Queering Urbanism: A Trans Urban Morphology

Dr Simona Castricum’s cross-disciplinary practice in music and architecture reimagines the tactile, virtual, and affective conditions within the realms of bodies, space, and politics. As an architecture worker for over thirty years, her design, academia, and advocacy for queer and transgender equity offer an expansion to the lens of gender and sexuality in architectural practice, design and education. As a drummer, vocalist, and guitarist, Simona’s musical style draws from the queer and trans archives of new wave, post-punk and dream-pop to underground new beat, techno, and electro. Her music unravels the threads of queer relationships within the backdrop of dystopian urban environments.

In this lecture, ‘A Trans Urban Morphology’ Simona will illuminate the queer underground creative ecosystems flourishing in Naarm-Melbourne throughout the intergenerational shift of the millennium as vibrant and resistive sites of trans urbanism, community, and artistic identity. Produced outside the confines of formal architectural design, these spatial and communal interventions thrive inside thresholds of risk and desire. The stage and the dancefloor persist as continual arenas for queer and trans methodologies, facilitating the materialization of the gender nonconforming city through world-building.

This lecture forms part of the Queering Urbanism series. The event will be co-chaired by Prof Ben Campkin (The Bartlett School of Architecture), Dr Lo Marshall (The Bartlett School of Architecture) and Sé Mali (PhD Student at The Bartlett School of Architecture).

This event is organised by B. Queer, The Bartlett’s Queer Network, which brings together lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual (LGBTQIA+) students, staff, and allies from across the faculty’s 12 schools, institutes, and departments.

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Accessibility

The event location has step-free access and accessible toilets.

Personal assistants and assistance dogs are welcome.

If you require a BSL interpreter, please register and contact c.tunnacliffe.11@ucl.ac.uk giving as much notice as possible.

Further access information is available at: https://www.accessable.co.uk/venues/bentham-house

If you have any questions, requests or concerns, please email c.tunnacliffe@ucl.ac.uk