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UCL Urban Laboratory
critical and creative urban thinking, teaching, research, practice
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UCL Urban Laboratory
exploring new methods of urban research across disciplinary boundaries
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UCL Urban Laboratory
critical, independent, rigorous and original scholarship on cities
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UCL Urban Laboratory
leading urban debate and the design and planning
of contemporary cities
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UCL Urban Laboratory
engaging with London and its communities
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UCL Urban Laboratory
developing international networks and
comparisons in urban research and action
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UCL Urban Laboratory
drawing on UCL’s heritage of pioneering
urbanism
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UCL Urban Laboratory
critical and creative urban thinking, teaching, research, practice
Events
Built environment, knowledge, praxis: Post-colonial conversations between India and the UK
Start:
May 16, 2014 10:00:00 AM
End:
May 17, 2014 6:00:00 PM
The
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL will host a two-day symposium initiating a long-term critical and intellectual
exchange between India and the UK focused on the knowledge, practice and
discourse of the built environment.
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Cities Methodologies 2014: Walking Roundtable - Learning to Walk
Start:
May 2, 2014 12:00:00 PM
End:
May 2, 2014 2:00:00 PM
This roundtable discussion,
themed ‘Learning to Walk,’ brings together a range of thinkers, researchers, practitioners
and artists who have engaged walking as a method and a way of experiencing and
understanding the city. Each speaker will present their own approach to walking
in 5-10mins and a discussion across the diversity of walking practices, and different
approaches to thinking about walking, will ensue.
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Cities Methodologies 2014: Walking Methodologies - Tracing Invisible Londons
Start:
May 1, 2014 6:00:00 PM
End:
May 1, 2014 8:30:00 PM
How
can we re-imagine London? How can we question the (invisible)
taken-for-grantedness of our everyday life in the city, break our
routines and experience London differently? As part of the week-long Cities Methodologies programme, Walking
Methodologies aims to question how effectively we can use walking as a
methodology for learning about the city.
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Cities Methodologies 2014: Demolish or Refurb?
Start:
May 1, 2014 6:00:00 PM
End:
May 1, 2014 8:00:00 PM
As part of UCL Urban Laboratory's week-long Cities Methodologies exhibition, we are hosting a seminar in collaboration with the London-based community organisation
Just Space. The aim of this seminar is to
share technical expertise, research and evidence on issues related to
the demolition and refurbishment of social housing in London, including
health, energy, financial and architectural arguments.
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Cities Methodologies 2014: Engineering Exchange
Start:
May 1, 2014 2:00:00 PM
End:
May 1, 2014 5:00:00 PM
How can local communities access technical expertise in a world class
university? How can engineering research be shaped by community needs?
These are the challenges driving the formation of the Engineering
Exchange at UCL. This workshop will address the ethical and practical
issues associated with setting up and running the Engineering Exchange.
We are particularly keen for representatives of community based
organisations to participate in the workshop to help formulate
strategies and actions based on community needs and expectations.
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Cities Methodologies 2014: Making Cities Better - Urban Theory and Practice
Start:
May 1, 2014 11:00:00 AM
End:
May 1, 2014 1:00:00 PM
A supposed divide between theory and practice raises a number of
questions for those interested in making cities better. In this session,
students from UCL's MSc
Urban Studies programme
will present group projects oriented around this theme. On topics
ranging from social housing, parks and green spaces, gentrification, the
preservation of historic markets, and the politics of place-making,
they’ll consider how urban theory and research can inform, problematise
and engage with the work of urban practitioners outside of the academy.
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Cities Methodologies 2014: Walking Methodologies - London's Lost Rivers: River Fleet
Start:
Apr 30, 2014 6:00:00 PM
End:
Apr 30, 2014 8:00:00 PM
Under London's
pavements are the city's lost rivers, hidden in tunnels and sewers. The
most famous, the Fleet, runs straight through central London just below
the surface, but few know it is there. Follow the lower Fleet from St.
Pancras to Blackfriars with Tom Bolton, author of London's Lost Rivers (2011),
and hear how the river ran with blood, cured the sick, shaped the city
and entered London myth. This guided walk is part of the Walking
Methodologies programme within Cities Methodologies.
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Cities Methodologies 2014: Participatory Photography
Start:
Apr 30, 2014 2:00:00 PM
End:
Apr 30, 2014 3:00:00 PM
Students from the
MSc Social Development Practice programme at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) will present and discuss their use of participatory photography as a research method in their forthcoming fieldwork exploring democratic urban governance practices in the city of Kisumu, Kenya. The session will reflect on the value and challenges that photography can bring to participatory action research, whilst also providing a space for responses to the students' research stratergies.
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Cities Methodologies 2014: Buildings on fire: Towards a new approach to urban memory
Start:
Apr 30, 2014 11:00:00 AM
End:
Apr 30, 2014 5:00:00 PM
Curated by Stamatis Zografos and Elena
Papadaki, this event and installation will
examine different ways that fire can act as a methodology to access and
explore memory in architecture.
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Cities Methodologies 2014: Book launch: The New Urban Question by Andy Merrifield
Start:
Apr 29, 2014 6:00:00 PM
Andy Merrifield, Bartlett Visiting Research Fellow, will launch his latest book,
The New Urban Question (Pluto
Press, 2014), on Tuesday 29th April as part of UCL Urban Laboratory's week-long Cities Methodolgies exhibition. The book traces the connections between radical urban theory
and political activism. Andy will present his book, followed by a
drinks reception.
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Cities Methodologies 2014: Photographing Balfron Tower
Start:
Apr 29, 2014 4:00:00 PM
End:
Apr 29, 2014 6:00:00 PM
UCL Urban Laboratory Leverhulme Artist-in-residence Rab Harling will
exhibit his work in progress, photographing the Balfron Tower from
inside out, at a key moment in the ‘regeneration’ of this iconic
building. The exhibit will be available to see from 28 April to 2 May 2014 in the Slade Research Centre.
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Cities Methodologies 2014: Equalities of Wellbeing & Housing Workshop
Start:
Apr 29, 2014 10:00:00 AM
End:
Apr 29, 2014 4:00:00 PM
Part of UCL Urban Laboratory's week-long Cities
Methodologies exhibition. A one-day seminar for the AHRC project
Equalities of Wellbeing that examines current issues of UK housing.
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Cities Methodologies 2014: Walking Methodologies - Money Walks in the City of London
Start:
Apr 29, 2014 10:00:00 AM
End:
Apr 29, 2014 12:00:00 PM
As part of the week-long Cities Methodologies programme, Walking
Methodologies aims to question how effectively we can use walking as a
methodology for learning about the city. Guided by
Amy Thomas (Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL)
this
two-hour, critical meander through the streets of London’s
financial district aims to address ‘the
rotten borough’.
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Cities Methodologies 2014: Cultural Heritage, Bartlett Research Exchange
Start:
Apr 28, 2014 5:00:00 PM
End:
Apr 28, 2014 7:00:00 PM
The cultural heritage constituted by our buildings and cities is becoming ever more important socially, culturally and economically across the world, precisely at a time when it is increasingly under threat of being erased through new development. These pressures have long been experienced in cities in developed western countries but now the issue is also affecting newly developing countries due to the shifts in global capital and other forces, including new patterns of tourism. How should we be investigating the built cultural heritage around the world under these conditions, and what kinds of strategies and policies ought we to be advocating?
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Cities Methodologies 2014: Walking Methodologies - A Silent Circle
Start:
Apr 28, 2014 4:00:00 PM
End:
Apr 28, 2014 6:00:00 PM
As part of the week-long Cities Methodologies programme, Walking Methodologies aims to question how effectively we can use walking as a methodology for learning about the city. Guided by
Tilly Fowler (Organiser, AIRstudio) and Anna Hart (Creative Producer, AIRstudio), this guided walk takes a choreographed
route through the rapidly changing and increasingly contested public spaces of
the neighbourhoods around Kings Cross, as large-scale regeneration projects are changing the face of the area.
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Cities Methodologies 2014: UCL Urban Laboratory Literary Fellow writing workshops
Start:
Apr 28, 2014 10:00:00 AM
End:
Apr 28, 2014 1:00:00 PM
Author,
critic and UCL Urban Laboratory Literary Fellow, Ian Thomson, will lead
an urban-themed writing workshop for UCL PhD and Masters students. Ian
will be reading new material from his work-in-progress book about the
Estonian capital of Tallinn during World War II, and afterwards
discussing representations of the city in literature in general.
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Remembering Ruth Glass and the Centre for Urban Studies at UCL
Start:
Apr 25, 2014 1:00:00 PM
End:
Apr 25, 2014 5:00:00 PM
This event will reflect
on the activities and ambitions of Ruth Glass (1912-1990) and the Centre for
Urban Studies (1958-c.1980) at University College London.
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