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Visitors at an information lecture June 2019 Open Day, University Park (1)

ACT Guest Seminar 31st October 2024

Date: 31/10/2024 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: EEC
Description: The digital documentation of built heritage is relevant as a form of conservation, especially when the physical conservation of the buildings is a challenge, as occurs with the churches of Chiloé. There are 149 still-standing wooden churches across the remote Chiloé Archipelago, located in the south of Chile. Out of this total, 14 churches — some declared UNESCO World Heritage — were documented using a combination of 3D laser scanning, terrestrial and aerial photogrammetry.

Date: 02/10/2024 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: Lenton Firs B38, TBC
Description: In 2003, artist Monica Bonvicini installed a toilet cubicle outside of Tate Britain. The stainless-steel combined toilet and wash-basin was a standard unit used in prisons. Enclosed by a small room of mirror glass, the cubicle provided complete privacy while instituting utter vulnerability. Bonvicini's use of a prison toilet perverted the conventional use of vision in prisons and tensions between feelings of privacy and exposure - two concepts held in opposition in relation to conventional ideas about prison security.

Date: 11/09/2024 (14:00-15:00)
Location:: Lenton Firs B38
Description: This presentation is my year 1 progression review. It covers my first-year PhD research on computational design in modular construction, with a focus on developing an automated system for generating modular building floor plans from textual descriptions. The research is driven by the need for greater efficiency and smarter design processes in architecture, inspired by my professional experiences as an architectural designer.

Date: 05/06/2024 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: This talk traces a moment in the late 20th century when architectural drawings attained autonomy from architectural processes to become perceived as aesthetic artifacts in and of themselves. It unravels the transnational social and economic forces that shifted perceptions and understandings of them, the impact this had on their collection and preservation as objects with historical and cultural value, and the effects of this on the discipline and practice of architecture.

Date: 01/05/2024 (12:00-13:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: This study discusses the case of Javanese people living in Kotagede, a Region in Yogyakarta, Indonesia; where 40% of traditional Javanese houses were sold after the 2006 earthquake hit. The focus is on the stories of the owners and caretakers of reconstructed traditional timber houses (the Omah Joglo); why they insisted on keeping the houses, their hard effort to rebuild them after the disaster, and the reality that they face every day: the obstacles that they have in maintaining the tangible and intangible heritage attached on these houses.

Date: 06/03/2024 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: Vernacular housing in heritage settlements is liable to deterioration, damage and destruction due to disasters and human-induced hazards. This non-monumental heritage is mainly built by local inhabitants as an economical and affordable response to local climatic and environmental conditions. When located in seismic areas, this built heritage is at greater risk due to earthquakes posing a destructive and recurrent threat. Despite this, responses are usually triggered afterwards, lacking mitigation strategies to diminish destruction. The fastest and most common post-earthquake approach is to build anew, yet the most sustainable is to reuse, considering the building's embedded energy and heritage significance.

Date: 07/02/2024 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: The concept of transgression has been examined in the cultural context by various thinkers and later reflected in the discipline of architecture. With the reflection of the concept of transgression in architecture, this concept has created a significant research area in criticizing the restrictive logic of social taboos and architectural rules by using it as a tool to criticize architecture under the control of pragmatic constraints, hierarchies, and social rules.

Date: 06/12/2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: Lenton Firs, Teams
Description: This presentation cast some lights upon the relationship between the human body, architecturaldrawing, and digital images. It introduces the historical transition from drawing to digital imageas a phenomenon and its impact on broader dualistic concepts, such as real vs virtual, materialversus immaterial, precision vs ambiguity, original versus copy, and perception vs computation.

Date: 01/11/2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: Mindfulness meditation has been increasingly used as a tool to address both physical and mental health issues in contemporary society and has gained growing interest and application in various fields. Meanwhile, designers have attempted to use architectural design to help improve people's well-being. However, the relationship between dedicated mindfulness practice and the physical environment in which it is practised awaits further exploration.

Date: 04/10/2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: Balloon Wood in Nottingham was a modern, medium-rise, deck-access housing estate built in the 1960s to re-house 'slum' dwellers from other parts of the city.It was a prototype of the system developed by the Yorkshire Development Group (YDG): a collaboration between Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds and Hull City Councils. Conceived by architect Martin Richardson as a flexible, modular arrangement of generously-proportioned interlocking units, a construction system of structural concrete panels was agreed with The Shepherd Building Group for its delivery.

Date: 13/09/2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: This paper examines the architectural drawing known as the analytique, a drawing associated with the École des Beaux Arts which had comprehensive influence in the United States of America and British Commonwealth schools of architecture in the late nineteenth and early to mid-twentieth centuries. The focus of the analysis is John Harbeson's The Study of Architectural Design (1926). The paper discusses the analytique in terms of mise en abyme and Mikhail Bakhtin's notions of the grotesque, and argues that the analytique anticipated both the spatiality of modern architecture and the representational play of post modernism.

Date: 05/07/2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: Teams Meeting
Description: This presentation will discuss a study focusing on the meaning of domestic objects in architect's home, which is also a part of my ongoing PhD project entitled 'Architects Rethinking Domesticity: Cross-Cultural Understandings of Home'.

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