Our Call For Papers is still open: Submissions accepted until 19 May
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Our Call For Papers is still open: Submissions accepted until 19 May -
NARRATIVES OF THE OTHER:
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.
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.
SPEAKERS AND DELEGATES:
Abstracts are warmly invited from Early Career and PHD researchers, both members and non-members, for this event and the call is open until 19 May. If you would like to enter a proposal for this event, please follow the guidance and contact the team on the CALL FOR PAPERS (extended to 19th May)
Registration will open alongside the completion of the programme: if you add details below, we will contact you as soon as it is possible to register online.
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 has work in addressing inclusion, cultural, gender and issues of equality and inclusion has been recognised for its sincerity, commitment and rigor, in its aim to work with organisations to support vital and positive change in academia, practice and society
As a member/director of Matrix Architects Feminist Cooperative, Ann 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, and a founder member of the Society of Black Architects (SOBA)
Tile Image:
1. G.A Dosio and workshop (Drawing Matter, inv. 2159.007)
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Calling SAHGB Members!
Our Early Career Researcher Symposium will take place at Birmingham City University in June 2024. Please look out for how to register for this. The Call for Papers is open until 10 May
We launched a new Fund for Publications in December in memory of the prolific Architectural Historian, Mark Girouard. We are fundraising and building a page to collect resources about his work, and to encourage gift-giving so that we can support and inspire with future grants.