RICCARDO MARINI AND STEFAN WHITE
What are architects (good) for ?
Riccardo Marini was one of the last city architects in the UK and went on to be a director at Jan Gehl, now advising urban policy in Kazakhstan.
Professor Stefan White is Joint Head of MSA and leads the PHASE Place-Health research group in engaged design-research understanding and creating healthier places, working with national and local government, housing, health and care providers and local communities.
Discussant: Dan Dubowitz
Thursday 6 February 2020
5.15pm - 6.30pm
All Saints Building, Manchester Lecture Theatre
TIM INGOLD AND RAY LUCAS
Knowing from the inside
Tim Ingold is a leading social anthropologist. His influential work includes ‘Perception of the Environment’, ‘Lines: a brief history’ and ‘Making’.
Ray Lucas is director of humanities at MSA, and is author of ‘Anthropology for Architects’, ‘Research Methods for Architecture’, and ‘Drawing Parallels’.
Discussant: Dan Dubowitz
Thursday 13 February 2020
5.15pm - 6.30pm
Benzie Building BZ403
SIMON GUERBET AND KATHRYN VALENTINE
Does Architecture make you anxious?
This week's ‘Provocation’ has been instigated by undergraduate Architecture students who would like to open up a public debate about whether it is inevitable that studying or practicing the arts and humanities present a challenge to people’s mental health. Are there systemic problems within these disciplines and how they are taught? And if so, what could we do about it?
Curated by Emily Crompton and Helen Aston; this week's session will feature contributions from Architecture student Simon Guerbet, founder of the student-led wellbeing group MSA&U and architect Kathryn Valentine whose work concerns happiness. Emily Crompton will be our discussant.
Thursday 20 February 2020
5.15pm - 6.30pm
All Saints Building, Manchester Lecture Theatre
PRUE CHILES AND CLAUDIO MOLINA CAMACHO
What can Schools of Architecture teach us about practice?
Prue Chiles is Professor of Architecture at Newcastle. She is well known for her award winning design practice CE+CA which actively engages her students in live design projects in tandem with their education.
Claudio Molina Camacho is an architect who teaches architecture through live practice in both Chile and the UK. He is a practitioner in Chile, where he brings his pedagogical and professional practices together.
Thursday 27 February 2020
5.15pm - 6.30pm
All Saints Building, Manchester Lecture Theatre
JOS BOYS AND BENEDICT PHILLIPS
Designing for the unimaginable
A discussion of bio- and neurodiversity, and what these can mean for creative practitioners.
Jos Boys is a pioneering architect whose approach is to work with the richness offered by our bio- and neuro-diversity. She is author of ‘Doing Disability Differently: an alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life’.
Benedict Phillips is an artist whose cross-disciplinary work investigates the nature of dyslexia in the creative process by proposing non-textual ways of producing knowledge. His work includes performance, activism, media, public art and photography. He is currently working on a research project on ‘How to be a Dyslexic Artist’.
Discussant: Professor Stefan White.
Thursday 12 March 2020
5.15pm - 6.30pm
Benzie Building BZ403