Events

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

ACT Guest Seminar 1st October 2025

Date: 01/10/2025 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: Online

ACT Guest Seminar - 20th May 2020

Date: 20/05/2020 (13:00-14:00)
Description: A seminar about the house being a symbolic representation of the self.

ACT Guest Seminar 2nd July 2025

Date: 02/07/2025 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: B38 Lenton Firs
Description: This study explores the evolution of industrial museums in Great Britain, positioning the Museum of Making (MoM) in Derby as a significant milestone in contemporary museum design. Focusing on visitor learning, the research investigates how architecture and interpretation contribute to knowledge transmission within industrial heritage settings.

Upcoming Exhibition

Date: 28/05/2025 (10:00) - 01/08/2025 (16:00)
Location:: Nottingham and London
Description: Our next public events are two exhibitions in London and Nottingham, with guided tours available, to celebrate the publication of Dr Bernadette Devilat's book: Digital Records, Heritage Conservation and Post-earthquake Re-construction in Chile.

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.

ACT Guest Seminar 2nd October 2024

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.

ACT Guest Seminar 11 September 2024

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.

ACT Guest Seminar 5th June 2024

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.

ACT Guest Seminar 1st May 2024

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.

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.

ACT Guest Seminar 7th February 2024

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.

ACT Guest Seminar 6th December 2023

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.

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Upcoming Events

Our next public events are two exhibitions in London and Nottingham, with guided tours available, to celebrate the publication of Dr Bernadette Devilat's book: Digital Records, Heritage Conservation and Post-earthquake Re-onstruction in Chile https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003172147/digital-records-heritage-conservation-post-earthquake-re-construction-chile-bernadette-devilat

They showcase the visual work underpinning the research published in the book. Come and explore 3D laser scanning architectural representations, images, videos and 3D printed models of the heritage villages of Tarapacá, Zúñiga, and Lolol in Chile, as captured after, before and during the reconstruction processes carried out in response to the 2005 and 2010 earthquakes.

London: 28 May- 16 June

Opening Times: 28 May - 16 June

Opening times: Weekdays 10:00am to 17:00pm

Embassy of Chile

Ground floor

37-41 Old Queen Street

London

SW1H 9JA

The opening reception of the exhibition is on the 28th of May 2025, from 17.30 to 19.00. The event is free and open to all, but the space has a limited capacity, so registration is required on this link: Exhibition opening: Digital Records & Heritage Conservation in Chile Tickets, Wed 28 May 2025 at 17:30 | Eventbritehttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exhibition-opening-digital-records-heritage-conservation-in-chile-tickets-1358975595589?aff=oddtdtcreator

Guided tours with the author are available on the 28th of May from 10.30 to 17.00. Drop-in, no need to book.

Nottingham: 20 June - 1 August

Opening times: 09.00am to 16.00pm (TBC)

Department of Architecture and Built Environment

University of Nottingham

Marmont Cafe, Ground Floor Marmont Building

University Park

Nottingham

NG7 2RD

10 min guided tours with the author are available to book here: Guided tour EXHIBITION: Digital Records, Heritage Conservation and Post-earthquake Re-construction in Chile https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/5d3848d54e274e3c99f903f424d5c61d%40nottingham.ac.uk/meetingtype/D_qMzs-pi0aqoXsd6Z2CPA2?anonymous&isanonymous=true