Past events The Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies

(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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Art, Achitecture and Design (AAD) Sessions 2022-23

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.

Architectures of Care

Wednesday, 03 May 2023, 5.30 - 7.00 pm GMT

Nonsuch: The work of Unit 14 at London Met MArch in Architecture

Wednesday, 09 March 2023, 5.30 - 7.00 pm GMT

Generosity and Architecture

Wednesday, 01 March 2023, 5.30 - 7.00 pm GMT

Critical Neighbourhoods: The Architecture of Contested Communities

Wednesday, 11 January 2023, 5.30 - 7.00 pm GMT

Drawing Symposium: Straying across narrative

Friday 4 November 2022 2pm - 6.15pm

Beyond the Institution

Wednesday, 26 October 2022, 5.30 - 7.00 pm GMT

The Enigma of Nature in the Age of Proto-Globalisation

Wednesday, 28 September 2022, 5.30 - 7pm GMT

Urban Commons Handbook

Wednesday 23rd June 2022, 5.30pm – 7pm

An AAD Session hosted by CUBE.

Ecological Dialogues: Perspectives on Art, Architecture and Design Education Declares

Wednesday 11th May 2022, 5.30pm – 7pm

An AAD Session hosted by CUBE.

ARCSR Journal: Collaborative documentation of situated fieldwork in transitional urban settings

Wednesday 4th May 2022, 5.30pm – 7pm

An AAD Books event hosted by CUBE.

Outopia: The real and the ideal in the architecture of John Outram

Wednesday 30 March 2022, 5.30pm – 7pm

An AAD Books event hosted by CUBE.

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.

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.

Reading and writing SITES and COMMONS

Wednesday 1 December 2021, 5.30pm – 7pm

An AAD Session hosted by CUBE.

Dialogue on architecture and language

Wednesday 24th November 2021, 5.30pm – 7pm

An AAD Session hosted by CUBE.

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.

Dwelling on the Future

Tuesday 22 June 2021, 5.00pm

Pierre d’Avoine discusses recently published Dwelling on the Future (2020) as part of the AAD Books series.

On the Commons

Thursday 13 May 2021, 5.30pm

The Urban Commons Research Group joins Torange Khonsari in a discussion about Urban and Cultural Commons.

One and Three Buildings

Thursday 15 April 2021, 5.30pm

Tony Fretton and Irina Davidovici discuss architecture as experienced, as photographed, and as verbalised.

Sonic Environments: exploring the potential listening

Thursday 25 March 2021, 5.30pm

Sonic Acts of Noticing and Johanna Hällsten discuss how listening can be utilised to establish agency, social relations and a different understanding of a place and its inhabitants.

Depth and Vision

Thursday 11 March 2021, 5:30pm

Dr. Jane Clossick and Prof. Nicholas Temple discuss the phenomenology and methodologies surrounding Depth and Vision.

Joint-Launch of CREATURE and CUBE Research Centres

Thursday 25 February 2021, 5:30pm

An AAD Session launching the School of Art, Architecture and Design's two new Research Centres.

Subjectivity of Language in Metropolitan Architecture

Thursday 28 January 2021, 5.30pm

Takero Shimazaki explores the work of Unit 8 between 2016 and 2021 to uncover the recurring themes, methodologies and the teaching ethos of the Unit.

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.

Hermeneutics and Ceremony

Thursday 19 November 2020, 6.30pm

Christian Frost and Nicholas Temple discuss architecture, hermeneutics, civic processions and ceremony.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Between Animal/Tech/Human

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 5.30pm - 7pm

A series of talks instigated by London Met Lab: Environment initiative.

Building Sustainable Communities

Wednesday 19th January 2022, 5.30pm - 7pm

A series of talks instigated by London Met Lab: Environment initiative.

Urban Nature (Architecture Declares)

Wednesday 15th December 2022, 5.30pm – 7pm

A series of talks instigated by London Met Lab: Environment initiative.

Urban Depth and Autonomy Workshops 2020–21

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

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: 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: 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: 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.