April Sustainability Lecture
Betwixt Realities: Trans-disciplinarity and Resilience in Contemporary Culture
Maja Kuzmanovic, Directing Partner at FoAm
Monday, 19 April 6:30pm
Herman Miller Showroom
National Design Centre
61 Aldwych
London WC2B 4AE
This lecture is about a community of generalists, people who specialize in connecting disciplines to cultivate an open, holistic and resilient culture. Mindful of behaviours and events that can shape cultural change, they aim to foster trans-disciplinary dialogue and design systemic, participatory activities. The discussion will include inspirations and methods used to stimulate cultural sustainability from multiple perspectives. It will be illustrated with examples from FoAM’s current initiatives, including “Luminous Green” on creativity in turbulent environments, “Open Sauces” on food & food systems and “groWorld” on integrating design, permaculture and technology to create an edge habitat for humans and plants.
FoAM is a trans-disciplinary laboratory committed to developing a resilient and holistic culture, by actively propagating sustainable cultural forms of the 21st century, through research, professional development & open source publishing. Maja Kuzmanovic is a generalist, with a background in creative foresight and interactive media, whose experience includes storytelling, design (of various flavours), facilitation & trans-disciplinary leadership. Maja is the founder, principal invigorator and head chef of FoAM in Brussels and Foamlab in Amsterdam, currently spending much of her time in the interstices between patabotany & molecular gastronomy.
1.5 CES Credits
£3 AIA members, £5 non-members
Please RSVP by Friday, 16 April, to Alex Miller, amiller@kpf.com, as seating is limited. Reserve your place now and pay at the door the evening of the event.
The lecture series is organised by Anna Maria Orru, creator of SCENE - thinking, whose aim is to bring together various disciplines around all the innovation on sustainability and systems thinking. http://www.scene-thinking.com/
FoAmLecture.pdf
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March Sustainability Lecture
Responsibility vs Sustainability
Polly Higgins, Barrister Advocate of Planetary Rights
Tuesday, 23 March 6:30pm
Herman Miller Showroom
National Design Centre
61 Aldwych
London WC2B 4AE
Sustainability is a word embraced by many sectors, but its very definition is elusive. Polly presents the case for substituting the word sustainability with the use of the word responsibility. In doing so, very different results fall into place. Is it possible to create architecture that supports and reveres life itself? Is it practical to embrace duties and obligations to both people and planet? What impact will planetary rights have on architectural practices?
Last year Polly Higgins, Barrister and Planetary Rights Lawyer, was voted by the Ecologist magazine as "One of the Top Ten Visionaries to Save the Planet" for her work on Planetary Rights. Polly is also the founder of Wise Women – Women in Sustainability and the Environment, a network bringing together women who are working in, are concerned about and want to do more about sustainability and the environment. She blogs under the name of The Lazy Environmentalist
www.treeshaverightstoo.com
www.wisewomen.me.uk
www.thelazyenvironmentalist.blogspot.com
1.5 CES Credits
£3 AIA members, £5 non-members
Please RSVP to Alex Miller, amiller@kpf.com, as seating is limited. Reserve your place now and pay at the door the evening of the event.
The lecture series is organised by Anna Maria Orru, creator of SCENE - thinking, whose aim is to bring together various disciplines around all the innovation on sustainability and systems thinking. http://www.scene-thinking.com/
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Next Sustainability Lecture
Selling the Sizzle
Ed Gillespie, Co-Founder and Creative Director, Futerra
Wednesday, 24 February 6:30pm
Herman Miller Showroom
National Design Centre
61 Aldwych
London WC2B 4AE
So Copenhagen was the dampest of squibs, people are bored about climate change, sceptical about the science and as we emerge from recession insular of mind and just keen to get back to business as usual. Right? Wrong! Now is the most critical moment in combating climate change and Ed will explain how to ‘Sell the Sizzle’ and reinvigorate the climate change agenda by focusing on the vision of a positive low-carbon future.
Futerra is one of the world’s first specialist sustainability communications agencies, founded in 2001 they have been focusing on ‘making sustainable development so desirable it becomes normal’. Experts in attitude and behaviour change, combined with cutting edge creativity, Futerra has offices in London and New York and an international reputation for powerful, provocative and compelling work. Ed Gillespie is a director at Futerra and has driven the creative direction of Futerra’s work since its foundation. His interesting career history includes working for the Natural History Film Unit, as a marine biologist in Australia, New Caledonia and Orkney and on environmental issues for Transport for London. He has Masters degrees in both Marine Conservation and Sustainable Development and writes regularly for the Guardian.
www.futerra.co.uk
1.5 CES Credits
£3 AIA members, £5 non-members
Please RSVP to Alex Miller, amiller@kpf.com, as seating is limited. Reserve your place now and pay at the door the evening of the event.
The lecture series is organised by Anna Maria Orru, creator of SCENE - thinking, whose aim is to bring together various disciplines around all the innovation on sustainability and systems thinking. http://www.scene-thinking.com/
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Sustainability from a Multi-Disciplinary Perspective
Biomimicry in Architecture
Michael Pawlyn, Founding Director, Exploration Architecture
Monday, 25 January 6:30pm
Herman Miller Showroom
National Design Centre
61 Aldwych
London WC2B 4AE
This talk will describe the rapidly emerging discipline of biomimicry which uses nature as a source of inspiration for new sustainable solutions. It will be illustrated with a number of architectural projects that demonstrate some of the advantages to be gained from mimicking the functional basis of biological forms, processes and systems. The talk will include a description of the ambitious Sahara Forest Project which Exploration is currently working on with The Bellona Foundation, Bill Watts and Charlie Paton.
Michael Pawlyn, Architect and founding director at Exploration, established Exploration in 2007 to focus exclusively on environmentally sustainable projects that take their inspiration from nature. Prior to setting up the company he worked with Grimshaw for ten years and was central to the team that radically re-invented horticultural architecture for the Eden Project.
www.exploration-architecture.com
1.5 CES Credits
£3 AIA members, £5 non-members
RSVP preferred; email amiller@kpf.com
Either please send checks made to the AIA UK Chapter with self addressed, stamped envelop to the address below or arrive at the lecture with cash:
AIA UK Sustainability Lecture Series
c/o Alex Miller, Associate AIA
Kohn Pederson Fox
Associates (International) PA
13 Langley Street
Covent Garden
London WC2H 9JG
The lecture series is organised by Anna Maria Orru, creator of SCENE - thinking, whose aim is to bring together various disciplines around all the innovation on sustainability and systems thinking. http://www.scene-thinking.com/
2010-01-25_Michael%20Pawlyn%20Lecture.pdf
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Spring Lecture Series
Sustainability from a Multi-Disciplinary Perspective
Various Speakers
Monthly 6:30pm
Herman Miller Showroom
National Design Centre
61 Aldwych
London WC2B 4AE
The aim of this lecture series is to expose architects and designers to the field of multi-disciplinary sustainable practice through innovative thinking and solutions to our environmental and social challenges. What makes 2010 particularly appropriate for this topic is that there is a heightened necessity towards sustainable design and ecological responsibility post the recent COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
The series kicks-off on the 25th of January, and will continue through till May, with 5 inspiring lectures; including experts ranging in the field of Biomimicry and Environmental law, through to trans-disciplinary permaculture and sustainable communications.
These speakers will give us a glimpse into other fields and show us how we can learn through collaboration, thus inspiring sustainable practice towards creating a better and healthier future. Speakers include:
25 January: Michael Pawlyn – Founding director at Exploration Architecture
24 February: Ed Gillespie – Co-Founder and Creative Director, Futerra
23 March: Polly Higgins - Barrister Advocate of Planetary Rights
19 April: Maja Kuzmanovic – Co-Director Foam (Trans-disciplinary laboratory)
26 May: Dr. Susannah Hagan – Head of [RED] Research into Environmental Design
The lecture series is organised by Anna Maria Orru, creator of SCENE - thinking, whose aim is to bring together various disciplines around all the innovation on sustainability and systems thinking.http://www.scene-thinking.com/
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Founding Lecture Series
Tuesday, 18 November, 2008, 6:15pm
Chris Wilkinson of Wilkinson Eyre Architects presents Exploring Boundaries: The Architecture of Wilkinson Eyre- At the Architectural Association located at 36 Bedford Square London, WC2 1B
- 2 CES credits
- Admission FREE
Tuesday, 16 December, 2008, 6:15pm
John Aslan of John McAslan + Partners presents Transforming King’s Cross Station- The lecture will take place at the German Gymnasium located adjacent to St. Pancras Station at 26 Pancras Road NW1 2TB
- 2 CES credits
- Admission FREE
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AIA UK keynote lecture
11 November 2008
Peter Eisenman, FAIA, Int. FRIBA delivers the 2008 keynote lecture at the RIBA Jarvis Hall on Tuesday, 11 November. Read more…Labels: event, keynote, lecture, november
AIA/UK Keynote Lecture 2007
Antoine Predock FAIA presented the AIA/UK 2007 Keynote Lecture at the RIBA Jarvis Hall on 15 May. This was held in conjunction with the United Visions exhibition, and RIBA President Jack Pringle and AIA National Secretary David Proffitt, AIA gave introductory remarks. Antoine Predock titled his lecture ‘West East’ giving a clue to his desert beginnings and current projects in the Far East.
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Predock began his academic career studying engineering and it was through a fortuitous encounter with architect Don Schlegel that Predock focused his attentions on architecture. Early projects in New Mexico led to more significant projects such as the Arizona Science Center. A sense of earth, place, and light were consistent themes of these projects.
Predock’s design process includes the use of large collages and clay models. The use of sculptural modelling is evidenced in projects such as the Spencer Theater for the Performing Arts that has a commanding presence in its mountainous setting.
The AIA Gold Medallist in his later projects showed a keen appreciation for the importance of the architectural procession through and around a building. The Canadian Museum of Human Rights currently in design showed a mastery of integration between massing, place, and promenade through an uplifting series of spaces.
The National Palace Museum in Taiwan, also in design, is a phenomenal project that creates a ‘Jade Mountain’ of marble and glass to house significant cultural artefacts.
Predock showed numerous other projects during the course of his lecture, and concluded with a lively question and answer session. Google video archive of the lecture.
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