryia Manolopoulou, Shutters, House F, ‘Spatial Imagination’, the Domo Baal Gallery, London, (January 2005).
Penelope Haralambidou, ‘3 John St, 1: 50: Mise en Abyme, ‘Spatial Imagination’, the Domo Baal Gallery, London, (January 2005),

www.spatialimagination.org/

Private-Public: Subjects and Spaces

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with members of staff from Chelsea College of Art and Design, Private-Public: Subjects and Spaces: a symposium at the ICA, London, (March 1999) including invited theorists and practitioners addressing the issue of ‘Public/Private’ in public art and design, including Krzysztof Wodiczko, Joachim Gerz, Art of Change, fat.

Opposites Attract

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This international conference explored design as a mode of architectural research with contributions from architects, artists, theorists and philosophers, organised by Dr. Jane Rendell and Dr. Jonathan Hill, Opposites Attract: Research by Design, was held at the The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, (October 2002).

Publication Details: Special Issue Jonathan Hill (ed.), Journal of Architecture (Summer 2003), v. 8.

Critical Architecture

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‘Critical Architecture’ was a conference held in November 2005 at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. The conference was part funded by the British Academy and part funded by The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, organised by Jane Rendell and Jonathan Hill of the Bartlett, and was held in association with AHRA (Architectural Humanities Research Association) represented by Murray Fraser of the University of Westminster and Mark Dorrian of the University of Edinburgh.

‘Critical Architecture’ aimed to examine the relationship between critical practice in architectural design and architectural criticism. The intention was to place architecture in an interdisciplinary context, and to investigate the relationship between theory and practice, by exploring architectural criticism as a form of practice and considering the different modes of critical practice in architectural design: buildings, drawings and texts. The thirty nine speakers, including Andrew Benjamin, Howard Caygill, Philippe Rahm of Décosterd & Rahm, Kim Dovey, Steve McAdam of fluid architects, Hal Foster, Patrick Keiller, Sharon Kivland, Hilde Heynen, Ben Nicholson, Eyal Weisman, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects came from theory and practice, from inside and outside architecture and from twelve different countries.

The project has been the subject of reviews and commentary in ARQ, by Prof Peter Carl, Brian Hatton, Dr. Felipe Hernandez, Prof David Leatherbarrow. Dr Peg Rawes.

Associated publications include Jane Rendell (ed.) Critical Architecture, special issue of the Journal of Architecture, (June 2005), v. 10. n. 3 and Jane Rendell, Jonathan Hill, Murray Fraser and Mark Dorrian (eds.) Critical Architecture, (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2007).

http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/events/conferences/critical.htm