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ACT Guest Seminar 1st November 2023

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.

Date: 02/08/2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: The ACT Research Group at the University of Nottingham are hosting a seminar which will be delivered by Professor Kiyoko Kanki. Kiyoko KANKI, born in 1966 in Osaka, is a Professor at the Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University. She graduated from her masters course from the Graduate School of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University and received her Dr.Eng from Kyoto University, in 1997. Her seminar is about the cultural landscapes in the city of Kyoto, Japan.

Date: 04/05/2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: ACT Research Group at the University of Nottingham hosted a seminar that was delivered by Laura Hanks. Laura Hanks is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Nottingham, where she teaches across the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. She spoke about her new book 'New Museum Design'.

Date: 06/04/2022 (14:00-15:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: The ACT Research Group from the University of Nottingham kindly invite you to their seminar with guest speaker, PhD students, Hatice Sule Ozer and Xijing Chen. In this seminar, discussions centre around the study which shows that Musician House Museums could teach how they survive with unique struggles in the museum world and its effective uses of interpretations for blind people.

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