AAD Sessions – 2023-24 seminar series

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

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

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.

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

Thu, 25 April 2024 6.00pm - 9.00pm

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

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.

(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.

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.

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.

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.

Photographs as Replacement in West African Traditional Religion

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 5.30pm - 6.30pm

CREATURE Lab is an on-demand laboratory to pitch and test ideas for further research development.

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.

Anthropotropic Architecture: Human Wellbeing at the Heart of Design

Wednesday 13 December 2023 5.30pm - 7pm

The session discussed innovative models to address aspects of well-being in a systematic and evidence-based manner and ways to integrate these aspects into the design process.

Musarc: Locating Research

Monday, 11 December 2023, 5.30pm - 6:30pm

In this CREATURE Lab, Joseph Kohlmaier discussed the ways in which choral ensemble Musarc’s performance practice and working methodology could be defined as research.

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.

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.

AAD Research Forum: A user guide to research funding

Wednesday 29 November 2023 4pm - 6pm

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.

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.

Monumental Cares and Creative Iconoclasm

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

Widrich explored how monument debates, site specificity, and art activism relate to problems that strike us as monumental or overwhelming, such as war, migration and the climate crisis.

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.

AAD Books: Architecture, Scale, and the City

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

The event convened a conversation between 2 books by architects concerning relationships of scale in design: Big House Little City by Benedict Zucchi, & Touching the City by Tim Makower

‘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.