Public lectures and talks

(Re)Making: Craft-Design and Women’s Empowerment in the Global South

Wednesday 27 March 2024, 10am-2pm

This symposium considered craft as a tool for economic empowerment.

AAD Books: Architecture, Scale, and the City

Tuesday 24 Oct 2023 5:30pm - 7:00pm

Session hosted by CUBE

AAD Research Forum: A user guide to research funding

Wednesday 29 November 2023 4pm - 6pm

Jointly hosted by CREATURE and CUBE, this live event provided knowledge of key research funding agencies and offered a range of practical techniques to help you develop a competitive funding application.

Art, Architecture and Design (AAD) Sessions 2023-24

Hosted by CREATURE (Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement) and CUBE (Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies)

AAD Sessions bring together researchers and practitioners from within and beyond our school to discuss their research among peers.

Anthropotropic Architecture: Human Wellbeing at the Heart of Design

Wednesday 13 December 2023 5.30pm - 7pm

In recent years, human wellbeing has received widespread attention in architecture and design, especially in response to evidence indicating a link between the form and quality of the built environment and social, mental, and physical health outcomes.

Architecture Beyond Buildings

Wednesday 15 November 2023 4pm - 6pm

Considered the range of activities and experiences that constitute architecture as a broad field of activity.

Book Launch: Everyday Streets

Thursday 30 November 2023, 5.00pm – 8:00pm

The focus of this book is an inclusive approach to understanding and designing everyday streets; an analysis of many aspects of streets from cities around the globe.

Ethno-Botanic Resonance

Wednesday 6 March 2024 at 5.30pm-7.00pm

Ethno-Botanic Resonance delved into the profound intersection of ethnobotanical knowledge, cultural well-being practices, and the art of Ikebana.

Inaugural lecture: 'Global Fashion' - Prof. Wessie Ling

Thu, 25 April 2024 6pm - 9pm

Part of inaugural professorial lectures from the staff at School of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University

Inaugural lecture: 'Physis in a Changing World' - Nature’s Enigma

Thursday 23 November 2023, 6pm – 9pm

The lecture drew on the writings and ideas of numerous philosophers, environmentalists, anthropologists, geographers, sociologists and architectural historians/theorists.

Industrial Makeshifts and Memories of Work

Wed. 01 May 2024, 5.30pm - 7pm

Simon Hasan and Ektoras Arkomanis reflected on themes of labour/work, declining industries, artistic practice, craft, and design.

Monumental Cares and Creative Iconoclasm

Wednesday, 22 November 2023 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Session hosted by CREATURE

Raffaello in Prison: Reflections on historic artworks and social engagement

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 6pm - 8pm

The event launched the publication based on this project (Edizioni Paguro, 2024 Italian/English) and featured members of the project team, sharing their practice and learnings.

Spatial Practice in a Post-disaster City: Learning from Beirut

Wednesday 28 Feb 2024, 5.30pm - 7pm

This seminar explored some of the spatial practices that emerged in Beirut in the aftermath of the 2019 protests and the 2020 Port of Beirut explosion.

Strayed Homes and Lonely Subjects

Wed, 17 April 2024 5.30PM - 7PM

A discussion between two scholars focused on the experience of loneliness in the post-war city.

Studio South: Co-creating Architecture Education through Residencies in Calabria

Wednesday 17 January 2024, 5.30pm - 7pm

This event discussed a programme for studying architecture through student residencies.

The Tangible Archive Symposium

Thursday 7 December 2023 10am - 4:30pm

This interdisciplinary symposium explored the material of archive collections and their intersections of history and practice.

‘She loved this place’: memorial benches as life writing - Prof. Anne Karpf

Thursday, 19 October 2023, 6.00pm – 9:00pm

This lecture explored the phenomenon of the memorial bench - restful public seating that celebrates the bonds between people and place.

The Living Memory of Cities - Seminar series 2022-23

Seminar series

The Living Memory of Cities, a seminar series convened in collaboration with Eric Parry Architects and the The Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies (CUBE), London Metropolitan University.

Matthew Barac: Affirmative Irony in City Making

Monday 24 April 2023 at 5pm

Raymond Quek: The Fermented City

Wednesday 22 February 2023 at 5pm

Robert Tavernor: A particular point of view, London and the picturesque

Tuesday 17 January 2023 at 5pm

Renée Tobe: Creating an Urban Pattern From Opposites

Tuesday 29 November at 5pm

Tony Fretton: Nature begins to relate to us only when we indwell in it

Tuesday 8 November 2022 at 5pm

Mohsen Mostafavi: Sharing Tokyo: Artifice and the Social World

Wednesday 26 October 2022 at 5pm

Cities and Sacred Space – Seminar series 2021-22

Seminar series

The Living Memory of Cities, a seminar series convened in collaboration with Eric Parry Architects and the The Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies (CUBE), London Metropolitan University.

Dagmar Motycka Weston – Roman theatre’s scænæ frons as a thematic edifice

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 5pm

Nicholas Temple – Continuity and Succession in Renovatio Urbis

Tuesday 8 February 2022, 5pm

Christian Frost – The Matter of Time: Festival and the Architecture of Transition

Wednesday 19 January 2022, 5pm

This is the fifth seminar in the second season of our series entitled The Living Memory of Cities.

AAD Sessions: What is architectural history without buildings?

Wednesday 9 February 2022, 5.30pm-7pm GMT

An Art, Architecture and Design (AAD) Session hosted by the Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies, London Metropolitan University.

AAD Books: The Handbook on the Reception of Classical Architecture

Wednesday 2 February 2022, 5.30pm-7pm GMT

An Art, Architecture and Design (AAD) Session hosted by the Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies, London Metropolitan University.

Rut Blees Luxemburg – The Lesson of the Vine: a public art work in Leiwen

Wednesday 8 December 2021, 5pm

José Manuel Fernandes – Nova Oeiras Neighbourhood Unit

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 5pm

Lines through the City

Wednesday 12 January 2022, 5.30pm-7pm GMT

An Art, Architecture and Design (AAD) Session hosted by the Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies, London Metropolitan University.

José Mateus – The Dialogue of Times

Tuesday 9 November 2021, 5pm

Kenneth Frampton – Megaform as Urban Landscape: Reflections on the Introspective City

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 5pm

Invisible Maps

Wednesday 3 November 2021, 5:30-7pm GMT

An Art, Architecture and Design (AAD) Session hosted by CUBE

Mapping Stories: Towards Grounded Urban Practices

Wednesday 6 October 2021, 5-6.30pm GMT

An Art, Architecture and Design Session hosted by CUBE.

Art, Architecture and Design Sessions 2021-22

Hosted by CREATURE (Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement) and CUBE (Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies)

AAD Sessions 2020-21: Hosted by CREATURE (Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement) and CUBE (Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies) are a series of public conversations that bring together researchers and practitioners from the School of Art, Architecture and Design and the wider world, to present their research for review among peers.

Aga Fraczak – Illustration and Animation

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 12pm to 1pm

The Visual Communication talks feature leading industry creatives in the fields of visual communication. By the School of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University.

Call for Participants! CAMP Programme

Course in Athens, 10-17 April 2022

Working in partnership with Sirius Training, ARCSR will be leading a professional development course - CAMP: Community, Architecture, Migration, Participation - in Athens from 10 to 17 April 2022.

Creative Practice as Research - from drawing to choreography

Wednesday 23 Nov 2022 16:30 - 18:00 GMT

Fine Art and Painting Winter Exhibition

Friday 17 December 2021, 10am to 3pm

Join us at our in-person winter exhibition to celebrate the incredible work of our Fine Art BA and Painting BA students.

Forms of Resistance: Artistic responses from Kyiv and Lusanga

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 5:30-7pm BST

Freak Show

Friday 17 December 2021, at 4:30pm

Level 5 Fashion Show.

Full Plié

8-31 March 2022

Second year photography exhibition for Women's History Month. Private view: Monday 7 March, 5-7pm

Launch of Research Report and Photographic Exhibition: LamQ+

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 6-9pm

‘Understanding Lambeth’s LGBTQI+ Communities in Times of Coronavirus: A Mixed Methods Study’, an event organised by the Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre.

London Met Lab: Environment Knowledge-Exchange Talks

OnlineWednesday, 5.30-7pm

Ecological Dialogues: Sustainable Communities and the Question of Nature, by London Met Lab.

Making Matters – The Exhibition

Mon - Fri, 5 - 13 May 2022 2pm - 6pm

Mason London – Animation

Tuesday 1 February 2022, 12pm to 1pm

The Visual Communication talks feature leading industry creatives in the fields of visual communication. By the School of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University.

MASS Lecture: Andrew Clancy

Thursday 27 January 2022, at 6:30pm

Join us for the first MASS Lecture of 2022.

Material Engagement: towards an experience of thinking with material

Wednesday 7 December 2022 5.30pm

Material Origins + Regenerative Design

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 5.30-7pm GMT

Online event: Olivia Bargman – Illustration

Tuesday 8 February 2022, 12pm to 1pm

The Visual Communication talks feature leading industry creatives in the fields of visual communication. By the School of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University.

Performance and Ethics: Mimetics, Distance and Spectating Suffering

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 5:30-7pm GMT

Performance Drawing

Wednesday 8 December 2021, 5.30pm-7pm GMT

Petticoat Tales Fashion Show

Friday 25 February 2022, 6pm

First Year Fashion Catwalk Show celebrates the school's location at the heart of London's historic textiles industry

Public Housing, Domestic Objects

Wednesday 6 April 2022, 1-2pm BST

A School of Art Architecture and Design Session hosted by CUBE.

Public lectures and talks 2021-22

An annual series of public lectures, talks and events at The School of Art, Architecture and Design.

Safety in Numbers. Reclaiming public spaces through the work of Artichoke

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 5:30-7pm GMT

Salem Khazali – Graphic Design

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 12pm to 1pm

The Visual Communication talks feature leading industry creatives in the fields of visual communication. By the School of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University.

Second Floor series

Recordings available of new public lecture series by leading architects and postgraduate tutors, presented by London Met student society and The Architecture Foundation.

The Launch of "Global China" for Fashion Theory

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 1-2pm and 5-6pm GMT

Visual Communication talks 2021–22

Tuesdays, 12pm to 1pm

The Visual Communication talks feature leading industry creatives in the fields of visual communication, illustration, animation, graphic design and publishing.

Trick of the Light

Tuesday 14 and Wednesday 15 December 2021, 5-8pm

Join us for an exhibition of multimedia installations and live art.

Online exhibition: "A Rose is a Rose is a..."

Exhibition walkthrough: Thursday 25 March 2021, 10am

Celebrating Women's History Month through photography.

Art, Architecture and Design Research Seminars 2020-21

Organised by Dr Jane Clossick

Art, Architecture and Design Research Seminars are a series of public conversations that bring together researchers and practitioners from The School of Art, Architecture and Design and the wider world, to present their research for review amongst peers.

Art, Architecture and Design Sessions 2020/21

Hosted by CREATURE (Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement) and CUBE (Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies)

AAD Sessions 2020/21: Hosted by CREATURE (Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement) and CUBE (Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies) are a series of public conversations that bring together researchers and practitioners from The School of Art, Architecture and Design and the wider world, to present their research for review amongst peers.

Cultural Commons Seminar Series; June – July 2021

A series of talks and workshops on the topic of Cultural Commons.

Monuments and Democracy – a paradox or fruitful combo?

Thursday 22 April 2021, 1-2pm GMT

Multicultural Art Institutions at the Crossroads: Pressing Challenges

Wednesday 14 April 2021, 5pm

Pressing Challenges: Part 2 of the "Multicultural Art Institutions at the Crossroads" series conceived by CREATURE.

Online: Collaborating Care – Otherwise

Thursday 18 February 2021, 5:30-7pm GMT

An AAD Session hosted by CUBE.

Online: Depth and Vision

Thursday 11 March 2021, 5:30-7pm GMT

An AAD Session hosted by CUBE.

Online: Dwelling on the Future

Tuesday 22 June 2021, 5-6.30pm GMT

An Art, Architecture and Design Session hosted by CUBE.

Online: On the Commons

Thursday 13 May 2021, 5.30-7pm GMT

An Art, Architecture and Design Session hosted by CUBE.

Online: One and Three Buildings

Thursday 15 April 2021, 5.30-7pm GMT

An Art, Architecture and Design Session hosted by CUBE.

Online: Sonic Environments: exploring the potential listening

Thursday 25 March 2021, 5.30-7pm GMT

An AAD Session hosted by CUBE.

Online: Subjectivity of Language in Metropolitan Architecture

Thursday 28 January 2021, 5.30-7pm GMT

An Art, Architecture and Design Session hosted by CUBE.

The Living Memory of Cities – Seminar series 2020–21

Seminar series

Series organised by José de Paiva as a collaboration between Eric Parry Architects and the Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies (CUBE).

Urban Depth and Autonomy Workshops 2020–21

Interdisciplinary workshops organised by Art, Architecture and Design Research at London Met.

Infrastructures, Social Participation and the Commons

Tuesday 20 July 2021, 5pm - 6.30pm

Infrastructures, Social Participation and the Commons is part of a series of talks and workshops on the topic of Cultural Commons.

Kitchen Table Monumentalism

Thursday 18 March 2021, 1-2pm GMT

Multicultural Art Institutions at the Crossroads: Institutional Art Archives

Thursday 4 March 2021, 12pm

Institutional Art Archives: Part 1 of the "Multicultural Art Institutions at the Crossroads" series conceived by CREATURE and CFCCA.

Online: Future Inquiry

Thursday 25 February 2021, 3-5pm GMT

The last in a series of interdisciplinary workshops asking how the built environment shapes our capacity to exercise autonomy in cities.

Online seminar: Philip Christou - Poetic Transformations of Topography

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 5pm

This is the seventh and final seminar in the first season of our series entitled The Living Memory of Cities, convened in collaboration with Eric Parry Architects and CUBE

Commonhold Law and Commonhold Leases

Wednesday 14 July 2021, 5pm - 6.30pm

Commonhold Law and Commonhold Leases is part of a series of talks and workshops on the topic of Cultural Commons.

Online: City Depth

Thursday 11 February 2021, 3-5pm GMT

The third in a series of interdisciplinary workshops asking how the built environment shapes our capacity to exercise autonomy in cities.

Online: Imagination, Form, Fiction

Thursday 12 November 2020, 6.30pm

Sunny Singh and Aleks Catina will speak about the relationship between architectural space and fiction, chaired by Trevor Norris.

Online seminar: Patrick Lynch - Civic Ground in the City of Westminster and Hackney

Tuesday 27 April 2021, 5pm

This is the sixth in a new seminar series The Living Memory of Cities, convened in collaboration with Eric Parry Architects and CUBE.

Performative Monuments

Thursday 4 March 2021, 5:30-7pm GMT

Economy for Common Good

Tuesday 13 July 2021, 5.00-6.30pm

Economy for Common Good is part of a series of talks and workshops on the topic of Cultural Commons.

Festival Cities

Thursday 4 February 2021, 5:30-7pm GMT

Online: Hermeneutics and Ceremony

Thursday 19 November 2020, 6.30pm

A talk by Christian Frost and Nicholas Temple.

Online: Neighbourhood Depth

Thursday 28 January 2021, 3-5pm GMT

The second in a series of interdisciplinary workshops asking how the built environment shapes our capacity to exercise autonomy in cities.

Online seminar: Vivien Lovell – The Art of Urban Memory

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 5pm

This is the fifth in a new seminar series The Living Memory of Cities, convened in collaboration with Eric Parry Architects and CUBE.

Intellectual Property in the Commons

Thursday 17 June 2021, 5pm - 6.30pm

Intellectual Property in the Commons is part of a series of talks and workshops on the topic of Cultural Commons.

Online: Architectural Depth

Thursday 14 January 2021, 3-5pm GMT

The first in a series of interdisciplinary workshops asking how the built environment shapes our capacity to exercise autonomy in cities.

Online seminar: William Mann – Untimely Buildings

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 5pm

This is the fourth in a new seminar series The Living Memory of Cities, convened in collaboration with Eric Parry Architects and CUBE.

Revisiting counter-monuments

Thursday 21 January 2021, 1-2pm GMT

Online seminar: Carolyn Steel – Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 5pm

This is the third in a new seminar series The Living Memory of Cities, convened in collaboration with Eric Parry Architects and CUBE.

Online: Wild Ways

Thursday 10 December 2020, 6.30pm

Siân Moxon and Dr Justin Webb discuss Wild Ways – a scoping study on influencing pro-environmental behaviours to facilitate urban rewilding.

Online seminar: Peter Carl – The Enigma of Embodiment

Wednesday 9 December 2020, 5pm

This is the second in a new seminar series The Living Memory of Cities convened in collaboration with Eric Parry Architects and CUBE.

Online seminar: David Leatherbarrow – Whole Parts: Urban Architecture, In and Out of Scale

Thursday 12 November 2020, 5pm

This is the first in a new seminar series The Living Memory of Cities convened in collaboration with Eric Parry Architects and CUBE.

School of Art, Architecture and Design – Practice research portfolios

Series Editors: Matthew Barac and Jane Clossick.

Creativity, Indeterminacy and Representation

Thursday 11 February 2021, 5:30-7pm GMT

Echoes in Time – Ten Tales of Love and Loss, Deceit and Desire

Thursday 13, Friday 14, Saturday 15 May at 7.30pm

Graduating theatre arts students from the School of Art, Architecture and Design invite you to our 2021 online theatre festival!

Public Conversations on Ecology

Finding Ecologies is a cross-disciplinary research initiative at London Metropolitan University. Part of a series of events.

Interesting Times in Venice – CLOSED DUE TO COVID-19

12 October - 11 December 2020

The exhibition shows creative responses from Fellows of the British Council, following their month in Venice during the Biennale Arte 2019.

Joint-Launch of CREATURE and CUBE Research Centres

Thursday 25 February 2021, 5:30-7.30pm GMT

LIP Talk Series 2020-21

Photography lecture series organised by London Independent Photography in partnership with the School of Art, Architecture and Design, organised by Jenny Nash.

MASS at Met: Now What

Metropolitan Architecture Student Society (MASS)

MASS – Metropolitan Architecture Student Society is run by the students of the School of Art, Architecture and Design at London Met.

Now What: Perspectives on the City

MASS – Metropolitan Architecture Student Society

Wednesday 24 February: In conversation with Jacqueline Bleicher, Sumita Singha and David Ogunmuyiwa. Hosted by MASS.

Now What: Re-thinking Practice

MASS – Metropolitan Architecture Student Society

Wednesday 17 March: In conversation with Hani Salih, Amahra Spence and Thomas Aquilina. Hosted by MASS.

Online: Book launch and talk: When I was at Art School in the 90s

Thursday 26 November 2020, 7pm-8pm

Launch of a new zine by photographer Marc Vallée, including talks and Q&A.

Online: LIP – Post Punctum Talks by David George

Wednesday 4 November 2020, 7pm-8.30pm

London Independent Photography (LIP) proudly presents David George.

Online: Susan Andrews London Independent Photography Talk

Thursday 25 February 2021, 7-8.30pm

London Independent Photography proudly presents Susan Andrews.

Online: Tom Hunter London Independent Photography Talk

Thursday 25 March 2021, 7-8.30pm

London Independent Photography proudly presents Tom Hunter.

Online event: Operation Edna

Sunday 23 May 2021, 7-9pm

FBI+ A & Live-Art Ireland present: A live Zoom Live art event in association with the Tipperary Arts Office.

Public lectures and talks 2020–21

An annual series of public lectures, talks and events at The School of Art, Architecture and Design.

Re-defining Public Art

Online event: Tuesday 13 April 2021, 4-5.30pm

Part of our London Met Lab: Empowering London lecture series.

Reorienting Cultural Creativity: Collecting and (Re)presenting Global Culture in Museum

Thursday 3 June 2021, from 4pm to 6pm

Run in conjunction with the Interdisciplinary Research Forum (IRF), the Victoria and Albert Museum and Design Museum Dharavi are brought together for a dialogue on collecting and (re)presenting contemporary objects in dress, textile and design under the rubric of decolonising the museum.

Reorienting Cultural Creativity: Economic Femininity and Gender Violence

Thursday 27 May 2021, from 5.30pm to 7pm

Running in conjunction with the Centre for Global Diversities and Inequalities, Economic Femininity and Gender Violence brings together Professor Kate Maclean at Northumbria University and Dr Maria López at London Metropolitan University.

Reorienting Cultural Creativity: The Making of African Fashion Studies

Thursday 20 May 2021, from 1pm to 2pm

Co-hosting with London Metropolitan University’s BAME Network through Black History 365, CREATURE brings together African Fashion Research Institute (AFRI) for a discussion on the development of a decolonial focus for African fashion studies.

Staging and Re-cycling

Thursday 29 April 2021, 1-2pm GMT

The Common Mill: Constructing a new model for a localised fashion industry

Thursday 15 April 2021, 4.30-5.30pm

This talk will unpack a vision for a localised fashion economy rooted in the anti-extractivist discourse of the commons.

The Commons, Community and Post-Covid Recovery

Thursday 25 March 2021, 4.30-5.30pm

This 45-minute talk will look at harnessing values of post-COVID mutual aid groups.

The invention of narrative

Thursday 26 November 2020, 6.30pm

Regenerating under-populated areas through participatory architecture, raising social capital and creating a “home” for refugees

Thursday 18 June, 5pm to 7pm

Interdisciplinary Research Forum (IRF) at London Met's School of Art, Architecture and Design.

Dafna Talmor and Lucy Levene

Thursday 23 January 2020 at 6.30pm

Latest lecture in the series organised by London Independent Photography, in partnership with The Cass.

How to Write and Sell a Book (as a writer)

Thursday 13 February 2020 at 2pm

Lecture series organised by The Cass English and Creative Writing area.

Material Lectures: 2019-20

Tuesday lunchtimes, 1pm to 1.45pm

Interiors Lecture Series organised by Kaye Newman, The Cass Head of Interiors.

Jenny Theolin

Thursday 24 October 2019, 1.15pm to 2.15pm

The first Cass Visual Communication lunchtime talk is with alumna Jenny Theolin.

Maich Swift Architects

Friday 18 October 2019, 6.30pm to 8.30pm

Ted Swift and Paul Maich founded Maich Swift Architects in 2017.

Research Beyond the Studio

Thursday 31 October 2019, 6.30 to 8pm

This seminar will explore the relationship between the architecture studio and the production of research.

Robbie Howells

17 February - 28 March 2020

Artist-in-residence at The Cass.

Telling Architectural: Concrete Inside and Out

Tuesday 8 October 2019, 1pm to 1.45pm

A lecture about glass-reinforced concrete products and solutions.

White, Reveal the Colour

Friday 13 December 2019 at 2.30pm

A Year 2 Fashion presentation from The Cass.

How to buy a book

Thursday 27 February 2020 at 2pm

Lecture series organised by The Cass English and Creative Writing area.

Josie Tucker

Thursday 7 November 2019, 1.15pm to 2pm

The second Cass Visual Communication lunchtime talk is with Josie Tucker.

Karen Knorr Talk at The Cass

Thursday 27 February 2020 at 6.30pm

Latest lecture in the series organised by London Independent Photography, in partnership with The Cass.

Local Works Studio: Plaster

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 1pm to 1.45pm

This lecture aims to present the process of designing interiors using clay as base element.

Project Red 2020 Catwalk Show

Friday 21 February 2020 at 5.30pm

PROJECT RED is an annual live catwalk show from the Fashion BA (Hons) course at The Cass.

Rural Office

Friday 25 October 2019, 6.30pm to 8.30pm

Rural Office for Architecture was established in rural Wales in 2008 by Niall Maxwell.

ONLINE CREATIVE EXCHANGE: Shepherd Manyika

20 April – 29 May 2020

Artist-in-residence at The Cass: Shepherd Manyika will be exploring interesting approaches to managing online creative exchange.

The Visual Communication Talk Series 2019–20

Thursdays, 1.15pm to 2pm

The Cass Visual Communication talks feature leading industry creatives in the fields of visual communication, illustration, animation, graphic design and publishing.

Timber

Thursday 7 November 2019, 6.30 to 8pm

Two presentations on the topic of timber.

Dinesen Timber

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 1pm to 1.45pm

A lecture about untreated timber floors.

Form-Givers Lecture Series

Fridays, 6.30pm to 8.30pm

This lecture series is about young practices throughout Europe, organised by senior lecturer James Payne.

Garciagerman Arquitectos

Friday 1 November 2019, 6.30pm to 8.30pm

Jacobo García-Germán (1974) is an architect (Madrid Polytechnic-ETSAM 2000), Histories & Theories MA by the Architectural Association, London (2003) and European PhD (ETSAM 2010).

How to Make a Book

Thursday 5 March 2020 at 2pm

Lecture series organised by The Cass English and Creative Writing area.

Participatory Making

Thursday 14 November 2019, 6.30 to 8pm

Two presentations on the topic of participatory making.

Studio Mathias Clottu- Swiss design and Art Direction (replacement for Theresa Adebiyi)

Thursday 30 January 2020, 1.15pm to 2pm

The third Cass Visual Communication lunchtime talk is with Studio Mathias Clottu.

CANCELLED: Theresa Adebiyi

Thursday 30 January 2020, 1.15pm to 2pm

Unfortunately Theresa Adebiyi cannot join us any more – please note this change to the talk.

(Re)constructing Musics of the Harp

Thursday 21 November 2019, 6.30 to 8pm

Two presentations by Mike Baldwin and Lewis Jones.

Albion Stone

POSTPONED: Tuesday 5 November 2019, 1pm to 1.45pm

Albion Stone are a company who mine the famous Portland limestone.

Cass Research Seminar 2019-20

Organised by Dr Jane Clossick

Cass Research Seminars are a series of public conversations that bring together researchers and practitioners from The Cass and the wider world, to present their research for review amongst peers.

How to make a graphic novel

Thursday 27 February 2020, 1.15pm to 2pm

A Cass Visual Communication talk by Anna Mill and Luke Jones.

How to Sell a Book (Sales)

Thursday 19 March 2020 at 2pm

Lecture series organised by The Cass English and Creative Writing area.

Lilitt Bollinger

Friday 6 December 2019, 6.30pm to 8.30pm

Lilitt Bollinger Studio was founded in 2013 by Lilitt Bollinger in Basel, Switzerland.

Cass 3D – Fashion events

Fashion events, organised by lecturer Stephanie Aman.

How to Sell A Book (digital - metadata and marketing)

Thursday 26 March 2020 at 2pm

Lecture series organised by The Cass English and Creative Writing.

On Restoring

Thursday 5 December 2019, 6.30 to 8pm

Maeve Brennan and Ektoras Arkomanis will discuss restorative practices and ideas in their work, involving the recording of actual, material restorations on film, but also using film.

ONLINE RECORDING: Studio Binocle - Part of The Architecture Foundation 100 Day Studio

Friday 24 April 2020, 7pm to 8pm

A lecture by Lorenzo Bini.

Wonky Biology

Thursday 12 March 2020, 1.15pm to 2pm

This talk in our series has an illustration and biology focus!

Collectives

Thursday 12 December 2019, 6.30pm to 8pm

Two presentations on the topic of Collectives.

How to Celebrate a Book - Literary Festivals and Events

Thursday 2 April 2020 at 2pm

Lecture series organised by The Cass English and Creative Writing.

How to set up an animation studio in six easy steps

Thursday 26 March 2020, 1.15pm to 2pm

A talk on the subject of animation by Sam Taylor.

SCREENED LIVE: Jones Neville - Part of The Architecture Foundation 100 Day Studio

Friday 1 May 2020, 7pm to 8pm

A screened live lecture by Simon Jones.

LIP Talk Series at The Cass

Photography lecture series organised by London Independent Photography in partnership with The Cass.

How to Create a Literary Prize

Thursday 23 April 2020 at 2pm

Lecture series organised by The Cass English and Creative Writing area.

SCREENED LIVE: ParkLee, hosted by Philip Christou

Thursday 14 May 2020, 1pm to 2pm

A screened live lecture "Form Found From The Ordinary" - Part of The Architecture Foundation 100 Day Studio.

Publishing and the Industry guest lecture series

A lecture series organised by The Cass English and Creative Writing area.

Refugees + Mental Health

Thursday 16 January 2020, 6.30 to 8pm

A talk by Sandra Denike-Polcher, Dr. Corinna Haenschel and Dr. Domenico Giacco.

DIY Publishing I

Thursday 30 April 2020 at 2pm

Lecture series organised by The Cass English and Creative Writing cluster.

Open Field Residency Programme 2019-20

Artists residency at The Cass School of Art

The activity of Open Field provides insight into how artists practice.

Queering Space

Thursday 23 January 2020, 6.30pm to 8pm

CANCELLED: Drawing as Method

Thursday 6 February 2020, 6.30

A talk about drawing as a research method.

MASS Architecture Forum

Metropolitan Architecture Student Society (MASS)

MASS is run by the students of The Cass at London Met.

Printing and Pedagogy

Thursday 13 February 2020, 6.30

Laura Onions and Emily Evans will explore Printing and Pedagogy.

Architecture and the Culture of Understanding

Thursday 20 February 2020, 6.30

Inaugural seminar of Christian Frost

Curation

Thursday 27 February 2020, 6.30

A talk by Fatemeh Safaii Rad and Jenny Nash.

CANCELLED: Animal Gaze

Thursday 5 March 2020, 6.30pm

A talk by Rosemarie McGoldrick, Associate Teaching Professor in Fine Art.

On Intricacy: The Work of John Meunier the Architect

Monday 9 March, 2020, 6-8pm

Patrick Lynch will introduce John Meunier, his life and his work, and the themes of the book.

Imagination, Form, Fiction

Thursday 12 March 2020, 6.30pm

A talk by Aleks Catina and Dr Sunny Singh.

Ontology

Thursday 26 March 2020, 6.30pm

Two presentations on the topic of Ontologies.

History of Laundry

Thursday 30 April 2020, 6.30pm

Edwina Atlee will present her paper: Laundry / and the limits of economic rationality.

Writing Practice

Thursday 7 May 2020, 6.30pm

ONLINE: Instruments webinar

Thursday 2 April 2020, 6.30pm

A talk by Alicja Knast and Nick Pyall

ONLINE: A Different Dimension of Architecture

Thursday 14 May 2020, 6.30–8pm

Two talks and discussion on a different dimension of architecture.

Open Field 2016-17

Central Hs Assembly Sara Rodrigues & Henry Mulhall

Open Field 2017-18

Tabula Rasa by Smari Runar Robertsson

Open Field 2018-19

Drop Process by Ian Gouldstone

Public lectures and talks 2019–20

An annual series of public lectures and talks on a wide variety of topics taking place at The Cass during the 2019–20 academic year.

Book Proposals

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 10am–1pm

Cass Research Workshop #1

Building, Owning & Belonging - Book launch

Monday 4 February 2019, 6.30pm

A book launch with Jaime Royo Olid, Himanshu Parikh, Dr Matthew Barac, and El Parker.

Cass Research Seminar One

Thursday 1 November 2018, 6.30pm, GSG15a, Goulston

Research at The Cass information session.

Cass Research Workshops Summer Term 2019

14 May, 4 June, 24 June and 2 July

2018-19 series of Cass Research Workshops.

David Shephard: ABB

Tuesday 2 October 2018, 5:30pm to 6:30pm

ABB is a pioneering technology leader.

Doug Fishbone

Thursday 17 January 2019 in CAG-03/04 at 5.15pm

Artist Doug Fishbone performs one of his celebrated comic slide-show lectures.

Fala

Friday 9 November 2018, 6:30pm to 8:30pm

"Fala is a naïve architecture practice based in Porto, led by Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares and Ahmed Belkhodja."

Hidden Space series

Tuesdays, 5:30pm, GSB-01

Cass Interiors has organised a Cinema Club initially with a series of four films.

High Streets: Beyond Retail

Thursday 18 April 2019, 6.30pm

In this session, three speakers will explore present and future functions of high streets which go beyond retail.

Isha Bøhling

1 October until 1 November 2018

Artist-in-residence at The Cass.

Sarah Boris

Friday, 12 October 2018 from 13:15 to 14:00

100 meter hurdle race / 10 hurdles in design, a Cass Hothouse Visual Communication talk by Sarah Boris.

Stories We Need to Tell

Monday 18 February 2019 from 6.15pm

A panel discussion followed by a question-and-answer session.

The Cass Event: The Photo-Diaries of Mick Williamson

Private view: Friday 5 October 2018, 5.30pm

An exhibition of Mick Williamson's work at The Atrium of Goulston Street Building. The exhibition officially opens on Monday 8 October and runs until Friday 1 November 2018.

Tom Hunter Lecture

Thursday 29 November 2018

Tom Hunter talks on a life in photography and art from counter culture to Vermeer.

Towards the Collective City

Monday 10 December 2018 from 7:00pm

A lecture by Eleni Katrini.

A Global Human Crisis in conversation with Paul Vick and Maggie Black

Monday 11 February 2019, 6.30pm

A lecture exploring issues of global human crisis.

Caterina Bianchini

Friday, 26 October 2018 from 13:15 to 14:00

The Art of Seeing, a Cass Hothouse Visual Communication talk by Caterina Bianchini.

Cracker 18

Thursday 13 December, 5-8 pm

You are invited to the Fine Art cluster's winter show!

Creativity and Education

Tuesday 19 February 2019 from 6.30pm

The Cass is proud to present the third in its series of forward-facing public lectures on contemporary design.

Dehlin Brattgård

Friday 30 November 2018, 6.30pm to 8.30pm

Dehlin Brattgård Arkitekter is an architecture practice based in Stockholm, founded by Johan Dehlin and Johannes Brattgård.

High streets: The Value of the Public

Thursday 23 May 2019, 6.30pm

In this session three speakers will give their different takes on husbandry of the public realm and how to value it in various contexts.

Ian Gouldstone

5 November until 6 December 2018

Artist-in-residence at The Cass.

Learning Commons

Monday 14 January 2019, 7pm to 8pm

A talk by Design for Cultural Commons MA course leader Torange Khonsari.

Photograd Open Call 2018

Private view: Thursday 15 November 2018, 6pm

Photograd, an exhibition to celebrate graduate photography in 2018.

Practice Research

Tuesday 4 June 2019, 10am–1pm

Cass Research Workshop #2

Sonic Arts Residency

Monday 8 April to Friday 12 April, from 12-6pm daily

A new Sonic Arts Residency, an artist in residence pilot, has just begun at London Metropolitan University.

Steve Macleod

Thursday 28 March, 5pm

A talk by Steve Macleod.

Thomas Hoepfner: Bright Forest Limited

Tuesday 9 October 2018, 5:30pm to 6:30pm

Bright Forest Limited is a company, established in the Summer of 2014 in London.

Wildness Matters

Thursday 8 Novembe 2018 at 6.30pm

Three Cass staff from different disciplines present on the shared topic of ‘Wildness’.

Professor Peter St John's inaugural professorial lecture: About Practice and Teaching

Thursday 21 February, 6.30pm

A talk by Peter St John, a founding partner of Caruso St John Architects.

AHRC-Workshop

Monday 26 November 2018, 3.00pm–5.00pm

How to write an AHRC proposal in 2 hours.

Exploring The Role of The Architect in International Development

Monday 18 February 2019 at 6.30pm

A lecture with Toby Pear and CAUKIN Studio, exploring The Role of The Architect in International Development.

Fine Art Year 1 Pop-Up Show series

Various dates and locations in east London

A series of pop-up exhibitions curated by first year Fine Art students.

Hadi Kranich-Wood: British Wool

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 5:30pm to 6:30pm

British Wool (formerly British Wool Marketing Board) is owned by approximately 40,000 sheep farmers in the UK.

High Streets Series

18 April and 23 May 2019

A collaboration between Cass Cities and The London Society, curated by Jane Clossick.

Johansen Skovsted

Friday 7 December 2018, 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter is founded by the two architects, Søren Johansen (b.1981) and Sebastian Skovsted (b.1982).

Mapping Research

Tuesday 24 June 2019, 2-5pm

Cass Research Workshop #3

Olga Koroleva

14 February until 28 March 2019

Artist-in-residence at The Cass.

Ricky Haggett (Hollow Ponds) and Richard Hogg

Friday, 9 November 2018 from 13:15 to 14:00

How we make video games, a Cass Hothouse Visual Communication talk by Ricky Haggett (Hollow Ponds) and Richard Hogg.

Square Eyes - Book Launch

Thursday 25 October 2018, from 6.30pm to 8.30pm

The launch of our graphic novel Square Eyes (Jonathan Cape, 2018).

Celebration Week - Evening public talks

Evening public talks during Celebration Week 2019.

Dan Adeyemi: If you know how to catch a vibe, you can go places

Friday 25 January 2019 from 1:15 to 2:00pm

Dan Adeyemi is a creative technologist/artist based in London.

Digital Commons Workshop

Monday 8 April, 7pm to 8.30pm

A talk by Sophie Varlow and Nick Wood from the Commons Platform.

EVA Studio and Corina Tuna

Monday 25 February 2019 at 6.30pm

A lecture by Corina Tuna and EVA Studio.

Isha Bøhling – Neither Here Nor There

Private View: Thursday 9 May, 5-8pm

Artist-in-residence at The Cass. Exhibition dates: 15 to 17 May 2019.

Jillian Edelstein and Clare Park in conversation with Zelda Cheatle

Monday 29 April at 6pm

Another fantastic Association of Photographers' event with Jillian Edelstein and Clare Park in conversation with Zelda Cheatle.

Richard Proto: Proto Glass

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 5:30pm to 6:30pm

Proto Glass Studios have an established reputation working from their Wiltshire based factory.

SMS Arquitectos

Friday 15 February 2019, 6:30pm to 8:30pm

SMS Arquitectos was founded in 2003 by Aina Salva and Alberto Sanchez.

Water 1

Thursday 29 November 2018, 6.30pm

A lecture by architect/researchers Paolo Zaide and Ed Barsely.

Would you?: An exhibition of refugee life in Athens

Thursday, 8 of November 2018, from 6pm to 11pm

Would you? The event aims to raise money and donation for refugees.

Writing Research

Tuesday 2 July 2019, 2-5pm

Cass Research Workshop #4

Bo Tang and Nabeel Hamdi

Monday 4 March 2019 at 6.30pm

In conversation with Nabeel Hamdi and Bo Tang on Engaging The Humanitarian in Placemaking.

Ecological Commoning

Monday 20 May 2019, 7pm to 8.30pm

Perspectives from Aileen Ling, Zoe Powell and Rokiah Yaman on how local scale, ecologically sustainable systems can initiate social change.

Ewen Farr: Think outside the inbox

Friday 8 February 2019 from 1.15pm to 2pm

Ewen Farr is an animator and illustrator.

Paul Arad: Acrylicize

Tuesday 6 November 2018, 5:30pm to 6:30pm

The exploration of what art can be and the notion of its limitless possibilities is what drives us as a studio.

Ullmayer Sylvester

Friday 15 March 2019 from 6.30pm

Ullmayer Sylvester architects was founded by Silvia Ullmayer and Allan Sylvester.

Water 2

Thursday 6 December 2018, 6.30pm

Three speakers who will talk about water.

Who Cares? talks

Student-led architecture lecture series 2018-19

The Who Cares? talks are returning this year, tackling questions on the topic of humanitarian design both abroad and closer to home.

After Venice: Peter St John, Marcus Taylor, Venice Fellows and the British Council

Thursday 13 December 2018, 6.30pm

This special Cass Research Seminar is about the British Council sponsored Island at the British Pavilion.

Interiors Cinema Club

Hidden Space series for 2019

Organised by Kaye Newman, The Cass Head of Interiors.

On Graphic Novels and Future Cities

Thursday 14 March 2019 from 1.15pm to 2pm

A talk by Luke Jones and Anna Mill, authors of Square Eyes.

Project Red Catwalk Show 2019

Friday 22 February, 5.30pm

Preparations have begun for first year fashion students for annual fashion show Project Red.

Sarah van Gameren: Glithero

POSTPONED: Tuesday 4 December 2018, 5.30pm

Glithero are British designer Tim Simpson and Dutch designer Sarah van Gameren, who met and studied at the Royal College of Art.

Cass Culture Lectures

Cass Culture

Isabel Greenberg: Being a freelance illustrator - juggling many different hats

Friday 12 April 2019 from 1:15 to 2:00pm

Isabel Greenberg is a London based illustrator and writer.

Jeremy Myerson

Tuesday 8 January 2019, 5.30pm to 6.30pm

Jeremy Myerson is an established author, an academic and above all, an activist in design.

Loose Fit City: Book Launch

Thursday 24 January 2019, 6.30-8.00pm

Loose Fit City provides a new take on the subject of architecture, defined as the study and practice of fitting together physical and cultural topography.

Painting at The Cass

1 to 21 March 2019, Atrium Space, The Cass

Private view: Thursday 28 February 2019, 5.30pm to 8.30pm.

Acts of Resistance

An exhibition by Cass lecturer Marianne Forrest

Thursday 28 March to 17 April 2019.

Alice Rawsthorn

Tuesday 15 January 2019, 5.30pm to 6.30pm

Alice Rawsthorn is an award-winning design critic and the author of several critically acclaimed books on design.

Cass Fine Art lectures and events

The Cass School of Art

Cass Fine Art

Housing Futures-Brownfield or Greenfield?

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 6.30–8.30pm

A talk with Karakusevic Carson Architects, as part of Architecture and Urbanism MA (Cass Cities).

Introduction to Letterpress with Robert Hetherington

Friday 21 June 2019, 10am – 5pm

A hands-on workshop exploring the beautiful process of letterpress printing.

Model Housing - Housing Models

Thursday 4 April 2019, 1pm to 10pm

The Metropolitan Architecture Student Society (MASS) at The Cass is hosting a half-day symposium to explore how students and practitioners are approaching the future of housing in the UK.

Design for Cultural Commons lecture series

Mondays, 6.30pm, The Wash Houses

Organised by Torange Khonsari.

High streets: Resilience and resourcefulness

Tuesday 5 February 2019, 6.30–7.30pm

In this session, three speakers will optimistically explore the suppleness, originality and inventiveness of UK high streets from different perspectives.

Interiors Industry Lecture Series

Tuesdays at 5.30pm

Organised by Kaye Newman, The Cass Head of Interiors.

Queerly Made

Thursday 7 February 2019, 6.30-8.00pm

A Cass Research seminar on the topic of making and othering.

Chair-up - The Upholstery Pop-up

The upholstery pop-up event

Thursday 18 to Saturday 20 July 2019

Form-Givers Lecture Series

A Lecture Series about Architectural Form, organised by James Payne

London Society Saturday Schools

2, 9, 16, 23, 30 June 2018, 11.30am to 12.30pm

The London Society are running Saturday morning lectures at The Cass, in association with Cass Cities.

The Saturday Morning Planning School

01-29 September 2018 at The Cass, 18 Goulston St, E1 7TP

Join the Society for this informative series of Saturday morning talks with some of London's leading experts.

Assemble + RARA

Monday 5 February, 6.30pm

A talk by Assemble + RARA, as part of the Who Cares? talks.

Civic Ecology Commons

Lecture 1: Thursday 22 March 2018, 6.30pm

A talk by Mothiur Rahman, Andreas Lang, and Torange Khonsari, as part of Design for Cultural Commons lecture series.

Colin Davies

Thursday 19 October 2017, 6.30–9pm

Book launch and talk by Colin Davies, the author of A New History of Modern Architecture.

Contemporary Design Studios in London

Tuesday 20 February 2018 from 18:30pm

The Cass is proud to present the second in its series of forward facing public lectures on contemporary design.

Dr Agustina Martire

Wednesday 1 November, 2pm

The Death and Life of Public Streets, a lecture by Dr Agustina Martire.

ESTAR

Thursday 18 January 2018, 6.30pm, The Wash Houses

ESTAR, is an architecture, landscape and design studio based in Santiago de Compostela.

The Cass Histories Lecture 2018 – Maeve Brennan, On History and Repair

Tuesday 20 March, 6.30pm, GSB-01

The Cass Histories Lecture 2018 invitee is Maeve Brennan, whose lecture is entitled On History and Repair.

Mark Prizeman

Saturday 2 June 2018 at 11.30am-12.30pm, in GSB-01

London Society Saturday Schools: The peaceful bit between the two world wars, a talk by Mark Prizeman.

Open Field 2017-18

Artists residency at The Cass School of Art

The activity of Open Field provides insight into how artists practice.

Open Field 2017-18: Will Peck and Smári Róbertsson

29 September to 11 November 2017

Artists-in-residence at The Cass.

Patrick Savile

Friday 20 October, 1.15–2pm

Selected Scenes From The Beginning Of The World, a Cass Hothouse Visual Communication talk by Patrick Savile.

Saturday 1 September

The Site

A talk by Dr. David Knight & Guy Rochez.

Amélie Barnathan

Friday 3 November, 1.15–2pm

The Cass Hothouse is excited to host its second talk by Amélie Barnathan.

City and Commons

Lecture 2: Thursday 26 April 2018, 6.30pm

A talk by Dr Adam Kassa (RCA), John Bingham-Hall (Theatrum Mundi) and Nicolas Fonty (Justmap), as part of Design for Cultural Commons lecture series.

Harquitectes

Thursday 8 February 2018, 6.30pm, The Wash Houses

Harquitectes is an architecture studio established in 2000 and based in Sabadell, Barcelona.

Interiors Cinema Club 1

Thursdays, 5:30pm, GSB-01

Cass Interiors has organised a Cinema Club initially with a series of four films.

Jane Clossick

Saturday 9 June 2018 at 11.30am-12.30pm, in GSB-01

London Society Saturday Schools: The Plan for London and the concrete better world, a talk by Jane Clossick.

Open Field 2017-18: Jamie Jenkinson

11 November to 16 December 2017

Artist-in-residence at The Cass.

Saturday 8 September

The Neighbourhood

A talk by Dr Jan Kattein & David Barrie.

StreetSpace Workshop

Thursday 2 and Friday 3 November, 10am-6pm

What makes a good mixed use street? How can good streets be represented beyond the usual tools?

Tak Tak Tak + Khora

Monday 12 February, 6.30pm

A talk by Tak Tak Tak and Khora, as part of the Who Cares? talks.

Tango! Free Dance Class

Friday 1 December, 2.30pm to 4.30pm

TANGO! A free dance class with Roy Bachelor, organised by Harriet McKay.

The Cass Hothouse talks 2017-18

Organised by Cass Visual Communication

The in-house research, illustration and design collective from the Visual Communication department at The Cass. The collective hosts talks, events and works on commissions.

Apparata

Friday 2 March 2018, 6.30pm, The Wash Houses

Apparata is a studio for architecture, design and research founded by Astrid Smitham and Nicholas Lobo Brennan.

Book Launch - Loose Fit City

Thursday 15 February 2018, 6.30pm

Event invitation to the book launch of Loose Fit City by Maurice Mitchell and Bo Tang.

Cass Research Seminar

Organised by Dr Jane Clossick

Cass Research Seminars are a series of public conversations which enable researchers to test and present their ideas in conversation with peers and a broader audience.

Cass Research Seminar One

Monday 20 November 2017 at 6.30pm, in GSG-15A

Matthew Barac and Paulo Moreira will speak on the topic of informal architecture in African cities.

Joe Prytherch

Friday 17 November, 1.15–2pm

Drawing pictures for money, a Cass Hothouse Visual Communication talk by Joe Prytherch AKA Mason London.

Localism and Commons

Lecture 3: Thursday 10 May 2018, 6.30pm

A talk by Dr Diana Stirbu (London Metropolitan University), Sion Whellens (Solid Fund) and Tom Dobson (public works), as part of Design for Cultural Commons lecture series.

Neil Bennett

Saturday 16 June 2018, 11.30am-12.30pm, in GSB-01

London Society Saturday Schools: The 1980s, waking up to post-modernism, a talk by Neil Bennett.

Open Field 2017-18: Bethan Hughes

6 January to 3 February 2018

Artist-in-residence at The Cass.

Saturday 15 September

Density & Housing

A talk by Claire Bennie & Lorraine Hughes.

Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows and Studio Nuumi

Monday 26 February, 6.30pm

A talk by Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows and Studio Nuumi, as part of the Who Cares? talks.

Benedict O'Looney

Saturday 23 June 2018, 11.30am-12.30pm, in GSB-01

London Society Saturday Schools: The brilliant modernity and artistic achievement of London’s Edwardian Architecture, a talk by Benedict O'Looney.

Cass Research Seminar Two

Monday 27 November 2017 at 6.30pm, in GSG-15A

A PechaKucha night on the topic of Making/Drawing as Research Method.

David Leech: RE-ARRANGED

Friday 4 May 2018, 6.30pm, The Wash Houses

David Leech Architects is a new London-based architectural practice established in 2016 by David Leech.

Form-Givers lecture series

Organised by James Payne

Open Field 2017-18: WOCI Reading Group

3 February to 3 March 2018

Artist-in-residence at The Cass.

Orizzontale and Le Seppie

Thursday 1 March, 6.30pm

A talk by Orizzontale and Le Seppie, as part of the Who Cares? talks.

Project Red 2018

Friday 23 February 2017 at 5pm

PROJECT RED is an annual live catwalk show from the Fashion BA course at The Cass.

Saturday 22 September

The Borough

A talk by Patricia Brown & Dr Jessica Ferm.

Serena Wise

Friday 8 December, 1.15–2pm

The visual language of Fashion advertising through the lens of culture and storytelling, a Cass Hothouse Visual Communication talk by Serena Wise.

Arrhov Frick

Friday 16 March 2018, 6.30pm, The Wash Houses

Johan Arrhov (1979) and Henrik Frick (1977) established Arrhov Frick in 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Cass Research Seminar Three

Monday 4 December 2017 at 6.30pm, in GSG-15A

PechaKucha night: Picking a Research Topic.

Kellenberger–White

Friday 26 January 2018, 1.15–2pm

A Cass Hothouse Visual Communication talk by Kellenberger–White.

Open Field 2017-18: Matthew Smith

3 March until 24 March 2018

Artist-in-residence at The Cass.

Recordings

Private View: Thursday 1 March 2018, 18.30-21.00

RECORDINGS, an exhibition by Alpa Depani supported by Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (WCMT) and the British Council.

Remi.C.T and Vicky Cave

Monday 5 March, 6.30pm

A talk by Remi.C.T and Vicky Cave, as part of the Who Cares? talks.

Saturday 29 September

The City

A talk by Mark Brearley & Euan Mills.

Tom Coward

Saturday 30 June 2018, 11.30am-12.30pm, in GSB-01

London Society Saturday Schools: Why design in the 21st Century?, a talk by Tom Coward.

Who Cares? talks

Student-led architecture lecture series 2017-18

The Who Cares? talks are returning this year, tackling questions on the topic of humanitarian design both abroad and closer to home.

Cass Research Seminar Four

Monday 22 January 2018 at 6.30pm, in GSG-15A

Networks of Making and Habitation, two presentations from Lewis Jones and Mikey Baldwin.

Design Affects and Azuko

Thursday 8 March, 6.30pm

A talk by Design Affects and Azuko, as part of the Who Cares? talks.

Open Field 2017-18: Chooc Ly Tan

7 April until 12 May 2018

Artist-in-residence at The Cass.

Publishing and the Industry

Thursdays, 2 to 3pm, room TMG-45

Guest lecture series organised by The Cass English and Creative Writing lecturers.

Rachel Littlewood

Friday 9 February 2018, 1.15–2pm

Rees-o / Riz-o / Ry-so, a Cass Hothouse Visual Communication talk by Rachel Littlewood.

Cass 3D Design

Organised by Peter Marigold

Cass Research Seminar – An Architecture of Relationships

Monday 29 January 2018 at 6.30pm, in GSG-15A

An Architecture of Relationships, a presentation by Unit 10 leader and Head of School of Architecture Signy Svalastoga.

Sam Mitchell and Here There Architecture

Thursday 15 March, 6.30pm

A talk by Sam Mitchell and Here There Architecture, as part of the Who Cares? talks.

The Paper Library - Mark Stansfield

Friday 23 February 2018, 1.15–2pm

The Paper Library, a Cass Hothouse Visual Communication talk by Mark Stansfield.

Cass Culture

Programme of events

Cass Culture is the event and writing platform of The Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design.

Cass Research Seminar – Regeneration and London's Lost Industry

Monday 5 February 2018 at 6.30pm, in GSG-15A

Urban planning and architectural historian Juliet Davis will be discussing issues of regeneration relating to industrial areas of London with Cass Cities’ Jane Clossick.

Designing for National Theatre

Friday 13 April 2018, 1.15–2pm

Designing for National Theatre, a Cass Hothouse Visual Communication talk by Ollie Winser.

Interiors Cinema Club

Cass Interiors film screening series

Organised by Kaye Newman, The Cass Head of Interiors.

Invisible Business: Frances Holliss and Mark Brearley

Monday 12 February 2018 at 6.30pm, in GSG-15A

Businesses can reside in all types of buildings, both Frances Holliss and Mark Brearley research the accommodation needed by businesses of different types.

Fiona Woodcock

Friday 27 April 2018, 1.15–2pm

Picture books; from initial idea to publication day, a Cass Hothouse Visual Communication talk by Fiona Woodcock.

Torange Khonsari and Marie Brenneis

Monday 26 February 2018 at 6.30pm, in room GSG-15A

PhD students Torange Khonsari (Architecture) and Marie Brenneis (Art), speaking about An Alternative to Globalised Austere Architecture.

Pedagogy Panel: Teaching, Research, Architecture

Monday 5 March 2018 at 6.30pm, in GSG-15A

J Benedict Brown, S Denicke-Polcher, M Barac and D Warren will each give a short presentation on their ideas about education, pedagogy and research, with a focus on architecture.

The Architecture of Autonomy

Monday 12 March 2018 at 6.30pm, in GSG-15A

The Architecture of Autonomy: Threats and Opportunities in Industrial Places.

Asif Din and Annisa Jabbour

Monday 19 March 2018 at 6.30pm, in GSG-15A

Cass PhD students’ progress submission presentations by Asif Din (Architecture) Annisa Jabbour (Architecture).

Bobby Supatira, Jane McAllister and Mary-Jane Opie

Monday 16 April 2018 at 6.30pm, in GSG-15A

Cass PhD students’ progress submission presentations Bobby Supatira (Architecture), Jane McAllister (Architecture) and Mary-Jane Opie (Art)

Lynch and Luxemburg

Monday 9 April 2018 at 6.30pm, in GSG-15A

In this twelfth Cass Research Seminar Rut Blees Luxemburg and Patrick Lynch will consider the problems of dwelling, aesthetic value and city participation.

City Making from the Bottom Up

Monday 23 April 2018 at 6.30pm, in GSG-15A

'Drawing as an investigative' tool by Maurice Mitchell.

Infrastuctures

Monday 30 April 2018 at 6.30pm, in GSG-15A

Three short talks about infrastuctures by Florian Beigel and Philip Christou, Lucy Pritchard, and Pau Bajet.

Design for Cultural Commons lecture series

Thursdays, 6.30pm, The Wash Houses

Organised by Torange Khonsari.

Public lectures and talks 2017-18

Annual Public Lectures and Talks series

An annual series of public lectures and talks on a wide variety of topics taking place at The Cass during the 2017-18 academic year.

Open Field: Matthew Johnstone

29 September – 29 October 2016

First residency announced in new fine art residency programme at The Cass.

Russell Weekes

Friday 11 November, 1.15–2pm

A talk by Russell Weekes, as part of the Hothouse talks.

The Poetic Dimension in Architecture #1 – Hermann Czech

Tuesday 21 March 2017, 6.30pm

"Less" or "More"? Our Postmodern Condition, a lecture by Hermann Czech, as part of The Poetic Dimension in Architecture lecture series.

Window Space: Oliver Hickmet

2 March to 2 April 2017

The End is the Beginning is the End by Oliver Hickmet is part of the long-term curatorial project organised by onepointfiveone.

You and Me Architecture

Tuesday 8 November, 5.30-6.30pm

Alicija Borkowska will be giving a lecture about You & Me, a multi-disciplinary architecture platform working between London and Athens.

Family (and friends)

Friday 9 December, 1.15–2pm

A talk by Derek Johnson, as part of the Hothouse talks.

Open Field: Louise Sayarer

31 October – 3 December 2016

Second residency announced in new fine art residency programme at The Cass.

The Poetic Dimension in Architecture #2 – Adam Khan Architects

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 6:30pm

A lecture by Adam Khan, as part of The Poetic Dimension in Architecture lecture series.

Window Space: Felicity Hammond

6 to 30 April 2017

For the third show commissioned by onepointfiveone at Window Space, Felicity Hammond presents To Soften the Massing.

Open Field: Nicholas Bates

9 January – 4 February 2017

The third residency announced in new fine art residency programme at The Cass.

The Poetic Dimension in Architecture #3 – Bijoy Jain

Wednesday 3 May 2017, 6:30pm

A lecture by Bijoy Jain, as part of The Poetic Dimension in Architecture lecture series.

Window Space: Harry Meadley

4 to 28 May 2017

For the third show commissioned by onepointfiveone at Window Space, Harry Meadley presents LEVEL 4.

Open Field: Lucienne Cole

4 February to 6 March 2017

The fourth residency announced in new fine art residency programme at The Cass.

The Poetic Dimension in Architecture #4 – Eric Parry

Thursday 11 May 2017, 6.30pm

A lecture by Eric Parry, as part of The Poetic Dimension in Architecture lecture series. Organised by Florian Beigel and Philip Christou for the Architecture Research Unit.

Open Field: Tom Woolner

6 March to 8 April 2017

The fifth residency announced in new fine art residency programme at The Cass.

The Poetic Dimension in Architecture #5 – Tom Emerson

Friday 19 May 2017, 6.30pm

A lecture by Tom Emerson, as part of The Poetic Dimension in Architecture lecture series. Organised by Florian Beigel and Philip Christou for the Architecture Research Unit.

Open Field: Sara Rodrigues and Henry Mulhall

24 April to 20 May 2017

Sixth residency announced in new fine art residency programme at The Cass.

The Poetic Dimension in Architecture #6 – Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara

Thursday 25 May 2017, 6.30pm

A lecture by Y Farrell and S McNamara, as part of The Poetic Dimension in Architecture lecture series. Organised by F Beigel and P Christou for the Architecture Research Unit.

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Interiors Industry Lectures

Interior and interior design lecture series given by visiting professional practitioners.

Hothouse talks 2016-17

Find out about the next event

The Cass Hothouse presents a series of creative talks by industry professionals in design, illustration, publishing and branding. All talks are free and open to the public.

New Cinema and the City - Migrations

Using film as a research and exploration tool

A mini-series of open lectures and screenings that connect to the module of the same title for Year 4 architecture students.

Open Field

Learn more about our residency programme

The residency studio is located at The Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design at London Metropolitan University.

Public lectures and talks 2016-17

Annual Public Lectures and Talks Series

An annual series of public lectures and talks on a wide variety of topics taking place at The Cass during the 2016-17 academic year.

The Poetic Dimension in Architecture

A series of lectures organised by Florian Beigel and Philip Christou for the Architecture Research Unit.

Who Cares? talks

Student-led architecture lecture series 2016-17

The Who Cares? talks are returning this year, tackling questions on the topic of humanitarian design both abroad and closer to home.

Window Space - 1.51

The Window Space is a street-facing window gallery managed by the students of the Curating the Contemporary MA.