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Bookings close at 5pm, 24th June 2024
There is increasing recognition that in order to foment real social progress, the acknowledgement of social struggles and the inclusion of voices, particularly of those from the ‘margins’, is required to alter entrenched social hegemonies. Such an imperative necessarily calls for the rewriting of architectural history.
This symposium is an invitation - in the wake of the awakenings which followed the killings of George Floyd, Breanna Taylor and others in the spring/summer of 2020 - to do just this! To challenge and subvert what is considered to be the “established” and the “canonical”.
The focus of this event is deliberately provocative and timely and we expect to see ‘othered’ voices come to the fore in what promises to be a fantastic two days.
To reach the organising team, please use the email symposium2024@sahgb.org.uk
SYMPOSIUM DETAILS:
Wednesday 26th June
Day 1 will consist of the Symposium itself chaired by Ann de Graft Johnson, founding member of legendary feminist design collective Matrix. Professor Renée Tobe of Leeds Beckett University - someone who has been working at the forefront of these issues for many years - will deliver the keynote.
Thursday 27th June
Day 2 will be a day of seminar and workshops for PhD candidates and early career workshops, where attendees will learn about the ins and outs of what to expect during the post-doc phase, such as publication.
To register and make a payment as a delegate, please use this form [LINK]
Bookings open until 5pm, 24 June 2024. Please do not attempt to book after this time.
KEY CONTRIBUTORS’ BIOGRAPHIES
Professor Renée Tobe will give the keynote. Professor Tobe is Professor of Architecture at Leeds School of Arts and former Head of the school of architecture at the University of East London.
She has been awarded a Paul Mellon Research Grant for work at the British School at Rome and a Research Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities at Edinburgh University. Her publications include Film, Architecture and Spatial Imagination and Architecture and Justice; Judicial Meanings in the Public Realm. She is currently writing Plato for Architects as part of the Routledge series of Philosophers for Architects.
She began as a practicing architect and maintains a connection to the practice of Architecture. While her earlier research investigates how we perceive, imagine, and visualise the solidity of architecture whether in the fluidity of film, or through the merest suggestion of form, her current work moves out of the ‘room’, the ‘home’ and the ‘house’ into the city, looking at how we occupy cities, and the nature of the cities we construct for ourselves. Political, social, and economic structures form part of this debate.
Ann de Graft-Johnson (RIBA) is a Senior Lecturer in Planning and Architecture, University of the West of England, Bristol.
Ann is an architect, educator, researcher and activist with an extensive body of work incorporating participatory community projects, academia and architectural practice.
Having undertaken and published several research projects, reports, conference papers and other critical writings Ann's work has focussed on addressing inclusion and issues of equality predominantly through a cultural and gender lens. It has been recognised for its sincerity, commitment and rigour, in its aim to work with organisations to support vital and positive change in academia, practice and society.
Ann was a member/director of Matrix Architects Feminist Cooperative which was nominated for the RIBA Gold Medal in 2021. Matrix actively worked to redress the balance in relation to groups who are underrepresented in decision making processes which affect the built environment.
The RIBA holds a Matrix archive and there is also a Matrix Open Feminist Architecture virtual archive (linked here).
Join In:
To reach the organising team, please use the email symposium2024@sahgb.org.uk
Please make your booking with card payment on this form, by 5pm on 24 June 2024 [LINK]
Booking for full event: £48
Booking for Day One only: £31.50
Booking for Day Two only: £16.50