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'Race and the Built Environment in the Iberian World, c. 1400-1800' a roundtable that I have edited for the Sept 2024 issue of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians is currently open access until 15 October. Since its publication the roundtable is also among the 'most read' pieces in the journal ?? more below

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)’s Place Programme and the University of Glasgow have published new #research by Professor Rebecca Madgin on a subject close to our hearts – the importance of emotion in developing new #places. The Humanise campaign argues that emotion should be considered a crucial function in #architecture and design – in other words, that the way a building makes you feel (even as you’re walking past it) is just as important as how it’s built or what the lighting’s like on the inside. Madgin’s report quotes Thomas Heatherwick’s book Humanise: “…buildings should have enough care, complexity and emotional intelligence built into them that the people who pass them by every day are nourished by them.” Find out more and read the report here: https://lnkd.in/eUGG3DU3

In January, our first-year master’s students will start the new semester with Winter School. This year's Artists in Residence (AiR) are: Irene Luque Martín and Johnathan Subendran. They have been invited by Anna Gasco, Head of Urbanism, to curate this edition. During Winter School, Irene and Johnathan will challenge students to critically examine the role of design in addressing injustice, particularly in the Global South. In interdisciplinary teams, students will tackle various assignments. For nine days, they will work intensively and engage in discussions. Students will learn to transform ideas into inspiring products, with the final outcomes ranging from built objects to statements, manifestos, plans, visions, and ideas. Read more about this year's Winter School on our website: https://lnkd.in/dfd-7UPu

So much looking forward to the start of our Winter School at Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam next January: Justice by Design. I invited Irene Luque Martín and Johnathan Subendran to challenge our students to examine the role of design in addressing injustice, particularly in the Global South. What is the role of spatial design in relation to social and ecological injustice? In five case-based studios, topics such as displaced matriarchies in the Western Sahara, climate injustice in Manila, and refugee camps in Jordan will be explored. In a sixth studio, these findings will be integrated, with students encouraged to investigate the relationship between power structures and design as a means of justice. The program culminates in a collective manifesto and public debate on design’s role in transforming unjust conditions.

Our article "Staying with Complexity through Multispecies Companionship at the I.N.S.E.C.T. Summer Camp 2023" in the book More-Than-Human Design in Practice is now available. In the article we describe how we continuously advance the camp methodology and which methods we use to connect with the local ecosystem both remote online and in-person on-site. Co-authored with Colleen Ludwig, Katerina "Katka" Cerna, Anneke ter Schure and Julia Tabet https://lnkd.in/dxtsiyux

Join us for our third research seminar of the summer season with Louis P. Nelson from the University of Virginia Wednesday 5 June 2024 from 5pm Global Houses of the Efik Much of the scholarship on the globalised house of the early modern period privileges colonisers creating a false impression that globalisation was unidirectional. A more responsible examination explores the ways colonised communities also engaged in acts of collection, reinscription and identity construction. Unlike many African communities, the Efik in Old Calabar (now modern Nigeria) never gave Europeans land rights to build the trading forts that slowly became the huge slave castles now dotting the West African coast. Forbidding European development allowed Africans far greater control over the landscapes of exchange along the waterline, where British ships’ captains would purchase enslaved Africans from Efik traders. Visitors’ descriptions include lavish accounts of the ways wealthy Efik traders donned British costume, swords, cocked hats and umbrellas. But even more surprising for many were the traders’ houses. These took the common form of a raised two-storey house with a gallery on all sides. Over generations, some of these trading families stockpiled extraordinary collections of English material goods including gilt pier glasses, sofas, marble sideboards, engravings, clocks and handsome dining tables. Years of negotiations while dining onboard with ships’ captains also meant that these traders could easily navigate both African and British dining practices. It was common practice for Efik traders to order not just objects but whole houses. This paper explores this practice and offers preliminary frames for interpretation. Respondent: Shaheen Alikhan, PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Constructed Environment Doctoral Program at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. Book a free ticket here: https://lnkd.in/eqxUYYKj Image caption: Carl Wadstr?m, “Design for a House in a Tropical Climate”, from An Essay on Colonization (London, 1794).

Fall 2024 Course Highlight: Professor Preeti Chopra will be teaching ART HIST/ASIAN 379 "Cities of Asia" MW 2:30–3:45PM during the Fall 2024 semester. Sophomore Standing | Counts Toward Architecture Certificate | Humanities Breadth | L&S Credit. #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #OnWisconsin #arthistory #citiesofasia #southasianart Enroll here: https://lnkd.in/gRG9Y_Rm Description: This semester long survey course, presents a historical overview of the built environment of the cities of Asia from antiquity to the present. Most surveys of the city focus on the West, even though the earliest neolithic settlements are found in western Asia, and the first true cities were constructed between the Tigris and Euphrates around 3500 B.C. Max Weber's work on the City was influential in drawing a contrast between Western and non-Western cities, arguing that "urban communities" and hence "true cities" were only found in the West. This course seeks does not seek to essentialize Western or non-Western cities. Instead, it seeks to explore and tease out common themes that thread through the diverse geographical regions and cultures of Asia.

International Conference The Aesthetics of Decay: Creative Modes of Destruction, organised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Madeira 29 November - 1 December 2024 | University of Madeira (Portugal) / Online Decay and destruction have long been sources of fascination, inspiration and contemplation in artistic and cultural contexts. From the crumbling ruins of ancient civilizations to the ravages of time on natural landscapes, from the haunting beauty of abandoned spaces to the transformative power of decay in artistic expression, this conference aims to explore the creative potential of decay and destruction across diverse disciplines and perspectives. Topics may include, but are not limited to: The representation of decay in arts, literature, film, and media Destruction as a creative act Urban decay and industrial landscapes Ruins and abandoned spaces Decay as a metaphor for social, political, and cultural decline Decay and memory: nostalgia, melancholy, and the passage of time Digital or technological decay and the aesthetics of obsolescence Environmental decay and ecological crisis The politics and ethics of decay: decay as resistance, decay as renewal Creative practices of destruction and renewal in architecture and design The aesthetics of abandoned spaces and the beauty of imperfection Decay as a psychological complexity and a physical inevitability Paper proposal forms?should be submitted by?15 July 2024?to?aesthetics.decay@lcir.co.uk. Selected papers will be published in a post-conference volume with ISBN. https://lnkd.in/d9tdwHtQ

Free Online History Courses Alison's free online history courses will help you understand what happened in the past and how it brought about the present. If you want to learn about Brexit, we have training classes that will enlighten you on the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union. You can also study the rise of fascism and get a better understanding of this pivotal political ideology. Interested in architecture? We will help you explore historical architecture, buildings, and monuments to increase your knowledge of famous buildings and monuments from all around the world. What will you learn next??#histroy #goverment #worldhistroy #politics #freecourse #freelearning