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Creating the Office Culture to Lead Your Team towards Transformation
Date: 31 May 2018
Time: 6.30-8.30pm Venue: Build Studios, 203 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7FR Price: £75 + VAT, concessions £45 + VAT Lecturer: Briony Lumb, Briony Lumb Associates As architects we are tackling some of society’s current and future challenges through the places and future legacy we create for people. We naturally resist change for a variety of reasons, especially when it's imposed on us, and this can cause uncertainty and unease. Learning to navigate and manage change successfully is vital to creating our sustainable future and build a healthy office culture based on trust and openness. A practice based on purpose only goes as far as it’s people are willing to carry it. In this interactive session, we explore how we lead this change whilst enabling your team with the capabilities they need to succeed through a transformation, instilling a culture of continuous learning, and creating inclusiveness, and how this leadership is vital to foster a truly creative environment in which your people can thrive. 
Date: 6 June 2018
Time: 6.30-8.30pm Venue: Build Studios, 203 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7FR Price: £75 + VAT, concessions £45 + VAT Lecturer: Rowley Mossop and Russell Pollard, Innovia Partners Associates have an essential role in architectural practices. Leading people and teams, managing project and client priorities, and being the key people between directors and the rest of the studio requires sound leadership skills, knowledge and judgement. For architects, there is an additional layer of balancing project constraints and creative aspirations. Participants in this workshop will gain knowledge of how to motivate and lead creative people, a better understanding of their own leadership style, and an overview of inclusive leadership practices for diverse teams. |
Speculative Utopias: Cities from the 1920s to the present
Date: 18 June 2018
Time: 6.30-8.30pm Venue: Future Cities Catapult, 1 Sekforde Street, EC1R 0BE London Since the early 20th century, utopian ideas about the way architecture and urban planning might radically change society have been integral to the discipline. Even though the past has shown the limits of architectural utopia, with its desire to shape subjectivities and systematise behaviour, such projects have proposed new ways of conceptualising architecture and reshaped the way architects approach their practice. This talk examines the legacy of utopian thinking to map their value for contemporary architecture. From radical cities of the past to current projects at the intersection of digital and material, this talk will aim to trace the power of utopia to chart new avenues of research and engage in thinking about tomorrow. 
Date: 2 July 2018
Time: 6.30-8.30pm Venue: Future Cities Catapult, 1 Sekforde Street, EC1R 0BE London Speakers to be announced Architecture is often accused of being reluctant to embrace change. As other industries around it continue to evolve, what new approaches can prove to be disruptive for architecture? What does the future of the built environment look like? This talk will look outside the discipline and examine trends in science and technology that can help us think differently about the current state of architecture. From futures studies to microbiology, it will outline how speculative approaches across different disciplines can reshape the way we live today. |
Date: 8 June 2018
Time: 11:30am-6:30pm Location: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 12 Carlton House, London SW1Y 5AH Free and open to the public (tickets subject to availability) One day conference curated by the Museum of Architecture and Melodie Leung, Zaha Hadid Architects. Supported by Finsa. This conference will consider the means of engagement with which architects navigate personal and professional relationships within the industry, and with which they engage the process of shaping the built environment to maintain relevance in a continually changing society. By harnessing these means of engagement, we evolve and substantiate an understanding of our individual and collective identities as they challenge us to consciously enact and affect change. 
Date: 8 – 30 June 2018
Time: 10am - 6pm Location: Hosted by the Architectural Association in Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES Free and open to the public Created exclusively for the London Festival of Architecture held this June, “Pleasure Garden by Finsa” is a temporary pavilion designed by Spanish architects Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efrén Gª Grinda of the Madrid-based practice amid.cero9, that will be displayed on Bedford Square. Supported by the Spanish timber company Finsa, and organised by the Museum of Architecture in partnership with the Architectural Association, “Pleasure Garden” is conceived as the displacement of a private interior in public space: it is an immersive room wrapped around with ornamented dematerialized cladding. http://www.finsa.com/ 
MoA is pleased to announce the launch of The Directors' Club, a new programme that offers the opportunity for directors of small and medium-sized practices to share knowledge about how they run their businesses and tackle industry issues and opportunities.
Held 6 times a year, the Directors’ Club offers studio-visit discussions between directors led by an expert moderator. The sessions will create an informal social environment (held in a different practice each time), where directors can gain valuable insights from business experts and peers. The membership also includes access to MoA Academy sessions and public programming that is open to all team members. Recruiting
MoA is recruiting volunteers to assist with exhibitions and events.
If you are interested, please email info@museumofarchitecture.org |
