School of Art, Architecture and Design

The graduating students of our Theatre Arts courses invite you to see Volt-Age, the 2024 Graduate Theatre Festival showcase, which takes place at Shoreditch Town Hall from 23-25 May with performances at 7.30pm prompt daily.

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It has to start somewhere,
it has to start sometime,
what better place than here?
What better time than now?

Zach de la Rocha: Rage Against the Machine

In previous years, the Festival has been a collection of separate short pieces working within a particular theme and created by independent groups of students.

Uniquely, this years’ third year elected to collaborate on a single piece, bringing together a range of skills, techniques and approaches to create one immersive theatrical experience.

Free but booking essential!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2024-graduate-theatre-festival-show-tickets-895334649037

Just seen Shappi Khorsandi walking alone in the Derbyshire Dales on BBC Four again. She's talking (to herself) about women not having the confidence to go out for a country walk by themselves. Or to go into a pub on their own. She sees a dog in passing and says: "...you know where you are with a dog".

Many women feel unsafe walking alone. A dog running free makes a big difference.

Now, my local (and unique) park Abney has 31 acres of dense woodland and undergrowth which are beautiful, but with much "off-path activity".

So, Hackney Council's new proposal to ban dogs off-lead in Abney Park is a non-starter for feminists.

Students and staff in the Architecture School will find this final instalment of this year's season presented by BALT informative and provocative. Past events are available to view via the BALT website.

Part 4 – Modernism: Revolution or Reinvention? Part 4 – Part 4 – Modernism: Revolution or Reinvention? Sign Up Now Lecture Summary: After 1930, the scattered seeds of an alternative architectural culture began to sprout in Britain and only seve…

Join us for the last seminar in The Living Memory of Cities, a series convened in collaboration by Eric Parry Architects and the Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies ( ), . (Note that this is a postponement from eh original date of 28 March to avoid a calendar clash).

Title: “Affirmative Irony in City Making: Practising the Afropolitan Future”
Speaker: Matthew Barac
Online: Monday 24 April 2023, 5pm to 6.30pm BST
Registration: free to join but please register via EventBrite

Matthew Barac: Affirmative Irony in City Making Join us for The Living Memory of Cities, a seminar series convened in collaboration with Eric Parry Architects and CUBE.

The British Architectural Library Trust (BALT) webinar programme continues, and you are invited to join these events online:

"Giles Gilbert Scott and the Definition of Modernity Between the Wars"

Speaker: David Frazer Lewis, Professor and Architectural Historian, University of Oxford
Interlocutor: Alan Powers, former chair, C20 Society

Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
9 AM PST / 12 PM EST / 5 PM GMT

https://thebaltrust.org/lectures-2/

This lecture will be followed by two more lectures in March and April, zooming in on Charles Holden, another renowned and symbolic architect of the period, as well as a look into the pioneering modernists before the Second World War. The recording for the first lecture is now available on our YouTube channel.

Lectures: Current RIBA Collections

https://www.dezeen.com/2023/01/19/london-metropolitan-university-design-student-projects-dezeen-schoolshows/

London Metropolitan University presents 10 design projects A plaza for protests and a post-Covid handwashing basin are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at London Metropolitan University.

It was great to meet the young people involved in the
The Big House Theatre Company yesterday and get the chance to share our inspirational Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers Collection. Working with Centre for Life Writing and Oral History (CLiOH) School of Art, Architecture and Design

Design students (and especially those interested in and signed up to AADED: "Art, Architecture & Design Education Declares"may be interested in the 'climate club' and Adapt initiative found by young designer Richard Ashton, featured in the V&A Youth Collective programme.

Emerging designer Richard Ashton is co-founder of Adapt – a climate club and creative studio which uses design, art, humour and contemporary culture to communicate social issues and reframe climate activism.

Here he tells us about his career journey, creative process, and how Adapt work to share knowledge in an accessible way.

This film was created in collaboration with the V&A Youth Collective, as part of a series featuring creative design practitioners responding to the climate crisis: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

The V&A Youth Collective are a cohort of young people ages 16 – 24, who help shape V&A events and content for young people. Find out more about the Youth Collective, opportunities and events: https://www.vam.ac.uk/info/young-people

The V&A Young People's Programme is supported by Fondation d’entreprise Hermès

V&A · Young people Find out about the V&A's opportunities, events, career advice and more – all for young people

Please join Sunny Singh, Professor of Creative Writing and Inclusion in the Arts at London Metropolitan University for this international (and in person) seminar on Women and Violence.

Although the female fighter is often seen as an anomaly, women make up nearly 30% of militant movements worldwide. At the same time, women combatants are also at risk of uniquely gendered violence by state and non-state actors alike. This international seminar offers new insights into Women and Violence, focussing not only on violence against women and girls but role of women as combatants in state and non-state violence across the globe.

Chaired by writer and academic, Prof. Sunny Singh in conversation with Dr Nimmi Gowrinathan (founder of the Politics of Sexual Violence Initiative) and Meena Kandasamy (award winning poet, novelist, translator and essayist).

Please note the event will be in person on campus - Tue, 18 Oct 2022, 18:00 BST; Henry Thomas Room (TG-30), Holloway Road
All details available below:

Women and Violence Part of a series of seminars from the Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre,London Met researchers and external collaborators.

The Architecture Drawing Prize: ENTRIES NOW OPEN FOR 2022

The Architecture Drawing prize was launched in 2017 by Make Architects , Sir John Soane’s Museum and the World Architecture Festival. The prize, sponsored by Iris Ceramica Group , was established to celebrate and showcase the art and skill of architectural drawing.

The prize welcomes entries from architects, designers and students from around the world while celebrating the significance of drawing as a tool in capturing and communicating architectural ideas.

Entrants are invited to submit work in three categories: hand-drawn, digital and hybrid. The judges will decide on a winner for each category as well as an overall winner.

The winning and commended entries will go on display at a dedicated exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum in London from February to May 2023. The overall winner's travel expenses will be covered to attend the preview event.

The winners will also receive a delegate pass to the World Architecture Festival in Lisbon where they will have their work on display and have the opportunity to present on a panel discussion.

World Architecture Festival 2022 World Architecture Festival (WAF) is the largest global annual architectural event. Over three days delegates will discover world-leading architectural initiatives, attend prestigious award ceremonies, and connect with leading global architectural thinkers and industry personalities!

The Postgraduate and Research Exhibition 2022 opens on Monday 12 September. All students, alumni and friends of the School are invited to the Private View from 6pm.

Please register on EventBrite

The SPAB (Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings) welcomes applications for its architectural competition, the Philip Webb Award. The Award is open to current Part II students and recent graduates at UK and Irish Schools of Architecture.

Entrants are invited to devise a scheme which sympathetically revitalises a neglected historic building of their choosing, but which can be repaired and adapted for a new use.

Schemes should incorporate both careful repair of existing fabric and a significant element of new construction in a contemporary design. The winner will be announced at the SPAB Heritage Awards ceremony in November 2022.

Philip Webb Award First awarded in 1993, the Philip Webb Award sets architects in the early stages of their career a demanding but exciting dual conservation and design challenge.