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VIRTUAL LUNCH HOUR LECTURE: Urban rooms: How stories of place unlock engagement and research

8 October 2020

For our second UCL East Lunch Hour Lecture of the academic year, on 17 November 2020, we will explore how urban rooms carry lessons for imagining how universities, governments, and community groups may come together.

Photo from workshop about urban rooms

Genuine engagement about how best to achieve liveable urban futures should be part of planning’s raison-d’etre but it has a chequered history of delivery. Exhibitions harnessing the communicative power of mixed media and linked to a progressive and responsive programme of focused discussion and debate remain relevant to community consultation and civic engagement.

Terry Farrell’s concept of the ‘urban room’ to involve citizens in engaging with the past, present, and future of towns and cities offers a contemporary refreshment of the approach propounded by Patrick Geddes from the early 1900s.

Professor Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Professor of Cities and Regions at Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL, will explore the possibilities of creating novel and compelling opportunities for civic discourse in this guise though the Newcastle City Futures pop-up exhibition and events held in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK in 2014.

Urban rooms carry lessons for imagining how universities, governments, and community groups may come together to critically and creatively forge future propositions for the urban condition.

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