The Bartlett International Lecture Series – Spring 2021

All events in these series will be streamed live to the school's YouTube channel at 18:00 (UK time). 

This year, The Bartlett’s International Lecture Series (ILS) will move away from ‘lecturing’ towards ‘conversing’. The series aims to upend academic conventions, undermine traditional knowledge-power relationships, and place a bright spotlight on issues of equality, equity, diversity and inclusion.

Students, tutors and the public are invited to join together virtually with a range of extraordinary and accomplished thinkers, practitioners and activists from within and around the architectural sphere. Each event will be curated and co-hosted by a student and tutor working together, aiming to create a culture of care and laughter, and to inspire and encourage its audience.

Every speaker will be invited to finish the sentence:  “If I was an architecture student right now I’d...?”

All events will be streamed on the school's YouTube channel at 18:00 (UK time). No registration is necessary.

This event series was curated in collaboration with PeopleMatter.  

Please see our full schedule below, with links to information about each event.  

Schedule

20 January

Advocating Architecture in Kampala 

Co-hosts: Yip Wing Siu and Guang Yu Ren

Speakers: Doreen Adengo, Nina Peters and Franklin Kasumba

27 January

No Such Place As Away - Creative Ways to Deal With Waste

Co-hosts: Heba Mohsen and Frances Anderton

Speakers: Julia Christensen

3 February

Taking Back Power: Working at the Intersection of Communities, Arts, Design & Technology 

Co-hosts: Danai Parissi and Mollie Claypool

Speakers: Melissa Mean, John Bennett, Amahra Spence, Amber Caldwell

10 February

Exploring Feminist Design Practices Then and Now

Co-hosts: Maria Venegas Rabas and Jos Boys

Speakers: Torange Khonsari, Jenny Richards, Sophie Hope and Lesley Lokko

24 February

PhD Conference

Co-hosts: Nina Vollenbroker, Sophie Read, Naomi Gibson and Kerri Culhane

Speakers: Irene Cheng, Amy Kulper, Huda Tayob, Phil Ayres and Ayona Datta

3 March

Female Imagination and the Production of Space

Co-hosts: Penelope Haralambidou and Izaskun Chincilla Moreno

Speakers: John Cruwys, Faye Greenwood, Paula Strunden and Lewis Williams

10 March

Intensive Care

Co-hosts: Ewa Roztocka, Tengku Sharil and Julia Backhaus

Speakers: Joshua Bolchover and John Lin

17 March

Winged Words and Weighty Numbers: 3½ Books on Architecture

Inaugural Lecture

Speaker: Sophie Psarra

Cancelled: 24 March

A Room of One’s Own But It’s On The Internet

This event has been cancelled. 

Image: Demountable cardboard model of Jagonari Asian Women’s Centre, East London, by Matrix Feminist Design Collective (1984) being demonstrated as a participatory tool by architect Anne Thorne. Photograph by Maria Venegas Raba.