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Public lectures and talks 2020–21

An annual series of public lectures, talks and events on a wide variety of topics taking place at The School of Art, Architecture and Design during the 2020–21 academic year.

Archive of public lectures and talks

You can see details of older public lectures and talks in our archive:

Book launch by Marc Vallée

Image: When I was at Art School in the 90s book launch and talk by Marc Vallée hosted by @LdnMetArts

Art, Architecture and Design Research Seminars

 
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Mapping Mile End site

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.
An eye bird view of a lockdown work space

Online: The Home in Lockdown

Thursday 29 October 2020, 6.30pm

Nicola Blake, Frances Holliss and Rita Adamo discuss different angles on representing and thinking about the home.
A visual representations of Dante’s Inferno.

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.
Small candles on a table as an offering

Online: Hermeneutics and Ceremony

Thursday 19 November 2020, 6.30pm

A talk by Christian Frost and Nicholas Temple.
Performers, Sanna Viitanen & Petter Andersson, in Everyday Opera

Online: Space, Duration and Movement - researching experiences - CANCELLED

Thursday 19 November 2020, 6.30pm

Johanna Hällsten and Christian Frost discuss synergies and conflicts that frame research aims, objectives and the resultant conclusions.
An illustration of a fox and a squirrel on top of a fence and two bees flying

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.
A boy with an antique pram on a rural street

Clashing Scales

Thursday 5 November 2020, 6.30pm

Two presentations which consider things at different scales: the individual and the global.

The invention of narrative

Thursday 26 November 2020, 6.30pm

The Living Memory of Cities – 2020/21 seminar series

 
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a perspective of cubic shapes that resembles a map of the city

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).

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

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.
Small black and white photographic portrait on a black background

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.
A close up portrait of a man who is talking and with his arm outstretched pointing to some diagrams pinned to the wall

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.
Medieval street scene

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.
A fantasy illustration of an urban street scene mixed with imaginary animal creatures

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.
image of a contemporary library with water in foreground

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.

Book launch and talk by Marc Vallée

 
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Two young men lying down, wearing fashionable pants and without tops

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.

Urban Depth and Autonomy Workshops 2020–21

 
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People are sitting in small groups around so to tackle a task

Urban Depth and Autonomy Workshops 2020–21

Interdisciplinary workshops organised by Art, Architecture and Design Research at London Met.
A poster announcing the event with a faded white line drawing of a city map on yellow background

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.
A poster announcing the event with a faded white line drawing of a city map on yellow background

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.
A poster announcing the event with a faded white line drawing of a city map on yellow background

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.
architectural depth poster

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.

Art, Architecture and Design Sessions 2020/21

 
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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.

Monuments and Democracy – a paradox or fruitful combo?

Thursday 22 April 2021, 1-2pm GMT
Performing ‘To Manifest’, 2 December 2019, outside the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

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.

Unit 8 Models - Stoke on Trent Civic Building Fragments (2019)

Online: Subjectivity of Language in Metropolitan Architecture

Thursday 28 January 2021, 5.30-7pm GMT

An Art, Architecture and Design Session hosted by CUBE.

Kitchen Table Monumentalism

Thursday 18 March 2021, 1-2pm GMT

Performative Monuments

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

Festival Cities

Thursday 4 February 2021, 5:30-7pm GMT
Painted mural of Black Anzacs in Meningie, South Australia

Revisiting counter-monuments

Thursday 21 January 2021, 1-2pm GMT
Architectural plan poché

Creativity, Indeterminacy and Representation

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

Joint-Launch of CREATURE and CUBE Research Centres

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

Staging and Re-cycling

Thursday 29 April 2021, 1-2pm GMT

LIP Talk Series at the School of Art, Architecture and Design

 
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A group of women preparing for a sack race

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.
A sandy beach with two dogs standing far from each other and the view of the industrial factory in the background

Online: LIP – Post Punctum Talks by David George

Wednesday 4 November 2020, 7pm-8.30pm

London Independent Photography (LIP) proudly presents David George.
A portrait of a child copied three times and colored candy has been added to the face each time in different ways

Online: Susan Andrews London Independent Photography Talk

Thursday 25 February 2021, 7-8.30pm

London Independent Photography proudly presents Susan Andrews.
A man and a woman kneeling in the cemetery in front of a grave

Online: Tom Hunter London Independent Photography Talk

Thursday 25 March 2021, 7-8.30pm

London Independent Photography proudly presents Tom Hunter.

School of Art, Architecture and Design Practice Research Portfolios

 
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A collage of six images

School of Art, Architecture and Design – Practice research portfolios

Series Editors: Matthew Barac and Jane Clossick.

Now What

 
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A whitish background with a half of a green circle on the right where scattered letters that read 'now what'

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.
A poster announcing the event with 3 portraits and text on a yellow background

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.

Reorienting Cultural Creativity

 
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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.

Finding Ecologies: Public Conversations on Ecology

 
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An aerial view of a green forest

Public Conversations on Ecology

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

Cultural Commons series 2020–21

 
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An illustration depicting cultural commons

Cultural Commons Seminar Series; June – July 2021

A series of talks and workshops on the topic of Cultural Commons.
An illustration of a city map with various billboards with notions of public commons

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.
An illustration of a city map with various billboards with notions of public commons

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.
An illustration of a city map with various billboards with notions of public commons

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.
An illustration of a city map with various billboards with notions of public commons

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.