UEL 'Call for Papers’

Focusing on the necessary components to sustain places, University of East London will run a four day workshop and conference on 15 – 18 December 2012. Guest speakers include architect Tony Fretton and writer Iain Sinclair, to help question the challenges of global problems in relation to the production of place.

Key speakers at the conference will be:

Chris Pyke - Ph.D and Vice President of Research, U.S. Green Building Council 

Iain Sinclair - Bestselling author of Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire

Felipe Assadi - Dean of Architecture, Finis Terrae University, Santiago de Chile

Tony Fretton - Architect, Tony Fretton Architects, London

Led by MA: Architecture: Sustainability & Design (maasd) and Place Research Lab, the conference and workshops will run in parallel to each other. The workshops will run over four days and include fabric formwork concrete construction and other self-build techniques. 

Delegates will design and make structures, responding to the challenges of particular places, together with staff and students. The work will be presented during the conference.

‘The concept of place works across multiple disciplines; as an area of study it requires the application of diverse approaches: merging architecture, urbanism, geography, psychology, as a better means of understanding and responding to places.  Critical theorists argue that globally-produced social, economic and environmental conditions are imposed on local places, which are unable to deal with them and maintain their own identity in the process, because of their global provenance.’

For examples of previous projects visit www.maasd.co.uk and www.placeresearchlab.org.uk

Submit papers by 16^th July 2012.

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