Research symposiums in Art, Architecture and Design
Expanded Spatial Practices: A symposium exploring the conditions and
possibilities for cross-disciplinary approaches to spatial practice
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Jane Rendell, 'An Embelishment: Purdah', Spatial Imagination in Design, London: The Domo Baal Gallery, 2006 |
10-12 September 2009
Day 1: Presentations by practitioners and theorists
Day 2: Creative praxis workshop
Day 3: Presentations and a plenary
discussion
Dr Linda Walker and Dr John Barbour are convening a symposium in September on the theme 'Expanded Spatial Practices'. This research symposium will draw on perspectives from disciplines including architecture, interior and landscape architecture, visual communication and visual art to explore conditions and possibilities for cross-disciplinary approaches to spatial practice. Research within the School
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Keynote speaker: Professor Jane Rendell
Professor Jane Rendell BA (Hons), Dip Arch, MSc, PhD is Director of
Architectural Research at the Bartlett, UCL. An architectural designer and
historian, art critic and writer, she is author of Site-Writing (forthcoming
2009), Art and Architecture (2006), The Pursuit of Pleasure (2002) and
co-editor of Critical Architecture (2007), Spatial Imagination (2005),
The
Unknown City (2001), Intersections (2000), Gender Space Architecture (1999)
and Strangely Familiar (1995).
She is on the Editorial Board for ARQ (Architectural Research Quarterly) and
the Journal of Visual Culture in Britain, a member of the AHRC Peer Review
College and chair of the RIBA President's Awards for Research. In 2006 she
was a research fellow at CRASSH (Centre for Research in Arts, Social
Sciences and Humanities) at the University of Cambridge and received an
honorary degree from the University College of the Creative Arts. She has
been a recipient of AHRC funding in 2005 for the collaborative project
Spatial Imagination, and in 2008 for research leave to complete her
Site-Writing book.
Her work over the past ten years has explored various interdisciplinary
intersections: feminist theory and architectural history, fine art and
architectural design, autobiographical writing and criticism. She gives
talks at galleries such as the Barbican, the Tate and the Whitechapel, and
has recently written essays for artists and architects, such as Daniel
Arsham, Elina Brotherus, Nathan Coley, Janet Hodgson and Michael Pinsky;
galleries such as the Hayward, the Serpentine, the Wapping Project and the
BALTIC and projects such as the Estonian Pavilion, Gaspipe, Venice
Architecture Biennale, 2008, and Art Incorporated, Kunstmuseet Koge
Skitsesamling, Denmark, 2008.