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ACT Guest Seminar 6th March 2024

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'.

Date: 07/06/2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: Lenton Firs House, Room B38
Description: Over the last decade, the precarity of refugees and temporary migrants and its associated ambiguities is an increasing focus of scholarly inquiry and policy debate. In particular, the Syrian conflict since 2011 has led to dramatic refugee crises especially in terms of the number of people displaced into neighbouring countries, including Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, with Turkey hosting the largest refugee population in the world.

Date: 03/05/2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: As cities reach for the skies, so do our urban spaces. This research focusses on the Asian symptom of high density, high rise urban environments and the layered urban spaces, particularly within Singapore.

Date: 05/04/2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: This presentation will present the overview and progress of a thesis on the soft pneumatic adaptive system. Soft pneumatic adaptive system (SPAS) is the term used in this thesis to cover any building system that could be adapted to specific needs by the actuating flexible pneumatic chamber

Date: 02/11/2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: B5 Marmont
Description: The ACT Research Group at the University of Nottingham invite you to join them for their seminar. This presentation considers Pasmore's SW Area housing schemes in detail, and argues that – despite subsequent dilution of its architectural language - its urban legacy is quietly radical, confronting prevailing wisdoms of streetscape and defensible space, and offering a still-relevant, alternative generosity in respect of public realm. The presenter, Alison Davies is an assistant professor at the Department of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Nottingham, where she runs architectural design studio unit 5A.

Date: 30/11/2022 (14:00-17:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: Arthur Piper is an award-winning writer and editor. His journalism has appeared in a wide range of publications in the UK, Europe and the US, including The Times, The Telegraph, and The Daily Mail. This afternoon workshop provides some core strategies and ideas to help you cut through the confusion. The workshop will look at using appropriate vocabulary and sentences, pacing and structure between paragraphs, and invites writers to bring their own writing to work on and discuss. It will also suggest a range of helpful resources.

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