Practicing Ethics in Built Environment Research

29-30 June 2015

https://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/events/practicing-ethics-in-built-environment-research

This transdisciplinary symposium, part of the project ‘Ethics in Built Environment Research’, explores the role ethics plays in built environment research – tackling topics such as big data, fossil fuel, housing and regeneration, and addressing issues like confidentiality, consent, risk and vulnerability. Speakers include fiction writers, artists, scientists, academics, and public figures, including: Adriana Allen, Martin Austwick, Sarah Bell, Sarah Butler, Andrew Barry, Ben Campkin, Claire Colomb, Alex Frediani, Charlotte Johnson, Caren Levy, Saladin Meckled-Garcia, Christophe McGlade, Hayley Newman, Platform, David Price, Doina Petrescu, David Roberts, Jeremy Till, Jonathan Porritt and Michael Walls.
The symposium was supported by The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment and UCL Grand Challenge of Human Wellbeing.

Reactivating the Social Condenser; Architecture against Privation

Conference co-convened with Dr Michal Murawski (SSEES)

18 May 2015

https://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/events/reactivating-the-social-condenser

‘In the habits and attitudes of the mass population, low-voltage activity and a weak consciousness would be focused through the circuits of these ‘social condensers’ into high-voltage catalysts of change.’ (Moisei Ginzburg, 1927)
1. We live in a time of privation, crisis and stratification, in housing as well as in public space. Space has become a commodity, and apathy is rife 
2. For nearly a century, architects, artists and thinkers have been inspired by and toyed with the grand old Soviet idea of the social condenser. Most, however, have attempted to tame this idea, or have done little other than to pay lip service to it.
3. It is high time, then, to reactivate the social condenser! We want to subject this electrifying idea to serious and systematic re-examination, to re-charge the social condenser as a vector for radical architectural thought and practice.
Participants: Nick Beech (Oxford Brookes/CCA) social condensations in 1960s London
- Jonathan Charley (Strathclyde) on radical architectural memories
- Udo Grashoff (SSEES, UCL) on ‘schwarzwohnen’ in East Germany
- Owen Hatherley (London) on ‘actually-existing’ social condensers
- Michael Marriott and Richard Wentworth (artists) on the ‘laundry room’
- Michal Murawski (SSEES, UCL) on Stalinist social condensers
- Andrea Phillips (Goldsmiths) on housing, art and activism
- Jane Rendell (The Bartlett, UCL) on the social condenser and the setting
- Lukasz Stanek (Manchester) on Lefebvre and the social condenser
- Andy Willimott (SSEES) on everyday life in Soviet house communes
- Victor Buchli (Anthropology,
Supported by the UCL Urban Laboratory, and the UCL Grand Challenge: Human Wellbeing

Recent Keynotes, Talks and Lectures

Keynotes
Keynote, Gender, Space and Architecture, University of Aarhus, (29 March 2014).

Keynote, Instant Urbanism, University of Aalborg (6 May 2014).

Keynote, ‘…and where do we go from here?’ Rethink. Reconfigure. Reflect, UCA Research Student Conference 2014 (May 2014).

Keynote, Body and Space, University of Middlesex, (September 2014)

Keynote, Bodies in Public, American University of Beirut, (October 2014)

Keynote, The Future of the Discipline, Annual Australia Council of University Art and Design School’s’ (ACUADS) Conference 2014, School of Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, the University of Melbourne (October 2014) via skype

Keynote, Architecture and Text, ARCHTHEO ’14 / ARCHITECTURAL THEORY Conference, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul (November 2014) via skype

Keynote, Architecture and Writing, Lisboa. (December 2014) via skype

Keynote, Matrices, Lisboa. (March 2015)

Keynote, Performing Place, University Chichester, June 2015.

Keynote, Sites of Production, University of Sydney, October 2015

Invited Conference Speaker
Invited Speaker, History of Public Space, University of Aarhus, (29 March 2014).

Invited Speaker, Writing Architecture, University of Strathclyde (20 February 2014).

Invited Speaker, Undreaming, University of Sheffield (February 2015).

Invited Speaker, Comparing Architectural Humanities Research, ENSA Paris Malaquais, (March 2015).

Invited Lectures
Glasgow School of Art (March 2014).

School of Art and Architecture, University of the Creative Arts, (November 2014).

Sheffield School of Architecture (December 2014).

Brighton School of Architecture (February 2015).

Norwich School of Architecture (March 2015).

Royal College of Art (May 2015)

University of Stuttgart (June 2015).

The Cass, (September 2015).

Norwich School of Arts (October 2015).

Tasmanian College of the Arts, University of Tasmania (November 2015).

Leeds Beckett University (February 2016).

University of Loughborough (March 2016).

Literature, Psychoanalysis and Practice (convened by Dr Jan Campbell and Dr Emma Francis ) Senate House, London (March 2014).

University of Cambridge, (May 2014).

Gallery/Museum Talks

House 5, curated by Alex McDonald and Anne-Marie Watson (March 2014).

Saskia Older Wolbers, ArtAngel (June 2014).

Visual Urbanism, British Library (May 2015)

Radical Cities, Tate Modern/Festival of Architecture (June 2015).

Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee (October 2015).

Critique and Crisis, ÖGfA, the Austrian Society for Architecture, Freud Museum Vienna (October 2015).

Gender network of the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects, Architekturforum, Zurich. (September 2015).

Opportunity Area, organized by Eva Sajovic, Sarah Butler and Rebecca Davies, Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, (June 2016)

Workshops
Site-Writing, University of Aalburg, Denmark, (7-8 May 2014)

Site-Writing, University of Aarhus, Denmark, (12-3 March 2016)