Race and the Architectural Humanities: How we (can) research, teach and learn
06 May 2022, 9:30 am–5:30 pm
This forum will focus on questions of race in relation to the architectural humanities, including their interaction with design and technologies.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- UCL staff | UCL students
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Dr Tania Sengupta
Curated by The Bartlett School of Architecture’s Director of History and Theory, Tania Sengupta, along with Megha Chand Inglis and Jhono Bennett, the History and Theory Forum is being revived this year after a hiatus, particularly as part of collective action on urgent issues.
This year's theme is 'Race and the Architectural Humanities: How we (can) research, teach and learn', understood broadly, and including the interactions of these themes with design and technologies. Reflecting on how these relationships shape or might shape research, design or other forms of practice and pedagogy through inclusive, anti-racist, socially equitable, environmentally just and culturally nuanced approaches.
This online event – consisting of roundtables, show-and-tell presentations and conversations - is open to all Bartlett School of Architecture staff and students. The presenters include the school's staff and students as well as key external researchers, designers, creative artists and activists. The forum will enable the school to gather as a community and share the varied efforts taken that address such questions and consider how we might transform our practices in fundamental and meaningful ways.
There is limited capacity to join the event in 6.04 at 22 Gordon Street.
This event has been oranised by Tania Sengupta, Megha Chand Inglis and Jhono Bennett. The digital facilitator will be Maxwell Mutanda. Visual Design by Ecem Ergin.
Programme
Introduction: 09:30-10:00
New Histories
Chair: Emily Mann
10:00-11:15
- Radical Identities, Sumayya Vally
- Race and Landscape in Early Colonial Réunion, Kirti Durelle
- Making Histories of Whitechapel Public, Shahed Saleem and Sarah Dowding
- A Provisional, Collectivised Global History, Murray Fraser
Research and/as Practice
Chair: Ben Campkin
11:30-12:45
- Digital Witnessing and the Racialised Subject, Nishat Awan
- Decolonising the Architecture School, Ann de Graft Johnson
- Voices and Landscapes: The Construction of an Embodied Knowledge of Palestine, Mira Idries
- Situated Southern Urban Design, Critical Positionality, Jhono Bennett
Lunch 13:00-14:00
Working Across Geographies
Chair: Azadeh Zaferani
14:00-15:15
- Practicing Ethics: the ethics of knowledge coproduction, Yael Padan and Jane Rendell
- Modern Heritage of Africa / Modern Heritage in the Anthropocene, Guangyu Ren and Edward Denison
- Listening to and Researching Gujarati Temple Builders Across Colonial, Familial, and Geographical Domains, Megha Chand Inglis
- Antarctica, Art and Archive: Latent Subjectivities, Polly Gould
Learning and Working Together
Chair: Felicity Atekpe
15:30-16:45
- Decolonising Design Studio Pedagogical Practices for Alternative Urban Imaginaries, Maxwell Mutanda & Lakshmi Priya Rajendran
- Housing Plurality, Claire McAndrew and Mollie Claypool
- Working Towards a Pluriversity: progressive conversations, NOT solutions, Shaunee Tan
- Critical Urban Pedagogy, Catalina Ortiz
Concluding Discussions: 17:00-17:30
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Image:
Caption: Black Lives Matter protests, Hyde Park, London, June 2020, Original photograph and re-worked image by Ecem Ergin