Lunch Hour Lecture: Skateboarding and the City
In this talk, and accompanied by video clips, Iain Borden relates the history of skateboarding from the 1960s surf beaches of California through the swimming pools and skateparks of the 1970s through to the later episodes of street-skating.
Lunch Hour Lecture: Skateboarding and the City
23 Jan 2020, 13:00 – 14:00
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About the lecture:
Skateboarding is at once a sport, a culture and a way of life. Creative, physical, graphic, urban and controversial, it is full of seeming contradictions – a billion-dollar global industry and Olympic sport which still retains a vibrant, critical and counter-cultural heart. In this talk, and accompanied by video clips, Iain Borden relates the history of skateboarding from the 1960s surf beaches of California through the swimming pools and skateparks of the 1970s through to the later episodes of street-skating and engagements with cities, entrepreneurship, artistry and social enterprises.
Iain Borden
Professor of Architecture & Urban Culture, and Vice-Dean Education
The Bartlett, University College London
Iain Borden is Professor of Architecture & Urban Culture, and Vice-Dean Education, at The Bartlett, University College London. A historian and urban theorist, his most recent books include Skateboarding and the City: a Complete History (Bloomsbury, 2019), Forty Ways to Think About Architecture (Wiley, 2014) and Drive: Journeys through Film, Cities and Landscapes (Reaktion, 2012). Iain frequently advises on skateboarding culture and skateparks, as well as being an active skateboarder for over 40 years.
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