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Equal by Design screening at UCL Philosophy of Education seminar

Posted on March 4, 2019 by spinozaresearchnetwork

Beth Lord and Peg Rawes will be presenting Equal by Design to the Philosophy of Education group at University College London on 13 March, 2019. The film screening will be followed by short papers and discussion.

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Peg Rawes contributes to BBC Radio 4’s Living Room

Posted on March 4, 2019 by spinozaresearchnetwork

Peg Rawes is a contributor to an episode of the BBC Radio 4 programme Living Room, speaking about the Parker Morris report, “Homes for Today and Tomorrow” (1961). The programme asks how past efforts to improve housing space standards can shed light on the present crisis. Listen here.

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Equalities of Wellbeing at the London Design Fair

Posted on September 11, 2018 by spinozaresearchnetwork

The Equalities of Wellbeing project will feature as part of Design Research for Change, a showcase of AHRC-funded design projects at the London Design Fair, 20-23 September 2018. For more information, click here: https://www.londondesignfair.co.uk/features/design-research-for-change

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Equal by Design screened at Sheffield University

Posted on November 23, 2017 by spinozaresearchnetwork

The Humanitarian architecture society at Sheffield University screened Equal by Design earlier this month to an audience of around 15 students.

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Housing: how architects can design for wellbeing and equality. Event at The Building Centre

Posted on November 15, 2017 by spinozaresearchnetwork

6 December 2017, 6:30 PM

The Building Centre

This event, chaired by Peg Rawes and featuring architects who contributed to project film Equal by Design, is part of the Making Wellbeing: from Birth to Death exhibition at The Building Centre, curated by The Built Environment Trust.

Tickets and further information available here.

Solutions to the housing crisis are political and complex with change needed at policy level as well as across the building industry. However, debates often exclude the role of the architect. This event will explore how architects can be actively involved in addressing issues of inequality and disparities of wellbeing in the built environment through housing design and provision.

Architects Peter Barber, Alex Ely and Sarah Wigglesworth will talk about their approaches to human-centred design and concerns for wellbeing. The speakers will shed light on the positive agency an architect can have and will consider what must be addressed for such approaches to have a stronger influence on housing provision and wider architectural practice.

The individual presentations will be followed by a chaired panel discussion and audience Q+A.

Speakers:

– Peter Barber, director of Peter Barber Architects

– Alex Ely, principal of Mæ Architects

– Sarah Wigglesworth, director of Sarah Wigglesworth Architects

Chair: Peg Rawes, co-author of Equal By Design and senior lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London

Tickets and further information available here.

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Making Wellbeing exhibition at The Building Centre #makingwellbeing

Posted on October 6, 2017 by spinozaresearchnetwork

Exhibition run now extended to 26 January

We are excited to announce the Making Wellbeing exhibition, opening on 9 October at The Building Centre in London. Project film Equal by Design is featured in the exhibition.

Making Wellbeing: from birth to death

9 October – 26 January 2018

The Building Centre, Store Street, London

Making Wellbeing is an exhibition and related programme that assembles key themes, recent explorations and interventions in the built environment that impact wellbeing at all stages of life, from birth to death. 

In 2017, wellbeing is a benchmark that drives everything from government policy to classroom spaces, from the interior arrangement of offices to the design of buildings for care at the end-of-life.

But the term itself is a contested notion with many facets. Through a selection of major international architectural projects, new smart city technologies, research by ethnographers and academics, and even an interactive sleep pod, the exhibition gathers voices and knowledge from across the spectrum to offer insights and open up debate. 

The exhibition will be accompanied by a major event series and will be the key theme for the second issue of BE:, the journal of The Built Environment Trust.

https://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/exhibitions/making-wellbeing

 #makingwellbeing

Curated by The Built Environment Trust

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Peg Rawes’ recent events

Posted on March 2, 2017 by spinozaresearchnetwork

On 19 November 2016, Peg presented a co-authored conference paper with Dr Doug Spencer (Westminster) on ‘Material and Rational Feminisms’  at Architecture & Feminisms: Ecologies/Economies/Technologies, AHRA (Architectural Humanities Research Association) 2016, KTH Stockholm. The audience was international and included around 50 academics, students, and architectural professionals.

On 9 January 2017, she gave an invited talk on the film at London Architecture School to 35 postgraduate students and academics.

On 19 January 2017, she gave an invited talk on the film to Architectural Interdisciplinary Studies, UCL, to around 25 students and academics.

On 14 February 2017, Peg participated in ‘The House that Philosophy Built’, a panel organized by The Forum (LSE) to a public audience of around 75. The talk is now available on the Forum’s Blog at:  http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/the-house-that-philosophy-built/.

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The House that Philosophy Built

Posted on February 9, 2017 by spinozaresearchnetwork

14 February, 6:30-8:30 PM, London

Readers might be interested in this free event next week, featuring Peg Rawes.

Speakers
Juliet Haysom, Artist and Tutor, The Architectural Association, London
Kristen Kreider, Professor of Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Peg Rawes, Professor in Architecture and Philosophy, University College London

Chair
Shahidha Bari, Lecturer in Romanticism in the Department of English, Queen Mary, University of London and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow

This panel will consider the ways in which philosophers have engaged with architecture and explores how architects have thought philosophically about their own work.  Are there are philosophical ideals at the heart of civic building projects and social housing programmes? What are the principles of good design and how could a three dimensional space represent an idea? Is the primary purpose of a building aesthetic, social or moral?  Do we judge a building on the beauty of its structure, the practicality of its form or the human interaction it enables?  And how should we imagine the skyline of the future?

Full details: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/forthcomingevents/the-house-that-philosophy-built/

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Screening to Aberdeen City Council

Posted on January 17, 2017 by spinozaresearchnetwork

Beth Lord screened Equal by Design to Aberdeen City Council’s planning department on 17 January 2017. The audience of around 20 followed up with a lively discussion of some of the issues in the film – including the suggestion that the next phase of the project should propose some practical Spinozistic solutions to the housing crisis.

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Recent screenings in Scotland

Posted on November 29, 2016 by spinozaresearchnetwork

On 10 November 2016 Equal by Design was screened for a meeting of around 15 members of the Scottish Young Planners’ Network (part of the Royal Town Planning Institute) in Edinburgh. The screening was followed by a discussion with Beth Lord, Adam Lang of Shelter Scotland, and Nikola Miller of Homes for Scotland.

In October 2016, a screening and discussion were held at the University of Aberdeen’s Centre for Early Modern Studies.

Further screenings at University of Aberdeen and Aberdeen City Council are coming up in the new year.

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