Today and over the past years, the challenges impacting the world have created uncertainty and disruption for people across the globe. The crises bring challenges but also opportunities.
In the afternoon of May 1st, preceding the annual conversation, SAHGB’s EDI & ECR Networks will host a 2-hour workshop on the theme of challenges and opportunities in architectural history today. The workshop will comprise a series of lightning talks by network conveners and invited guests, brief workshops/brainstorming sessions, and cross-network collective conversations. All are welcome to attend this free event, but registration is required for both in-person and online attendance.
The ‘Looking Forward’ workshop, which is co-organised by the SAHGB’s Network Conveners and the Education and EDI Lead, seeks to turn this seemingly overwhelming, crisis-ridden moment into one of collaboration and care amongst architectural history scholars, students, researchers and practitioners. It will explore new research directions through a variety of lenses and create a forum in which voices and ideas from the EDI & ECR Networks can feed into the larger conversation of the annual conversation, held in the evening of May 1st, following the workshop.
While the SAHGB has been a vital community and locus for architectural history for over 70 years, now it turns its attention to the challenges ahead. This event asks: How will the knowledge, work and practices of architectural history develop in the future? How do intersectional challenges manifest in architectural history? What are some particular opportunities / ways forward in research, teaching and practice today? What gaps in architectural history need urgent attention? Whose archives exist and whose do not?
The workshop also explores the role of thematic networks: How can research unfold through thematic networks? How might connecting people and ideas across borders and disciplines change the way architectural history is researched, written, and taught? What new possibilities could be achieved through networked approaches?
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